Known for its unique styles and influence on later Western art
Includes geometric, archaic, and classical styles
Famous examples of ancient Greek art
The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena in Athens
Roman art
500 BC - 500 AD
Roman art
Known for its unique styles and influence on later Western art
Developed a very eclectic artistic palette from its own heritage and its conquests and trade
Forms of Roman art
Sculpture
Painting
Mosaic art
Jewelry
Metalwork
Ceramics
Byzantine Art
4th to the 15th century CE
Byzantine Art
Flourished in the Byzantine Empire, with its capital at Constantinople
Known for its mosaics, architecture, paintings, and other visual arts produced during the Middle Ages
Byzantine Art examples
Madonna and Child by Duccio di Buoninsegna in 1300
Theotokos of Vladimir, a medieval Byzantine artwork of the Virgin and Child produced in 1130
Romanesque Art
mid-11th century to the advent of Gothic architecture
Romanesque Art
Characterized by its architectural style, including the extensive use of semicircular arches, massive walls, and barrel vaults
Romanesque artwork
The Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered cloth depicting the Norman Conquest of England starting in 1066
The term "Gothic"
Coined by classicizing Italian writers of the Renaissance, who attributed the invention (and what to them was the nonclassical ugliness) of medieval architecture to the barbarian Gothic tribes that had destroyed the Roman Empire and its classical culture in the 5th century CE
The term "Gothic" retained its derogatory overtones until the 19th century, at which time a positive critical revaluation of Gothic architecture took place
