Prehistoric Art refers to the period at which art pre dates our basic understanding of history and civilization, beyond any knowledge of art. Attributed to the ideas of preliterate and basic cultures; primarily Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals and Early Hominids making
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Ancient Near Eastern art encompasses the area of Mesopotamia, modernly the region of Iraq and Syria. Traditionally, Iraq is thought to be where civilization first took root and expanded from 5000 years before present. With this development came the idea
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Ancient Egyptian art is widely known for it's very lavish style and use of rich materials in order to represent the wealth and hierarchic society from which it originates. The beginning of religious depictions in art took a very different
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Ancient Greek Art is typically celebrated for it's idealist imitation of perfection to the point of distortion, but focused mostly on the building of a new empire; the majority of early Ancient Greek Art was from Sparta or Athens, and
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Ancient Roman Art, not including the Byzantine period, lasted almost 1000 years, beginning with the Roman Republic Art from 509 BCE. Art of the Roman Empire can be likened to it's inspiration and recycling from Ancient Greek Art, however, it
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Byzantine Art was initiated by the continuation of the eroded Roman Empire in the Middle Ages. Predominantly Greek speaking, the empire was founded by Byzantium, the capital of which Empire was Constantinople. Out surviving the fall of the Roman Empire
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Gothic Art from the period of the 12th Century to the end of the 15th Century, was of influential importance to the Early Renaissance in a reactionary fashion. While the Renaissance is thought of as the "rebirth" of the Classical
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