Arch of Septimius Severus – Roman art
Arch of Septimius Severus. You can see the Roman Senate in the background. Septimius Severus was a Roman emperor about 200 AD who decided to put up a stone triumphal arch in the Roman [...]
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Arch of Titus – Ancient Rome
Arch of Titus, Rome Who built the Arch of Titus? The Roman emperor Domitian built the Arch of Titus at one end of the Roman Forum in the 80s AD. Domitian wanted to remind people [...]
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Arch of Constantine – Roman art
Arch of Constantine in Rome, with the Colosseum in the background When Constantine killed Maxentius in the battle of the Milvian Bridge, in 312 AD, he marched triumphantly into Rome. After the [...]
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Ara Pacis – Altar of Peace – Roman art
The Ara Pacis - the Altar of Peace. Originally it was outside, but today a roof protects it. Who built the Ara Pacis? When the Roman emperor Augustus took over Rome after [...]
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Trajan’s Column – Roman art – Dacian Wars
Trajan's Column in the Forum of Trajan, in Rome Trajan's column was built just after 100 AD to remind people in Rome about the Roman emperor Trajan's victories in a war in Dacia [...]
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American art history
Rock Art from Utah, about 1700 AD Native Americans made most of the art from North America in the 1500s and 1600s AD. They made a lot of art. Artists used [...]
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Early Native American art
A Woodland period pipe shaped like a dog (from modern Alabama) We don't really have any art from North America in the Paleo-Indian period, before about 8000 BC. Even from the Archaic period [...]
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Cherokee art and Cherokee pottery
Swannanona pottery (ca. 1000 BC) Even before Cherokee people first came to the southeast, the Woodland people who were living there were making baskets and pottery. Their earliest pottery looks a lot like baskets and probably came [...]
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Who was Velazquez? Spanish art history
Velazquez (self-portrait), ca. 1650 AD, when he was about fifty years old. Diego Velazquez was one of the best artists of the generation after Rubens. He was born in 1599, in [...]
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Who was Titian? Renaissance Art
Titian's self-portrait of himself in old age The Renaissance painter Titian was born about 1490 AD, near the Italian city of Venice. He was a little younger than other Renaissance artists. When [...]
