Stone Age art from West Asia
Building D, Gobekli Tepe. Southern Turkey, about 9000 BC The earliest art known from West Asia is from about 9000 BC, soon after the end of the last Ice Age. It's from [...]
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Roman music – ancient Rome
Street musicians (Pompeii, before 79 AD) Roman music came from earlier Etruscan, Carthaginian, and Greek music. As with earlier music, nobody knows what Roman music sounded like because there was no way to record [...]
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Running spirals and meanders
The beginning of meanders? An Egyptian pot with spirals (Naqada II, ca. 4000 BC) What are meanders? A meander is a kind of pattern that artists used to decorate the [...]
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Roman Imperial art – the Empire
Roman soldiers carry a large Jewish menorah in a victory parade on the Arch of Titus. Roman art of the first and second centuries AD pretty much continued the traditions of portraiture and Greek imitations. [...]
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Roman wall painting – Ancient Rome
First Style Roman wall painting (now in the Louvre) Wall painting in ancient Rome There was also a lot of wall painting to decorate the walls of houses during this time. [...]
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Roman art – Republic – ancient Rome
Capitoline wolf: Bronze wolf from early Rome. When the Romans first got rich enough to make good art, about 500 BC, they learned how from the people they traded with: the Etruscans, and the Greeks. [...]
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Etruscan art – Italy before the Romans
Etruscan art: Apollo of Veii (ca. 520 BC) Etruscan art and Greek art Etruscan art is in some ways a lot like Greek art of the same time, because the Etruscans [...]
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Etruscan pottery – Etruscan art – Italy
Etruscan black figure pottery from about 510 BC (Louvre) What was Etruscan pottery like? The Etruscans ruled most of Italy in the 500s and 400s BC. During this time, they [...]
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Column of Marcus Aurelius – Roman art
Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome Who built the column? Marcus Aurelius' column was actually not built by Marcus Aurelius himself but by his son Commodus, about 180-190 AD. Who was Marcus [...]
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Roman pottery – Ancient Rome
Early Roman pottery: Campanian pottery from southern Italy Roman pottery used molds Roman pottery began with Etruscan-style pottery, but soon developed a tradition of its own. What was Etruscan pottery like? More Ancient Rome [...]
