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3500 BCE The wheel is used in Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq.
2900 BCE First Egyptian hieroglyphs appear. Can be divided into Ancient Near East, Egyptian, Etruscan, and Greek time spans. -
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Material: Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone -
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Material: Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones -
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Material: Painted Papyrus Scroll -
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753 BCE Rome is founded by Romulus and Remus on Tiber River
146 BCE Greece became Roman province -
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Material: Wood, mud brick, and terra cotta sculpture -
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Material: Tufa and Fresco -
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Material: Clay using red-figure technique -
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Material: Roman marble copy of the original Greek bronze -
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Material: Marble and Paint
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33 CE Christ is crucified
313 CE Edict of Milan legalizes Christianity -
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380 CE Christianity made official Roman religion
394 CE Theodosius I banned Olympic Games -
400 - 700 CE Anglo-Saxons thrived in what is now Great Britain
500 - 700 CE Hiberno Saxons thrived in what is now Ireland -
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661-750 CE Umayyad Dynasty ruled
1453 CE Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople Contains Early Period, Medieval Period, and Late Period. -
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Material: Illuminated manuscript - ink, pigment, gold
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Material: Ivory
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1095 - 1099 CE First Crusade
1188 - 1192 CE Third Crusade -
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1194 CE A fire burns down sections of Chartres Cathedral
1182 CE Capture of Jerusalem by Saladdin Contains the Early Gothic, High Gothic, and Late Gothic periods within -
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1215 CE Declaration of Magna Carta
1346 - 1353 CE Black Death -
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Material: Illuminated manuscript - pigment and gold leaf on vellum
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1447 CE Gutenberg invents movable printing press
1452 CE Leonardo da Vinci is born -
1360 - 1429 CE Giovanni de' Medici establishes family fortune through banking
1449 - 1492 CE Lorenzo Giovanni gathers artists and individuals from all fields -
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Artist: Jan van Eyck
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Artist: Leon Battista Alberti
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Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi
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1517 CE Martin Luther posts the 95 Thesis
1563 CE First art academy, Academia del Disegno, is founded in Florence -
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
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1527 CE Sack of Rome by Germans and Spaniards
1550 -1700 CE Scientific Revolution -
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Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder
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Artist: Titian
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Artist: Pieters Bruegel the Elder
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Artist: Giacomo da Vignola, Giamcomo della Porta, Giovanni Battista Gaulli
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1545 -1563 CE Council of Trent questioned how art should serve religion, thus affecting this time period
1618 - 1648 CE Thirty Years' War -
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Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
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Artist: Diego Velàzquez
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Artist: Johannes Vermeer
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Artist: Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart
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Artist: Rachel Ruysch
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1715 CE Louis XIV dies
1760's CE Rise of Neoclassicism after the enlightenment of Florence -
Artist: William Hogarth
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1789 CE French Revolution
1789 - 1871 CE France flips back and forth between monarchy and other forms of government -
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Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
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Artist: Jacques-Louis David
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Artist: Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
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1815 CE Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo
1823 CE French invasion of Spain -
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Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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Artist: Thomas Cole
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Artist: Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre
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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Artist: Gustave Courbet
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Artist: Honoré Daumier
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Artist: Édouard Manet
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Artist: Claude Monet
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Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Material: Oil on Canvas