Renaissance and Earlier Art

  • Period: 6000 BCE to 332 BCE

    Ancient Egyptian Art

    Ancient Egyptian art has had an incalculable impact on the creative spirit of all subsequent civilizations across Europe and the Mediterranean, including our own.
  • Untitled rock painting
    3000 BCE

    Untitled rock painting

    Chad's Manda Guéli Cave is home to an array of painted figures and animals, including cattle and camels. This diversity of forms highlights an interesting feature of African rock art.
  • Great Sphinx (with the pyramid of Khafre in the background)
    2520 BCE

    Great Sphinx (with the pyramid of Khafre in the background)

    Giza Plateau, Daniel Mayer- Great Sphinx, Pyramid of Khafre 2008, 2,805” × 2,200” (2520-2494 BC)
  • 1836 BCE

    The Oxbow

    View from Mount Holyoke after a Thunderstorm Landscape paintings/19th-century, Thomas Cole/ American, The Oxbow, 1836, Oil on Canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
  • Catharina Van Hemessen
    1528

    Catharina Van Hemessen

    Catharina van Hemessen was a Flemish Renaissance painter. She is the earliest female Flemish painter for whom there is verifiable extant work. She is mainly known for a series of small-scale portraits of women completed between the late 1540s and early 1550s as well as a few religious compositions.