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40000 BCEUpper Paleolithic Neolithic Norte Chico Civilization Indus Valley Civilization Bronze Age Iron Age0 CE

4000 BCEAncient Egypt Mesopotamia Aegean Civilizations Ancient China Lapita Expansion Kingdom of Kush The Celts Ancient Greece The Etruscans Ancient Rome The Iberians Teotihuacan Culture Classical India500 CE

300 CEByzantine Art Medieval Art Tang Dynasty Medieval Persian Art Islamic Dynastic Art Viking Age Classical Oceania Khmer Art Song Dynasty Gothic Art Inca Empire Yuan Dynasty The Aztecs1500

Age of Discovery

1300Italian Renaissance Ming Dynasty Kingdom of Kongo Northern Renaissance Spanish Renaissance Mughal Art Mannerism Baroque Edo Period Qing Dynasty Academic Art The Enlightenment Western Esoteric Art Rococo Neoclassicism1850

Industrial Revolution

1800Oceanic Art Romanticism Orientalism Hudson River School Early Photography Barbizon School Pre Raphaelites Realism Impressionism Meiji Art Early Modernism Post-Impressionism1900

Contemporary Art

1960Pop Art Post Modernism Shona Sculpture Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art Zaire School of Popular Painting2020

Ancient Rome

The roads make the empire

Warrior of Capestrano

Dying Gaul

Perseus and Andromeda

Physics, the mind, soul, the movements of the universe, and sex, obviously

On the Nature of Things

Lucretius, 50 BCE

The history of Rome from by Titus Livius Patavinus

Livy's History of Rome

Titus Livius Patavinus, 32 BCE

How to build roads, buildings and aqueducts with Roman precision

Ten Books on Architecture

Vitruvius, 15 BCE

Pyramid of Cestius

Gaius Cestius, 12 BCE

Temple d'Auguste et de Livie

The transformations of man and gods from before formation of the world

Metamorphoses

Maison Carrée

The adventures of Aeneis the Trojan, and what happens when the gods hate you

Aeneid

Nero's Bath

Pula Arena

Colosseum

Vespasian — Titus, 70 CE-80 CE

Arch of Titus

Rabirius, 82 CE

Volterra Theater

Young Hercules

Aqueduct of Segovia

Arenas of Lutetia

Statue of Aphrodite

Trajan's Column

Bronze Military Diploma

Hadrians Wall

Pantheon

Marcus Agrippa, 113 CE-125 CE

The Braschi Antinous

Mosaic Floor with Head of Medusa

Emperor Antoninus Pius

Porta Nigra

Bronze Statuette of Jupiter

Hadrian's Villa

The Three Graces

Tower of Hercules

Gaius Sevius Lupus, 200 CE

Portrait of the emperor Caracalla

Bronze Statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus

Diocletian's Palace

Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo

Theodoric the Great, 504 CE-504 CE

Next Movement

The Iberians

Human-animal hybrids in the melting pot of ancient cultures

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