The origins of illustration - prior to the invention of writing- date back to the early cave art starting around 40,000 BCE. In prehistoric art, the term "cave painting" encompasses any art which involves the application of color pigments on the walls, floors or ceilings of ancient rock shelters. In contrast, the term "cave drawing"… Continue reading Early Cave Paintings
Book of the Dead, Egyptian scroll, Papyrus of Ani, 1420 B.C Developed as a result of the rich soil of the Nile flood plain, Egyptian culture is probably the best known form of ancient art in the Mediterranean basin, before the advent of Greek civilization. Features unique to the art of Ancient Egypt include its writing… Continue reading Egyptian Art
Since its beginnings during the first century of the Roman Empire, Christianity has spread around the world to become the principal religion and over time, the church became the largest and most influential patron of the arts. They used many different types of art in order to create an identity for itself, increase its power… Continue reading Christian Art traditions
Ancient Soccer in China | Calcio, Donne China’s highly developed material culture stretches back as early as the 7th millennium BC, when Neolithic (c. 6500–1600 BC) potters created forms and decorative schemes that would recur throughout the long continuity of Chinese art. The succeeding periods, mostly in the form of cast bronze vessels and carved… Continue reading Asian Art: China & Japan
During the two hundred years between 1400 and 1600, Europe witnessed an astonishing revival of drawing, fine art painting, sculpture and architecture centered on Italy, which we now refer to as the Renaissance. It was a period in Western Europe when there was a rebirth of the classical Roman and Greek ideas. Renaissance art was… Continue reading Renaissance Art- Germany & Italy
From early petroglyphs to a flourishing contemporary art scene, India’s vibrant artistic legacy is the result of a variety of cultural influences. The diversity of art from this area—which includes anything created in the historical regions of modern-day India, Bangladesh, and areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan—is reflected in vivid, distinct, and enchanting styles that represent… Continue reading The Art Of Indian Subcontinent
Islamic art is a modern concept created by art historians in the 19th century to facilitate categorization and study of the material first produced under the Islamic peoples that emerged from Arabia in the seventh century. Islamic art is not art of a specific religion, time, place, or of a single medium . Instead it… Continue reading Islamic Art Traditions
Illustrative Traditions Before The 1800s 