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World Arts
• African
Art
Guide to rock paintings, classical African sculpture, art of the African
kingdoms, religious and tribal artworks and more.
• American Art
History of painting and other fine arts in America, 1750-present.
• Byzantine Art
Principally architecture, panel painting, and mosaics created by artists
within the eastern Christian Byzantine empire centred on Constantinople.
• Celtic
Art
Includes metalwork of the Hallstatt and La Tene culture, plus abstract
geometric designwork.
• Chinese Art
World famous jade ware, ceramics, porcelain, bronzes, terracotta sculptures,
wash-painting and calligraphy. See also Chinese Pottery.
• Egyptian Art
Embraces mainly tomb artworks - including, panel paintings, fresco murals,
sculpture, pottery, precious metalcraft and monumental pyramid architecture.
• Etruscan Art
Includes tomb paintings, domestic frescoes, bronze and terracotta sculpture,
ornate sarcophagi, goldsmithery and jewellery.
• Greek Art
Highly innovative, technically accomplished, Greek artists set the standard
in all forms of fine, applied and decorative art, notably painting, sculpture,
architecture and glass mosaic.
• Greek Pottery
Includes a range of ceramic designs from different areas of ancient Greece,
such as Geometric style, Oriental Style, Black-Figure Style and Red-Figure
Style.
• Greek Sculpture
Includes sculptural masterpieces like Discobolus by Myron; Wounded Amazon
by Polykleitos; Apollo Belvedere by Leochares; Laocoon by Hagesandrus,
Athenodoros & Polydorus; Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo) by Andros
of Antioch.
• India
Art: Painting & Sculpture
Includes prehistoric cupules and petroglyphs, ivory and bronze figurines,
Buddhist frescoes, miniature paintings, and supreme works of Moghal architecture,
like the Taj Mahal.
• Irish Painting
Includes portraiture, topographical landscape, 19th century history paintings
and 20th century genre-works and still lifes.
• Irish Sculpture
Stone and bronzework by traditional, Gaelic, modern and contemporary Irish
sculptors.
• Islamic Art
Embraces many categories of creativity including, mosque-architecture,
ceramics, faience mosaics, lustre-ware, relief sculpture, wood and ivory
carving, friezes, drawing, painting, calligraphy, book-gilding, lacquer-painted
bookbinding, textile design, goldsmithery, gemstone carving, and others.
• Japanese Art
Brief guide to four of the main visual arts in Japan, including: Buddhist
Temple art, Zen ink-painting, Yamato-e, and Ukiyo-e painting.
• Jewish Art
A look at Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Oriental Jewish art, crafts and archeological
artifacts.
• Minoan Art
Covers sculpture, fresco painting, pottery, stone carvings (notably seal
stones), jewellery and the palace architecture of Knossos, Phaestus, Akrotiri,
Kato Zakros and Mallia.
• Mycenean Art
Embraces Tholos tomb architecture, precious metalwork, and early Greek
plastic arts.
• Oceanic Art
This umbrella term refers to arts and crafts produced by indigenous native
peoples within the Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia zones of the Pacific
Ocean.
• Persian Art
Encompasses monumental rock sculptures, bas-reliefs, ceramics, mosaics,
metalwork, frescoes, illuminated manuscripts, calligraphy, carpet-making,
silk-weaving and architectural designs.
• Renaissance Art
Features a return to classical aesthetics, but significantly enhanced
by a mastery of linear perspective, foreshortening and figurative realism.
The rinascimento extended across Europe from Florence, Rome and Venice,
to Germany, Flanders and Holland. Immortal Renaissance artists include:
architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446); painters Jan van Eyck (1395-1441),
Rogier van der Weyden (1400-1464), Masaccio (1401-1428), Hieronymus Bosch
(1450-1516), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Albrecht Durer (1471-1528),
Raphael (1483-1520), and Titian (1485-1576); and sculptors Donatello (1386-1466),
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), and Giambologna (1529-1608).
• Roman Art
Noted for its historical relief sculptures (eg. Trajan's Column) and its
practical architecture (bridges, aquaducts, roads), ancient Rome was also
responsible for producing unique copies of many original Greek sculptures,
without which many Hellenic treasures would have been lost forever.
• Russian Art
Prehistoric sculpture and the history of painting 30,000 BCE to 1920.
• Tribal Art
Short guide to the traditional art of tribal societies in India, Africa,
the South Pacific, Australasia, Alaska and the Americas. Also known as
Primitive Native Art, the category is sometimes extended to include certain
early European artworks (eg. Celtic La Tene), as well as European folk
art. It primarily consists of stoneworks (sculpture, temples), earthworks,
and petroglyphs.
• Viking Art
Norse art mainly consists of portable artworks, like decorated body armour,
drinking horns, pagan icons, paddles, and small-scale carvings in amber,
jet, bone, walrus ivory and wood.
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