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Ancient Mediterranean

Any of the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean region or the areas occupied by ancient Greece, including lands occupied by Alexander, ancient Egypt, ancient Rome, or the numerous cultures of the Ancient Near East.

Dates

c. 5000 B.C.E.–400 C.E.

Places

Europe > Central Europe > Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Eastern Europe > Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania, Northern Europe > The Netherlands, Southern Europe > Albania, Greece, Italy, Malta, North Macedonia, Portugal, Spain, Western Europe > Andorra, Belgium, England, France, Monaco
Asia > West Asia > Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Africa > North Africa > Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia

Basics Works of Art Artists Periods, Cultures, Styles Curated Guides

Basics to get you started

Amorites, an introduction

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt, an introduction

Creation myths and form(s) of the gods in ancient Egypt

Multilingualism along the Nile

Materials and techniques in ancient Egyptian art

Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, an introduction

Akkad, an introduction

Greek sanctuaries as artistic hubs

Canaanites, an introduction

Mycenaean art, an introduction

Cycladic art, an introduction

Minoan art, an introduction

Ancient Greece, an introduction

The Kingdom of Kush in ancient Nubia, an introduction

The mummification process

Rome’s history in four faces at The Met

The rediscovery of Pompeii and the other cities of Vesuvius

Classical orders of architecture explained

Classicism and the Early Middle Ages

Greek Vase-Painting, an introduction

Contrapposto explained

Women in Roman art

Ancient and Byzantine mosaic materials

Visiting Babylon

Digging through time: Archaeology in Rome

Ancient Greek vase production and the black-figure technique

Obelisks and ancient Rome

Roman domestic architecture: the villa

Roman domestic architecture: the insula

Roman wall painting styles

Tiny timeline: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in a global context, 2nd–1st millennia B.C.E.

Tiny timeline: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in a global context, 5th–3rd millennia B.C.E.

Tiny timeline: Archaic Greece in a global context

The Geometric period, an introduction

Works of Art

House of Neptune and Amphitrite at Herculaneum

before 79 C.E.

Portrait of Young Woman and Couple (Terentius neo and Wife) from Pompeii

1st century C.E.

1st century C.E.

The Arch at Orange

20s B.C.E.

Colossus of Constantine

c. 312–315

Mantiklos “Apollo”

c. 700–675 B.C.E.

Piraeus Athena

c. 350 B.C.E.

Sotades Painter, White-ground cup

c. 460 B.C.E.

Nikandre

c. 650 B.C.E.

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Artists

Apollodorus of Damascus, The Markets of Trajan, 112 C.E., Rome (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Apollodorus of Damascus, The Markets of Trajan, 112 C.E., Rome (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Hirschfeld Workshop

The Olympia Sculptor

The Chigi Painter

Sotades Painter

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