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Basics to get you started
Historical overview: to 1600
Historical overview: from the 1600s to the present
Aesthetics and African art
About East Africa
About West Africa
About Central Africa
About Southern Africa
About North Africa
The reception of African art in the West
Masquerade basics
Materials and techniques in ancient Egyptian art
The mummification process
Ancient Egypt
Multilingualism along the Nile
Tiny timeline: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in a global context, 5th–3rd millennia B.C.E.
Tiny timeline: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in a global context, 2nd–1st millennia B.C.E.
Ancient Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush, an introduction
King Piye and the Kushite control of Egypt
Byzantine Egypt and the Coptic period, an introduction
Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, an introduction
Late Period and the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, an introduction
Creation myths and form(s) of the gods in ancient Egypt
Private tombs, portals to the afterlife
The kingdom of Aksum
Christian Ethiopian art
Saving Timbuktu’s manuscripts
Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa
Benin and the Portuguese
Ife uncovered
Pageantry in the Palace—Bamum Kingdom, Cameroon
Medieval Nubian Kingdoms, an introduction
Meroitic period of the Kingdom of Kush
Origins of rock art in Africa
The story of Ernest Cole, a black photographer in South Africa during apartheid
Mickalene Thomas on Seydou Keïta
The Kingdom of Kush in ancient Nubia, an introduction
Illumination of the Qur’an
Africa historical overview: from the 1600s to the present
The Black Atlantic: Identity and Nationhood
The Black Atlantic: Toppled Monuments and Hidden Histories
The Black Atlantic: Afterlives of Slavery in Contemporary Art
Egyptian Surrealism, an introduction
Omar Victor Diop: Black subjects in the frame
Surrealism: Imagining A New World
Zineb Sedira – ‘The Personal is Political’
About chronological periods in the Islamic world
Arts of the Islamic world
Cultural heritage at risk: Egypt
Cultural heritage at risk: Mali
Jewish history in the post-war period
Ancient Persia, an introduction
Modern art and reality
Paleolithic art, an introduction
The Neolithic revolution
The Umayyads, an introduction
Ancient Egypt, an introduction
Ancient Egyptian chronology and historical framework
Benin art: patrons, artists, and current controversies
Egyptian Social Organization—from the Pharaoh to the farmer (Part 1)
Images of African Kingship, Real and Imagined
The Buddha’s long “journey” to Europe and Africa
Staging the Egyptian Harem for Western Eyes
Damnatio memoriae—Roman sanctions against memory
Byzantine art, an introduction
Assyria, an introduction
Jewish history to the middle ages
The rise of the Ottoman Empire
The vibrant visual cultures of the Islamic West, an introduction
Contemporary art, an introduction
Musical imagery in the Global Middle Ages
The vita icon in the medieval era
Ancient Greece, an introduction
The Case for Surrealism
Surrealist Techniques: Subversive Realism
Surrealist Techniques: Automatism
The Black Death
Rome’s history in four faces at The Met
Surrealism and Women
Surrealism, an introduction
Surrealism: Origins and Precursors
An interview with artist Ogawa Machiko
Africa historical overview: to 1600
Classicism and the Early Middle Ages
The lives of Christ and the Virgin in Byzantine art
The medieval calendar
Ancient Roman art, an introduction
Innovative architecture in the age of Justinian
Sasanian art, an introduction
Contrapposto explained
Surrealism and Psychoanalysis
Wearable art in Byzantium
Mosaics in the early Islamic world
Women in Roman art
Ancient and Byzantine mosaic materials
Illumination of Jewish biblical texts
Medieval notepads
Art Appreciation: Power—comparisons and connections
African art and politics
African art and the individual
What can be done to protect cultural heritage?
Seizure of Looted Antiquities Illuminates What Museums Want Hidden
Trafficking the past
Early Christianity, an introduction
Who’s who? How to recognize saints…
The Rise and Fall of the Avis Dynasty in Portugal, an introduction
An interview with Sheba Chhachhi
Assyrian Sculpture
Cross-cultural artistic interaction in the Early Byzantine period
Form and meaning in African art
African religion and the spiritual realm
Expression and modern art
A Global Middle Ages through the Pages of Decorated Books
Early Byzantine architecture after Constantine
Common types of mosque architecture
Medieval supermodels
Meriem Bennani’s Exploded Visions
Obelisks and ancient Rome
Paintings in the early Islamic world
Peoples and cultures of Africa
Rites of passage in Africa
A race against time: manuscripts and digital preservation
Visions of Paradise in a Global Middle Ages
Western appreciation of African art
Pilgrimage souvenirs
African art and the effects of European contact and colonization
Arts of the Islamic world: The early period
Arts of the Islamic world: The later period
Arts of the Islamic world: The medieval period
Reimagining Africa’s place in Byzantine art history
Works of Art
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Periods, Cultures, Styles
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Igbo/Ibo
to today
Kuba
to today
Amazigh (Berber)
Mangbetu
to today
Southern Sotho
to today
Akan
to today
Mende
to today
Luba
c. 5th century to today
Western Ijo
to today
Fon
Fante
1250–today
Bamum
to today
San
to today
Fang
to today
Shona
to today
Ejagham
to today
Sapi-Portuguese
c. 1400–1600
Bwa
Origins are not well understood—to today
Dogon
to today
Baga
to today
Bangwa
to today
Chokwe
to today
Dan
to today
Bamileke
to today
Yoruba
to today
Merina
to today
Ndebele
to today
Kingdom of Benin
c. 900–1897
Bamana
to today
Batammariba
to today
Kota
to today
Koulango
to today
Ewe
to today
Yaka
c. 1600 to today
Kisi
to today
Kongo
to today
Vai
to today
Baule
to today
Senufo
to today
Hemba
to today
Ancient Egyptian
c. 5000 B.C.E.–395 C.E.
Predynastic
c. 5000–3000 B.C.E.
Early dynastic
c. 3000–2686 B.C.E.
Old Kingdom
c. 2649–2150 B.C.E.
Ancient Nubian
c. 2500 B.C.E.– 360 C.E.
Middle Kingdom
c. 2030–1640 B.C.E.
Second Intermediate Period
c. 1640–1530 B.C.E.
New Kingdom
c. 1550–1070 B.C.E.
Third Intermediate Period
c. 1070–713 B.C.E.
Punic
900–146 B.C.E.
Late Period (Ancient Egyptian)
c. 713–332 B.C.E.
Persian (Achaemenid Empire)
c. 550–330 B.C.E.
Aksumite
c. 100 B.C.E.–1000 C.E.
Roman Period (Ancient Egyptian)
c. 30 B.C.E.–395 C.E.
Sasanian
224–651 C.E.
Coptic Period
c. 4th–7th century
Early Byzantine
c. 330–843
Byzantine
c. 330–1453
Umayyad
661–750
Djenné
c. 800–to today
Igbo-Ukwu
c. 800–900
Fatimid
909–1171
Ife
c. 1100–1500
Mamluk Sultanate
1250–1517
Lohron
c. 1300–1700
Asante
to today
Roman Republic
c. 509–27 B.C.E.
Ancient Mediterranean
c. 5000 B.C.E.–400 C.E.
Early Christian
c. 150–700
Early Roman Empire
c. 27 B.C.E.–117 C.E.
Ancient Roman
c. 753 B.C.E.–410 C.E.
Ptolemaic period
332–30 B.C.E.
Ottoman
1298–1924
Protoarchaic
c. 700–600 B.C.E.
Archaic
c. 600–480 B.C.E.
Early Classical
480–450 B.C.E.
Ayyubid
1171–1260
Baganda
13th or 14th century–present
Ga people
before the 15th century–today
Maghreb
We peoples
Grassfields region
to today
Amhara
Swahili civilization
early 9th–early 18th century
Mandinka
Lumbo
Apartheid South Africa
1948–94
Bini-Portuguese
c. 1400–1600
Aghlabid
c. 800–909
Songhai Empire
c. 1430–1591
Middle Roman Empire
c. 117–235 C.E.
Late Roman Empire
c. 235–410 C.E.
Surrealism
1922–c. 1950
Late Classical
400–323 B.C.E.
High Classical
450–400 B.C.E.
Hellenistic
323–31 B.C.E.
Nubian
c. 7000 B.C.E.–today
Abbasid
750–1258
Assyrian
c. 1365–609 B.C.E.
Medieval
c. 330–1453
Renaissance
1400–1600
Gunda Gundé
c. 14th–18th century?
Xhosa
to today
Prehistoric
before 2000 B.C.E.
Paleolithic
before 10,000 B.C.E.
Neolithic
c. 10,000–2000 B.C.E.
Mali Empire
c. 1226–1670
Postcolonial
1776–the present
Modernisms
c. 1900–1980
International Style
c. 1920–1980
Late Modernism/Postmodernism
1962–today
Contemporary
1980–today
