This category features works of art primarily from China and South East Asia.
Stylized and symbolic, Egyptian art conveys the religion and beliefs of the ancient Egyptians in a way that is both beautiful and unique.
Producted in central Italy by the civilizations that flourished before the Romans. Despite the influences from trading partners, Etruscan art is distinct, the product of a unique Italian culture.
Beginning with two Bronze age civilizations (3rd and 2nd millennia B.C.), the Minoans on Crete and the Mycenaeans on mainland Greece.
Includes Cypriot art, mainland Greek art from the Geometric period, the prosperous Archaic and Classical periods, the Hellenistic period, together with the Eastern and Southern Italian Greek colonies that, although strongly influenced by Greek prototypes, has a style all its own.
Includes Cypriot art, mainland Greek art from the Geometric period, the prosperous Archaic and Classical periods, the Hellenistic period, together with the Eastern and Southern Italian Greek colonies that, although strongly influenced by Greek prototypes, has a style all its own.
Home to some of the oldest western civilizations as early as the fourth millennium B.C., the category covers a wealth of cultures including the early Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians, Phoenicians, Cannanites, Israelites, Anatolian, Luristan, Hittites, Bactrian and Gandhara just to name a few.
This category includes Ancient Roman and Byzantine antiquities, from the 3rd century B.C. until the fall of Constantinople (the Empires capital) in 1453 A.D.
Roman artisans borrowed heavily from the Greek tradition, incorporating Roman religion and culture as they reproduced the art of the Greeks.
Roman artisans borrowed heavily from the Greek tradition, incorporating Roman religion and culture as they reproduced the art of the Greeks.
