Africa
Africa
Basics to get you started
Africa historical overview: to 1600
Africa historical overview: from the 1600s to the present
Peoples and cultures of Africa
Form and meaning in African art
Aesthetics and African art
African religion and the spiritual realm
Rites of passage in Africa
African art and the individual
Masquerade basics
The reception of African art in the West
African art and politics
Materials and techniques in ancient Egyptian art
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.
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
Kingdom of Ife: sculptures from West Africa
Benin and the Portuguese
Pageantry in the Palace—Bamum Kingdom, Cameroon
Medieval Nubian Kingdoms, an introduction
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
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’
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)
Africa in the European imagination
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
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
Classicism and the Early Middle Ages
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
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
Expression and modern art
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
A race against time: manuscripts and digital preservation
Visions of Paradise in a Global Middle Ages
Western appreciation of African art
Pilgrimage souvenirs
Arts of the Islamic world: The early period
Arts of the Islamic world: The later period
Arts of the Islamic world: The medieval period
Mamluk bindings
Jewish history 1750 to WW II
African religious culture in the Atlantic world
Performance art, an introduction
How to recognize the Four Evangelists
The court carpets of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires, an introduction
Reimagining Africa’s place in Byzantine art history
The complex geometry of Islamic design
The fall of the Ottoman Empire
The Cairo Geniza: medieval preservation and reuse
Timeline
Book of the Dead of Hunefer, c. 1275 B.C.E. (19th Dynasty), painted papyrus, 45.7 x 83.4 cm (Thebes, Egypt; © The Trustees of the British Museum, London)
Works of Art
Artists
Ibrahim El-Salahi, The Mosque, 1964, oil on canvas (MoMA) Ibrahim El-Salahi, The Mosque, 1964, oil on canvas (MoMA) © Ibrahim El-Salahi
Periods, Cultures, Styles
Prehistoric
before 2000 B.C.E.
Paleolithic
before 10,000 B.C.E.
Grassfields region
to today
Neolithic
c. 10,000–2000 B.C.E.
Bamum
to today
Fon
to today
We peoples
to today
Nubian
c. 7000 B.C.E.–today
Ancient Egyptian
c. 5000 B.C.E.–395 C.E.
Predynastic
c. 5000–3000 B.C.E.
Bamana
to today
Early Dynastic
c. 3000–2686 B.C.E.
Igbo/Ibo
to today
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.
San
to today
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.
Yoruba
to today
Swahili
to today
Punic
900–146 B.C.E.
Ancient Roman
c. 753 B.C.E.–410 C.E.
Late Period (Ancient Egyptian)
c. 713–332 B.C.E.
Persian (Achaemenid Empire)
c. 550–330 B.C.E.
Ptolemaic period
332–30 B.C.E.
Hellenistic
323–31 B.C.E.
Aksumite
c. 100 B.C.E.–1000 C.E.
Roman Period (Ancient Egyptian)
c. 30 B.C.E.–395 C.E.
Early Roman Empire
c. 27 B.C.E.–117 C.E.
Akan
to today
Asante
to today
Baga
to today
Bamileke
to today
Batammariba
to today
Bangwa
to today
Baule
to today
Bwa
Origins are not well understood—to today
Chokwe
to today
Dan
to today
Dogon
to today
Ejagham
to today
Ewe
to today
Fang
to today
Hemba
to today
Kisi
to today
Kongo
to today
Kota
to today
Koulango
to today
Kuba
to today
Lumbo
to today
Mandinka
to today
Mangbetu
to today
Mende
to today
Merina
to today
Ndebele
to today
Senufo
to today
Shona
to today
Southern Sotho
to today
Xhosa
to today
Vai
to today
Western Ijo
to today
Middle Roman Empire
c. 117–235 C.E.
Early Christian
c. 150–700
Late Roman Empire
c. 235–410 C.E.
Coptic Period
c. 4th–7th century
Medieval
c. 330–1453
Byzantine
c. 330–1453
Early Byzantine
c. 330–843
Luba
c. 5th century to today
Islamic
c. 640–1924
Umayyad
661–750
Abbasid
750–1258
Aghlabid
c. 800–909
Igbo-Ukwu
c. 800–900
Djenné
c. 800–to today
Kingdom of Benin
c. 900–1897
Amazigh (Berber)
c. 900 C.E.–today
Fatimid
909–1171
Maghrebi
c. 1000–today
Ife
c. 1100–1500
Ayyubid
1171–1260
Baganda
13th or 14th century–present
Mali Empire
c. 1226–1670
Fante
1250–today
Mamluk Sultanate
1250–1517
Solomonic dynasty
1270–1974
Ottoman
1298–1924
Lohron
c. 1300–1700
Sapi-Portuguese
c. 1400–1600
Bini-Portuguese
c. 1400–1600
Ga people
before the 15th century–today
Songhai Empire
c. 1430–1591
Yaka
c. 1600 to today
Modernisms
c. 1900–1980
International Style
c. 1920–1980
Surrealism
1922–c. 1950
Apartheid South Africa
1948–94
Late Modernism/Postmodernism
1962–today
Contemporary
1980–today
