Prehistoric and ancient: Nawarla Gabarnmung c. 35,000 BCE -- Thebes 1250 BCE -- Nineveh 700 BCE -- Athens 450 BCE -- Rome 1 CE -- Teotihuacan 300 CE -- Ajanta 500 CE -- Jerusalem 700 CE -- Hedeby 900 CE -- Medieval and early modern: Cahokia 1100 -- Angkor 1150 -- Great Zimbabwe 1300 -- Beijing 1400 -- Granada 1450 -- Florence 1500 -- Timbuktu 1550 -- Amsterdam 1650 -- Isfahan 1700 -- Modern and contemporary: Edo 1800 -- Haida Gwaii 1825 -- London 1850 -- Paris 1875 -- Vienna 1900 -- Moscow 1920 -- Mexico City 1930 -- New York 1950 -- San Francisco 1960 -- Berlin 1990 -- Seoul 200 -- Rio de Janeiro 2020.
Summary:
A Journey Through Art is a global history of art with a time- travel twist, taking young readers on a expedition from the Paleolithic period to the present day, voyaging to thirty locations around the world. As readers travel from one incredible destination to the next, they discover the amazing network of caves carved into the rock in AD 500 at Ajanta, India; Cambodia s Angkor Wat as it stood in AD 1200; the glories of Renaissance Florence in AD 1500; and the remarkable energy of New York in the 1950s.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.