Ancient art refers to art from advanced ancient societies with writing systems, including ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Israel, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Prehistoric art was produced before the development of writing or record keeping in preliterate cultures, beginning in the late geological era and often continuing until contact with other cultures. Some of the earliest known artworks include the Venus of Hohle Fels figurine from 35,000-40,000 years ago, the Venus of Dolní Věstonice ceramic figurine from 29,000-25,000 BCE, and the Lion Man of Hohlenstein Stadel ivory sculpture from around 40,000 years ago.

1. ART 9
ANCIENT ART

2. Ancient Art - refers to the many
types of art produced by the
advanced cultures of ancient
societies with some form of
writing, such as those of ancient
China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia,
Israel, Egypt, Greece and Rome.

3. In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in
preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in
very late geological history, and generally continuing until that
culture either develops writing or other methods of record-
keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture
that has, and that makes some record of major historical
events.
New Stone Age
Cave Wall Art
Rock carving of an Elephant, in
Tadrart Acacus region of Libya
dated from 12,000 BC

4. The Venus of Hohle Fels is an
Upper Paleolithic Venus
figurine hewn from ivory of a
mammoth tusk. It is dated to
between 35,000 and 40,000
years ago,
Venus of Dolní Věstonice
a ceramic statuette of a nude
female figure dated to
29,000–25,000 BCE. The
oldest known ceramic article
in the world.
The Venus of Willendorf,
high statuette of a female
figure estimated to have
been made between about
28,000 and 25,000 BCE.

5. LION MAN OF THE HOHLENSTEIN STADEL
A lion-headed figure, first called the
lion man is an ivory sculpture that is
both the oldest known zoomorphic
(animal-shaped) sculpture in the
world, and the oldest known
uncontested example of figurative
art yet discovered. The figurine was
determined to be about 40,000
years.

6. Next Powerpoint Presentation: Art of the Classical Period
• Egyptian Art
• Greek Art
• Roman Art