 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| c. 1000 BC |
| | | Massive stone heads carved by the Olmecs provide a dramatic beginning to the story of American sculpture | |
|  | La Venta, giant head
Photograph Beryl Pethick
|
|
|
| c. 600 BC |
| | | An Olmec sculptor creates the piece known today as the Wrestler | |
| |
|
| c. 200 BC |
| | | The earth drawings of the Nazca people, known now as the Nazca Lines, are some of the largest works of art ever created | |
| |
|
| c. 200 BC |
| | | The Mochica develop a civilization, in the north of modern Peru, known for its realistic pottery sculpture | |
| |
|
| c. 1585 |
| | | The English artist John White paints the everyday life of the Secotan Indians of America | |
| |
|
| 1763 |
| | | American artist Benjamin West settles in London, where he becomes famous for his large-scale history scenes | |
| |
|
| 1775 |
| | | John Singleton Copley, already established as America's greatest portrait painter, moves to London | |
| |
|
| 1778 |
| | | In Brook Watson and the Shark John Singleton Copley creates the most intensely dramatic of his modern history paintings | |
| |
|
| 1785 |
| | | French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon crosses the Atlantic to sculpt a statue of George Washington from the life at Mount Vernon | |
| |
|
| 1827 |
| | | With Kaaterskill Falls 26-year-old Thomas Cole pioneers a heroic tradition in US landscape painting | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |