classical arts

Mostly concerned with religious expression through live wall paintings and leaving its legacy with icons to decorate churches

Vary to culture, beliefs, and the artist; called as Cave Art Application of color pigments on walls, floors, or ceilings

Largely placed mosaics on the walls of the churches with strict frontal stance.

Confined in the illumination of manuscript pages and painting of frescoes on churches walls and is elegant and sophisticated.

Paintings are stylized and symbolic; animals and human figures are mostly present. Mineral pigments as colors are also utilized

A popular style is a Hellenistic style, which has more elaborated patterns and representation of dramatic movement effects

• prehistoric era

• Egypt era

• Greek era

• Byzantine

Believed their sculpture is a result of natural erosion and not of human artistry

• prehistoric era

• Egypt era

• Greek era

• Roman era

Made of monumental terra–cotta, produced reliefs in the Great Roman heroic pillars with the continuous story.

• Romanesque

• Roman era

• Gothic era

• Eygpt era

Dominant themes were religious images, life scenes, and nature.

• Ancient Egypt

• Greek era

• Prehistoric

• Byzantine

Used sculpture in many ways; built a statue of gods, kings, queens.

• Prehistoric

• Ancient Egypt

• Greek era

• Gothic era