Period/Era Characteristics Functions
Ancient Paintings
1. Pre-historic - their paintings were found inside - it may be for religious or
the caves which may have been ceremonial purposes
their way of communicating with
each other
2. Egyptian - it emphasizes the importance of - the purpose of Egyptian paintings
life after death and the is to make the deceased afterlife
preservation of the knowledge of place pleasant
the past
Classical Paintings
1. Greek - paintings during the classical era - it depicts natural figures with
were most commonly found in dynamic compositions; it reveals a
vases, panels, and tomb grasp of linear perspective and
naturalist representation
2. Roman - roman paintings have a wide - for decorative art or interior
variety of subjects, animals, decorations
everyday life, still life, mythological
subjects, portraits and landscapes;
most of the paintings in this era
were copied of imitated from
Hellenic Greek paintings
Medieval Paintings
1. Byzantine - Christian subjects - it is the lively styles of paintings
which had been invented in Greek
and Rome lived on in Byzantium
2. Romanesque - the painting style is common - these are largely placed mosaics
throughout this period; they use on the walls of the churches that
thick and strong outlines filled in follows a strict frontal pose
with bright and vivid colors
3. Gothic - Stained Glass was a widespread - used to decorate the doorways,
form of painting during this period; or portals, of cathedrals in France
it inspired the Christians through and elsewhere
the depiction of biblical stories in
churches and monasteries
Submitted by: Mathew Jendrick Garol, 9-HT
Submitted to: Ms. Norika Denise G. Rallama