Art of the Americas

Examples that I choose to make the assignment

Question # 1

THE AZTEC EMPIRE

Calendar Stone

THE INCA EMPIRE

Metalwork

little LLAMA 

North America

WAMPUM

Woodlands peoples made belts and strings of cylindrical purple and white shell beads called wampum. 

Question# 2

Neoclassicism

Canaletto THE DOGE’S PALACE AND THE RIVA DEGLI SCHIAVONI

Anton Raphael Mengs PARNASSUS

Romanticism

Théodore Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa (1818-19)

Realism

Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet. Courbet’s Stone Breakers (1849)