Prehistoric and Ancient Art

The visual and architectural traditions of the ancient world before the medieval period, spanning prehistoric cave and rock art and the civilizations of the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Belongs here: Prehistoric Art, Ancient Egyptian Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Ancient Greek Art, Ancient Roman Art, and classical antiquity more broadly. Does not belong here: the Byzantine and early medieval traditions that followed the fall of Rome in the west, which are grouped under Medieval and Byzantine Art, and the Renaissance revival of these same classical forms centuries later, which is grouped under Renaissance Art.