Evolution of Painting

Cave paintings have been attributed to the cave women, since they were gatherers, and stayed at the caves

Egypt.

Egypt shows the earliest forms of paintings as an art. Most of their paintings are religious; however, there is also representations of their daily life.

Greece and Rome.

Ancient greece had great painters, grat sculptors and great architects. Roman was an art that was influenced by Greece and can, in part, be taken as a descendant of ancient Greek paintings. However, Roman painting does have important unique characteristics.

Middle ages.

Byzantine art, by the 6th century, placed great emphasis on retaining traditional iconography and style, and has changed relatively little through the thousand years of the Byzantine Empire.
Medieval art was produced in many media, and the works that remains in large number include: sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, metalwork, and mosaics.

 

Renaissance.

Is said to be, by many, the golden age of paintings. It lasted from the 14th to the 17th century.

some famous artists from Italy are, Tintoretto, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarrotti, and Raphael. They took paintings to a higher level new to man.
On this time it was also the time when they used the perspective, and they started to study the human anatomy and proportion.