Classic art is associated with the ancient Greeks and Romans. The Middle Ages describes the time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance. Medieval art was often commissioned for church buildings or wealthy religious people, and it focuses on holy subjects such as saints.

Medieval art was mostly religious and concerned with conveying Christian beliefs and values. Renaissance art was less focused on religion and more focused on the daily life of people. The biggest difference between Renaissance art and Medieval art was the focus on artistic realism.

Both the Medieval Ages and Renaissance had the presence of a social organization and had artwork centered on religion. However, during the Renaissance architecture was influenced by Greco-Roman styles, had the existence of towns, questioned the power of the Catholic Church, and had an educated public.

Early medieval art shared some defining characteristics including iconography, Christian subject matter, elaborate patterns and decoration, bright colors, the use of precious metals, gems, and other luxurious materials, stylized figures, and social status.

The terms classic or classical came into use in the seventeenth century to describe the arts and culture of the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome. Classicism is generally associated with harmony and restraint, and obedience to recognized standards of form and craftsmanship.

Classical Art encompasses the cultures of Greece and Rome and endures as the cornerstone of Western civilization. Including innovations in painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture, Classical Art pursued ideals of beauty, harmony, and proportion, even as those ideals shifted and changed over the centuries.

Since Roman times, Greek art of the second half of the 5th century bce has been generally regarded as the high point in the development of the Classical tradition. It was the most refined expression of the Greek view of their gods as men and of their men as partaking of the divine.

The Classical period

• an emphasis on elegance and balance.
• short well-balanced melodies and clear-cut question and answer phrases.
• mainly simple diatonic harmony.
• mainly homophonic textures (melody plus accompaniment) but with some use of counterpoint (where two or more melodic lines are combined)
• use of contrasting moods.

The late Classical and Hellenistic periods extended from 400 BC to around 30 BC, from the time of the Peloponnesian War to the conquering of Greece by Rome.

The emphasis of Egyptian art was more on the symmetry. The Greek statues had some reality in them. They were quite natural unlike the Egyptian statues. The Greek sculptures show some action or movement whereas the Egyptian statues are just fixed ones.

The Greeks decided very early on that the human form was the most important subject for artistic endeavour. Seeing their gods as having human form, there was little distinction between the sacred and the secular in art—the human body was both secular and sacred.

harmonious proportions. How did High Classical Greek period artists achieve ideal figures? Using the canon of proportion.

Classical Civilization or Classics is the study of the cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean, and in particular the cultures of the Greek and Roman worlds.

Democracy, individualism, monotheism, architectural proportion, musical harmony: all these concepts were first developed by the classical civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Rome.

Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is the period of cultural history between the 8th century BC and the 6th century AD centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known as the Greco-Roman world.

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