What is your favorite time period?

Question

I am a art history teacher, and I personally love the Egyptians and Greeks... because their world views on humanity and religion are so far removed from where we are today.

Answer 1

Depends

The Mayan people had an advanced culture, books, music, art advanced engineering and sciences, all this mixed with a brutal warrior culture, it makes it a cross between the Athenians and the Spartans. The art of the time represents everything in their world and how they fit in to it and in to its history.

Spartans, Militaristic to a fault, an advanced culture who basically turned away from that which would take them away from the martial aspects of life. Art for them was living flesh not stone. Perfection was something you strove for, not bought. At least that's my interpretation of Sparta.

The modern era, never before has culture moved so fast to the point we are out pacing our ability to keep up to date. Vast leaps of technology, science, art and social reforms happening in a matter of years rather than decades. Between 1937-1945 the world went from the remains of the old imperial form of rule to global democracies, that is completely unprecedented.

But my favorite time period, the crusades. they Mark the end of the dark ages and the transition in to the new age of reason. despite the blood and turmoil, it broke Europe out of its stagnant place in the world. The technologies and science that were taken from the Arabs and Muslims kick started a new perception on life. No one knew what the future had in store, no one could predict the change that would eventually happen in Europe. Even today most people see the crusades as some kind of folly led by religious zealots rather than what it later became, A new Start to a dead way of life. Would Rome be Rome without the grand cathedrals inspired by the crusading knights? Would the canals of Venice died off if it wasn't for the trade that a side benefit to controlling the middle east? Would Michelangelo have painted the Sistine chapel without the money earned from the crusades? Or even if he had would his art have been different if there had not been any influences from the east?

Sometimes war can be a boon as well as a burden.

Answer 2

I don't have just one - I love the Egyptians and Greeks, too, for similar reasons, but I'm also fascinated by the late 19th century.

Until then, each generation lived pretty much as had the previous generation and could expect much the same for the next generation. The 19th century saw the first generation whose lives were markedly different from their parents and change has been happening at an ever increasing rate ever since.

Answer 3

Modern art can be as interesting as ironing so it makes me go back to the past, I visited the tate Modern during the summer and was surprised by how much junk you can fill a building with. Apart from the slide.

I Have to agree the egyptians were doing something all of their own, not so intrigued by the greeks though.

Answer 4

That would depend on what area of civilization I lived in and when I lived there. Many areas were far advanced at different times the Mayans were great for a while but died out too soon, Egypt was a great area for a long time but I guess time has a way of bring out the worst in all people. Mesopotamia under Sargon's rule, No!.; but under Habeknoten ,Yes. So it just really depends on when and where.

Answer 5

I would argue the Edwardian period right before World War I.

It was probably the pinnacle of Western Culture, right before everything was flung away in the trenches of France.

Not that society of that time was perfect, mind you. Colonialism, racism, and economic exploitation were all part of the period. However, it was really the last era in human history where ideas mattered in everyday life.

Answer 6

hi omit S. If I have been allowed to pass back in time to my favorite era in history, then there can purely be one, the Napoleonic era. He replaced right into a terrific guy and had a super suggestions. Napoleon progressed extremely few militia ideas, nevertheless his placement of artillery into batteries and the elevation of the army corps because of the fact the common all-arms unit have become time-honored doctrines in only about all super contemporary armies. He drew his ultimate strategies from one among those supplies and scored significant victories with a modernized and reformed French military. I known him as one among history's maximum excellent commanders. omit S. given the present ecu political climate and the debate over the Lisbon Treaty i'm reminded of a nicely-conventional quote of Napoleon's: " a super ecu federative gadget on my own could be favorable to the form of civilization". good luck my chum, cathorio.

Answer 7

There hasn't been a good time period yet. Even the Golden Ages were preceded by the slaughtering of all the servers of Mammon.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs have never been met for the whole of any population.

Answer 8

15th century England. A time of turmoil and development about which enough records are still extant to make localised research possible..from which further investigation can prove fruitful. There were some very interesting and diverse people around...and those are only those whose record has come down to us.

Answer 9

Greeks, Romans. Very interesting, great art too!

Answer 10

My favorite time period is the future. The art is totally from the imagination.

Peace.