Dudes
Materials
Symbolism
Timeline
Myth and Relig
100

This Chinese sage is credited with the creation of Daoism

Laozi

100

This lightweight material fills the topmost of the Pantheon's dome

pumice

100

For Fredrick Douglass, photography represented this ideal

impartiality

100

This decade marked Parisian color merchants switching to dyes made of mechanically ground pigments

1830s (1836)

100

This deity was the supreme celestial deity over the Roman peoples

Jupiter
200

This Roman emperor commissioned the construction of the Pantheon

Hadrian

200

According to De deversis artibus, these three specific materials were needed to create stained glass

silica, potash, and lime

200

Prussian blue evoked this mood in Self Portrait in a Straw Hat

Serenity

200

During this period of Chinese history, the underglaze method of painting was created

Yuan dynasty

200

Beyond the ring of angels in the rose window of the Cartres Cathedral are these Catholic characters  

24 Elders of the Apocalypse

300

This artist penned Introduction to the Three Arts of Design

Giorgio Vasari

300

This type of clay was used for extremely white porcelain in China  

kaolin clay

300

The spherical design of the rose window at Chartres Cathedral evokes the image of this tool

Spinning wheel

300

The Chartres Cathedral took this long to build

70 years

300

This god presides over the kingdom of the afterlife in ancient Egyptian mythology

Osiris

400

This painter utilized Prussian blue in his work Girl with Kitten

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau

400

This is the chemical name of what is commonly known as Prussian Blue

Iron Ferrocyanide

400

The fluidity of the movement of the Dragon on Jar with Dragon evokes this concept

power

400

This year marked the beginning of the conquest of Egypt by Rome

30 BCE

400

The Virgin Mary was the primary figure painted with this particular dye, before other shades became more available

Ultramarine

500

This amateur English scientist died before he could witness the first permanent image written with light

Thomas Wedgewood

500

Nicephore Niepce used this type of plate, coated with Bitumen of Judea, to copy an engraving

pewter

500

This element of Portrait of a Youth symbolizes coming of age

Mustache

500

This photographic process was invented six years after our photo of Frederick Douglass was taken

wet-plate process

500

This common element in Precisionist photography pointed may have contemplation similar to that of religious works

smokestacks

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