This site is a supplement to the Empyrean information provided on the AetherMUX web page. The purpose of this page is to fill out the art history of the 500 year period known as the Golden Age for the Empyreans, a winged race based on ancient Greece and Roman Mythology. The Golden Age began when Zeus Jupiter took the throne as the Empyror of the Empyrean people and helped them to rise as the most powerful of the races in Aether.
Artists have always been ones to capture the history of their people in their work, freezing one moment in life for generations to view and remember. This is also the case in Empyrean society where artists carefully crafted stone, bronze and clay into incredible works of art, pieces of history. These pages detail the art and artists of the Empyrean Golden Age so that those with training in the Fine Arts may have masters to study and emulate and art lovers and collectors may gain knowledge in this wondrous period of growth and strength of the Empyrean people.
There are four recognized periods in Empyrean art history during the time from 1400-1900 known as the Golden Age:
The Kronian Period (1400-1480)
The Hupatos Period (1480-1605)
The Apollonic Period (1605-1750)
The Ouranios Period (1750-1900)
There is a basis from which these 500 years of Empyrean art are created. Art in Aether is based on the following periods of art in Ancient Greece on Earth:
The Archaic Period (600-480 B.C.)
The Classical Period - Severe Style (480-450 B.C.)
The Classical Period - Age of Pericles (450-400 B.C.)
The Hellenistic Period (323-150 B.C.)
Art continues on after this Golden Age, but what has made this period so important in the whole history of art is the innumerable breakthroughs made by artists in respect to anatomy, movement, perspective and the use of color. Empyrean artists of the present day use these masters as an influence in their own work, just as artists on Earth look back on the works of Michelangelo, Monet and Picasso.
While the art itself is based on ancient Greek works, all of the artists named within this site are fictional, existing not here on Earth, but in the histories of the Empyrean people on Aether. This site borrows on the techniques of the ancient craftsmen but does not follow it exactly, some liberties have been taken in style, but not to the extent that it would have been impossible to create during this time period in Aether.