Art Periods

After the destruction of Ayutthaya, King Taksin founded his new capital of Dhonburi on the right bank of the Menam.

In 1350 a prince of U-Thong founded the city of Ayutthaya. The new Kingdom rapidly developed into the most powerful

In addition to Sukhothai and Ayutthaya, there existed in North Thailand from the end of the 13th to the middle

In the first half of the 13th century two Thai princes in Sawankhalok and Sukhothai, outposts of the Khmer empire,

Between about 1000 and 1250 the whole of central Siam was under the rule of the Khmers. It was the

The heir of Dvaravati culture in southern Thailand, as far as the present day town of Hua Hin, was the

The earliest works of art produced on the soil of present day Thailand date from the period of the Kingdom