Art works not matching their real world Eras

[brownybrown]

Hello Civfanatics,
I've been a lurker for so many years, forgot my account name so had to resign up.
Anyway I've been searching in steam workshop/here/anywhere on this topic and have come up blank. My art works don't seem match their eras, getting a renaissance painting in 500 AD or modern art in 1500AD. Is it random ? or the art work is judged on my tech level rather than my date ?
I have been looking for a mod that 1. aligns the art work with eras better
and 2. aligns art with civilization better - ie France can only create European art while japan can only create Asian art.

 

[Stellarnight]

Art work is randomly distributed without regards to its historical origins. In a way, this adds to the charm of Civ V which is never to provide a completely accurate re-telling of history but a scenario of what-if?

Not sure if there is a mod though perhaps you can request for it in the mod section.

 

[Browd]

My art works don't seem match their eras, getting a renaissance painting in 500 AD or modern art in 1500AD. Is it random ? or the art work is judged on my tech level rather than my date ?

The art works are labeled based on your tech level era when you generate the art, not the game date. If you are in the Renaissance by 500AD, the art work you generate is Renaissance. If you are in Modern by 1500 AD, ditto. The specific work that is generated is determined by the Great Artist that you generate, and those, as Stellarnight notes, seem to be random. (At least I discern no rhyme or reason to which artists appear when.)

 

[Makavcio]

It's totally random, indeed. Imho, it's a pity. It would be nice if Asian artists appeared for Asian civilizations and matched their eras, when possible. Although this would be a rare occurrence, it could be a nice flavor.

 

[Qoma]

From my own personal experience with modding more works in, I can say that the possible variance of generated great works between eras would add a level of complexity to the necessary amount that would be very difficult to manage. How many works need to be available, per era? How does the amount of civs in any given game change that? (if you think it's bad when your game runs out of Great People when they're all piled into one category, just imagine running out of Great People in a single era! Should you have waited re-assigned your citizens out of your Artists Guild until you reached the next era? But how could you have even known to?) And then there's the simple fact that there are simply many, many more available works (IE "real" works) from the Renaissance and onward, and fewer works in Medieval that are attributable to real artists; not to mention that come the Modern/Atomic/Information Eras, there are many fewer specifically "significant" artists, which is what the game sort of uses thematically.

Add to that, that you are rarely in the correct "era" for the actual in-game "year" you are - why tie it to the era? Why not to the year? If you are in the modern era in the 1500's (which happens), one person would complain about generating modern-era artists in the 1500's while another would complain about generating 1500's artists in the modern era. The timeline in Civ 5 is too variable to tie a crucial game element to it like that.

Long story short, it's a massive can of worms that I can see why Firaxis decided not to tackle, and why there are no mods that I know of that attempt it either.