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3000 BCE
PREDYNASTIC Ancient Egypt - "Palette of King Narmer"
Mathematical; Narrative; Power -
2500 BCE
OLD Ancient Egypt - "Seated Khafre"
Rigid; Funerary; Lasting -
2250 BCE
Ancient Near East - "Victory Stele of Naram-Sin"
Divinity; Triumph; Military -
1400 BCE
NEW Ancient Egypt - "Fowling Scene"
Funerary; Movement; Smooth -
1350 BCE
AMARNA Ancient Egypt - "Nefertiti", THUTMOSES.
Realistic; Dynamic; Rich -
740 BCE
GEOMETRIC Greece - "Dipylon Vase"
Symbolic; Storytelling; Flat -
530 BCE
ARCHAIC Ancient Greece - "Kroisos"
Rigid; Funerary; Motion -
520 BCE
Etruscan - "Sarcophagus with Reclining Couple"
Funerary; Relaxed; Natural -
445 BCE
CLASSICAL Ancient Greece - "Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)" (Polykleitos)
Idealism; Contrapposto; Perfection -
100 BCE
HELLENISTIC Ancient Greece - "Seated Boxer"
Emotional; Realistic; Erotic (Others) -
75 BCE
REPUBLIC Ancient Rome- "Head of a Roman Patrician"
Realistic (Verism); Portraits; Harsh -
13 BCE
EARLY EMPIRE Ancient Rome - "Ara Pacis Augustae
Propaganda; Lifelike;Powerful (Others) -
175
HIGH EMPIRE Ancient Rome - "Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius"
Imperial; Power; Nationalistic -
312
LATE EMPIRE Ancient Rome - "Arch of Constantine"
Narrative; Replication; Christian -
359
Late Antiquity - "Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus"
Spiritual(Nonsecular); Narrative; Symbolic -
700
Early Medieval - "Lindisfarne Gospels"
Christian Subject matter; Classical perspective (rare)/Personalized features; Decorative and Abstract Designs -
1000
Byzantine- "Vladimir Virgin"
Iconography; Flat; Golden.
[Mosaics also; AND Lamentation...] -
1100
ARCHITECTURE Romanesque - "Saint Sernin"
ROOM for pilgrimages; Rational; Radiating Chapels -
1130
Romanesque - "Last Judgement"; Gislebertus
Punitive; Narrative; Elongation; Flat -
1150
ARCHITECTURE Gothic Europe - "Chartres Cathedral"
Flying Buttresses; Ribbed Vaults; Pointed Arches -
1305
Medieval TRANSITION Renaissance - "Lamentation", Giotto di Bondone, Arena Chapel
Space; Emotion; Chiaroscuro -
1339
Gothic- "Virgin of Jeanne D'Evereaux" (Saint-Denis)
Expensive; Exaggerated Contrapposto (S-Curve); Cult of the Virgin; Actors in a play. -
1401
Early Renaissance - "Sacrifice of Isaac (Competition Panel)"; Lorenzo Ghiberti
Humanism; Illusion; Individualism -
1432
15th Century Northern Europe and Spain - "The Ghent Altarpiece"; Jan Van Eyck
Altarpieces; Devotion; Detail -
1510
High Renaissance - "Philosophy (School of Athens)"; Raphael.
Humanism; Psychology/emotion; Propaganda. -
1535
High Renaissance MANNERISM - "Madonna with the Long Neck"; Parmigianino.
Unnatural Artifice; Ambiguity; Elegance. -
1565
Northern Renaissance, "Hunters in the Snow", Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Accuracy, Landscape, Reformation -
BAROQUE - Caravaggio, "Conversion of Saint Paul"
Chiaroscuro, Tenebroso, Drama, Counter-Reformation -
ENLIGHTENMENT Neoclassicism - "Oath of the Horatii", Jacques-Louis David, 1784
Classical, Disegno, Propaganda -
ENLIGHTENMENT Romanticism - "Liberty Leading the People", Eugene Delacroix
Patriotism, Emotion, Exotic, Nightmares. -
MODERNISM Realism - "The Gleaners", Jean-Francois Millet
Ordinary, Straightforward, Empiricism -
MODERNISM Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - "Beata Beatrix", Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Idealism, Spirituality, Renaissance-ism -
Impressionism - "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere", Edouard Manet
Transience, Photographical, Brushstrokes (Life is Fleeting) -
Post-Impressionism - "Starry Night", Vincent Van Gogh
Subjectivity, Color, Brushstrokes -
Symbolism - "The Sleeping Gypsy", Henri Rosseau
Subjective Interpretation, Emotions, Symbols -
Art Noveau - "The Kiss", Gustav Klimt
Decadence, Mass-Production, Synthetic Nature -
Cubism - "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon", Pablo Picasso
Fragmented, Multiple Perspectives, Abstraction and Subjectivity -
Fauvism - "Red Room (Harmony in Red)", Henri Matisse
COLOR, COLOR, COLOR -
Surrealism - "Melancholy and Mystery of a Street", Giorgio De Chirico
Improvisational, DREAMS, Unconcious -
DaDa-ism - "The Fountain", Marcel Duchamp
Nonsense, Violent Nonconformity, Subversive -
Regionalism - "American Gothic",Grant Wood
Rural, Nationalism, Realist -
New Objectivity - "Der Krieg", Otto Dix
Firsthand Experience, Honesty, Trauma -
PostModernism - "Who's afraid of Aunt Jemima?", Faith Ringgold
Propaganda, Quilt, Woman, African-American -
"Summer Trees", Song Su-Nam
Tradition and Innovation, Ink on Paper, Abstract Expressionist Art.
