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Period: 30,000 BCE to 2500 BCE
Mesopotamian art
Warrior art and narration in stone relief -
Period: 3100 BCE to 30 BCE
Egyptian art
Art with an afterlife focus: pyramids and tomb painting -
2500 BCE
Mesopotamian art
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Period: 850 BCE to 31 BCE
Greek art
Greek idealism: balance, perfect proportions; architectural
orders as Doric, Ionic and Corinthian -
653 BCE
Chinese art
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Period: 653 BCE to
Chinesse art
Serene, meditative art, and Arts of the Floating World -
550 BCE
Persian art
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Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE
Persian art
Mayor influence of Islamic art, strong in many media including architecture, painting and pottery -
500 BCE
Roman art
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Period: 500 BCE to 478
Roman art
Roman realism: practical and down to earth; the arch -
Period: 476 BCE to 1453
Bizantine art
Heavenly Byzantine mosaics -
473 BCE
Byzantine art
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310 BCE
Egyptian art
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31 BCE
Greek art
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1300
Gothic art
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Period: 1300 to
Gothic art
Style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art -
1400
Renaissance
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Period: 1400 to 1550
Renaissance
basis of the Renaissance was its own invented version of humanism, derived from the concept of Roman Humanitas and the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy -
Baroque
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Period: to
Baroque
Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious
wars -
Romanticism
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Period: to
Romanticism
The triumph of imagination and individuality -
Impresionism
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Period: to
Impressionism
Capturing fleeting effects of natural light
