Art history

  • 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
  • Mesopotamian art
    2500 BCE

    Mesopotamian art

  • Period: 850 BCE to 31 BCE

    Greek art

    Greek idealism: balance, perfect proportions; architectural
    orders as Doric, Ionic and Corinthian
  • Chinese art
    653 BCE

    Chinese art

  • Period: 653 BCE to

    Chinesse art

    Serene, meditative art, and Arts of the Floating World
  • Persian art
    550 BCE

    Persian art

  • Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE

    Persian art

    Mayor influence of Islamic art, strong in many media including architecture, painting and pottery
  • Roman art
    500 BCE

    Roman art

  • 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
  • Byzantine art
    473 BCE

    Byzantine art

  • Egyptian art
    310 BCE

    Egyptian art

  • Greek art
    31 BCE

    Greek art

  • Gothic art
    1300

    Gothic art

  • Period: 1300 to

    Gothic art

    Style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art
  • Renaissance
    1400

    Renaissance

  • 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

    Baroque

  • Period: to

    Baroque

    Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious
    wars
  • Romanticism

    Romanticism

  • Period: to

    Romanticism

    The triumph of imagination and individuality
  • Impresionism

    Impresionism

  • Period: to

    Impressionism

    Capturing fleeting effects of natural light