Art history yale

art movements (art history)

  • 25,000 BCE

    paleolithic

    Apollo 11 Stones, Great Hall of the Bulls, etc.
  • 5000 BCE

    neolithic

    Stonehenge, Running Horned Woman, etc.
  • 3000 BCE

    sumerian

    White Temple and its ziggurat, Standard of Ur, etc.
  • 2500 BCE

    old kingdom egypt

    Great Pyramids, King Menkaura and queen, etc.
  • 1500 BCE

    new kingdom egypt

    Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall, etc.
  • 1333 BCE

    amarna period egypt

    Tutankhamun's tomb, Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer, etc.
  • 900 BCE

    geometric greek

  • Period: 900 BCE to

    indigenous americas

    City of Machu Picchu, Black on Black Ceramic Vessel, etc.
  • 700 BCE

    orientalizing greek

  • Period: 600 BCE to

    islam

    Great Mosque of Cordoba, Folio from a Qur'an, etc.
  • 550 BCE

    archaic greek

    Anavysos Kouros, Peplos Kore, etc.
  • 550 BCE

    etruscan

    Sarcophagus of the Spouses, Temple of Minerva, etc.
  • 539 BCE

    persia

    Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes
  • 480 BCE

    severe greek

  • 450 BCE

    classical greek

    Doryphoros, Acropolis, etc.
  • 350 BCE

    late classical greek

  • Period: 300 BCE to 1127

    buddhism

    Jowo Rinpoche, Great Stupa at Sanchi, etc.
  • 250 BCE

    hellenistic greek

    Winged Victory of Samothrace, Seated Boxer, etc.
  • 250 BCE

    roman republic

  • Period: 200 BCE to

    china

    Forbidden City, Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan, etc.
  • 250

    roman late empire

    Pantheon, Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus, etc.
  • 350

    early christian

    Santa Sabina, Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, etc.
  • Period: 400 to 1475

    korea

    Gold and Jade Crown, Portrait of Sin Sukju
  • 550

    byzantine

    Hagia Sophia, San Vitale, etc.
  • 600

    migratory

    Merovingian looped fibulae, Lindisfarne Gospels, etc.
  • 622

    early islam

    The Kaaba, Dome of Rock, etc.
  • Period: 700 to

    pacific

    Tamati Waka Nene, Navigation Chart, etc.
  • Period: 740 to

    japan

    Under the Wave off Kanagawa, Ryoan-ji, etc.
  • Period: 930 to 1400

    hinduism

    Temple of Angkor Wat, Lakshmana Temple, etc.
  • Period: 1000 to

    africa

    Pwo Mask, Ikenga, etc.
  • 1100

    romanesque

    Church of Sainte-Foy, Bayeux Tapestry, etc.
  • 1140

    early gothic

    Chartres Cathedral
  • 1200

    high gothic

    Annunciation and Visitation jamb statues, Death of the Virgin, etc.
  • 1250

    late gothic

    Rottgen Pieta, Virgin and Child (Virgin of Paris), etc.
  • 1300

    giotto

    Lamentation
  • 1300

    early rennaissance

  • 1450

    italian rennaissance

    Birth of Venus, David Donatello, etc.
  • 1450

    15th c. northern rennaissance

    Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, Annunciation Triptych, etc.
  • 1515

    high rennaissance

    Last Supper, Sistine Chapel ceiling and Last Judgement altar wall frescoes, etc.
  • 1530

    mannerism

    Entombment of Christ, Venus of Urbino, etc.
  • 1550

    16th c. northern rennaissance

    Adam and Eve, Hunters in the Snow, etc.
  • baroque

    Calling of Saint Matthew, Palace of Versailles, etc.
  • rococo

    The Swing, The Tete a Tete, etc.
  • neoclassicism

    George Washington, The Oath of the Horatii, etc.
  • romanticism

    The Oxbow, Liberty Leading the People, etc.
  • photography

    Still Life in Studio, The Steerage
  • realism

    The Burghers of Calais, The Stone Breakers, etc.
  • impressionism

    The Saint-Lazare Station, The Coiffure
  • post-impressionism

    The Starry Night, Mont Sainte-Victoire, etc.
  • symbolism

  • art nouveau

    The Kiss (Klimt)
  • fauvism

    Goldfish
  • cubism

    Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, The Portuguese
  • futurism

  • german expressionism

    Self Portrait as a Soldier
  • dada

    Fountain
  • harlem rennaissance

  • constructivism

    Illustration from the Results of the First Five-Year Plan
  • suprematism

  • surrealism

    Object
  • bauhaus

  • de stijl

    Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow
  • mexican muralism

    Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park
  • abstract expressionism

    Woman, The Bay
  • pop art

    Marilyn Diptych, Lipstick
  • earth art

    Spiral Jetty
  • post-modernism