Art

Art History Timeline

By marhelkok
  • Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)
    30,000 BCE

    Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)

    Cave painting, fertility goddesses, megalithic structures
    Lascaux Cave Painting, Woman of Willendorf, Stonehenge
  • Mesopotamian (3500 b.c.–539 b.c.)
    3500 BCE

    Mesopotamian (3500 b.c.–539 b.c.)

    Warrior art and narration in stone relief
    Standard of Ur, Gate of Ishtar, Stele of Hammurabi’s Code
  • Egyptian (3100 b.c.–30 b.c.)
    3100 BCE

    Egyptian (3100 b.c.–30 b.c.)

    Art with an afterlife focus: pyramids and tomb painting
    Imhotep, Step Pyramid, Great Pyramids, Bust of Nefertiti
  • Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.–31 b.c.)
    850 BCE

    Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.–31 b.c.)

    Greek idealism: balance, perfect proportions; architectural
    orders(Doric, Ionic, Corinthian)
    Parthenon, Myron, Phidias, Polykleitos, Praxiteles
  • Indian, Chinese, and Japanese(653 b.c.–a.d. 1900)
    653 BCE

    Indian, Chinese, and Japanese(653 b.c.–a.d. 1900)

    Serene, meditative art, and Arts of the Floating World
    Gu Kaizhi, Li Cheng, Guo Xi, Hokusai, Hiroshige
  • Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)
    500 BCE

    Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)

    Roman realism: practical and down to earth; the arch
    Augustus of Primaporta, Colosseum, Trajan’s Column,
    Pantheon
  • Byzantine and Islamic (a.d. 476–a.d.1453)
    476 BCE

    Byzantine and Islamic (a.d. 476–a.d.1453)

    Heavenly Byzantine mosaics; Islamic architecture and amazing
    maze-like design
    Hagia Sophia, Andrei Rublev, Mosque of Córdoba, the
    Alhambra
  • Middle Ages (500–1400)
    500

    Middle Ages (500–1400)

    Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic
    St. Sernin, Durham Cathedral, Notre Dame, Chartres, Cimabue,
    Duccio, Giotto
  • Early and High Renaissance (1400–1550)
    1400

    Early and High Renaissance (1400–1550)

    Rebirth of classical culture
    Ghiberti’s Doors, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli,
    Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
  • Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430–1550)
    1430

    Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430–1550)

    The Renaissance spreads north- ward to France, the Low
    Countries, Poland, Germany, and England
    Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Bruegel, Bosch, Jan van
    Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden
  • Mannerism (1527–1580)
    1527

    Mannerism (1527–1580)

    Art that breaks the rules; artifice over nature
    Tintoretto, El Greco, Pontormo, Bronzino, Cellini
  • Baroque (1600–1750)

    Baroque (1600–1750)

    Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious
    wars
    Reubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Palace of Versailles
  • Neoclassical (1750–1850)

    Neoclassical (1750–1850)

    Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur
    David, Ingres, Greuze, Canova
  • Romanticism (1780–1850)

    Romanticism (1780–1850)

    The triumph of imagination and individuality
    Caspar Friedrich, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin
    West
  • Realism (1848–1900)

    Realism (1848–1900)

    Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air
    rustic painting
    Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Millet
  • Impressionism (1865–1885)

    Impressionism (1865–1885)

    Capturing fleeting effects of natural light
    Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas
  • Post-Impressionism (1885–1910)

    Post-Impressionism (1885–1910)

    A soft revolt against Impressionism
    Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat
  • Fauvism and Expressionism (1900–1935)

    Fauvism and Expressionism (1900–1935)

    Harsh colors and flat surfaces (Fauvism); emotion distorting
    form
    Matisse, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Marc
  • Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Stijl (1905–1920)

    Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Stijl (1905–1920)

    Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new
    forms to express modern life

    Picasso, Braque, Leger, Boccioni, Severini, Malevich
  • Dada and Surrealism (1917–1950)

    Dada and Surrealism (1917–1950)

    Ridiculous art; painting dreams and exploring the
    unconscious

    Duchamp, Dalí, Ernst, Magritte, de Chirico, Kahlo
  • Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s) and Pop Art (1960s)

    Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s) and Pop Art (1960s)

    Post–World War II: pure abstraction and expression
    without form; popular art absorbs consumerism

    Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Warhol, Lichtenstein
  • Postmodernism and Deconstructivism (1970– )

    Postmodernism and Deconstructivism (1970– )

    Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles

    Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Anselm Kiefer, Frank Gehry,
    Zaha Hadid