History With Art timeline!

  • Oceanic Art
    8000 BCE

    Oceanic Art

    8000 BC - 2000 BC
    Image from britannica.com
  • Ancient Mesopotamia
    4000 BCE

    Ancient Mesopotamia

    4000BCE - 250BC Image from ancient.eu
  • Ancient Egypt
    3100 BCE

    Ancient Egypt

    3100 BCE - 30 BCE.
    "Egyptian headdresses were worn by gods and pharaohs to symbolize their importance and separate them from the common people. No common people were ever allowed to wear headdresses or hats." -study.com
    Image taken from theguardian.com
  • Ancient China
    1600 BCE

    Ancient China

    1600–221 BC Image by ancient.eu
  • African Art
    400 BCE

    African Art

    400 to 600 AD
  • Roman Empire
    31 BCE

    Roman Empire

    31st century BC - 1453CE
    Image by theamazingorigns.com
  • Greek Empire
    8 BCE

    Greek Empire

    8th century BC - 146 BC
    Image by fine art america
  • Renaissance
    1300

    Renaissance

    1300 – 1600 "The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages. Generally described as taking place from the 14th century to the 17th century, the Renaissance promoted the rediscovery of classical philosophy, literature and art." -history.com Image from history.com
  • North American Indians
    1492

    North American Indians

    Unknown -1492.
    "Christopher Columbus lands on a Caribbean Island after three months of traveling. Believing at first that he had reached the East Indies, he describes the natives he meets as “Indians.” On his first day, he orders six natives to be seized as servants." -history.com
  • Latin American Modern Art
    1492

    Latin American Modern Art

    1492 and1500 - Present Image by britannica.com
  • Western European Modernism

    Western European Modernism

    1900 - 1940
    "Modernism, in the fine arts, a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, particularly in the years following World War I." -Britannica.com
  • British/American Pop Art

    British/American Pop Art

    1950 - Present "Emerging in the 1950s, Pop art was an art movement that took inspiration from sources in popular culture such as comic books, pop music, advertising, and movies. In Britain, it took the form of both a celebration and critique of popular culture through art." -khan Academy