- Paleolithic Art -The earliest known art, produced roughly between 40,000 and 10,000 BC, during the most recent ice age or the Old Stone Age.
- Egyptian beginnings
- Stone age of Italy and Sicily
- Mesolithic Art – Middle Stone Age about 10,000 years ago
- Neolithic Art – The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age began in Asia around 7000 B.C
- Yang-Shao Culture, Neolithic culture that flourished in China about 3950-1700 BC.
- Irish Art, 2500 BC
- Japanese Art. 3000 BC
- The Bronze Age – between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, when most tools and weapons were made of bronze.
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- Cycladic Culture, unique and distinctive Greek civilization that flourished from about 3200 to 2000 BC
- Indian Art – the art produced on the Indian subcontinent from about the 3rd millennium BC
- Indus Valley Civilization, 2500-1700 BC, earliest known civilization of South Asia
- Pre-Columbian Art – Art of the indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica, the Andes and neighboring cultures before the 16th century AD.
- Etruscan Art, early Italian Art to 1st cent. B.C.
- Greek Art about 1100 BC to the 1st century BC.
- Roman art – 500 BC.
- African Art -500 – 200 B.C.
- Eskimo Art – The art of the Eskimo peoples emerged about 2,000 years ago in the Bering Sea area and in Canada.
- Coptic Art, artwork of the Copts, or Egyptian Christians, from the 3rd to the 12th century
- Native American Art, the diverse traditional arts of the indigenous peoples of North America.
- Oceanic art, works produced by the island peoples of the S and NW Pacific
- Islamic Art, beginning in the 7th century AD
- Anglo-Saxon Art, art produced in England by invading Germanic peoples from the 7th century to the Norman conquest in 1066.
- American Art- beginning in the 17th Century
- Canadian Art – beginning in the 17th Century
Related site: Art History Resources on the Web
- Early Christian Art – Biblical figures on catacomb walls in Rome from the early 3rd century
- Medieval Art (or Art of the Middle Ages)
- The Middle Ages spans the time from the 5th century A.D to the 15th century
- Romanesque period – 11th and 12th centuries
- Gothic style – 12th to 16th centuries (The International Gothic style emerged by the end of the 14th century)
- The Italian Renaissance – In Italy the Renaissance emerged in the 14th century and reached its height in the 15th and 16th century. elsewhere in Europe it dated from the 15th to the mid-17th century
- The Early Italian Renaissance
- The High Renaissance
- Mannerism ( Late Renaissance)
- Northern European Renaissance Painting – the northern countries, such as Germany, the Lowlands (Flanders and the Netherlands), England, France, and Spain
- Baroque
- Early Baroque (c.1590-c.1625)
- High Baroque (c.1625-c.1660)
- Late Baroque (c.1660-c.1725)
- Rococo Style -18th-century
- Romanticism – late 18th and 19th century
- England, France, Germany, United States
- Barbizon School – group of French painters, from about 1830 to 1870
- Neoclassical Art – art produced in Europe and North America from about 1750 through the early 1800s, marked by the emulation of Greco-Roman forms.
- Nazarenes – young German artists who formed a brotherhood in Rome in 1810 to restore Christian art to its medieval purity.
- Pre-Raphaelites – English brotherhood formed in 1848 to protest the formula-driven art of the Royal Academy
- Realism – began in the mid-19th century
- Impressionism – 1874 – 1886
- Symbolist Movement – late 19th century.
- Neoimpressionism or Pointillism – late 19th century
- Post-Impressionism – 1886 – 1910
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- Modern Art – terms roughly designating 20th-century art, comprising many movements, styles, and schools.
- Fauvism – 1905-1909
- Expressionism – 1906-1919
- Cubism – 1909-1926
- Futurism – 1909-1918
- Suprematism – about 1913
- Dadaism – 1916-1922
- Surrealism – 1924-1938
- De Stijl – 1916-1931
- Constructivism – 1917-1924
- Abstract Expressionism – 1940’s
- Pop Art – 1961-1968
- Kinetic Art – 1950’s-1960’s
- Op Art – 1964-1967
- Minimalism – 1966-1970
- Conceptual Art – 1960’s and 70’s
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