Art History Timeline | Norma Jones

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.

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

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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

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