Art History Timeline
Prehistoric Art
(c.30,000-2000 BC)
Cave painting, Hall of Bulls
(Lascaux, France c15,000 BC)
Ancient Egyptian Art
(c.3000-30BC)
Egyptian Tomb paintings. The Queen
playing chess, (Tomb Nefertari, Thebes, c1255BC)
Classical Greek Art
(c.500-320BC)
Myrons Discus Thrower (c.450BC) replica
Ancient Rome
c.509BC-330AD
Colosseum, (70-80 AD, Temple of Peace, Rome)
Byzantine Art
(c.300-1204)
Icon The Virgin Orans, (1037-61 mosaic, Saint Sophia
Cathedral, Kiev)
Gothic Art
(c.1140-1500)
Chatres Cathedral, (1193-1250, central portal, France)
Early Renaissance
(c.1300-1500)
Giotto, The Deposition, (c1304, fresco, Arena Chapel,
Padua, Italy)
Northern Renaissance
(c.1400-1500)
Jan Van Eyke, The Arnolfini Wedding, (1434, oil
on wood panel, National Gallery London)
High Renaissance
(c.1490-1527)
Vitruvian Man, Leonardo Da Vinci, (c.1485-90, pen
and ink with wash over metal point on paper, Venice, Italy)
Mannerism
(c.1520-1600)
Pontormo, Deposition from the Cross, (c.15268,oil on panel, Church of Santa Felicita, Florence)
Baroque
(c.1600-1750)
Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus, (1600-01,
oil on canvas, National Gallery London)
Dutch Golden Age
(c.1620-1700)
Johannes Vermeer, The Pearl Earring, (166667, The Hague, oil on canvas)
Rococo
(c.1700-1800)
Francois Boucher, Diane Bathing, (1742, oil on
canvas, Louvre, Paris)
Neo-Classicism
(c.1750-1850)
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the
Horatii, (1784, Oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris)
Romanticism
(c.1800-80)
Eugene Delacroix, Jacob Wrestling with the
Angel, (1861, oil on canvas)
Ukiyo-e
(c.17th-20th centuries)
Ando Hiroshige, The Great Wave off
Kanagawa, (1823-29, woodblock print, copies in MOMA and
British Museum, London)
Pre-Raphaelites
(1848-1853)
Millais, Ophelia, (1851-52, Tate London, Oil on canvas)
Realism
1830s-50s
Millet, The Angelus (1857-59, oil on canvas, Musee
D’Orsay Paris)
Impressionism
1870s-90s
Claude Monet, Poppies, (c.1876, Musee D’Orsay Paris,
oil on canvas)
Post-Impressionism
(c.1880-1905)
Van Gogh, Starry Night, (1889, MOMA New York, oil on
canvas)
Pointillism/Neo-Impressionism
(1886-c1900)
Georges Seurat, La Grande Jatte, (1884-86, oil on
canvas, The Art Institute, Chicago.)
Art Nouveau
1890-1905
Gustave Klimt, The Kiss, (1907-08,oil and gold leaf on
canvas, Osterreichische Galerie, Vienna)
Fauvism
(1900-20)
Henri Matisse, The Dance, (1909 MOMA, New York, oil
on canvas)
Expressionism
(c.1890-1934)
Edvard Munch, The Scream, (1893, oil tempera and
pastel on cardboard, National Gallery Oslo)
Cubism
(1907-14)
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles D’Avignon,
(1907, oil on canvas, MOMA, New York)