Art History Timeline
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Prehistoric
Era |
Paleolithic |
40,000 - 8000
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Neolithic |
8000 - 2300
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Ancient Civilizations |
Mesopotamia |
3500 - 2030
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Egypt |
3500 - 395
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Greece |
late 7th century
- late 4th century BC |
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Rome |
second century
BC - 395 AD |
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Middle Ages |
Byzantine |
200 - 1450 |
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Medieval |
395 - 1400 |
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Romanesque |
mid 11th to
mid 12th centuries |
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Gothic |
1145 - 1400s |
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Renaissance |
Renaissance |
1400 - 1550 |
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Northern Renaissance |
1500 - 1600 |
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Baroque |
Mannerism |
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Baroque |
1600 - 1750 |
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Northern Baroque |
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Rococo |
1700 - 1775 |
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The Modern
World |
Neoclassicism |
late 18th
to early 19th centuries |
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Romanticism |
late 18th
to early 19th centuries |
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Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood |
1848-1903 |
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Realism |
mid 19th century |
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Impressionism |
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Post-Impressionism |
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Early Twentieth
Century |
Fauvism |
1905 - 1907 |
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German Expressionism |
1900-1910 |
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Cubism |
1908 - 1914 |
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Futurism |
1909 - 1918 |
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Between World
Wars |
Dada |
1916 - 1923 |
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Surrealism |
1924 - mid
1940s |
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Social Realism |
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Modernism |
Abstract Expressionism
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1945 - 1965 |
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Minimalism |
1965 - 1970 |
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Conceptualism |
1965 - 1975 |
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Feminism |
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Performance
Art |
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Postmodernism |
Photography |
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Painting |
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