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 Romec.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.1526-8,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, (1666-67, 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)

Realism1830s-50s

• Millet, The Angelus (1857-59, oil on canvas, Musee D’Orsay Paris)

Impressionism1870s-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 Nouveau1890-1905

• 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)