4000 BCE – 3500 BCE
Ancient Near East
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3500 BCE – 1000 BCE
Ancient Egypt
Aegean Art
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800’s and 700’s BCE
(7th and 6th centuries BCE)
Geometric Greek Art
Etruscan
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600’s and 500’s BCE
(5th and 4th centuries BCE)
Archaic Greek Art
Etruscan
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400’s and 300 BCE
(3rd and 2nd centuries BCE)
Classical Greek Art
Etruscan
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200’s and 100’s BCE
(1st century BCE)
Hellenistic Greek Art
Etruscan
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100 BCE – 400’s CE
(1st century BCE to 5th century CE)
Ancient Roman Art
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500 CE – 950 CE
(6th through mid 10th century CE)
Early Medieval Art
Islamic Art
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1000 CE – 1150 CE
(11th through mid 12th century CE)
Romanesque Art
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1150 CE – 1400 CE
(mid 12th century through 15th century CE)
Gothic Art
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1300 CE – 1350 CE
(early to mid 14th century CE)
Precursors to the Renaissance
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1400’s CE
(15th century CE)
Early Renaissance
Northern Renaissance
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Late 1400’s CE – 1530 CE
(Late 15th through early 16th century CE)
High Renaissance
Northern Renaissance
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1600’s CE
(17th century CE)
Mannerist
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1600 CE – 1750 CE
(17th through mid 18th century CE)
Baroque; Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French
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1715 CE – 1789 CE
(Early to late 18th century CE)
Rococo
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1750’s CE – 1800 CE
(mid 18th to 19thcentury CE)
Neoclassical
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1790 CE – 1850 CE
(Late 18th century to mid 19th century)
Romanticism
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1850’s
(Mid 19th century CE)
Realism
Pre – Raphaelite Brotherhood
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1870’s and 1880’s
(mid 19th century)
Impressionism
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1890’s
(Late 19th century)
Post – Impressionism
Symbolism
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1905 – 1910
(early 20th century)
Cubism
Fauvism
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1910 – 1915
(early 20th century)
German Expressionism
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1915 – 1950
Futurism
Constructivism
American Art
Surrealism
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1940’s
Existentialist Art
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1950’s
Abstract Expressionism
Post Painterly Abstraction (Hard Edge)
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1960’s
Minimalism
Pop Art
Super Realism
Earth Art
Conceptual Art
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1970’s and 1980’s
Feminist Art
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1980’s and 1990’s
Installations