4000 BCE – 3500 BCE

Ancient Near East

3500 BCE – 1000 BCE

Ancient Egypt

Aegean Art

800’s and 700’s BCE

(7th and 6th centuries BCE)

Geometric Greek Art

Etruscan

600’s and 500’s BCE

(5th and 4th centuries BCE)

Archaic Greek Art

Etruscan

400’s and 300 BCE

(3rd and 2nd centuries BCE)

Classical Greek Art

Etruscan

200’s and 100’s BCE

(1st century BCE)

Hellenistic Greek Art

Etruscan

100 BCE – 400’s CE

(1st century BCE to 5th century CE)

Ancient Roman Art

500 CE – 950 CE

(6th through mid 10th century CE)

Early Medieval Art

Islamic Art

1000 CE – 1150 CE

(11th through mid 12th century CE)

Romanesque Art

1150 CE – 1400 CE

(mid 12th century through 15th century CE)

Gothic Art

1300 CE – 1350 CE

(early to mid 14th century CE)

Precursors to the Renaissance

1400’s CE

(15th century CE)

Early Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

Late 1400’s CE – 1530 CE

(Late 15th through early 16th century CE)

High Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

1600’s CE

(17th century CE)

Mannerist

1600 CE – 1750 CE

(17th through mid 18th century CE)

Baroque; Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French

1715 CE – 1789 CE

(Early to late 18th century CE)

Rococo

1750’s CE – 1800 CE

(mid 18th to 19thcentury CE)

Neoclassical

1790 CE – 1850 CE

(Late 18th century to mid 19th century)

Romanticism

1850’s

(Mid 19th century CE)

Realism

Pre – Raphaelite Brotherhood

1870’s and 1880’s

(mid 19th century)

Impressionism

1890’s

(Late 19th century)

Post – Impressionism

Symbolism

1905 – 1910

(early 20th century)

Cubism

Fauvism

1910 – 1915

(early 20th century)

German Expressionism

1915 – 1950

Futurism

Constructivism

American Art

Surrealism

1940’s

Existentialist Art

1950’s

Abstract Expressionism

Post Painterly Abstraction (Hard Edge)

1960’s

Minimalism

Pop Art

Super Realism

Earth Art

Conceptual Art

1970’s and 1980’s

Feminist Art

1980’s and 1990’s

Installations