Art History Timeline

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ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS 3000 BC - 331 BC (BCE)

Egyptian Art 3200 - 1070 BC
Amarna Art 1370 - 1340 BC
Mesopotamian Art 3500 - 331 BC
Sumerian/Akkadian 3500 - 1750 BC
Assyrian/Neo-Babylonian 1000 - 539 BC
Persian 539 - 331 BC
Aegean Art 3000 - 1100 BC
Minoan (Crete) 3000 - 1475 BC
Mycenean (Greece) 1650 - 1100 BC
Greek Art 800 - 323 BC

CLASSIC CIVILIZATIONS 800 BC - 337 AD (BCE-CE)

Hellenistic Art 323-150 BC
Etruscan Art 6th - 5th century BC
Roman Art 509 BC - 337 AD

MIDDLE AGES 373 - 1453 AD (CE)

Celtic, Saxon, & Hiberno 200 - 732 AD
Byzantine Art 400 - 1453 AD
Justinian 527 - 565 AD
Islamic Art 622 - 900 AD
Carolingian Art 732 - 900 AD
Ottonian Art 900 - 1050 AD
Romanesque Style 1000 - 1140 AD
Gothic Style 1140 - 1500 AD

RENAISSANCE 1400 - 1800 AD (CE)

Renaissance: Italy 1400 - 1600 AD
Renaissance: Europe 1500 - 1600 AD
Baroque 1600 - 1700 AD
Rococo 1700 - 1750 AD

PRE-MODERN 1800 - 1880 AD (CE)

Neo-Classicism 1750 - 1880 AD
(USA: Federal/Greek Revival)
(Canada: Georgian Style)
Romanticism 1800 - 1880 AD
(Canada: Victorian)
Realism 1830's - 1850's AD
Impressionism 1870's - 1890's AD

MODERNISM 1880 - 1945 AD (CE)

Post Impressionism 1880 - 1900 AD
Expressionism 1900 - 1920 AD
Fauvism 1900 - 1920 AD
Cubism 1907 - 1914 AD
Dada 1916 - 1922 AD
Bauhaus 1920s - 1940's AD
Harlem Renaissance 1920s - 1940's AD
Surrealism 1924 1920s - 1940's AD
International Style 1920s - 1940's AD

MODERN & POST-MODERN 1945 AD - Present (CE)

Abstract Expressionism 1945 - 1960 AD
Op Art 1960s AD
Pop Art 1960s AD
Minimal Art 1960s AD
New Realism 1970s - 1980s AD
Conceptual Art 1970s - 1980s AD
Performance Art 1970s - 1980s AD
Neo-Expressionism 1980s - 1990s AD
Computer Art 1980s - 1990s AD
Post-Modern Classicism 1980s - 1990s AD
Victorian Revival 1980s - 1990s AD








Source: http://www.arthistoryguide.com