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 Rome c.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) date
Early Renaissance (c.1300-1500) Giotto, The Deposition, (c1304, fresco, Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy) Arena chapel, padua?
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) Where?
Dutch Golden Age (c.1620-1700) Johannes Vermeer, The Pearl Earring, (1666-67, The Hague, oil on canvas) Date and location, media?
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) Location
Ukiyo-e (c.17th-20th centuries) Ando Hiroshige, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, (1823-29, woodblock print, copies in MOMA and British Museum, London) Check media and location
Pre-Raphaelites (1848-1853) Millais, Ophelia, (1851-52, Tate London, Oil on canvas)
Realism 1830s-50s Millet, The Angelus (1857-59, oil on canvas, Musee D’Orsay Paris)
Impressionism 1870s-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 Nouveau 1890-1905 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) Date and title?
Expressionism (c.1890-1934) Edvard Munch, The Scream, (1893, oil tempera and pastel on cardboard, National Gallery Oslo) Location and media
Cubism (1907-14) Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, (1907, oil on canvas, MOMA, New York)