Art History Timeline Art Periods/ Movements Dates Chief Artists and Major Works Characteristics Historical Events
Art History Timeline Art Periods/ Movements Dates Chief Artists and Major Works Characteristics Historical Events
Art History Timeline Art Periods/ Movements Dates Chief Artists and Major Works Characteristics Historical Events
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Art Periods/ Dates Chief Artists and Major Characteristics Historical Events
Movements Works
Mesopotamia - Sumerian (2700 Sumerian Votive Offerings, Warrior art and narration Sumerians invent writing (3400
Ancient Near BCE) Standard of in stone relief BCE) Hammurabi writes his
East (3500 BCE Ur, Ziggurat of Ur, Bull Lyre law code (1780 BCE);
– 636 BCE)
Chapter 2 Akkadian (2200 BCE) Head of Akkadian Rule, Stele
of Naram- code (1780 BCE);
Sin
Neo-Sumerian (2050 Gudea of Lagash, Stele of
BCE) and Babylonian Hammurabi
(2000 BCE)
Assyrian (720) and Lamassu Guard, Gate of Ishtar
Neo-
Babylonian (600
BCE)
Egyptian (3500 Dynastic Period Palette of Namer, Khafre, Step Art with an afterlife Narmer unites Upper/Lower
BCE – 30 BCE) (3000 Pyramid (Imhotep), Great focus: pyramids and Egypt (3100 BCE); Rameses II
Chapter 3 BCE) and Old Pyramids of Giza tomb painting, battles the Hittites (1274 BCE);
Kingdom
(2000 BCE)
Middle Kingdom Tombs carved into mountains
Late Late Medieval Italy Madonna Enthroned (Cimabue, Figures starting to have Italy had many city-states,
Medieval/Late (1300) Duccio, and Giotto), Arena form with shadows,
Gothic/Proto- Chapel frescos (Giotto), Maesta Italian buildings stressed
Renaissance Altarpiece (Duccio), Good and width and height
(1200 -1400) Bad Government frescoes
Chapter 14 (Lorenzetti), Baptistery of San
Giovanni Doors (Pisano)
Early Northern Early Northern Très Riches Heures (Limbourg Oil painting, extreme Gutenberg invents movable
Renaissance Renaissance (1400s) Brothers) (Book of Hours) detail, symbolism, type (1447); Turks conquer
(1400s) Chapter Merode Altarpiece (Campin) donors included in Constantinople (1453);
20 Ghent Altarpiece (Hubert and altarpieces, Columbus lands in New World
Jan Van Eyck), Arnolfini Portrait (1492);
(Jan Van Eyck) Deposition
(Van der Weyden)
Early Italian Early Renaissance Ghiberti's Doors, Brunelleschi, Rebirth of classical Gutenberg invents movable
Renaissance (1450) Donatello, Botticelli, Masaccio, culture, Medici as a type (1447); Turks conquer
(1400s) Annunciation (Fra Angelico) patron, use of linear Constantinople (1453);
Chapter 21 Foreshortened Christ perspective, frescoes Columbus lands in New World
(Mantegna) and tempera, Cosimo (1492);
d’Medici’s neo-platonic
academy
High Italian & High Renaissance Leonardo, Michelangelo, Many papal commissions Martin Luther starts
Venetian (1550) Raphael, Bramante, Bellini, Reformation (1517)
Renaissance Giorgione,Titian
(1500s) Chapter
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Northern Venetian and Dürer, Bruegel, Bosch, Jan van The Renaissance Council of Trent and Counter-
Renaissance Northern Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden spreads northward to Reformation (1545–1563);
(1430–1550) Renaissance (1500) France, the Low Copernicus proves the Earth
Chapter 23 Countries, Poland, revolves around the Sun
Germany, and England (1543)
Mannerism Mannerism (1550) Last Supper (Tintoretto), El Art that breaks the rules; Magellan circumnavigates the
(1527–1580) Greco, Entombment of Christ elongated and twisted globe (1520–1522)
Chapter 23 (Pontormo, Madonna with the bodies,
Long Neck (Parmigianino),
Bronzino, Cellini
Italian Baroque Baroque (1650) Rubens, Caravaggio, Bernini, Splendor, art as a Thirty Years' War between
(1600–1750) Gentileschi, Palace of weapon in the religious Catholics and Protestants
Versailles Velazquez (Spain) wars (1618–1648), Counter-
Reformation in Italy
Dutch Baroque Still-Life (Claesz) Genre Still-life’s, genre
Chapter 25 (Vermeer), Portraits (Hals and paintings, portraits, and
(1600s) Rembrandt) Landscapes landscapes
Rococo (1700s) Rococo (1700s) Pilgrimage to Cythera Highly decorative, ‘frilly” Louis XIV in France
Chapter 26 (Watteau), The Swing posh Louis XIV
(Fragonard), Cuvilles’s Hall of
Mirrors
Neoclassical Neoclassical (1800) David, Ingres, Kauffmann, Art that recaptures Enlightenment (18th century);
(1750–1850) West, Vigee- Lebrun, Chiswick Greco-Roman grace and Industrial Revolution (1760–
Chapter 26 House (Boyle & Kent), grandeur 1850)
Monticello (Jefferson)
English: Gainsborough, Grand Manner
Reynolds, Hogarth (Marriage a portraiture
la mode series, satire)
Romanticism Romanticism (1800) Friedrich, Constable, Goya, The triumph of American Revolution (1775–
(1780–1850) Cole, Gericault, Delacroix, imagination and 1783); French Revolution
Chapter 27 Turner, individuality (1789–1799); Napoleon
crowned emperor of France
(1803)
Realism (1848– Realism (1860) Courbet, Daumier, Millet Celebrating working European democratic
1900) Chapter class and peasants; en revolutions of 1848
27 plein air rustic painting
Arts & Crafts, Arts & Crafts Casa Mila Natural forms, repeated
Art Nouveau (England), designs of floral and
(1900) Art Nouveau geometric patterns
(Paris) (1900)
Impressionism Impressionism Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Capturing fleeting Franco-Prussian War (1870–
(1865–1885) (1865–1885) Cassatt, Morisot, Degas effects of natural light 1871); Unification of Germany
Chapter 28 (1871)
Post- Post-Impressionism Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, A soft revolt against Belle Époque (late-19th-
Impressionism (1900) Seurat Impressionism century Golden Age); Japan
(1885–1910) defeats Russia (1905)
Chapter 28
Fauvism and Fauvism and Matisse, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Harsh colors and flat Boxer Rebellion in China
Expressionism Expressionism Marc surfaces (Fauvism); (1900); World War (1914–
(1900–1935) (1910) emotion distorting form 1918)
Chapter 29
Cubism, Cubism, Futurism, Picasso, Braque, Boccioni, Pre– and Post–World Russian Revolution (1917);
Futurism, Supremativism, Malevich, Mondrian War 1 art experiments: American women franchised
Supremativism, Constructivism, De new forms to express (1920)
De Still (1905– Still (1905–1920) modern life
1920)
Chapter 29
Dada and Dada (1920) and Duchamp, Dalí, Ernst, Magritte, Ridiculous art; painting Disillusionment after World
Surrealism Surrealism (1930) Kahlo dreams and exploring War I; The Great Depression
(1917–1950) the unconscious, ready- (1929–1938); World War II
Chapter 29 mades (1939–1945) and Nazi horrors;
atomic bombs dropped on
Japan (1945)
Abstract Abstract Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Post–World War II: pure Cold War and Vietnam War
Expressionism Expressionism Warhol, Lichtenstein abstraction and (U.S. enters 1965); U.S.S.R.
(1940s–1950s) (1945) and Pop Art expression without form; suppresses Hungarian revolt
and Pop Art (1960s) popular art absorbs (1956) Czechoslovakian revolt
(1960s) consumerism (1968)
Chapter 30
Postmodernism Postmodernism and Cindy Sherman, Christo and Art without a center and Nuclear freeze movement;
and Deconstructivism Jeanne-Claude, Kiefer, Frank reworking and mixing Cold Nuclear freeze
Deconstructivism (1970) Gehry, past styles movement; Cold
(1970) Chapter
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