Art History Timeline Prehistoric Art c 30 000

Art History Timeline

Prehistoric Art (c. 30, 000 -2000 BC) • Cave painting, Hall of Bulls (Lascaux, France c 15, 000 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Art (c. 3000 -30 BC) • Egyptian Tomb paintings. The Queen playing chess, (Tomb Nefertari, Thebes, c 1255 BC)

Classical Greek Art (c. 500 -320 BC) • Myrons Discus Thrower (c. 450 BC) replica

Ancient Rome c. 509 BC-330 AD • 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)

Early Renaissance (c. 1300 -1500) • Giotto, The Deposition, (c 1304, fresco, Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy)

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, (160001, oil on canvas, National Gallery London)

Dutch Golden Age (c. 1620 -1700) • Johannes Vermeer, The Pearl Earring, (1666 -67, The Hague, oil on canvas)

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)

Ukiyo-e (c. 17 th-20 th centuries) • Ando Hiroshige, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, (1823 -29, woodblock print, copies in MOMA and British Museum, London)

Pre-Raphaelites (1848 -1853) • Millais, Ophelia, (1851 -52, Tate London, Oil on canvas)

Realism 1830 s-50 s • Millet, The Angelus (1857 -59, oil on canvas, Musee D’Orsay Paris)

Impressionism 1870 s-90 s • 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 -c 1900) • 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)

Expressionism (c. 1890 -1934) • Edvard Munch, The Scream, (1893, oil tempera and pastel on cardboard, National Gallery Oslo)

Cubism (1907 -14) • Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, (1907, oil on canvas, MOMA, New York)