Prehistory

Art of Classical Civilizations

Art of the Middle Ages

Art of the Modern Period

• Renaissance Art
• Baroque Art
• Rococo and Classical
• Romantic
• Abstract Art
• Recent

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Prehistory: 30,000 BC - 3,000 BC

• 30,000- 15,000 BC: "Venus" Figures
• 20,000-10,000 BC: Cave Paintings
  • 14,000-10,000 BC: Altamira Cave Paintings

The Art of the Classical Civilizations: 3,000 BC- AD 500

8000-600 BC: Mesopotamia3,000-270 BC: Egypt

1230-100 BC: Greece

700 BC-AD 325: Rome

325-1453: Byzantium

The Art of the Middle Ages: 475-1500

475-1000: The Dark Ages

1000-1350: The High Middle Ages

1350-1500: The Late Middle Ages

The Art of the Modern Period: 1500-present

1400-1550: Renaissance

1550-1700: Baroque

1700-1800: Rococo and Classical

1790-1850: Romantic

1850-1910: Realism, Impressionism, Expressionism

1910-1950: Cubism, Abstraction, Modernism, Dada

1950-present: Recent