Art History Timeline

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Art History Timeline
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Prehistoric Art(c.30,000-2000 BC)

• Cave painting, Hall of Bulls (Lascaux, France
  c15,000 BC)

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Ancient Egyptian Art(c.3000-30BC)

• Egyptian Tomb paintings. The Queen playing
  chess, (Tomb Nefertari, Thebes, c1255BC)

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Classical Greek Art(c.500-320BC)

• Myrons Discus Thrower (c.450BC) replica

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Ancient Romec.509BC-330AD

• Colosseum, (70-80 AD, Temple of Peace, Rome)

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Byzantine Art(c.300-1204)

• Icon The Virgin Orans, (1037-61 mosaic, Saint
  Sophia Cathedral, Kiev)

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Gothic Art(c.1140-1500)

• Chatres Cathedral, (1193-1250, central portal,
  France)

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Early Renaissance(c.1300-1500)

• Giotto, The Deposition, (c1304, fresco, Arena
  Chapel, Padua, Italy)

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Northern Renaissance(c.1400-1500)

• Jan Van Eyke, The Arnolfini Wedding, (1434, oil
  on wood panel, National Gallery London)

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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)

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Mannerism(c.1520-1600)

• Pontormo, Deposition from the Cross,
  (c.1526-8,oil on panel, Church of Santa Felicita,
  Florence)

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Baroque(c.1600-1750)

• Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus, (1600-01, oil
  on canvas, National Gallery London)

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Dutch Golden Age(c.1620-1700)

• Johannes Vermeer, The Pearl Earring, (1666-67,
  The Hague, oil on canvas)

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Rococo(c.1700-1800)

• Francois Boucher, Diane Bathing, (1742, oil on
  canvas, Louvre, Paris)

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Neo-Classicism(c.1750-1850)

• Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii,
  (1784, Oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris)

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Romanticism(c.1800-80)

• Eugene Delacroix, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel,
  (1861, oil on canvas)

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Ukiyo-e(c.17th-20th centuries)

• Ando Hiroshige, The Great Wave off Kanagawa,
  (1823-29, woodblock print, copies in MOMA and
  British Museum, London)

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Pre-Raphaelites(1848-1853)

• Millais, Ophelia, (1851-52, Tate London, Oil on
  canvas)

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Realism1830s-50s

• Millet, The Angelus (1857-59, oil on canvas,
  Musee DOrsay Paris)

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Impressionism1870s-90s

• Claude Monet, Poppies, (c.1876, Musee DOrsay
  Paris, oil on canvas)

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Post-Impressionism(c.1880-1905)

• Van Gogh, Starry Night, (1889, MOMA New York, oil
  on canvas)

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Pointillism/Neo-Impressionism(1886-c1900)

• Georges Seurat, La Grande Jatte, (1884-86, oil on
  canvas, The Art Institute, Chicago.)

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Art Nouveau1890-1905

• Gustave Klimt, The Kiss, (1907-08,oil and gold
  leaf on canvas, Osterreichische Galerie, Vienna)

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Fauvism(1900-20)

• Henri Matisse, The Dance, (1909 MOMA, New York,
  oil on canvas)

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Expressionism(c.1890-1934)

• Edvard Munch, The Scream, (1893, oil tempera and
  pastel on cardboard, National Gallery Oslo)

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Cubism(1907-14)

• Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles DAvignon, (1907,
  oil on canvas, MOMA, New York)