Art History Timeline
years noted as BC/AD or BCE/CE
BC = Before Christ (or BCE = Before Common Era)
AD= Anno Domini - Latin “year of our Lord” Julian and Gregorian Calendars (or CE = Common Era)
ANCIENT 40,000 BCE - 3,000 BCE (BC)
Prehistoric
Near East
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS 3000 BCE - 331 BCE (BC)
Egyptian Art 3200 - 1070 BCE
Amarna Art 1370 - 1340 BCE
Mesopotamian Art 3500 - 331 BCE
Sumerian/Akkadian 3500 - 1750 BCE
Assyrian/Neo-Babylonian 1000 - 539 BCE
Persian 539 - 331 BCE
Aegean Art 3000 - 1100 BCE
Minoan (Crete) 3000 - 1475 BCE
Mycenean (Greece) 1650 - 1100 BCE
Greek Art 800 - 323 BCE
CLASSIC CIVILIZATIONS 800 BCE - 337 CE (BC-AD)
Hellenistic Art 323-150 BCE
Etruscan Art 6th - 5th century BCE
Roman Art 509 BCE - 337 CE
MIDDLE AGES/Medieval 373 - 1453 CE (AD)
Early Christian
Celtic, Saxon, & Hiberno 200 - 732 CE
Byzantine Art 400 - 1453 CE
Justinian 527 - 565 CE
Islamic Art 622 - 900 CE
Carolingian Art 732 - 900 CE
Ottonian Art 900 - 1050 CE
Romanesque Style 1000 - 1140 CE
Gothic Style 1140 - 1500 CE
RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE 1400 - 1800
Renaissance in the North
Renaissance: Italy 1400 - 1600
(High Renaissance 1450-1527)
Renaissance: Europe 1500 - 1600
Mannerism 1520-1580
Baroque 1600 - 1700
Rococo 1700 - 1750
PRE-MODERN 1800 - 1880
Neo-Classicism 1750 - 1880
(USA: Federal/Greek Revival)
(Canada: Georgian Style)
Romanticism 1800 - 1880
(Canada: Victorian)
Realism 1830's - 1850's
Impressionism 1870's - 1890's
MODERNISM 1880 - 1945
Post Impressionism 1880 - 1900
Art Nouveau 1890-1914
Expressionism 1900 - 1920
Fauvism 1900 - 1920
Cubism 1907 - 1914
Dada 1916 - 1922
Bauhaus 1920s - 1940's
Harlem Renaissance 1920s - 1940's
Surrealism 1924 1920s - 1940's
International Style 1920s - 1940's
Abstraction 1930-1969
MODERN & POST-MODERN 1945 - Present
Futurism 1945-1960
Abstract Expressionism 1945 - 1960
Op Art 1960s
Fluxus 1960s – 1970s
Site Specific 1960s -
Pop Art 1960s
Minimal Art 1960s
Earth Art / Land Art 1960s – 1970s
Feminist 1969-
Installation Art 1970s -
Photorealism 1969-1975
New Realism 1970s - 1980s
Conceptual Art 1970s - 1980s
Performance Art 1970s - 1980s
Neo-Expressionism 1980s - 1990s
Computer Art 1980s - 1990s
Post-Modern Classicism 1980s - 1990s
Victorian Revival 1980s - 1990s
