Art Era Index

Click on the art era below that corresponds with the time in history that you are studying. You will be able to read a summary of the era and learn about different artists of the time by clicking on their names.

World Art

ANCIENT ART (Stone Age, Mesopotamian, Sumerian, Egyptian) Prehistory – 500 BC

CLASSICAL ART (Greek, Etruscan, Roman) 490 BC – AD 476

EASTERN ART (China, Japan, India, & other Eastern nations)

MEDIEVAL ART (Early Church, Islamic, Byzantine, Gothic) 500 – 1400

TRIBAL ART (Africa, the Americas, Oceania)

Art Movements

RENAISSANCE ERA (Early, High, Northern, Mannerism) 1400 – 1600

BAROQUE PERIOD 1600 – 1750

ROCOCO PERIOD 1700 – 1760

NEOCLASSICISM 1730 – 1840

ROMANTICISM 1780 – 1850

REALISM 1840 – 1870

PRE-RAPHAELITE MOVEMENT 1848 – 1854

IMPRESSIONISM 1860 – 1900

POST IMPRESSIONISM 1880 – 1920

ART NOUVEAU 1895 – 1915

AMERICAN MODERNISM & REGIONALISM 1901 – 1945

FAUVISM 1905 – 1910

EXPRESSIONISM 1905 – 1940

CUBISM 1905 – 1944

ABSTRACT & NON-OBJECTIVE ART 1910 – 1944

DADA & SURREALISM 1915 – 1945

NAIVE ART, PRIMITIVISM, & FOLK ART

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM 1945 -1960

POP ART & OP ART 1956 – 1969

CONTEMPORARY ART 1970 to present