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
