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Timelines of World Art. Review significant moments in art history from all over the globe. For each of the six regions below there are three or four timelines, each covering a specific era.
- Africa
Publication History: Published online: 31 October 2011...
- Middle East Timeline
The wall paintings, figurines and artefacts found there...
- Europe Timeline
The earliest examples are derived from Greek paintings, such...
- Oceania Timeline
Oceania Timeline 16,000 BC–7000 BC Paintings found in...
- Americas Timeline
These colourful paintings on stucco present complex scenes...
- Asia Timeline
Art History and Theory Art Law and Crime Art Markets Art...
- Africa
Dec 4, 2022 · Art history timeline from primitive cave paintings to contemporary work, including the main characteristics and artists of each art movement.
- Prehistoric Art
- Ancient Art
- Medieval Art
- Renaissance Art
- Mannerism
- Baroque
- Rococo
- Neoclassicism
- Romanticism
- Realism
The origins of art history can be traced back to the Prehistoric era, before written records were kept. The earliest artifacts come from the Paleolithic era, or the Old Stone Age, in the form of rock carvings, engravings, pictorial imagery, sculptures, and stone arrangements. Art from this period relied on the use of natural pigmentsand stone carvi...
Ancient art was produced by advanced civilizations, which in this case refers to those with an established written language. These civilizations included Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and those of the Americas. The medium of a work of art from this period varies depending on the civilization that produced it, but most art served similar purposes: to ...
The Middle Ages, often referred to as the “Dark Ages,” marked a period of economic and cultural deterioration following the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. Much of the artwork produced in the early years of the period reflects that darkness, characterized by grotesque imagery and brutal scenery. Art produced during this time was centered aroun...
This style of painting, sculpture, and decorative art was characterized by a focus on nature and individualism, the thought of man as independent and self-reliant. Though these ideals were present in the late Medievalperiod, they flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries, paralleling social and economic changes like secularization. The Renaissance ...
Mannerist artists emerged from the ideals of Michelangelo, Raphael, and other Late Renaissance artists, but their focus on style and technique outweighed the meaning of the subject matter. Often, figures had graceful, elongated limbs, small heads, stylized features and exaggerated details. This yielded more complex, stylized compositions rather tha...
The Baroque periodthat followed Mannerism yielded ornate, over-the-top visual arts and architecture. It was characterized by grandeur and richness, punctuated by an interest in broadening human intellect and global discovery. Baroque artists were stylistically complex. Baroque paintings were characterized by drama, as seen in the iconic works of It...
Rococooriginated in Paris, encompassing decorative art, painting, architecture, and sculpture. The aesthetic offered a softer style of decorative art compared to Baroque’s exuberance. Rococo is characterized by lightness and elegance, focusing on the use of natural forms, asymmetrical design, and subtle colors. Painters like Antoine Watteau and Fra...
As its name suggests, the Neoclassical period drew upon elements from classical antiquity. Archaeological ruins of ancient civilizations in Athens and Naples that were discovered at the time reignited a passion for all things past, and artists strove to recreate the great works of ancient art. This translated to a renewed interest in classical idea...
Romanticism embodies a broad range of disciplines, from painting to music to literature. The ideals present in each of these art forms reject order, harmony, and rationality, which were embraced in both classical art and Neoclassicism. Instead, Romantic artists emphasized the individual and imagination. Another defining Romantic ideal was an apprec...
Arguably the first modern art movement, Realism, began in France in the 1840s. Realism was a result of multiple events: the anti-Romantic movement in Germany, the rise of journalism, and the advent of photography. Each inspired new interest in accurately capturing everyday life. This attention to accuracy is evident in art produced during the movem...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is a free art history reference and research tool containing 300 chronologies, almost 1,000 essays, and more than 7,000 works of art.
Dec 17, 2020 · This article presents an overview of the most significant eras of creation and the historical contexts from which they originated. Table of Contents. 1 Art Eras: Tracing the Earliest Art Periods. 2 Reviewing the Timeline of the Different Art Periods. 3 A Comprehensive Art Movement Timeline.
- In art history, an art period is understood as a particular span of time that encompasses various artists and their artworks, whose works are class...
- Art movements differ from art periods since art periods are categorized and understood according to time and the different eras they encompass, whi...
- The art period of the present is known as the Contemporary art period, which encompasses art and new styles of art produced from the late-1970s unt...
- The Renaissance art period is a broad art era that is considered significant for the many cultural changes that occurred in multiple disciplines in...
The document provides a timeline overview of major art periods from the Stone Age to Postmodernism, highlighting characteristic artistic styles, influential artists, and important historical events of each period.
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