Major Periods in the History of Art & Representative Artists

 

 

Ancient Art                                                   15,000 B.C. – 1340 B.C.

            Lascaux Cave Paintings (prehistoric)

            Egyptian Art

            Sumerian Art

 

Classical Art & Roman Art                            400 B.C. – 200 A.D.

            Greek Sculpture

            Etruscan Art

            Frescos of Pompeii

 

Byzantine & Early Christian Art                     350 A.D. – 450 A.D.

            Roman Catacombs

            Ravenna Mosaics

           

Early Medieval698 A.D. – 1295 A.D.

            Celts - The Book of Kells

            Bayeaux Tapestry

           

Gothic Medieval (mostly Italian)                     1280 A.D. – 1338 A.D.

            Cimabue (Cenni di Peppi)

            Giotto di Bondone

            Duccio

 

Northern Renaissance

Simone Martini                                  1413 A.D. – 1515 A.D.

            Robert Campin (Flemish)

            Jan van Eyck

            Rogier van der Weyden

            Dieric Bouts

 

Early Renaissance                                          1427 A.D. – 1494 A.D.

            Masaccio

            Fra Angelico

            Donatello

            Uccello

            Piero della Francesca

            Giovanni Bellini

            Sandro Botticelli

            Ghirlandaio

 

High Renaissance                                           1445 A.D. – 1576 A.D.

            Leonardo de Vinci

            Michelangelo Buonarroti

            Raphael

Mannerist                                                       1517 A.D. – 1588 A.D.

            Andrea del Sarto

            Parmigianino

            Corregio

            Bronzino

            Giambologna

            El Greco

 

Northern Renaissance                                     1490 A.D. – 1550 A.D.

            Albrecht Durer

            Lucas Cranach

            Pieter Bruegel

 

Baroque (Italian & French)                             1573 A.D. – 1600 A.D.

            M. Mersi da Caravaggio

            Guido Reni

            Pietro da Cortona

            Nicolas Poussin

            Gianlorenzo Bernini

 

Dutch/Flemish Baroque                                  1609 A.D. – 1640 A.D.

            Peter Paul Reubens

            Anthony van Dyck

            Harmensz van rijn Rembrandt

 

Spanish Baroque                                             1640 A.D. – 1670 A.D.

            Jusepe de Ribera

            Diego Velasquez

            Bartolome Esteban Murillo

 

Rococo                                                           1703 A.D. – 1769 A.D.

            Jean-Baptiste Chardin (early representation)

            Giovanni Antonio Canaletto

            Jean-Honore Fragonard

            Francois Boucher

 

Neo-Classical                                                  1780 A.D. – 1790 A.D.

            Jacques-Louis David

            Jean-Auguste Ingres

            Antonio Canova

 

Romantic                                                         1790 A.D. – 1850 A.D.

            William Blake (also a poet)

            Henry Fuseli

            Francisco Goya

            Theodore Gericault

            Eugene Delacroix

            William Letty

            William Turner

 

Pre-Raphaelite                                                1850 A.D. – 1890 A.D.

            Edward Burnes-Jones

            William Morris

            Dante Gabriel Rossetti

            John William Waterhouse

 

Realist                                                             1850 A.D. – 1900 A.D.

            Gustave Courbet

            Jean-Francois Millet

            Honore Daumier

            James A. MacNeill Whistler

            John Singer Sargent

 

Impressionist                                                   1860 A.D. – 1907 A.D.

            Edouard Manet (Realist/Impressionist)

            Berthe Morisot

            Alfred Sisley

            Edgar Degas

            Pierre-Auguste Renoir

            Mary Cassatt

            Camille Pissarro

            Claude Monet

 

Symbolist & Post Impressionist                       1870 A.D. – 1920 A.D.

            Gustav Klimt (Symbolist)

            Georges Seurat

            Vincent Van Gogh

            Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

            Paul Gauguin

            Paul Cezanne

            Amedeo Modigliani

 

Expressionist, Art Nouveau, Nabi & Fauvist    1893 A.D. – 1940 A.D.

            Eduard Munch (Expressionist)

            Ernst Kirchner (Expressionist)

            Marc Chagall

            Pierre Bonnard (Nabi)

            Henri Matisse (Fauvre)

            Georgia O’Keeffe

 

  Cubist, Bauhaus and Bloomsbury                  1917-1961 A.D.

            George Braque (cubist)

            Laszlo Nagy

            Paul Klee

            Pablo Picasso (cubist)

 

           

Surrealist                                                        1910-1965 A.D.

            Duchampe

            Max Ernst

            Joan Miro

            Salvador Dali

            Man Ray

            Frida Kahlo

            Diego Rivera

 

Abstract Expressionist & Post-Modern          1905-1990 A.D.

            W. Kandinsky

            Jackson Pollock

            Mark Rothko

            Jasper Johns

            Frank Stella

            Jean-Michel Basquiat

           

Pop Art & Modern Realist                             1960 - Today

            Roy Lichtenstein

            Robert Rauschenberg

            Andy Warhol

            David Hockney

            Ed Hopper

            Lucien Freud

 

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Philip M. Fortier, M.A. (1997-2005)