History of the Arts

Prehistoric Art
(c.30,000-2000 BC)
Cave painting, Hall of Bulls (Lascaux, France
c15,000 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Art

(c.3000-30BC)
Egyptian Tomb paintings. The Queen
playing chess, (Tomb Nefertari, Thebes, c1255BC)

Classical Greek Art

(c.500-320BC)
Myrons Discus Thrower (c.450BC) replica

Ancient Rome
c.509BC-330AD
Colosseum, (70-80 AD, Temple of Peace, Rome)

Byzantine Art
(c.300-1204)
Icon The Virgin Orans, (1037-61 mosaic, Saint Sophia
Cathedral, Kiev)

Gothic Art
(c.1140-1500)
Chatres Cathedral, (1193-1250, central portal, France)

Early Renaissance
(c.1300-1500)
Giotto, The Deposition, (c1304, fresco, Arena Chapel,
Padua, Italy)

Northern Renaissance
(c.1400-1500)
Jan Van Eyke, The Arnolfini Wedding, (1434,
oil on wood panel, National Gallery London)

High Renaissance
(c.1490-1527)
Vitruvian Man, Leonardo Da Vinci, (c.1485-90,
pen and ink with wash over metal point on paper, Venice, Italy)

Mannerism
(c.1520-1600)
Pontormo, Deposition from the Cross,
(c.1526-8,oil on panel, Church of Santa Felicita, Florence)

Baroque
(c.1600-1750)
Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus, (160001, oil on canvas, National Gallery London)

Dutch Golden Age

(c.1620-1700)
Johannes Vermeer, The Pearl Earring,
(1666-67, The Hague, oil on canvas)

Rococo
(c.1700-1800)
Francois Boucher, Diane Bathing, (1742, oil on
canvas, Louvre, Paris)

Neo-Classicism
(c.1750-1850)
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the
Horatii, (1784, Oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris)

Romanticism
(c.1800-80)
Eugene Delacroix, Jacob Wrestling with
the Angel, (1861, oil on canvas)

Ukiyo-e
(c.17th-20th centuries)
Ando Hiroshige, The Great Wave off
Kanagawa, (1823-29, woodblock print, copies in MOMA and
British Museum, London)

Pre-Raphaelites
(1848-1853)
Millais, Ophelia, (1851-52, Tate London, Oil on canvas)

Realism
1830s-50s
Millet, The Angelus (1857-59, oil on canvas, Musee
DOrsay Paris)

Impressionism
1870s-90s
Claude Monet, Poppies, (c.1876, Musee DOrsay
Paris, oil on canvas)

Post-Impressionism
(c.1880-1905)
Van Gogh, Starry Night, (1889, MOMA New York, oil
on canvas)

Pointillism/Neo-Impressionism
(1886-c1900)
Georges Seurat, La Grande Jatte, (1884-86, oil
on canvas, The Art Institute, Chicago.)

Art Nouveau
1890-1905
Gustave Klimt, The Kiss, (1907-08,oil and gold leaf
on canvas, Osterreichische Galerie, Vienna)

Fauvism
(1900-20)
Henri Matisse, The Dance, (1909 MOMA, New
York, oil on canvas)

Expressionism
(c.1890-1934)
Edvard Munch, The Scream, (1893, oil tempera
and pastel on cardboard, National Gallery Oslo)

Cubism
(1907-14)
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles
DAvignon, (1907, oil on canvas, MOMA, New York)