Timeline of Art

 

Era

Artist

Style

World

 

B.C.

 

 

.

 

15,000

Cave paintings

Ancient

.

 

400

Acropolis 
Grecian urns

Greek

Greece's Golden Age 
Alexander the Great

 

100 

Pompeii wall art

Roman

Peak of Roman Empire

 

A.D.

 

 

 

 

1250 

Chartres master builder 
Giotto 
Lorenzetti 

Gothic

Magna Carta

                

1400 

Botticelli 
da Vinci  
Piero

Early Renaissance

Holy Roman Empire 
Columbus reaches Americas

              

1500

Michelangelo  
Raphael 
Titian 
El Greco 

High Renaissance

Elizabeth I 
Magellan circles globe

       

         

1600 

Rubens 
Rembrandt

Baroque

Galileo 
British colonize America

 

1700 

Boucher 
Watteau 

Rococo 

Steam engine invented 
Franklin experiments with electricity

 

1800 

 

Goya 

Romanticism 
Realism

Louisiana Purchase 
Railroads spread

 

1870

Cassatt 
Gauguin 
Van Gogh 
Monet 
Seurat  
Rodin 
Rousseau 
Cezanne

Impressionism 
Post-Impressionism 

Telephone invented 
Light bulb invented 
Automobile invented

      

 

             

1900

Dalí  
Picasso 
O'Keefe 
Edward Hopper 
Grant Wood 
Matisse

Abstraction 
Fauvism  
Cubism 
Dada 
Surrealism 

Airplane invented 
World War I 

Great Depression 
World War II 

 

     

1950

Pollock  
Warhol 
Calder 
Lichtenstein 
Red Grooms

Abstract Expressionism 
Pop Art 

Vietnam War 
Apollo moon landings 

2000

Goldworthy

Environmental Art