Art History Timeline

Cave Paintings

• Time Period: 15,000 B.C.

• Media: Charcoal, Dirt

Stonehenge

Egyptian

• Time Period: 1,000 B.C.

• Media: Papyrus (plant)

• Jerusalem Founded

• Media: carved stone, pottery, gold and ornate structures

Egyptian Pyramids

Greek

• Time Period: 400 B.C.

• Large statues portraying Gods and mythology

• Emphasis on architecture with large ornate columns

Parthenon

Roman

• Time Period: 200 B.C

• Mosaics, Ivory Carvings, Metal work (coins)

Colosseum

Byzantine

• Time Period: 600 A.D.

• Media: Paper Making Introduced in China

• Christian art-Roman Empire-panel paintings

St Mark’s Basillica

Romanesque• Time Period: 1,000 A.D

• Media: Paper introduced in Europe,

• Stained glass, ornate architecture

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Gothic

• Time Period: 1250 A.D

• Media: Revival of Printmaking

• Panel paintings, ornate architecture

Notre Dame Cathedral

Early Renaissance

• Time Period: 1400 A.D

• Media: Printing Press, Oil Paint, Pastel

• Artists: Botticelli, da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci-Mona Lisa Botticelli-the Birth of Venus

Sistine Chapel

High Renaissance

• Time Period: 1500 A.D

• Media: First Use of Canvas

• Artists: Michelangelo, Raphael, & El Greco

Michaelangelo-Sistine chapel Raphael-The School of Athens

Baroque

• Time Period: 1600 A.D.

• Media: Modern Pencil Invented

• Artists: Rubens & Rembrandt

• Lots of details and color

Rubens-Venus in the MirrorRembrandt-Nightwatch

Chapel de Jesu

Neoclassism

• Time Period: 1750 A.D.

• Usually noble subjects

• Paintings are very balances

Jacques-Louis David-Oath of Horatti

Eiffel Tower

Romanticism & Realism

• Time Period: 1800 A.D.

• Media; Photography & Watercolors (1850-Tube Paints & Fountain Pen)

• Paintings about historical events

Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People 1830

Impressionism

• Time Period: 1875• Media: Ballpoint Pen• Artists: Van Gogh,

Monet, Seurat• Visible brush strokes• Emphasis on light

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - 1884

Georges Seurat

Cubism & Surrealism

• Time Period: 1900

• Media: Acrylic Paint & Crayon

• Artists: Dali, Picasso,

• Abstract concepts

• Geometric figures

Georges Braque, 'Woman with a Guitar,' 1913

Dali-The Swallow’s Tail

Pop Art

• Time Period: 1950

• Artists: Pollack & Warhol

• Involves every day items

• Can be standard or abstract