Periods of Art 

 

 
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PREHISTORIC                                                 c. 30,000-1,500 BC
           Old Stone Age                                        c. 25,000-10,000BC
           Middle & New Stone Age                     c. 10,000-1,500BC
           Stonehenge                                              c. 1,800-1,500 BC

EGYPT                                                                 c. 3200 BC-600 AD
           Old Kingdom                                             c. 2600-2000 BC
           Middle Kingdom                                      c. 2000-1500 BC
           New Kingdom                                           c. 1500-1000 BC

NEAR EAST                                                        c. 3500-600 AD
          Sumerian                                                     c. 3500-2000 BC
          Akkadian                                                    c. 2400-2100 BC
          Babylonian                                                 c. 1800-1600 BC
          Assyrian                                                     c. 1200-600 BC
          Neo-Babylonian                                         c. 600 BC
          Persian                                                         c. 700BC-600 AD

AEGEAN                                                             c. 2500-1250 BC
         Cycladic                                                      c. 2500-1500 BC
         Minoan                                                       c. 1500 BC
         Mycenaean                                                c. 1250 BC

GREEK                                                                c. 7th-1st Century BC
        Archaic                                                        c. 7th-6th Century BC
        Classic                                                         c. 5th-4th Century BC
        Hellenistic                                                   c. 3rd-1st Century BC

ETRUSCAN                                                       c.  6 th-1st Century BC

ROMAN                                                              c. 3rd Century BC-325 AD

MIDDLE AGES                                                  c. 3rd-14th Century AD
        Early Christian                                            c. 3rd-5th Century AD
        Byzantine                                                     c. 6th-15th Century AD
        Dark Ages                                                    c. 7th-8th Century AD
        Carolingian                                                  c. 9th Century AD
        Ottonian                                                        c.10th-11th Century AD
        Romanesque                                                 c.11th-12th Century AD
        Gothic                                                            c.3th-15th Century AD

ITALIAN RENAISSANCE                                c. 14th-16th Century AD
        Proto-Renaissance                                      c. 14th Century AD
        Early Renaissance                                       c. 15th Century AD
        High Renaissance                                       c. 16th Century AD

NORTHERN RENAISSANCE                         c. 15th-16th Century AD

MANNERISM                                                     c. 16th Century AD

BAROQUE                                                          c. 17th Century AD

ROCOCO                                                            c. 18th Century AD

MODERN PERIOD                                            c. 19th & 20th Cent. AD
        Neo-classicism, Romanticism,                
        Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism

                                                                               c. 19th Century AD
        Cubism, Expressionism, Dadaism,
        Surrealism, Color Field, Op, Pop,

        Photo-realism, Late Modern                       c. 20th Century

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