Art Timeline

Timeline of Art

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	B.C					A.D.
Era	15,000	5000	1000	400	200	100	400	600	1000	1250	1400	1500	1600	1700	1750	1800	1850	1875	1900	1950	2000
Artist	Cave paintings		Dipylon vase	Acropolis Grecian urns	Nike of Samothrace	Pompeii wall art	Pantheon	Lindisfarne Gospels	Bayeux Tapestry	Chartres master builder Giotto Lorenzetti	Botticelli da Vinci Piero Lippi	Michelangelo Raphael Titian El Greco Bruegel Arcimboldo	Rubens Rembrandt Poussin Leyster	Boucher Watteau Hogarth	Fragonard David	Goya Ingres Constable	Bierstadt	Cassatt Gauguin Van Gogh Monet Morisot Seurat	Hartley MacDonald-Wright Dalí Lange	Albers Pollock de Kooning Rothko Stella Warhol
Style	Ancient	Ancient	Egyptian	Greek	Roman	Roman	Byzantine	Byzantine	Romanesque	Gothic	Early Renaissance Linear perspective	High Renaissance Northern Renaissance	Baroque	Rococo	Neoclassism	Romanticism Realism	Pre-Raphaelites	Impressionism Post-Impressionism	Abstraction Fauvism Cubism Futurism Dada Surrealism	Abstract Expressionism Pop Art Op Art
Media	Charcoal Dirt	Pictographic writing Pottery wheel Early paints	Papyrus		Chinese invent paper Quill pen			Papermaking introduced from China	Paper first manufactured in Europe Tempera Fresco Ink	Revival of paintmaking	Printing press Oil paint Pastel	First use of canvas	Modern pencil invented			Photography Watercolors	Tube paints Fountain pen	Ballpoint pen	Acrylic paint Crayon
World		Civilizations of: -Mesopotamia -Egypt -Minoan	Jerusalem founded	Greece's Golden Age Alexander the Great	Rome dominates Near East	Peak of Roman Empire	Rome falls	Charlemagne	Normans invade England	Magna Carta	Holy Roman Empire de Medici rules Florence Colombus reaches Americas	Elizabeth I Magellan circles globe	Galileo British colonize America	Steam engine invented Franklin experiments with electricity	American Revolution French Revolution	Louisiana Purchase Queen Victoria Irish famine Railroads spread	U.S. Civil War Evolution theory Sanford founded	Colonialism peaks Telephone invented Light bulb invented Automobile invented	Airplane invented World War I Theory of Relativity Great Depression World War II Atomic bomb	Vietnam War Apollo moon landings Fall of Soviet Union AIDS virus
Era	15,000 B.C.	5000	1000	400	200	100 A.D.	400	600	1000	1250	1400	1500	1600	1700	1750	1800	1850	1875	1900	1950	2000

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