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Timeline of Art

Era Artist Style Media World

B.C.      
Charcoal
15,000 Cave paintings Ancient
Dirt
Pictographic Civilizations of:
writing -Mesopotamia
5000 Ancient
Pottery wheel -Egypt
Early paints -Minoan
1000 Dipylon vase Egyptian Papyrus Jerusalem founded
Greece's Golden
Acropolis Age
400 Greek
Grecian urns Alexander the
Great
Chinese invent
Nike of Rome dominates
200 Roman paper
Samothrace Near East
Quill pen
Peak of Roman
100 Pompeii wall art Roman
Empire
A.D.      
400 Pantheon Byzantine Rome falls
Papermaking
Lindisfarne
600 Byzantine introduced from Charlemagne
Gospels
China
Paper first
manufactured in
Bayeux Europe Normans invade
1000 Romanesque
Tapestry Tempera England
Fresco
Ink
Chartres master
builder Revival of
1250 Gothic Magna Carta
Giotto paintmaking
Lorenzetti
Holy Roman
Botticelli Empire
Printing press
da Vinci de Medici rules
1400 Early Renaissance Oil paint
Piero Florence
Pastel
Lippi Colombus reaches
Americas
1500 Michelangelo High Renaissance First use of canvas Elizabeth I
Raphael Northern Renaissance Magellan circles
Titian globe
 El Greco
Bruegel
Arcimboldo
Rubens
Galileo
Rembrandt Modern pencil
1600 Baroque British colonize
Poussin invented
America
Leyster
Steam engine
Boucher invented
1700 Watteau Rococo Franklin
Hogarth experiments with
electricity
American
Fragonard Neoclassism
1750 Revolution
David
French Revolution
Louisiana Purchase
1800 Goya Romanticism Photography Queen Victoria
Ingres
  Realism Watercolors Irish famine
Constable
Railroads spread
U.S. Civil War
Tube paints Evolution theory
1850 Bierstadt Pre-Raphaelites
Fountain pen Sanford founded

Cassatt
Colonialism peaks
Gauguin
Telephone invented
Van Gogh Impressionism
1875 Ballpoint pen Light bulb invented
Monet Post-Impressionism
Automobile
Morisot
invented
Seurat
Airplane invented
Abstraction
Hartley World War I
Fauvism
MacDonald- Theory of
Cubism Acrylic paint
1900 Wright Relativity
Futurism Crayon
Dalí Great Depression
Dada
Lange World War II
Surrealism
Atomic bomb
Albers Vietnam War
Pollock Apollo moon
Abstract Expressionism
de Kooning landings
1950 Pop Art
Rothko Fall of Soviet
Op Art
Stella Union
Warhol AIDS virus
2000