EGYPTIAN

STONE AGE MESOPOTAMIAN (3,100 BC – 30 BC)

(30,000 BC – 2,500 BC)
Characteristics:
Cave painting, fertility goddesses,
megalithic structures
Historical Events:
Ice Age ends (10,000 BC –8,000 BC)
New Stone Age and first permanent
settlements (8,000 BC–2,500 BC)
(3,500 BC – 539 BC) Characteristics:
Characteristics: Art with an afterlife focus: pyramids and
Warrior art and narration in stone relief tomb painting
Historical Events: Historical Events:
Sumerians invent writing (3,400 BC); Narmer unites Upper/Lower Egypt
Hammurabi writes his law (3100 BC); Rameses II battles
code (1,780 BC); Abraham founds the Hittites (1274 BC); Cleopatra dies
monotheism (30 BC)

INDIAN, CHINESE, AND JAPANESE ROMAN

(653 BC – 1900 AD)
Characteristics:
Serene, meditative art, and Arts of the
Floating World
Historical Events:
Birth of Buddha (563 BC); Silk Road
opens (1st century BC); Buddhism
spreads to China (1st–2nd centuries
AD) and Japan (5th century AD)
(500 BC – 476 AD) GREEK AND HELLENISTIC
Characteristics: (850 BC – 31 BC)
Roman realism: practical and down to Characteristics:
earth; the arch Greek idealism: balance, perfect
Historical Events: proportions; architectural
Julius Caesar assassinated (44 BC); Orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian)
Augustus proclaimed Historical Events:
Emperor (27 BC ); Diocletian splits Athens defeats Persia at Marathon
Empire (AD 292); Rome falls (AD 476) (490 BC); Peloponnesian Wars (431
BC–404 BC); Alexander the Great’s
conquests (336 BC–323 BC)

EARLY AND HIGH RENAISSANCE

BYZANTINE AND ISLAMIC
(476 BC – 1453 BC)
Characteristics:
Heavenly Byzantine mosaics; Islamic
architecture and amazing
maze-like design
Historical Events:
justinian partly restores Western
Roman Empire (AD 533–AD 562);
Iconoclasm Controversy (AD 726–AD
843); Birth of Islam (AD 610) and
Muslim Conquests (AD 632–AD 732)
MIDDLE AGES
(500 – 1400)
Characteristics:
Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance,
Romanesque, Gothic
Historical Events:
Viking Raids (793–1066); Battle of
Hastings (1066); Crusades I–IV (1095–
1204); Black Death (1347–1351);
Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453)
(1400 – 1550)
Characteristics:
Rebirth of classical culture
Historical Events:
Gutenberg invents movable type
(1447); Turks conquer Constantinople
(1453); Columbus lands in New World
(1492); Martin Luther starts
Reformation (1517)
 BAROQUE
VENETIAN AND NORTHERN MANNERISM (1600 – 1750)
RENAISSANCE (1527 – 1580) Characteristics:
(1430 – 1550) Characteristics: Splendor and flourish for God; art as a
Characteristics: Art that breaks the rules; artifice over weapon in the religious
The Renaissance spreads north- ward nature Wars
to France, the Low Countries, Poland, Historical Events: Historical Events:
Germany, and England Magellan circumnavigates the globe Thirty Years’ War between Catholics
Historical Events: (1520–1522) and Protestants
Council of Trent and Counter-
(1618–1648)
Reformation (1545–1563);
Copernicus proves the Earth revolves
around the Sun (1543)

NEOCLASSICAL
REALISM ROMANTICISM (1750 - 1850)
(1848 – 1900) (1780 – 1850) Characteristics:
Characteristics: Characteristics: Art that recaptures Greco-Roman
Celebrating working class and The triumph of imagination and grace and grandeur
peasants; en plein air individuality Historical Events:
rustic painting Historical Events: Enlightenment (18th century); Industrial
Historical Events: American Revolution (1775–1783); Revolution
European democratic revolutions of French Revolution (1760–1850)
1848 (1789–1799); Napoleon crowned
emperor of France (1803)

IMPRESSIONISM POST-IMPRESSIONISM
(1865 – 1885) (1885 - 1910) FAUVISM AND EXPRESSIONISM
Characteristics: Characteristics: (1900 – 1935)
Capturing fleeting effects of natural A soft revolt against Impressionism Characteristics:
light Historical Events: Harsh colors and flat surfaces
Historical Events: Belle Époque (late-19th-century (Fauvism); emotion distorting
Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871); Golden Age); Japan defeats Russia Form
Unification of Germany (1905) Historical Events:
(1871) Boxer Rebellion in China (1900); World
War (1914–1918)
 ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
CUBISM, FUTURISM, DADA AND SURREALISM (1940s–1950s)
SUPREMATIVISM, (1917 – 1950) and Pop Art (1960s)
CONSTRUCTIVISM, DE STIJL Characteristics: Characteristics:
(1905 – 1920) Ridiculous art; painting dreams and Post–World War II: pure abstraction
Characteristics: exploring the unconscious and expression without form; popular
Pre– and Post–World War 1 art Historical Events: art absorbs consumerism
experiments: new Disillusionment after World War I; The Historical Events:
forms to express modern life Great Depression (1929–1938); World Cold War and Vietnam War (U.S.
Historical Events: War II (1939–1945) and Nazi horrors; enters 1965); U.S.S.R. suppresses
Russian Revolution (1917); American atomic bombs dropped on Japan Hungarian revolt (1956)
women franchised (1945) Czechoslovakian revolt (1968)
(1920)

Art History
Postmodernism and
Deconstructivism
(1970 -)
Characteristics:
Art without a center and reworking and
mixing past styles
Historical Events:
Nuclear freeze movement; Cold War
Wilder, J. B. (2007). Art history for dummies. Hoboken: Wiley. fizzles; Communism collapses
in Eastern Europe and U.S.S.R.
(1989–1991)

LUZANO, ELLA JOYCE I. BSIE – 5

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