ART HISTORY TIMELINE ART PERIOD ART MOVEMENT DATES ANCIENT ART PREHISTORIC ART 30,000 ‐ 50 B.C. Egyptian Art 3500 B.C.‐395 A.D. CHINE_KOREA_JAPAN (ORIENTAL ART) 6,000 B.C. – 500 A.D. ART OF THE AMERICAS ( MEXICO, MAYAN, OLMEC, 4,000 B.C. – 800 ZAPOTEC) A.D. AFRICAN ART * 3500 B.C. – 1,000 A.D. MESOPOTAMIA – BABYLONIAN – ASSYRIAN ART 3000 ‐ 539 B.C. CLASSICAL ART BYZANTINE ART 526 ‐ 725 B.C. ANCIENT GREEK ART 1500 ‐ 480 B.C. ANCIENT NEAR EAST ART 735 ‐ 480 B.C. ETRUSCAN ART (EARLY IRON AGE) 675 – 50 B.C. ANCIENT ROMAN ART 510‐27 B.C. JUDEAN ART 600 B.C. ‐ 135 A.D. EARLY MEDIEVAL ART 1000‐900 C.A. ROMANESQUE / GOTHIC ART 1000 ‐1150 NORTHERN EUROPE RENAISSANCE 1325 ‐1600 EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE 1400 ‐1590 NON‐WESTERN ART CHINA, JAPAN, INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, SOUTH 1400‐1880 AMERICA, EARLY NORTH AMERICA BAROQUE SCHILDERBENT 1620‐1720 18TH CENTURY WESTERN ROCOCO 1700‐1750 NEO‐CLASSICAL 1750‐1880 19TH CENTURY WESTERN ROMANTISIM 1800‐1880 ART IMPRESSIONISM 1863‐1885 POST‐IMPRESSIONISM 1886‐1900 EXPRESSIONISM 1890 ‐1939 20TH CENTURY MODERN CUBISM ‐FUTURISM 1907 ‐ PRESENT ART DADA AND NEU 1916‐1923 IDENTITY ART 1920 ‐ PRESENT SURREALISM 1922‐1939 ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM 1940 ‐ PRESENT POP ART 1950 ‐ PRESENT FUNK ART 1950‐1970S JUNK ART 1950S‐PRESENT OP ART 1964 ‐ PRESENT PERFORMANCE ART 1960S‐PRESENT DATING CONVENTIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS B.C. = BEFORE CHRIST A.D. = (ANNO DOMNI) THE YEAR OF THE LORD B.C.E. = BEFORE THE COMMON ERA C.E. –=COMMON ERA CA. ‐=CIRCA C=CENTURY INTERESTING HISTORY OF WHY WE USE THE CALENDAR WE USE TODAY:THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR, the most widely used calendar in the world today. The Gregorian calendar, also called the Western calendar and the Christian calendar, is internationally the most widely used. It is named for Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in 1582. The motivation for the reform was to bring the date for the celebration of Easter to the time of the year in which the First Council of Nicaea had agreed upon in 325. Because the celebration of Easter was tied to the spring equinox, the Roman Catholic Church considered this steady drift in the date of Easter undesirable. The reform was adopted initially by the Catholic countries of Europe. Protestants and Eastern Orthodox countries adopted the Gregorian reform after a time, for the sake of convenience in international trade. The last European country to adopt the reform was Greece, in 1923. .