Art history web resources. Timeline of art history. Below you will find that which "they" (who say many things) call The Big Picture: the entirety of art history broken up, chronologically, into five chunks. Have no fear. The first 30,400 years are taken care of in one fell swoop. Ancient Art © University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology This timeline covers ca. 30,000 B.C. to ca. 400 A.D. or, if you prefer, fertility statuettes and bone flutes to roughly the Fall of Rome. Medieval to Early Renaissance Art © Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice Look here for dates between the years 400-1400 A.D., and marvel that some still refer to this millennium as the Dark Ages. Renaissance to Early Modern Art © Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam After the long Italian Renaissance, Northern Renaissance and Baroque periods were over, we began to see new movements appear with greater frequency.
Modern Art © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Contemporary Art The Eli and Edythe L. Art history movements. Famous artists. Art through times.