Welcome to an overview of important times, styles and artists throughout history.

• Early Art History
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance to Post-Impressionism <- Grade 11 ISP!
• Modern Art

Abbreviations:   C - circa = about, around or approximately / BCE - Before the Common Era  / CE - Common Era

Items with an underline are links.

Early Art History

Dates are approximate, correlated to major archaeological finds

• Cave Paintings
• Stonehenge
• Pre-Columbian 10,000 - 2,000 BCE
• Egyptial C 3000 - 1325 BCE
• Mesopotamian C 3500 - 1760 BCE
• Minoan C 1800 -1500 BCE
• Mycenaean C 1550 - 1250 BCE
• Assyrian C 850 -650 BCE
• Greek C 650 - 100
• Estruscan C 675 - 480 BCE
• Persian C 575 - 260BCE
• Roman C 80 - 320BCE
• Early Christian 4th Century - 300-450 CE
• Byzantine C 547 -1310 CE
• Islamic C 715 - 1224 CE
• Ottonian C 975 - 1015 CE
• Romanesque  C 1073 -1180 CE
• Gothic C 1215 - 1395 CE

Middle Ages

• Byzantine            C   532-37
• Romanesque        C  1080 - 1200
• Gothic                  C  1194 - 1260

Exploring Renaissance to Early Expressionism

FOR GRADE 11 Assignment

Please click on the appropriate art history period for more information.

The Grade 11 ISP covers any period or artist from these periods.

Assignment: Exploring Renaissance through Impressionism

Note: In order to view the images, you may need to click on the arrow in the top right
(on the blue bar that says Edit) to expand the screen.

• Renaissance  C 1366 - 1560
• Mannerism   C 1526 -  1620
• Baroque  C 1575 - 1700
• Rococo C 1718 - 1810
• Neoclassicism 
• Goya
• Romanticism  C 1750 - 1850
• Realism C 1730 - 1815
• Industrial Age Architecture
• Art Nouveau
• Early Photography
• Impressionism  C 1830 - 1940
• Post-Impressionism C 18390 - 1950
• Early Expressionism
• Symbolism

PowerPoints shown in class

• Renaissance Art.ppt
• Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century Art.ppt
• The Nineteenth Century.ppt

Modern & Contemporary Art

Please visit Modern Art for list