The History of Art and The Curious Lives of Famous Painters

Prehistoric  Paleolithic 35,000 - 8,000 BC, Mesolithic 8,000 - 3,500 BC, Neolithic  5,000 - 1,500 BC
Assyrian 1520 - 612 BC
Egyptian  Old Kingdom 3200 - 2185 BC, Middle Kingdom 2040 - 1650 BC , New Kingdom 1550 - 1070 BC 
Greek 700-323 BC
Roman 500 BC-350 AD
 
 
Senior Content Editor Logan Merriweather  
Associate Editors, Amy Gradzill, Millard Mulch, Justin Timms and James Newton  
 
 
Early Christian Art  1 - 331 AD

Migration Period  300 -900 AD

Carolingian 750-985

 

Byzantine 500-1450
Cimabue
Coppo Di Marcovaldo
Dionysius
Duccio di Buoninsegna
Jacopo Di Cione
Ambrogio Lorenzetti,
Pietro Lorenzetti
Lippo Memmi
Andrea Di Orcagna
Andrei Rublev
Theophanes The Greek
Francesco Traini
Paolo Veneziano
Gothic 1150-1580
Duccio di Buoninsegna 
Coppo di Marcovaldo
Pietro Lorenzetti
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Giotto di Bondone
Hieronymus Bosch
Matthias Grünewald
Albrecht Dürer
Lucas Cranach
Hans Holbein
Lippo Memmi
Simone Martini
Taddeo di Bartolo
 
Early Renaissance  1350-1500
Fra Angelico
Donatello
Alesso Baldovinetti
Taddeo di Bartolo
Lazzaro Bastiani
Gentile Bellini
Pedro Berruguete
Sandro Botticelli
Guidoccio Cozzarelli
Bernardo Daddi
Jean Fouquet
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia
Giotto di Bondone
Giovanni di Paolo
Benozzo Gozzoli
Fra Filippo Lippi
Andrea Mantegna
Masaccio
Pietro  Perugino
Piero della Francesca
Sano di Pietro
Sassetta
Paolo Uccello
Andrea del Verrocchio
High Renaissance 1450-1530
Andrea del Sarto
Mariotto Albertinelli
Fra Bartolommeo
Jacopo Ligozzi 
Domenico di Pace Beccafumi

Jacopo Bassano
Giovanni Bellini 
Domenico Brusasorci
Giulio Campi
Domenico Di Michelino
Lorenzo Costa
Dosso Dossi
Francesco Francia
Garofalo
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio
Giorgione
Leonardo da Vinci
Lorenzo Lotto
Bernardino Luini
Baldassare Peruzzi
Piero di Cosimo
Marcantonio Raimondi 
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Jacob Tintoretto
Sodoma
Raphael
Titian
Ercole de’Roberti
Mannerism  1510-1600
El Greco 
Jacopo da Pontormo
Paolo Veronese  
Alessandro Allori
Giorgio Vasari
Giovanni Rosso Fiorentino
Agnolo Bronzino
Parmigianinoa
Ventura Salimbeni
 
Northern Renaissance 1350-1600
Hieronymus Bosch
Dieric Bouts
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Younger
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Albrecht Dürer
Matthias Grünewald
Hans Holbein the Elder
Hans Holbein the Younger
Jan van Eyck
Hans Memling
Quentin Metsys
Rogier van der Weyden 
Baroque
Italian Baroque

Caravaggio

Dutch Baroque
Jan Vermeer
Frans Hals
Meindert Hobbema
Pieter de Hooch
Rembrandt van Rijn
Spanish Baroque
Diego Velázquez
Flemish Baroque
Peter Paul Rubens
Anthony Van Dyck
French Baroque
Nicolas Poussin
Rococo  1710-1790
Pompeo Batoni
Bernardo Bellotto
Francois Boucher
Canaletto
Jean-Baptiste Chardin

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Thomas Gainsborough
Francisco de Goya
Thomas Hudson
Jean-Marc Nattier
Joshua Reynolds
Paul Sandby
Jean Antoine Watteau

 

 

 
Neoclassical 1740-1835
James Barry
Antonio Canova
Jacques-Louis David
Jules Elie Delaunay
Francois Gerard
Antoine-Jean Gros
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Angelica Kauffmann
Rembrandt Peale
Bertel Thorvaldsen
John Trumbull
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun  
Benjamin  West
Romanticism 1750-1860
William Blake
John Constable
Eugene Delacroix
Eugene Fromentin 
Henry Fuseli
Thomas Gainsborough
Francisco de Goya
Antoine-Jean Gros
John Ruskin
William Turner
Orientalism
Eugene Delacroix
Eugene Fromentin 
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Realism
George Caleb Bingham 
John Singleton Copley 
 
       
Academic Classicism 1865-1920 
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
Adolphe-William  Bouguereau

Charles Emile August  Carolus-Duran,
Leon Francois Comerre
Pierre-Auguste  Cot

Thomas Couture
Paul Delaroche
Eugene Fromentin 
Jean Leon Gerome 
Jean-Paul Laurens
Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel 
Luc Olivier Merson 

Hans Makart

Giulio Rosati 
Franz Xavier  Winterhalter
William Clarke Wontner

Fritz  Zuber-Buhler
Victorian Classicism 1845-1895
John Collier
Frederick Leighton
 

Pre-Raphaelite 1840-1855
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Everett Millais
William Holman Hunt
Edward Robert Hughes
John William Godward
John William Waterhouse
Lord Frederic Leighton
Edward Burne-Jones
Walter Howell Deverell

 

   
       
Impressionism 1860-1895
Paul Cézanne
Auguste Renoir
Claude Monet
Alfred Sisley
Frederic Bazille
Gustave Caillebotte
Edgar Degas
Mary Cassatt
Armand Guillaumin
Berthe Morisot
Postimpressionism 1882-1915
Paul Cezanne
Paul Gauguin
Henri Rousseau
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Vincent van Gogh
Edouard Vuillard
Pointillism  1885-1903
Georges Seurat
Theo Van Rysselberghe
Camille Pissarro

Henri Cross
Paul Signac
Maximilien Luce
Charles Angrand
Georges Lemmen
 
       
Symbolism  1860-1910
William Blake
Paul Delaroche
Gustav Klimt
Henri Le Sidaner
Gustave Moreau
Edvard Munch
Odilon Redon
Nabis 1890-1898
Pierre Bonnard
Edouard Vuillard
Art Nouveau 1890-1920
Gustav Klimt
Alphonse Mucha
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
 
       
Tonalism 1880-1920
Ralph Albert Blakelock 1847-1919
Thomas Wilmer Dewing   1851-1938
Robert Swain Gifford1840-1905
Alexander Thomas Harrison 1854 -1929
Lowell Birge Harrison  1854-1929
George Inness1825-1894
John La Farge  1835-1910
Arthur Frank Mathews 1860-1945
John Francis Murphy 1853-1921
Albert Pinkham Ryder  1847-1917
John Henry Twachtman 1853-1902
Julian Alden Weir 1852-1919
James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1843-1903
Expressionism
Francis Bacon
Max Beckmann
Otto Dix
James Ensor
Lyonel Feininger
George Grosz
Alexej Von Jawlensky
Wassily Kandinsky
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Paul Klee
Oskar Kokoschka
Auguste Macke
Franz Marc
Amedeo Modigliani
Edvard Munch
Emil Nolde
Georges Rouault
Egon Schiele
Art Nouveau 1890-1920
Gustav Klimt
Alphonse Mucha
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
 
Cubism 1905-1920
Georges Braque
Robert Delaunay
Lyonel Feininger
Juan Gris
Fernand Leger
Pablo Picasso
Surrealism
Salvador Dali
Marcel Duchamp
Max Ernst
Rene Magritte
Man Ray
Joan Miro
Futurism 1907-1944
Umberto Boccioni
 
 
Abstract
Umberto Boccioni
Robert Delaunay
Arthur G. Dove
Helen Frankenthaler
Adolph Gottlieb
Juan Gris
Jasper Johns
Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee
Fernand Leger
Joan Miro
Jackson Pollock
Mark Rothko
Dada 1915-1950
Marcel Duchamp
Max Ernst
George Grosz
Man Ray
 
Art Deco 1915-1940
Erte
Tamara de Lempicka

 

 

 
       
Abstract Expressionism
Helen Frankenthaler
Willem de Kooning
Arshile Gorky
Adolph Gottlieb
Hans Hofmann
Jasper Johns
Franz Kline
Jackson Pollock
Mark Rothko
Op Art
M. C. Escher
 
American Regionalism
Thomas Hart Benton
Grant Wood
 
       
Pop Art 1955 - 1980
Robert Rauschenberg
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
David Hockney
Keith Haring
 
     
       

 

 

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