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ROMANESQUE PERIOD

 "in the style of the Roman."

950-1250

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 Romanesque art, as a classic technique, surfaced around the year 950 and persisted until about 1250. The style was widespread  in France, Italy, Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Germany and the Austria.
According to art historian Clara Erskine Clement, "During the Romanesque Period (950-1250) architecture was pursued according to laws which had grown out of the achievements and experiences of earlier ages, and had reached such a perfection as entitled it to the rank of a noble art. But this was not true of painting, which was then but little more than the painting of the Egyptians had been, that is, a sort of picture-writing, which was principally used to illustrate the doctrines of religion, and by this means to teach them to peoples who had no books, and could not have read them had they existed.

During all this time the art of painting was largely under the control of the priests. Some artists were priests themselves, and those who were not were under the direction of some church dignitary. Popes, bishops, abbots, and so on, were the principal patrons of art, and they suggested to the artists the subjects to be painted, and then the pictures were used for the decoration of churches and other buildings used by the religious orders. The monks were largely occupied in miniature-painting; artists frequented the monasteries, and, indeed, when they were engaged upon religious subjects, they were frequently under the same discipline as that of the monks themselves.

Next to the influence of the church came that of the court; but in a way it was much the same, for the clergy had great influence at court, and, although painting was used to serve the luxury of sovereigns and nobles, it was also true that these high personages often employed artists to decorate chapels and to paint altar-pieces for churches at their expense, for during the Romanesque period there was some painting on panels. At first these panel-pictures were placed on the front of the altar where draperies had formerly been used: later they were raised above the altar,and also put in various parts of the church. The painting of the Romanesque period was merely a decline, and there can be little more said of it than is told by that one word.

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Byzantine 500-1450  Romanesque 950-1250
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Sienese School 1150-1550 Venetian
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High Renaissance 1450-1530  
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Mannerism  1510-1600  
Baroque 1600-1750  
Rococo  1710-1790  
Neoclassical 1740-1835  
Romanticism 1750-1860  
Hudson River School 1825-1880  
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Academic Classicism 1865-1920   
Victorian Classicism 1845-1895  
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Impressionism 1860-1895
Symbolism  1860-1910
Postimpressionism 1882-1915
Pointillism  1885-1903
Nabis 1890-1898
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Art Deco 1915-1940
Cubism 1905-1920
 
 
Surrealism 1924
Futurism 1907-1944
Dada 1915-1950
Abstract Expressionism 1945-1965

 

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References - A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture: Painting, by Clara Erskine Clement