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Periods in Western art history

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This is a chronological list of periods in Western art history. An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement. Minoan art Ancient Greek art Roman art Medieval art Early Christian 260–525 Migration Period 300–900 Anglo-Saxon 400–1066 Visigothic 415–711 Pre-Romanesque 500–1000 Insular 600–1200 Viking 700–1100 Byzantine Merovingian Carolingian Ottonian Romanesque 1000–1200 Norman-Sicilian 1100–1200 Gothic 1100–1400 (International Gothic) Renaissance c. 1300 – c. 1602, began in Florence Italian Renaissance – late 13th century – c. 1600 – late 15th century – late 16th century Renaissance Classicism Early Netherlandish painting – 1400 – 1500 Early Cretan School - post-Byzantine art or Cretan Renaissance 1400-1500 Mannerism and Late Renaissance – 1520 – 1600, began in central Italy Baroque – 1600 – 1730, began in Rome Dutch Golden Age painting – 1585 – 1702 Flemish Baroque painting – 1585 – 1700 Caravaggisti – 1590 – 1650 Rococo – 1720 – 1780, began in France Neoclassicism – 1750 – 1830, began in Rome Later Cretan School - Cretan Renaissance 1500-1700 Heptanese School 1650-1830 began on Ionian Islands Romanticism − 1780 – 1850 Nazarene movement – c. 1820 – late 1840s The Ancients – 1820s – 1840s Purismo – c. 1820 – 1860s Düsseldorf school – mid-1820s – 1860s Hudson River School – 1850s – c. 1880 Luminism (American art style) – 1850s – 1870s Modern Greek art 1830–1930s began in Modern Greece Norwich school – 1803 – 1833, England Biedermeier – 1815 – 1848, Germany Photography – Since 1826 Realism – 1830 – 1870, began in France Barbizon school – 1830 – 1870, France Peredvizhniki – 1870 – 1890, Russia Abramtsevo Colony 1870s, Russia Hague School – 1870 – 1900, Netherlands American Barbizon school 1850–1890s – United States Spanish Eclecticism – 1845 – 1890, Spain Macchiaioli – 1850s, Tuscany, Italy Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – 1848 – 1854, England Modern art – 1860 – 1945 Note: The countries listed are the country in which the movement or group started.
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