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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