Periods in Western art history

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.

Ancient Classical art

Minoan art

Aegean 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

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 to Neoclassicism

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

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 – 1850s – 1870s, United States

Modern Greek art – 1830 – 1930s, Greece

Romanticism to modern art

Norwich school – 1803 – 1833, England

Biedermeier – 1815 – 1848, Germany

Academic – c. 1840 – 1900, began in France

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

Note: The countries listed are the country in which the movement or group started. Most modern art movements were international in scope.

Impressionism – 1860 – 1890, France

American Impressionism – 1880, United States

Cos Cob Art Colony – 1890s, United States

Heidelberg School – late 1880s, Australia

Luminism (Impressionism)

Arts and Crafts movement – 1880 – 1910, United Kingdom

Tonalism – 1880 – 1920, United States

Symbolism (movement) – 1880 – 1910, France/Belgium

Russian Symbolism – 1884 – c.