The Arts in the Flow of History Chart

Ancient History 4500-1100 BC

Egypt                                        Pyramids

Assyria                                      Palace of Sargon II

Babylon                                     Ishtar Gate

Persia                                        Persepolis

Classic 1100 BC AD 500

Greek                                           Acropolis

Roman Etruscan                            Pompeii

Medieval 500 AD 1400

Byzantine                                     Mosaics

Romanesque                                 Cathedral Pisa

Gothic                                          Cathedral Chartres

                                                    Dante

Renaissance 1450 1600

Quattrocentro                             Giotto

Cinquecento                               Da Vinci, Raphael,
Reformation                               Michaelangelo

Counter-reformation                   Dürer, Cranach
                                                  Rubens

Baroque 1600 1750

Early-High Baroque                  Remembrandt, Milton

Neo-Classic 18th Century

Age of Reason                          David

                                                Schwind, Goethe

Romantic 19th Century

1st Half: Romanticism                Delacroix

2nd Half: Nationalism                Repin

               Post-Romanticism       Van Gogh

               Impressionism             Monet, Cezanne, Sisley

Age of Science 20th Century

Expressionism                      Kandinsky, Kokoschka,

                                           Munch, T.S. Eliot

Abstract                               Gris, Braque

                                           Picasso

Many Styles                         Dufy, Matisse

                                           Duchamp

Nonobjective                       Pollock