Art History Timeline
Finding your way along the art history timeline is not easy. There are art movements, schools, brotherhoods, art academies and individualism and much more... It’s hard to get an overview. We hope that our Art History Timeline will give you the bigger picture of art history, when the different artists lived and in which period.
If you want to find out more about a certain artist click on his or her name to the right of the Timeline further down. Above the Timeline you can clic on an art movement or era that is also represented in our Timeline. It will give you examples of paintings, painters and a short description of that period. If there's no link attached at present, you may expect it in the near future.
Please note that the limits are not exact when one considers the development of fine arts.
Good luck, have fun - and be inspired!
All the Eras and Movements in alphabetic order:
Lilac (in the timeline)
Baroque - Byzantine art - Contemporary art - Early Gothic art - Gothic art - Modernism - Neoclassicism - Renaissance - Rococo
Green (in the timeline)
Abstract expressionism - Academic art - Cubism - Dutch realism - Expressionism and abstact art - Mannerism - Impressionism - Postimpressionism - Realism - Romanticism - Surrealism - Symbolism
Pink (in the timeline)
Art Nouveau - Ashan School - Barbizon School - Bauhaus - Bloomsbury Group - Bolognese school - CoBrA - Constructivism - Dadaism - De Stijl - Der Blaue Reiter - Die Brücke - Fauvism - Fontainbleau - Futurism - Hudson-River School - Nazarene movement - Norwich school - Pointillism - Pop art - Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Timeline
Famous Artists
20th century
Jasper Johns
*1930
Andy Warhol
1928-1987
Andrew Wyeth
1917-2009
Jackson Pollock
1912-1956
Francis Bacon
1909-1992
Salvador Dali
1904-1989
19th century
Joan Miro
1893-1983
Marc Chagall
1887-1985
Marcel Duchamp
1887-1968
Wasily Kandinsky
1886-1944
Amedeo Modigliani
1884-1920
Edward Hopper
1882-1967
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
Paul Klee
1879-1940
Henri Matisse
1869-1954
Edvard Munch
1863-1944
Gustav Klimt
1862-1918
Bruno Liljefors
1860-1939
Anders Zorn
1860-1920
Georges Seurat
1859-1891
Carl Larsson
1853-1919
Van Gogh
1853-1890
Paul Gauguin
1848-1903
Mary Cassatt
1844-1926
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841-1919
Claude Monet
1840-1926
Paul Cézanne
1839-1906
Edgar Degas
1834-1917
Éduard Manet
1832-1883
18th century
Théodore Géricault
1791-1824
Ingres
1780-1867
John Constable
1776-1837
Caspar David Friedrich
1774-1840
William Blake
1757-1827
Francisco de Goya
1746-1828
17th century
Canaletto
1697-1768
van Rijn Rembrandt
1606-1669
16th century
Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
El Greco
1541-1614
15th century
Michelangelo
1475-1564
Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519
Sandro Botticelli
1445-1510
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