Trivium Art History

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4000 BCEAncient Egypt Mesopotamia Aegean Civilizations Ancient China Kingdom of Kush Lapita Expansion Ancient Greece The Celts The Etruscans Ancient Rome The Iberians Classical India500 CE

300 CEByzantine Art Medieval Art Medieval Persian Art Islamic Dynastic Art Viking Age Khmer Art Classical Oceania Song Dynasty Gothic Art Inca Empire Yuan Dynasty The Aztecs1500

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1300Italian Renaissance Ming Dynasty Kingdom of Kongo Northern Renaissance Spanish Renaissance Mughal Art Mannerism Baroque Edo Period Qing Dynasty Academic Art The Enlightenment Western Esoteric Art Rococo Neoclassicism1850

Industrial Revolution

1800Oceanic Art Romanticism Hudson River School Early Photography Barbizon School Pre Raphaelites Realism Impressionism Meiji Art Early Modernism Post-Impressionism1900

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Qing Dynasty

1644 — 1912

Velvet Textile for a Dragon Robe, 1700

Benevolent emperors and the height of literature and art

Clearing after Rain over Streams and Mountains

Wang Hui 王翚, 1662

Landscapes 1, 仿古山水圖

Wang Hui 王翚, 1674-1677

Landscapes 2, 仿古山水圖

Wang Hui 王翚, 1674-1677

Landscapes 3, 仿古山水圖

Wang Hui 王翚, 1674-1677

Landscapes 4, 仿古山水圖

Wang Hui 王翚, 1674-1677

Landscapes 5, 仿古山水圖

Wang Hui 王翚, 1674-1677

Landscapes 6, 仿古山水圖

Wang Hui 王翚, 1674-1677

Landscapes 7, 仿古山水圖

Wang Hui 王翚, 1674-1677

Landscapes 8, 仿古山水圖

Wang Hui 王翚, 1674-1677

Landscapes 9, 仿古山水圖

Wang Hui 王翚, 1674-1677

Landscapes 10, 仿古山水圖

Wang Hui 王翚, 1674-1677

Emperor Guan

Velvet Textile for a Dragon Robe

One Hundred Horses — Detail 3

Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧, 1728

One Hundred Horses — Detail 4

Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧, 1728

One Hundred Horses — Detail 5

Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧, 1728

One Hundred Horses

Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧, 1728

One Hundred Horses — Detail 1

Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧, 1728

One Hundred Horses — Detail 2

Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧, 1728

Rank Badge with Silver Pheasant

Peacock Spreading Its Tail Feathers

Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧, 1758

The Qianlong Emperor in Ceremonial Armour

Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧, 1758

Portrait of Consort Chunhui

Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧, 1760

Portrait of Lady Hoja

Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧, 1760

Portraits of Emperor Qianlong, the Empress, and Eleven Imperial Consorts

Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧, 1736-1770

Formal Collar

Wang Hui 王翚

An ambitious young artist unifies China's historical painting styles

Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧

A Jesuit missionary paints the emperor of China

Academic Art
Allegory, craft, and the unrelenting dictatorship of the Academy

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