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40000 BCEUpper Paleolithic Neolithic Norte Chico Civilization Indus Valley Civilization Bronze Age Iron Age0 CE

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

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

Age of Exploration

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

Industrial Revolution

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

Contemporary Art

1960Pop Art Post Modernism Shona Sculpture Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art Zaire School of Popular Painting2020

Middle Ages

Feudalism and the rise of organized religion

Byzantine Art, Middle Ages

Byzantine Art

The proliferation of Christian art

Medieval Art, Middle Ages

Medieval Art

Religion, feudalism and lots of gold leaf.

Tang Dynasty, Middle Ages

Tang Dynasty

The greatest cosmopolitan empire of the middle ages

Medieval Persian Art, Middle Ages

Medieval Persian Art

Persia brings a wealth of art, poetry, and mysticism to Islam.

Islamic Dynastic Art, Middle Ages

Islamic Dynastic Art

When you don't paint people, things get beautifully, powerfully decorative.

Viking Age, Middle Ages

Viking Age

Wolves among sheep

Igbo-Ukwu, Middle Ages

Igbo-Ukwu

Khmer Art, Middle Ages

Khmer Art

The God-kings and stone cities of Cambodia

Classical Oceania, Middle Ages

Classical Oceania

Floating cities and stone heads facing the sea

Song Dynasty, Middle Ages

Song Dynasty

Finding the sublime in nature's power

Gothic Art, Middle Ages

Gothic Art

The race for height

Inca Empire, Middle Ages

Inca Empire

The original American Empire

Yuan Dynasty, Middle Ages

Yuan Dynasty

The Aztecs, Middle Ages

The Aztecs

Blood and conquest

Next Era

Age of Exploration, Timeline of Art

Age of Exploration

Trans-continental travel and the enlightenment

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