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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 Lapita Expansion Kingdom of Kush The Celts Ancient Greece The Etruscans Ancient Rome The Iberians Classical India500 CE

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

Age of Discovery

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

Art Deco

1920 — 1940

Geometry, ornamentation, and lots and lots of money

Portrait of Marquis d'Afflito

Tamara de Lempicka, 1925

The Beautiful Rafaela in Green

Tamara de Lempicka, 1927

Empire State Building

The Blue Hour III

Tamara de Lempicka, 1966

Rediscover the elegance with luminous and brilliant colors

Tamara de Lempicka

Surrealism —
Art without reason, aesthetics or morality