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40000 BCEUpper Paleolithic Neolithic Bronze Age Iron Age0 CE

4000 BCEAncient Egypt Mesopotamia Aegean Civilizations Ancient China 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 Khmer Art Song Dynasty Gothic Art Yuan Dynasty1500

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

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

Social Realism

1900 — 1950

Migrant Mother, 1936

Realism as a weapon

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A more authentic, anxious, and grotesque reality