- - Timeline - Pre-Renaissance Gothic Art 5th Century to 16th Century A.D.

Byzantine Art

5th Century A.D. to 1453

The Renaissance The Early Renaissance Centered in Italy, 15th Century

The High Renaissance

Centered in Italy, Early 16th Century

The Northern Renaissance Mannerism 17th Century Baroque Art 18th Century The Rococo Style Neoclassicism Academic Art Japanese Ukiyo-e 19th Century Romanticism The Hudson River School The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Victorian Classicism The Arts and Crafts Movement Symbolism Realism The Barbizon School Impressionism Tonalism Post-Impressionism Les Nabis Pointillism Fauvism

Late 19th/Early 20th Century Design Arts and Crafts Art Nouveau Les Nabis The Golden Age of Illustration Art Deco 20th Century Realism Reinvented Ashcan School Camden Town Group American Scene American Regionalism Social Realism The Canadian Group Of Seven Magic Realism Contemporary Realism Modernism Expressionism Die Brcke Der Blaue Reiter Die Neue Sachlichkeit Bauhaus Cubism Dada Futurism Neo-Plasticism Surrealism Precisionism Art Deco The Harlem Renaissance Abstract Expressionism Pop Art Op Art Arte Povera Photorealism Minimalism The Sensation Show Folk Art

Gothic Art is the style of art produced in Northern Europe from the middle ages up until the beginning of the Renaissance. Typically rooted in religious devotion, it is especially known for the distinctive arched design of its churches, its stained glass, and itslate illuminated manuscripts. In the 14th century, anticipating the Renaissance, Gothic Art developed into a more secular style known as International Gothic. One of the great artists of this period is Simone Martini. Although superseded by Renaissance art, there was a Gothic Revival in the 18th and 19th centuries, largely rooted in nostalgia and romanticism. Byzantine art is the art of the Byzantine Empire, centered in Constantinople (now Istanbul). Byzantine art was completely focused on the needs of the Orthodox church, in the painting of icons and the decoration of churches with frescoes and mosaics. The Byzantine style basically ended with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453, during the European Renaissance. However, its influence continued for a considerable time in Russia and elsewhere where the Orthodox church held sway.

The Renaissance was a period of great creative and intellectual activity, during which artists broke away from the restrictions of Byzantine Art. Throughout the 15th century, artists studied the natural world in order to perfect their understanding of such subjects as many anatomy and perspective. Among the great artists of this period were Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca. During this period there was a related advancement of Gothic Art centered in Germany and the Netherlands, known as the Northern The EarlyRenaissance. Renaissance was succeeded by the mature High Renaissance period, which began circa 1500. The High Renaissance was the culmination of the artistic developments of the Early Renaissance, and one of the great explosions of creative genius in history. It is notable for three of the greatest artists in history: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raphael Sanzio and Leonardo da masters Vinci. as Giorgione, Titian and Giovanni Bellini. Also active at this time were such By about the 1520s, High Renaissance art had become exaggerated into the style known as Mannerism.

Neoclassical Art

Mid-18th Century to Early-19th Century

Robert Smirke Robert Adam Antonio Canova,Jean-Antoine Houdon Bertel Thorvaldsen J.A.D. Ingres Jacques-Louis David Anton Raphael Mengs

Neoclassical Art is a severe and unemotional form of art harkening back to the grandeur of ancient Greece and Rome. Its rigidity was a reaction to the overbred Rococo style and the emotional charged Baroque style. The rise of Neoclassical Art was part of a general revival of interest in classical thought, which was of some importance in the American and French revolutions. Around 1800, Romanticism emerged as a reaction against Neoclassicism. It did not really replace the Neoclassical style so much as act as a counterbalancing influence, and many artists were influenced by both styles to a certain degree. Neoclassical Art was also a primary influence on 19th-century Academic Art

Romanticism

Late 18th Century to Mid 19th Century

Great artists closely associated with Romanticism include Caspar David Friedrich John Constable J.M.W. Turner William Blake

Romanticism might best be described as anticlassicism. A reaction against Neoclassicism, it is a deeply-felt style which is individualistic, exotic, beautiful and emotionally wrought. Although Romanticism and Neoclassicism were philosophically opposed, they were the dominant European styles for generations, and many artists were affected to a lesser or greater degree by both. Artists might work in both styles at different times or even combine elements, creating an intellectually Romantic work using a Neoclassical visual style, for example. In the North America, the leading Romantic movement was the Hudson River School of dramatic landscape painting. Obvious successors of Romanticism include the Pre-Raphaelite movement and the Symbolist painters. But Impressionism, and through it almost all of 20th century art, is also firmly rooted in the individualism of the Romantic tradition.

Academic Art

19th century: 1801 - 1900

Epitomizing this style: Jean-Leon Gerome Bouguereau

Academic Art is the painting and sculpture produced under the influence of the Academies in Europe and especially France, where many artists received their formal training. Associated particularly with the French Academy and the 19th century salons at which art was submitted for display and prizes were awarded.

Impressionism

Centered in France, 1860's to 1880's

Claude Monet Alfred Sisley Pierre-Auguste Renoir Others Associated with this Period: Camille Pissarro Frederic Bazille Edgar Degas Gustave Caillebotte Edouard Manet Mary Cassatt.

Impressionism is a light, spontaneous manner of painting which began in France as a reaction against the restrictions and conventions of the dominant Academic art.

Post-Impressionism

France, 1880's to 1900

Paul Gauguin Paul Cezanne Vincent van Gogh Henri Rousseau Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Artists who were influenced by Impressionism.