Outline of Art History - Ancient Art
Visual Arts Movements - ca. 30,000 B.C.-ca. 400 A.D.
Prehistory
- Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) Art - 30,000-10,000 B.C.
- Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) Art - 10,000-8000 B.C.
- Neolithic (New Stone Age) Art - 8000-3000 B.C.
- Bronze Age Art - 2500-800 B.C.
- Iron Age Art - 750-50 B.C.
Ancient Civilizations
- Mesopotamia
- Sumerian Art - 3000-2300 B.C.
- Akkadian Art - 2300-2150 B.C.
- Neo-Sumerian Art - 2150-2000 B.C.
- Babylonian Art - 1900-1600 B.C.
- Assyrian Art - 900-612 B.C.
- Neo-Babylonian Art - 625-539 B.C.
- Egypt
- Early Dynastic Art - 3500-2686 B.C.
- Old Kingdom Art - 2686-2185 B.C.
- Middle Kingdom Art - 2133-1750 B.C.
- Early New Kingdom Art - 1570-1353 B.C.
- Amarna Art - 1353-1332 B.C.
- Late New Kingdom Art - 1332-1075 B.C.
- Late Period Art - 750-332 B.C.
- Macedonian Dynasty Art - 332-304 B.C.
- Ptolemaic Dynasty Art - 304-30 B.C.
- Art under the Roman Emperors - 30 B.C.-395 A.D.
- The Cycladic Islands/Crete
- Early Minoan Art - 2800-2000 B.C.
- Middle Minoan Art - 2000-1700 B.C.
- Late Minoan Art - 1550-1400 B.C.
- Phoenician Art - 1500-500 B.C.
- Nomadic Tribes
- Luristan Art - 700-500 B.C.
- Scythian Art - 600-300 B.C.
- Persian Empire Art - 539-331 B.C.
Classical Civilizations
- Greek Art
- Mycenaean Art - 1550-1200 B.C.
- Sub-Mycenaean Art - 1100-1025 B.C.
- Proto-Geometric Art - 1025-900 B.C.
- Geometric Art - 900-700 B.C.
- Archaic Art - 700-480 B.C.
- Orientalizing Phase - 735-650 B.C.
- Early Archaic - 700-600 B.C.
- High Archaic - 600-520 B.C.
- Late Archaic - 520-480 B.C.
- Classical Art - 480-323 B.C.
- Early Classical - 480-450 B.C.
- High Classical - 450-400 B.C.
- Late Classical - 400-323 B.C.
- Hellenistic Art - 323-31 B.C.
- Early Hellenistic - 323-250 B.C.
- High Hellenistic - 250-100 B.C.
- Late Hellenistic - 100 -31 B.C.
- Etruscan Art
- Early Iron Age Art - 9th century-ca. 675 B.C.
- Orientalizing Phase - ca. 675-ca. 575 B.C.
- Archaic Period Art - ca. 575-ca. 480 B.C.
- Classical Period Art - ca. 480-ca. 300 B.C.
- Hellenistic Period Art - ca. 300-ca. 50 B.C.
- Roman Art
- Republican Art - 510-27 B.C.
- Early Roman Empire Art - 27 B.C.-235 A.D.
- Augustan - 27 B.C.-14 A.D.
- Julio-Claudian - 14-68
- Flavian - 69-96
- Trajanic - 98-117
- Hadrianic - 117-138
- Antonine - 138-192
- Severin - 193-235
- Late Roman Empire/Late Antique Art - 235-476
- Judean Art - 600 B.C.-135 A.D.
- Celtic Art
- Early Style - ca. 450-ca. 350 B.C.
- Waldalgesheim Style - ca. 350-ca. 250 B.C.
- Sword and Plastic Styles - ca. 250-ca. 125 B.C.
- Oppida Period Art - ca. 125-ca. 50 B.C.
- Britain and Ireland before 600 A.D.
- Parthian and Sassanidic Art - 238 B.C.-637 A.D.
Non-Western Ancient Art
- China
- Neolithic – ca. 6,000–ca. 1,600 B.C.
- Shang Dynasty – 1,766–1,045 B.C.
- Zhou Dynasty – 1,045–256 B.C.
- Qin Dynasty – 221–206 B.C.
- Han Dynasty – 206 B.C.–220 A.D.
- Three Kingdoms Period – 220–280
- Western Jin Dynasty – 265–316
- Six Dynasties Period – 222–589
- Northern and Southern Dynasties Period – 310–589
- Japan
- Jomon – 4,500–200 B.C.
- Yayoi – 200 B.C.–200 A.D.
- Kofun – 200–500
- Indian Subcontinent
- Indus Valley – 4,000–1,800 B.C.
- Sarasvati-Sindhu Civilization - 3,000–1,500 B.C.
- Aryan India - 1,500–500 B.C.
- The Mauryan Empire - 321–233 B.C.
- Gandhara and Kushan School – 1st–3rd centuries A.D.
- The Gupta Dynasty - 320–510
- Africa
- Rock Art in Southern Africa
- Sahara - Bubalus Period – ca. 6,000–ca. 3,500 B.C.
- Lower Nubia – ca. 3,500–2,000 B.C.
- Kush – 2,000 B.C.–325 A.D.
- Pre-dynastic Kemet – to 3,050 B.C.
- The Nok Culture - 400 B.C.–200 A.D.
- Aksum - 350 B.C.–1,000 A.D.
- North America
- Mexico
- Olmec Art - 1,200–350 B.C.
- Zapotec Art – 1,400 B.C.–400 A.D.
- Huastec Art - ca. 1000 B.C.-1521 A.D.
- Mayan Art - 300 B.C.–800 A.D.
- South America
- Valdivian Art - ca. 4,000-ca. 1,500 B.C.
- Chavin Art - ca. 2,600-ca. 200 B.C.
- San Agustin - ca. 800 B.C.-ca. 1630 A.D.
- Moche and Nasca Art - ca. 200 B.C.-ca. 600 A.D.
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