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Outline of Art History - Medieval to Early Renaissance Art
400 - 1400
 Outline of Art History
• Part 1: Ancient Art
• Part 2: Medieval Art
• Part 3: Renaissance Art
• Part 4: Modern Art
• Part 5: Contemporary Art
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• Medieval Art Resources

        Early Christian – Late Antique  

  • Period of Persecution - 1st century - 325
  • Period of Recognition - 325 - c.526

      Byzantine Art

  • Justinian Era - First Flowering - c. 526 - c. 725
  • Iconoclasm  -  726 - 843
  • Late Byzantine Art
  •     Second Flowering - c. 843 - c. 1100
  •     Third Flowering - c. 1297 - c. 1390

     Islamic Art  -  AD 622  - 1492

      Early Medieval Art

  • The Migration Period in Europe
  •     The Anglo-Saxons  - 5th century - 1066
  •     The Visigoths  -  1st - 8th centuries
  •     The Franks (Merovingian Art)  - 5th - 8th centuries
  •     The Ostrogoths  -  488 - 526
  •     The Lombards  -  568 - 774
  •     The Burgundians  -  413 - 532
  •     The Picts  -  mid 1st - 9th centuries
  • Hiberno-Saxon (Insular) Art  -  500 - c. 1000
  • Carolingian Art  - 750 - 900

       Romanesque Art  -  c. 1000 – c.1150

  • Ottonian Art  -  900 - 1002

      Gothic Art  -  1140 - 1500

  • French Gothic
  •     Early Gothic  -  1140 - 1194
  •     High Gothic  -  1194 - 1300
  •     Rayonnant Gothic  -  13th - 14th centuries
  •     Flamboyant Gothic  -  14th - 16th centuries
  • German Gothic  - 13th - 14th centuries
  • English Gothic  -  1179 - 16th century

        The Proto-Renaissance in Italy  -   c. 1200 – c. 1400

  • Campionesi  -  c.1150 - late 1300s
  • Stupor Mundi - Frederick II  - 1215 - 1250
  • The Great Interregnum  -  1252 - 1273
  • Babylonian Captivity  -  1309 - 1377
  • The Great Schism  -  1378 - 1417

       Non-western Art  -  400 – 1400

  • Asia
  •     China
  •         Six Dynasties Period  -  222 - 589
  •         Northern and Southern Dynasties Period  -  310 - 589
  •         Sui Dynasty  - 581 - 618
  •         T'ang Dynasty  -  618 - 907
  •         Five Dynasties Period  -  907 - 960
  •         Liao Dynasty  -  907 - 1125
  •         Sung (Song) Dynasty  -  960 - 1279
  •         Jin Dynasty  -  1115 - 1234
  •         Yuan Dynasty  -  1279 - 1368
  •    Japan
  •         Kofun  -  200 - 500
  •         Asuka  -  552 - 645
  •         Hakuho or Early Nara  -  645 - 710
  •         Nara  -  710 - 794
  •         Heian  -  794 - 1185
  •             Kose School  -  9th - 15th centuries
  •         Kamakura  -  1185 - 1333
  •         Muromachi - Ashikaga  -  1392 - 1573
  •    India
  •         Chalukyan Art in the Deccan  - 500 - 650
  •         Rashtrakuta Dynasty - mid 8th - late 10th century
  •         Pallavas
  •         Cholas  -  897 - mid-13th century
  •         Hoysalas  - 12th century - 14th century
  • Africa
  • North America
  •     Toltec Art  -  c. 900 - c. 1200
  •     Mixtec Art  -  c. 1200 - 1521
  •     Tarascan Art  -  c. 1300 - 1521
  • South America
  •     Huari - Tiahuanaco  -  c. 600 - c. 1000
  •     Manteño Art  -  c. 800 - 1500
  • Oceania

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