Outline of Art History - Medieval to Early Renaissance Art

Visual Arts Movements - 400-1400

Early Christian–Late Antique Art

Period of Persecution - 1st-century A.D.-325

Period of Recognition - 325-ca. 526

Byzantine Art

Early Byzantine Art

Justinian Era - First Flowering - ca. 526-ca. 725

Iconoclasm - 726-843

Late Byzantine Art

Second Flowering - ca. 843-ca. 1100

Third Flowering - ca. 1297-ca. 1390

Islamic Art - 622 -1492

Early Medieval Art

Art of the Migration Period in Europe

The Visigoths - 1st-8th-centuries

The Picts - mid 1st-9th-centuries

The Franks (Merovingian Art) - 5th-8th-centuries

The Anglo-Saxons - 5th-century-1066

The Burgundians - 413-532

The Ostrogoths - ca. 488-526

The Lombards - 568-774

Non-Migratory/Pre-Romanesque Art

Hiberno-Saxon (Insular) Art - ca. 500-ca. 1000

Carolingian Art - 750-900

Ottonian Art - 900-1002

Romanesque Art - ca. 1000–ca. 1150

Gothic Art

French Gothic Art

   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 - ca. 1200–ca. 1400

Non-Western Art - 1400-1880

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

Kamakura - 1185-1333

Muromachi-Ashikaga - 1392-1573

Kose School - 9th-15th-centuries

Indian Subcontinent

Chalukyan Art in the Deccan - 500-650

Rashtrakuta Dynasty - mid 8th-late 10th-century

Pallavas

Cholas - 897-mid 13th-century

Hoysalas - 12th-14th-centuries

North America

Toltec Art - ca. 900-ca. 1200

Mixtec Art - ca. 1200-1521

Tarascan Art - ca. 1300-1521

South America

Huari-Tiahuanaco - ca. 600-ca. 1000

Manteño Art - ca. 800-1500