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Outline of Art History - Renaissance to Early Modern Art
1400 - 1880
 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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        Fifteenth-Century Italian Art  -  1400 - 1500  

       Sixteenth-Century Italian Art  -  1475 – 1590

       The Renaissance in Northern Europe  -  1325 - 1600  

  • International Gothic  -  1380 - 1430
  • Bohemian School  - 1350
  • Mälardal School  - c. 1400 -1460s
  • Tierp School  - c. 1460 - 1500
  • Ghent-Bruges School  - 1475 - 1550
  • Antwerp Mannerism  - 1500 - 1530
  • Danube School  -  c. 1500 - 1550
  • The Little Masters  - c. 1500 - 1550
  • Fontainebleau School  -  1530 - c. 1610
  • Frankenthal School  -  c. 1586 - 1620s
  • Mannerism in the Late Renaissance  - 1520 - 1600

      Baroque Art  - 1600 - 1750

  • Utrecht Caravaggisti   -  1620 - 1630
  • The Schildersbent   -  1620 - 1720
  • Leiden 'Fine' Painters  -  c.1630 - c.1760
  • Delft School  -  1650 - 1700
  • Rubénisme  -  c. 1670 - 1680

      18th Century Western Art

  • Rococo   -  1700 - 1750
  • Neo-Classicism  - 1750 - 1880

      19th Century Western Art

  • Neo-Classicism  - 1750 - 1880
  • Les Primitifs  -  1797 - 1803
  • Romanticism  -  1800 - 1880
  • The Nazarenes  -  c. 1820 - late 1840s
  • Purismo  -  c. 1820 - 1860s
  • The Ancients  -  1820s - 1830s
  • Düsseldorf School  -  mid 1820s - 1860s
  • Realism  - 1830s - 1870
  • The Pre-Raphaelites  -  1848 - 1854
  • The Hudson River School  -  1850s - c. 1880
  • Impressionism  -  1863 - c. 1885
  • Aesthetic Movement  -  1870s - 1880s
  • The Hague School  -  1870 - 1900
       Non-western Art  -  1400  – 1880 
  • Asia
  •     China
  •         Ming Dynasty  -  1368 - 1662
  •             Southern School  -  c. late 16th - early 17th centuries
  •         Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty  -  1662 - 1912
  •     Japan
  •         Muromachi - Ashikaga  -  1392 - 1573
  •         Momoyama Period  -  1573 - 1603
  •         Edo Period  -  1603 - 1868
  •     India
  •         Muslim Rule  -  c. 1000 - 1757
  • Africa
  • North America
  •     Aztec Art  -  c. 1400 - 1520
  • South America
  •     Inca  -  c. 1400 - 1534
  •     Cuzco School  -  late 16th century - early 1800s
  • Oceania

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