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B.C. 15,000 |
Cave Paintings |
Ancient |
Charcoal Dirt |
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5000 |
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Ancient |
Pictographic writing; Pottery wheel; Early paints |
Civilizations of: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Minoan |
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1000 |
Dipylon vase |
Egyptian |
Papyrus |
Jerusalem founded |
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400 |
Acropolis; Grecian urns |
Greek |
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Greece's Golden Age; Alexander the Great |
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200 |
Nike of Samonthrace |
Roman |
Chinese invent paper; Quill pen |
Rome dominates Near East |
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A.D. 100 |
Pompeii wall art |
Roman |
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Peak of Roman Empire |
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400 |
Pantheon |
Byzantine |
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Rome falls |
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600 |
Lindisfarne Gospels |
Byzantine |
Papermaking introduced from China |
Charlemagne |
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1000 |
Bayeux Tapestry |
Romanesque |
Paper first manufactured in Europe; Tempera; Fresco; Ink |
Normans invade England |
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1250 |
Chartres master builder; Giotto; Lorenzetti |
Gothic |
Revival of paintmaking |
Magna Carta |
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1400 |
Botticelli; da Vinci; Piero; Lippi |
Early Renaissance; Linear perspective |
Printing press; Oil paint; Pastel |
Holy Roman Empire; da Medici rules Florence; Colombus reaches Americas |
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1500 |
Michelangelo; Raphael; Titian; El Greco; Bruegel; Arcimboldo |
High Renaissance; Northern Renaissance |
First use of canvas |
Elizabeth I; Magellan circles globe |
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1600 |
Rubens; Rembrandt; Poussin; Leyster |
Baroque |
Modern pencel invented |
Galileo; British colonize America |
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1700 |
Boucher; Watteau; Hogarth |
Rococo |
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Steam engine invented Franklin experiments with electricity |
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1750 |
Fragonard; David |
Neoclassism |
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American Revolution French Revolution |
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1800 |
Goya; Ingres; Constable |
Romanticism; Realism |
Photography; Watercolors |
Louisiana Purchase; Queen Victoria; Irish famine; Railroads spread |
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1850 |
Bierstadt |
Pre - Raphaelites |
Tube paints; Fountain pen |
U.S. Civil War; Evolution theory; Sanford founded |
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1875 |
Cassatt; Gauguin; Van Gogh; Monet; Morisot; Seurat |
Impressionism; Post - Impressionism |
Ballpoint pen |
Colonialism peaks; Telephone invented; Light bulb invented; Automobile invented |
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1900 |
Hartley; MacDonald - Wright; Dali; Lange |
Abstraction; Fauvism; Cubism; Futurism; Dada; Surrealism |
Acrylic paint; Crayon |
Airplane invented; World War I; Theory of Relativity; Great Depression; Word War II; Atomic Bomb; |
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1950 |
Albers; Pollock; de Kooning; Rothko; Stella; Warhol |
Abstract Expression; Pop Art; Op Art |
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Vietnam War; Apollo moon landings; Fall of Soviet Union; AIDS virus |
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