Art Periods
See also:  [Art Textbooks]
           [The Flying Gallop] (history of the image)
                  [Art Movements]
                  [(art) concepts]
                  [Art History (index)]
                  [Time Line]

The CANNON as it has been HANDED DOWN, in the "western way"

or:  [A certain Skeptic's view]

The Usual Suspects

Primitivism 

Mesopotamia  USB-A + AE-AP = MESOPOTAMIA
   Uruk/Ur
   Sumer
   Babylon
   Assyria

   Akkad
   Elam
   Anatolia
   Persia

Aegean
   Cyclades
   Crete 
   Minoan
   Mycenaean

Ancient Egypt
   Kusian Art (Nubia)

Scythian Art

Ancient Siberian Art

Persian

Classical Greece



Medieval (c. 400-1500) (general notes)
Early Medieval (c.400-750)
Romanesque Medieval (1000c-1100c)

Proto Renaissance (1100-1200)

Gothic  (general notes)
Early Gothic (1140-1194)
High Gothic (1194-1248)
Late Gothic (1300c-1500c)

Renaissance (general notes)
Early Renaissance (1400-1500)
The HIGH Renaissance (1400-1600)
Late Renaissance (1600 &ff)