| Pre-Renaissance | BY | Byzantine Art (400's-1453) |
|---|---|---|
| EM | Early Medieval (520's-1020's) | |
| RQ | Romanesque (1020's-1200's) | |
| GO | Gothic Art (1200's-1500's) | |
| Renaissance [RA] (1400's-1600's) |
ER | The Early Renaissance (1400-1500 : Italy) |
| HR | The High Renaissance (1500-1520-25 : Italy) | |
| LR | The Late Renaissance (1520-25-1600 : Italy [marked by the death of Raphael)]) | |
| NR | The Northern Renaissance (1400's-1600's : Northern France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland) | |
| MN | Mannerism (1550's-1620's) | |
| CL | Classicism | |
| XVII Century | BQ | Baroque (1600's-1700's : Europe) |
| XVIII-XIX Century | RO | Rococo (1715-1774 : Europe) |
| NC | Neoclassicism (1750's-1860's) | |
| RM | Romanticism [Anti-classicism] (1750's-1860's) | |
| AC | Academic Art | |
| XIX-XX Century | HS | Hudson River School (1835-1870 : America) |
| PR | Pre-Raphaelites (1848-late 19th : Britain) | |
| AT | Arts and Crafts Movement (Late 19th : Britain) | |
| RE | Realism (1830's-1920's) | |
| BS | Realism: Barbizon School (Mid 19th : France) | |
| SY | Symbolism (Late 19th) | |
| IM | Impressionism (1860's-1900's : centered in France) | |
| PI | Post-Impressionism (1880's-1900 : France) | |
| NB | Post-Impressionism: Nabi (1891-1899 : Paris) | |
| PT | Post-Impressionism: Pointillism (Divisionism; Neo-Impressionism) (1880's : France) | |
| XIX-XX Century: Design |
AT | Arts and Crafts Movement (Late 19th : Britain) |
| AN | Art Nouveau (1890's-1910's) | |
| GA | Golden Age of Illustration (1880's-1920's) | |
| AD | Art Deco (1920's-1930's) | |
| XX Century | FV | Fauvism (1898-1908) |
| XX Century: North American Realism |
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| UR | Urban Realism (1900-1940's : America) | AH | Ashcan School (1908-c.1913 : New York) |
| AS | American Scene (1931-1940 : America) | |
| AR | American Regionalism (1930's : America) | |
| SO | Social Realism (1920's-1940's : America) | |
| G7 | The Group of Seven (1920-1960's : Canada) | |
| MR | Magic Realism (1943-1950's : America) | |
| CT | Contemporary Realism (Late ~1960's- : America) | |
| XX-XXI Century: Modernism |
EX | Expressionism (c.1905-1940's : centered in Germany) |
| DB | Expressionism: Die Brücke (The Bridge) (1905-1913 : Dresden) | |
| DR | Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) (1911-1914 : Munich) | |
| DS | Expressionism: Die Neue Sachlichkeit (The New Objectivity) (1918-1933 : Germany) | |
| BH | Expressionism: Bauhaus (1919-1933 : Germany) | |
| CB | Cubism (1908-1920 : Europe) | |
| FT | Futurism (1909-1914-1920's : Italy) | |
| EA | Early American Modernism (1910-1935 : America) | |
| DD | Dada (1916-1924 : Europe) | |
| NP | Neo-Plasticism (1920-1940 : Holland) | |
| SR | Surrealism (1924-1950's : Europe) | |
| PC | Precisionism / Cubic Realism (1920's-1930's : America) | |
| CR | Cubic Realism / Precisionism (1920's-1930's : America) | |
| AD | Art Deco (1920's-1930's) | |
| HL | Harlem Renaissance (1920's-1930's : America) | |
| IT | International Style (Architecture) (1925's-1970's) | |
| AE | Abstract Expressionism (1946-1960 : centered in New York) | |
| PA | Pop Art (1950's-1960's) | |
| OP | Op (Optical) Art (1950's-1960's) | |
| PH | Photorealism (1960's-1970's) and other photographies | |
| MM | Minimalism(1960's-1970's) | |
| PF | Performance Art (1960's-) | |
| CP | Conceptual Art (1970's-) | |
| NE | Neo-Expressionism (1980's-) | |
| PM | Postmodernism (1980's-) | |
| Others / Subject Matter | LS | Landscape |
| VA | Video Art | |
| IA | Installation Art | |
| AF | African Art | |
| AM | American Art | |
| AA | Ancient Art | |
| AI | Asian Art | |
| IS | Islamic Art | |
| ME | Middle Eastern Art | |
| MS | Meso & South American Art | |
| OC | Oceanian Art | |
| SA | Spanish Art | |
| FA | Folk Art |