Art Movement Timeline - Practical Pages

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Art Movement Timeline

Pre Renaissance ¨C 18th Century

Century

Time Line

Art Movement

Description

Artists &

examples

PrePre-Renaissance

5th Century to 16th

Gothic Art

Century A.D.

Rooted in religious

devotion, e.g.:

distinctive arched

1150 - 1230 AD

design of its churches,

Benedetto Antelami

its stained glass, and

its illuminated

manuscripts.

133

1336 - 1345 AD

Master of the Dominican

Effigies

1415 - 1440 AD

5th Century A.D. to 1453

Henri Bellechose

Byzantine Art

Byzantine art is the

art of the Byzantine

Empire, centered in

Constantinople (now

1290 - 1347 AD

Istanbul).

It was the art of the

Lippo Memmi

Orthodox church; the

painting of icons and

the decoration of

1370 - 1430 AD

AD

churches with frescoes

and mosaics.

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Andrei Rublev

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The Renaissance

Italy, 15th Century

The Early

Renaissance

1445 - 1510 AD

The Renaissance was a

period of great creative and

intellectual activity, during

which artists broke away

from the restrictions of

Byzantine Art.

Sandro Botticelli,

Throughout the 15th

century, artists studied the

1449 - 1494 AD

natural world in order to

perfect their understanding

of such subjects as

anatomy and perspective.

Domenico Ghirlandaio,

1397 ¨C 1475 AD

Paolo Uccello and

1422 ¨C 1492 AD

Piero della Francesca.

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Italy, Early 16th

The High

The High

Century

Renaissance

Renaissance was the

Some of the greatest

artists in history:

culmination of the

artistic developments

of the Early

Renaissance, and one

1475

1475 - 1564 AD

of the great explosions

Michelangelo Buonarroti,

of creative genius in

history.

1483 - 1520 AD

Raphael Sanzio and

1452 ¨C 1519 AD

Leonardo da Vinci.

1477 -1510 AD

Giorgione da

Castelfranco

Titan Vecellio

1430 ¨C 1516 AD

Giovanni Bellini

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15th-16th Centuries

The Northern

Centered in Germany

Renaissance

and the Netherlands,

Northern European

tradition of Gothic

1395 - 144

1441 AD

Art was greatly

affected by the

Jan van Eyck

technical and

philosophical

advancements of the

Renaissance in Italy.

Northern artists were

masters of technique,

1375 -1444 AD

Robert Campin

and their works are

marvels of exquisite

detail.

1400 - 1464 AD

Europe, Mid to Late

Rogier van der Weyden

Mannerism

16th Century.

Mannerism, the

artistic style which is

Raphael and

Michelangelo Buonarroti

considered to be a

period of technical

1495 ¨C 1540 AD

accomplishment but

also of formulaic,

theatrical and overly

Rosso Fiorentino,

stylized work.

Mannerist Art is

characterized by a

complex composition,

with muscular and

1494 ¨C 1556 Ad

elongated figures in

complex poses.

1503 - 1540 AD

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Pontormo,

Parmigianino.

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Europe, 17th Century

Baroque Art

Baroque art is less

complex, more

realistic and more

emotionally

1571 ¨C 1610 AD

affecting than

Mannerist art.

Caravaggio,

It was encouraged

by the Catholic

Church, seen as a

return to tradition

1598 ¨C 1680 AD

and spirituality.

Gianlorenzo Bernini

1560 ¨C 1609 AD

Annibale Carracci,

1577 -1640 AD

Peter Paul Rubens,

16061606-1669 AD

Rembrandt,

Vermeer

1632 ¨C 1675 AD

1599 ¨C 1660 AD

Vel¨¢zquez.

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