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Art history

Before our era

https://archive.org/details/duraeuropascross00brod

https://thereaderwiki.com/en/Dura-Europos_synagogue

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/

The Middle Ages

Between Antiquity and the Renaissance

Giotto - forerunner of the Renaissance

Dante  1265-1321Florence Rome

 

Gothicism1350-1400

  • Ghiberti 1378-1455 Porta del Paradiso  - The Baptistery in Florence

  • From Angelico 1387-1455

  • Fabriano 1385-1427

The art of printing, translation  and literacy enabled lay people to read the Bible.

Middle Ages to Renaissance

From feudal society to cities and the bourgeoisie

From God in the center to man in the center

From objective to subjective mefemale vision

Nevertheless, God became closemore the people of this time - the art of printing, translation  and literacy made it possible for lay people to read the Bible.

The Renaissance 1400-1600

Trade - trade routes - voyages of discovery - exchange of art and culture

Classicism Monumentalism Idealism Perspectivism Illusionism Naturalism Mannerism 

New interest in ancient art. Man in the center. True to nature. 

The Ungrene Renaissance 1400-1492

  • Brunelleschi 1377 - 1476 - architecture The dome of Santa Maria del Fiore

  • Donatello 1386-1466 - sculpture (David)

  • Masaccio 1401-1428 - painting

Fabriano 1385-1427

From Angelico 1387-1455

The right-wing Renaissance 1492-1527

  • Andrea del Verrocchio 1435-1488

  • Sandro Botticelli 1445-1510

  • Leonardoda Vinci 1452-1519

  • MichelangeloBuonarroti 1475-1564

  • Raphael(Raffaello Sanzio) 1483-1520

Late Renaissance - Mannerism 1530-1590

  • Vasari 1511-1574 Painter, architect and art historian

  • Titian 1488-1576

  • Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528

  • Barocci (1535-1612)

Baroque and Rococo 1600-1800

  • Caravaggio 1571-1610

  • Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640

  • Rembrandt(1606-1669)

  • Murillo 1617 - 1682

  • Caravaggio 1571-1610, Rome

  • Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640, Flemish, Dutch Golden Age

  • Rembrandt (1606-1669), Netherlands

  • Esteban Murillo 1617 - 1682, Spain
     

  • Jacob Jordaens, 1593-1678, Flemish

  • Gerard van Honthorst, 1592-1656, Dutch Golden Age

  • Johannes Vermeer, 1632-1675, Dutch Golden Age

  • Antonis van Dyck, 1599-1641, Flemish

  • Hieronymus Bosch ?-1516, Dutch

  • Nicolaes Maes, 1634-1693, Dutch

  • Matthias Stom, 1600-1650, Dutch

Secularism 1650-1700

Humanism 1650-1750

Neoclassicism 1750-1850

Romanticism 1800-1860

Modernism 1860 -

Functionalism

Realism

Naturalism

Impressionism

Art Nouveau

Cubism

Futurism

Dadaism

Constructivism

Surrealism

Expressionism

Existentialism

Post-modernism 1950 to our time

Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890, Post-Impressionist, Netherlands

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