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Gregorian Chant Byzantine Art

Middle Ages
troubadours and
5AD - 1453
trouvères

Romanesque
Style
6th – 10th Century

Maria Laach Abbey,

Germany

Gothic Style
12th – 16th Century

Façade of Reims
Cathedral, France
Flemish Josquin des Sandro Botticelli
Renaissance
Prez Piero della Francesca
1420 -1600
English madrigal -
John Dowland,
William Byrd,
Thomas Morley
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Michelangelo
High
Buonarroti,
Renaissance Raphael Sanzio
1475 - 1564

Leonardo da Vinci.
Giorgione da
Castelfranco
Titan Vecellio,
Giovanni Bellini, Jan
van Eyck Robert
Campin Rogier van
der Weyden Rosso
Fiorentino, Pontormo,
Parmigianino

Johann Sebastian
Baroque
Bach
1600 - 1750
Claudio Monteverdi.
The instrumental
concerto Antonio Caravaggio,
Vivaldi. Gianlorenzo Bernini
Harpsichord music Annibale Carracci,
Vocal and choral Peter Paul Rubens,
music George Frideric Rembrandt, Vermeer
Handel. Velázquez.

Rococo
1715 – 1770

Jean-Honore
Fragonard, François
Boucher,, Jean-Antoine
Watteau
Giovanni Battista
Tiepolo.
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Symphonies, sonatas, Architects Robert

Neo-
and string quartets Smirke Robert Adam
great composers of Classicism Sculptors Antonio
Viennese school: 1750 - 1820 Canova, Jean-
Franz Joseph Haydn, Antoine Houdon,
1776 Wolfgang Bertel Thorvaldsen,
Amadeus Mozart, Painters Jean August
1770 Ludwig van D. Ingres, Jacques-
Beethoven Louis David, Anton
Raphael Mengs
1779 Viennese Romanticism
composer Franz
1820 - 1900
Schubert
1809 German
masters Felix
Mendelssohn and John Constable,
Robert Schumann Caspar David
Polish pianist Friedrich Joseph
Frédéric Chopin M.W. Turner
French Hector Berlioz William Blake
1811 Hungarian Franz Hudson River School
Liszt Thomas Cole,
Opera composer Carl Frederic Edwin
Maria von Weber Church
1813 Italian Bel canto
opera Giuseppe Verdi
1813 German opera
Richard Wagner
Late Romantic
composers German- Albert Bierstadt

born Johannes The Arts & Crafts

Brahms Movement

1840 Russian Peter William Morris

Ilyich Tchaikovsky Edward Burne-Jones

1841 Antonín Dvorak Dante Gabriel

1857 Edward Rossetti,

Elgar English
composer
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Realism
Mid 19th Century

John Singleton
Copley's, Thomas
Eakins, Henry
Ossawa Tanner

Impressionism
France
1860 – 1880

Claude Monet,
Alfred Sisley
Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, Camille
Pissarro, Frederic
Bazille, Edgar Degas,
Gustave Caillebotte,
Edouard Manet,
Mary Cassatt

Post Paul Gauguin Paul

Cezanne
Impressionism
France
1880 - 1900

Vincent van Gogh

Henri Rousseau
Henri de Toulouse-
Lautrec
Pointilism

Georges Seurat, Paul

Signac Henri-
Edmond Cross
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1860 Gustav Mahler

Modernism
Austrian composer
1862 French composer
Claude Debussy
Hungarian composer
Béla Bartók Claude Monet’s

1860 Gustav Mahler ‘Impression, Sunrise’

1864 Richard
Strauss German
composer
1865 Jean
Sibelius Finnish
composer
1872 Ralph
Vaughan Williams
English composer Van Gogh’s
1873 Sergei Sunflowers
Rachmaninov
1874 Arnold
Schoenberg
Italian composer
Giacomo Puccini
1875 Maurice Ravel
French composer
1906 Russian
composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
1882 Igor Stravinsky
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1907 Arnold Expressionism

Schoenberg 1908 - 1921
1891 Sergei Albert Marquet
Fauvism
Prokofiev Russian Andre Derain
France
composer Maurice de
1898 – 1908
1908 Olivier Vlaminck
Messiaen French
composer

Henri Matisse

Cubism
Europe
1908 - 1920

Pablo Picasso
Georges Braque
Roger de la Fresnaye
Juan Gris Paul
Cézanne

Dada
Europe
1916 -1924

Jean Arp
Francis
Picabia Marcel
Duchamp
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Bauhaus
Germany
1919 -1933

Walter Gropius
Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe Lyonel
Feininger
Oskar Schlemmer
Johannes Itten
Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee
Josef Albers
Laszlo Moholy-
Nagy
Anni Albers
1925 Pierre Boulez
Art Deco
French composer and
1920 -1930
conductor

William Van Alen

Tamara de
Lempicka
Erte Viktor
Schreckengost
Pierre-Felix Fix-
Masseau
1934 Peter Maxwell
Surrealism
Davies English
Europe
composer
1924 – 1950

Salvador Dali
Paul Nash Man
Ray Andre
Masson Kay Sage
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psychedelic rock
Modern
Electroacoustic music
and Post
Modern Piet ondrian Theo
late 1960’s van Doesburg

Abstract
Expressionism
New York
1946 – 1960 Jackson Pollock
Willem de Kooning
Sam Francis Franz
Kline Mark
Rothko Kenneth
Noland

Op Art
1950’s – 1960’s

Victor Vasarely
M.C. Escher Bridget
Riley

Pop Art
1950’s – 1960’s

Andy Warhol
Roy
Lichtenstein Wayne
Thiebaud James
Rosenquist
1960 Krzysztof
Minimal
Penderecki composes
his Threnody for the Art
Victims of Hiroshima 1960’s

Barnett Newman
Ellsworth
Kelly Dan Flavin
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Richard Estes
Photo
Realism
1960’s – 1970’s

Chuck Close
Robert Bechtle
1979 Prototype
Conceptual
Compact Disc system
1987 John Adams’ Art
Nixon in China
1990 American
composer Aaron
Copland

Performance
Art

Joseph Beuys in 1978

- Every person an
artist

Neo- German Expressionist

painters--Emil
Expressionism
Nolde, Max
late 1970’s – mid
Beckmann, George
1980’s
Grosz, Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner
James Ensor and
Edvard Munch
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James Faure Walker,

Computer
Manfred Mohr,
Art Ronald Davis,
1980’s – till today

Joseph Nechvatal,
Matthias Groebel,
George Grie, Olga
Kisseleva, John
Lansdown, Perry
Welman, and Jean-
Pierre Hébert
Fredric Jameson
Post-Modern
Classicism
late 1960’s –
today
juxtaposition of old
and new

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