Prehistoric Art (~40,000 BCE – 4,000 BCE)

• Cave & Rock Art (Global, ~40,000 BCE–Present)
• Venus Figurines (Europe, ~30,000 BCE–10,000 BCE)
• Petroglyphs & Pictographs (Worldwide, ~10,000 BCE–Present)

Ancient Art (~4,000 BCE – 400 CE)

• Mesopotamian Art (3500 BCE–539 BCE)
• Egyptian Art (3100 BCE–30 BCE)
• Greek & Hellenistic Art (850 BCE–31 BCE)
• Roman Art (500 BCE–476 CE)
• Persian Art (550 BCE–651 CE)
• Early Buddhist & Hindu Art (India, 3rd century BCE–Present)
• Han Dynasty Art (China, 206 BCE–220 CE)
• Olmec, Maya, & Aztec Art (Mesoamerica, 1500 BCE–1500 CE)

Medieval Art (400–1400)

• Byzantine Art (330–1453)
• Islamic Art (7th century–Present)
• Romanesque Art (1000–1150)
• Gothic Art (1150–1400)
• Ethiopian Christian Art (4th century–Present)
• Indigenous American Art (Various Nations) (Ancient–Present)

Renaissance (1400–1600)

• Early Renaissance (1400–1500)
• High Renaissance (1490–1527)
• Venetian Renaissance (1430–1550)
• Northern Renaissance (1430–1600)
• Mannerism (1527–1600)

Baroque & Rococo (1600–1780)

• Baroque (1600–1750)
• Rococo (1699–1780)
• Mughal Art & Miniatures (1526–1858)

Neoclassicism & Romanticism (1750–1850)

• Neoclassicism (1750–1850)
• Romanticism (1780–1850)
• Hudson River School (1825–1875)
• Gothic Revival (1740s–1900s) (Cross-Period Movement: Romanticism → Neoclassicism → Victorian Art)

Realism & Pre-Impressionism (1840–1885)

• Realism (1848–1900)
• Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848–1900)
• The Ten (American Tonalism) (1897–1917)
• Ashcan School (1891–1918)

Impressionism & Post-Impressionism (1860s–1914)

• Impressionism (1865–1890)
• Post-Impressionism (1886–1914)
• Pointillism (Neo-Impressionism, 1886–1910)

Modernism (1900–1970s) (Umbrella period covering multiple avant-garde movements.)

• Fauvism (1905–1910)
• Expressionism (1905–1939)
• Cubism (1907–1914)
• Futurism (1909–1944)
• Suprematism & Constructivism (1913–1930s)
• De Stijl (1917–1931)
• Harlem Renaissance Art (1920s–1940s)
• Dadaism (1916–1924)
• Surrealism (1924–1966) (Cross-Period Movement: Dadaism → Modernism → Early Contemporary Art)
• Precisionism (1915–1940s)
• Bauhaus & Modernist Architecture (1919–1933)

Abstract & Pop Art Movements (1940s–1970s)

• Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s)
• Color Field Painting (1948–1968)
• Op Art (1950s–1960s)
• Pop Art (1950s–1960s)
• Arte Povera (1960s–1970s)
• Minimalism (1960s–Present) (Cross-Period Movement: Modernism → Postmodernism → Contemporary Art)
• Conceptual Art (1960s–Present) (Cross-Period Movement: Postmodernism → Contemporary Art)

Postmodern & Contemporary Art (1970–Present) (Many movements exist simultaneously.)

• Postmodernism (1970s–Present)
• Deconstructivism (1980s–Present)
• Neo-Expressionism (1980s–1990s)
• Street Art & Graffiti (1980s–Present)
• Digital & New Media Art (1990s–Present)
• AI & Generative Art (2010s–Present)