Outline of painting history

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the history of painting:

The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts and artwork created by pre-historic artists, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted, tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, continents, and millennia, the history of painting consists of an ongoing river of creativity that continues into the 21st century. Until the early 20th century it relied primarily on representational, religious and classical motifs, after which time more purely abstract and conceptual approaches gained favor.

Developments in Eastern painting historically parallel those in Western painting, in general, a few centuries earlier. African art, Jewish art, Islamic art, Indonesian art, Indian art, Chinese art, and Japanese art each had significant influence on Western art, and vice versa.

Prehistoric painting

Ancient painting

History of western painting

Medieval painting

Painting during the Renaissance

Baroque painting

18th-century painting

19th-century painting

20th-century painting

This list is in random order. Date given is for the start of the style or movement.

21st-century painting

History of eastern painting

See also

  • History of Art: From Paleolithic Age to Contemporary Art Archived 19 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine
  • Kandinsky Kandinsky (translated by Michael T. H. Sadler), Wassily. "Concerning the Spiritual in Art". mnstate.edu. Archived from the original on 28 May 2010. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History
  • Ancient Roman Wall-Painting
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