Use Gombrich for narrative and DK for visual overview.
No-decision art-history path
11. Prehistoric art
22. Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
33. Ancient Greece
44. Ancient Rome
55. Early Christian and Byzantine art
66. Medieval / Romanesque / Gothic
77. Early Renaissance
88. High Renaissance
99. Mannerism
1010. Baroque
1111. Rococo
1212. Neoclassicism
1313. Romanticism
1414. Realism
1515. Impressionism
1616. Post-Impressionism
1717. Symbolism
1818. Art Nouveau
1919. Fauvism
2020. Expressionism
2121. Cubism
2222. Futurism
2323. Dada
2424. Surrealism
2525. Abstract Expressionism
2626. Pop Art
2727. Minimalism
2828. Conceptual Art
2929. Contemporary art
3030. Global and non-Western art histories
Art period page template
1Period / movement:
2Approximate dates:
3Main places:
4Key artists:
5Key works:
6What came before:
7What changed:
8Visual features:
9Typical subjects:
10Relationship to the human figure:
11One work to study:
12My drawing lesson from this period: