Ancient and medieval. -- Prehistoric art -- Egyptian art -- Greek and Roman art -- Early Christian and Byzantine -- The Dark Ages -- Romanesque and Gothic -- Renaissance and mannerism. -- Birth of the Renaissance -- Flowering of the Renaissance -- High Renaissance -- Venetian Renaissance -- Northern Renaissance -- Italian mannerism -- Mannerism outside Italy -- Baroque to neoclassicism. -- Italian Baroque -- Flemish and Spanish Baroque -- Dutch Baroque -- French Baroque -- French rococo -- Rococo outside France -- Neoclassicism -- The 19th century. -- Romanticism -- Romantic landscape -- Pre-Raphaelites -- Realism -- Impressionism -- Post-impressionism -- Symbolism -- The modern age. -- Expressionism -- Cubism -- Birth of abstract art -- Dada and surrealism -- Abstract expressionism -- Pop and op art -- Recent abstraction -- The figurative tradition;Using a visual timeline, tells the story of every major art style, movement by movement, by defining each artistic style and putting seminal works of genius in their historical context
