Timeline of Contextual Studies

Academic Art was the period in history in which official institutions were set up in order to both teach and exhibit art that was favoured b...

Prehistoric Art refers to the period at which art pre dates our basic understanding of history and civilization, beyond any knowledge of ar...

In the period of history leading up to the French Revolution, the Rococo period had superseded the Baroque era and replaced it's darker ...

Byzantine Art was initiated by the continuation of the eroded Roman Empire in the Middle Ages. Predominantly Greek speaking, the empire was ...

Gothic Art from the period of the 12th Century to the end of the 15th Century, was of influential importance to the Early Renaissance in a r...

The Italian Renaissance, from the 14th to 17th Century was the introduction to the Early Renaissance. The word Renaissance is the Italia...

Cubism was the period pioneered by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque between 1907 and 1914 as inspired by the earlier work of...

Ancient Near Eastern art encompasses the area of Mesopotamia, modernly the region of Iraq and Syria. Traditionally, Iraq is thought to be wh...

The term Baroque was originally used as a critical term in order to insult the movement and discourage artists from painting using...

Realism left behind the Apollonian idealistic confines of art making in order to document real ideas, real issues and often depicted the sub...