Annotated Mona Lisa Timeline

A Crash Course in Art History Yr. 1

(This is an example page of what the completed timeline should look like)

Timeline Art Movement Description Artists & Examples

1. sculpture -
bone, ivory,
stone, antlers
2. caves -
pictures of
Prehistoric: The bison, deer,
25,000 - 3500 B. C.
Beginning horses, cattle,
mammoths,
boars cave painting at
3. Stonehenge - Lascaux, France
worship of the
sun or moon

1. Mesopotamians
- sun dried
bricks
Mesopotamia: The 2. Palace of
3500 - 650 B.C.
Architects Sargon II - 25
acres, 200
rooms, ziggurat
temple Bruegel the Elder,
Tower of Babel 1563

1. paintings -
formulaic,
front view eye
and shoulders ,
profile view of
head, arms and
legs
2. statues -
Egypt: The Art of granite and
2610 - 1350 B. C.
Immortality diorite. Frontal
and
bisymmetrical
pose.
3. Tutankhamen's
tomb - gold was Mask of King
prevailing Tutankhamen
decorating
motif

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 Annotated Mona Lisa Timeline

A Crash Course in Art History Yr. 1

Timeline Art Movement Description Artists & Examples

Prehistoric: The
Beginning

Mesopotamia: The
Architects

Egypt: The Art of

Immortality

This art history timeline is to be used in conjunction with the readings in the Annotated
Mona Lisa. This timeline will take you into about 100 pages of the book and should be
completed in one year. It can be completed in one semester if more time is dedicated to
art history.

How to use this timeline:

1. Enter the dates into the Timeline.
2. Outline a few key points from the art movement that you read about under the
Description section.
3. Write the name of the artist under the example picture given. Also, add other
artists that interest you from this time period.

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Timeline Art Movement Description Artists & Examples

Greece: They
Invented a Lot More
Than the Olympics

Rome: The
Organizers

Pre-Columbian Art of
the Americas

African Art: The

First Cubists

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Timeline Art Movement Description Artists & Examples

The Middle Ages:

The Reign of Religion

Golden Age of
Byzantine Art

Romanesque Art:
Stories in Stone

Gothic Art: Height

and Light

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Timeline Art Movement Description Artists & Examples

The Rebirth of Art:

The Top Four
Renaissance and
Breakthroughs
Baroque
1.
2.
The Renaissance:
3.
The Beginning of
4.
Modern Painting

Leondardo da Vinci, Mona

Lisa

The Early
Renaissance

Leonardo, "In the Womb," c. 1510

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Timeline Art Movement Description Artists & Examples

The Italian
Renaissance

The Northern
Renaissance

The German
Renaissance

Mannerism and the

Late Renaissance

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Timeline Art Movement Description Artists & Examples

The Spanish
Renaissance

Baroque: The
Ornate Age

Rembrandt, self portrait

Italian Baroque

Flemish Baroque

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Timeline Art Movement Description Artists & Examples

Dutch Baroque

English Baroque

Spanish Baroque

French Baroque

Rococo

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Timeline Art Movement Description Artists & Examples

The Nineteenth
Century: Birth of
the "Isms"

Claude Monet

Neoclassicism:
Roman Fever

French
Neoclassicism

American
Neoclassicism

Goya: Man Without

an "ism"

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Timeline Art Movement Description Artists & Examples

Romanticism: The
Power of Passion

French Romanticism

English
Romantacism

Genre Painting: The

American Dream in
Action

American
Romantacism

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Timeline Art Movement Description Artists & Examples

Realism

French Realism

American Realism

Architecture for the

Industrial Age

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Timeline Art Movement Description Artists & Examples

Art Nouveau

Birth of Photography

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