AP Art History Eras/Dates

Global Prehistory

30,000–500 BCE

Sumerian

3500–2340 BCE

Akkadian

2340–2180 BCE

Babylonian

1792–1750 BCE

Assyrian

883–612 BCE

Persian

559–331 BCE

Ancient Egyptian

3000–1070 BCE

Archaic Greek

600–480 BCE

Classical Greek

480–323 BCE

Hellenistic Greek

323–30 BCE

Etruscan

700–100 BCE

Roman Republic

509–27 BCE

Roman Empire

27 BCE–300 CE

Early Christian

200–500 CE

Byzantine

500–1453 CE

Islamic

632–1250 CE

Migration / Hiberno-Saxon

500–800 CE

Romanesque

1000–1150 CE

Gothic

1140–1400 CE

Proto-Renaissance

1300–1400 CE

Early Italian Renaissance

1400–1500 CE

High Renaissance

1495–1520 CE

Northern Renaissance

1400–1600 CE

Mannerism

1520–1600 CE

Baroque

1600–1750 CE

Spanish Colonial

1500–1820 CE

Rococo

1700–1770 CE

Neoclassicism

1750–1830 CE

Romanticism

1780–1850 CE

Realism

1840–1870 CE

Impressionism

1870–1890 CE

Post-Impressionism

1885–1905 CE

Symbolism

1890–1910 CE

Art Nouveau

1890–1914 CE

Fauvism

1905–1910 CE

Expressionism

1905–1930s CE

Cubism

1907–1914 CE

Futurism

1909–1944 CE

Dada

1916–1924 CE

Surrealism

1924–1966 CE

Abstract Expressionism

1940s–1950s CE

Pop Art

1950s–1970s CE

Minimalism

1960s–1970s CE

Conceptual Art

1960s–1970s CE

Postmodernism & Contemporary

1970–1980 CE

Indigenous Americas

1000 BCE–1980 CE

African Art

1100–1980 CE

West and Central Asian Art

500 BCE–1980 CE

South, East, and Southeast Asian Art

300 BCE–1980 CE

Pacific Art

700–1980 CE

Global Contemporary

1980 CE–Present