Era Medieval

(476-1400)

Ars antiqua (1170–1310) Ars nova (1310–1377) Ars subtilior (1360–1420). Painting – Detail of The Effects of Good Government, a fresco in the City Hall of Siena by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1338.

Renascência

(1400-1600)

Painting – Ignudo fresco from 1509 on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo

Barroco

(1600-1750)

Painting – Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velázquez

Era Clássica

(1730-1820)

Painting – Oedipus and the Sphinx (1808), Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres

Era Romântica

(1815-1910)

Painting – Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1827, taking its Orientalist subject from a play by Lord Byron

Séculos XX e XXI

(1901-1975)

Impressionism (1890–1925) that also overlaps from the late-19th century Expressionism (1908–1925) Neoclassicism (1920–1950), predominantly in the inter-war period. Painting – Paul Cézanne, The Card Players, 1892–93, oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm, Royal Family of Qatar

Pós Modernismo e Contemporâneas

(1975-presente)