INTRODUCTION


ART THROUGH THE AGES




 


PART ONE





 

  (From Prehistoric to Romanesque  Art Map)
 

     TIMELINE

PREHISTORIC
&
ANCIENT ART

 
From the Paleolithic Age to the Pre-Classical Civilizations
 

Prehistoric Art

The Art of the Ancient Kingdoms

The Art of the Ancient East

Ancient  Aegean Art

 
 
Hellenic and Italic Civilizations

The Art of the Greeks

Italic Art

 

     SPOT ON LITERATURE: The Foundations of Western Literature
   see also: Greek and Roman Myths in Art
    see also: Homer  "Odyssey"  illustrations by John Flaxman
    see also EXPLORATION (in Russian): Homer  "Iliad "and "Odyssey"
    see also: Apuleius "The Golden Asse" illustrations by Jean de Bosschere, Martin Van Maele
    see also:
Longus "Daphnis and Chloe" illustrations by Marc Chagall

    BIBLE  (Old Testament and New Testament)
    see also: The Bible illustrations by Julius von Carolsfeld, Gustave Dore,
William Blake
    see also: David Roberts "A Journey in the Holy Land"

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     TIMELINE

THE ANCIENT WORLD FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO THE FOURTH CRUSADE

 
 An Art for Europe, Asia and Africa
 
Art of the Roman Empire

 
 
 
From Late Antiquity to the Romanesque


The Early Christians and their Art

Barbarian Art

Byzantine Art


   Collection: Russian Architecture and Russian Icons

From Carolingian to Romanesque Art

 
 
 
The Artistic Cultures of Asia and Africa

  
Persian and Islamic Art

The Indian Region and the Far East

Classical Art of sub-Saharan Africa
 
     SPOT ON LITERATURE: Classical Literature
    see also: Ovid "Metamorphoses", "The Art of Love" ill. by F. Chauveau, Le Mire, S. Dali

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     TIMELINE

FROM THE GREAT CITIES OF EUROPE TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD



The Triumph of the City

 

(Gothic Art Map)

Gothic Art

     EXPLORATION:
Revelations (Art of the Apocalypse by Nancy Grubb)
   
EXPLORATION:
Gothic Era ("Painting of the Gothic Era" by R. Suckale, M. Weniger)
  
EXPLORATION: Albrecht Durer
("Durer" by Wolfram Prinz)
   Collection:
The Bayeux Tapestry 
"Propaganda on cloth"
   Collection: Illuminated Manuscripts
   Collection:
Limbourg brothers ("Tres Riches Heures...")
   Collection:
Masters of the Gothic Art

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FROM THE GREAT CITIES OF EUROPE TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD


(Renaissance  Art Map)

The Early Renaissance  
 

  
EXPLORATION: Sandro Botticelli "Visual Poetry"
   see also:
Venus - The Evening Star

The High Renaissance and Mannerism
   
   EXPLORATION: Leonardo da Vinci ("The Genius of the Renaissance" by J. Gilbert)
  
see also: Monalisamania
   see also: Leda and the Swan - myth in art
  
Collection: Michelangelo
  
EXPLORATION: Hieronymus Bosch ("Between Heaven and Hell" by W. Bosing;
                        "The Life and works of H. Bosch" by Trewin Copplestone)

 
 
EXPLORATION: Pieter Bruegel the Elder ("Peasants, Fools and Demons" by R-M. and R.Hagen)
  
see also: Netherlandish Proverbs (by Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
  
EXPLORATION: Arcimboldo ("Giuseppe Arcimboldo" by Werner Kriegeskorte)
    Giorgio Vasari
"Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects"
   see also:
Theodore De Bry Indians of North America

School of Fontainebleau

     SPOT ON LITERATURE: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
  
see also:
"Arturian Legend"  (Pre-Raphaelite's and Beardsley's Vision)
    see also:
Dante "The Divine Comedy" (Illustrations by G. Dore, W. Blake, S. Dali)
   
 see also:
Botticelli (Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy)
     
see also:
Boccaccio "The Decameron" (Illustrations by Salvador Dali)
    see also:
Ariosto "Orlando Fuioso" (Illustrations by G. Dore)
     see also: Rabelais "Gargantua and Pantagruel" (Illustrations by Gustave Dore)
   
see also: W. Shakespeare "Hamlet" (illustration from Eugene Delacroix)
    see also:
Netherlandish Proverbs (by Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
 

 

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FROM THE GREAT CITIES OF EUROPE TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD

 
The City and the Court

(
Baroque and Rococo Art Map)

Baroque and Rococo 
 

The 17th Century: the Age of Spectacle

   EXPLORATION:
Rembrandt ("The Mustery of the Revealed Form" by M. Bockemuhl)
   EXPLORATION:
Vermeer ("Veiled Emotions" by Norbert Schneider)
  
EXPLORATION:
Velazquez ("The Face of Spain" by Norbert Wolf)
   EXPLORATION:
The Art of the Portrait ("Masterpieces of European Portrait " by N. Schneider)
   Collection:
Jacques Callot "Miseries of War"
   Collection:
William Hogarth "A Harlot's Progress"

The Splendours of the 18th Century

SPOT ON LITERATURE: The 17-18th century
   see also EXPLORATIONS (in Russian):
Josif Brodsky   "Elegy to John Donne"
   see also: John Milton "Paradise Lost" (Illustrations by G. Dore, J. Martin, H.Fuseli)
    
see also:
Cervantes "Don Quixote" (Illustrations by G. Dore)
 

 

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FROM THE GREAT CITIES OF EUROPE TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD



Artistic Cultures of Asia and the Americas

 

The Art of Asia

   EXPLORATION: Indian Court Painting ("Indian Court Painting  by S.Kossak)
   EXPLORATION:
Japanese Ukiyo-e (Japanese Ukiyo-e Origins and History;
                            "Japanese Prints. Ukiyo-e" by M. Sato)

   EXPLORATION:
"East and West" ("Cherry-Wood-Blossom" by T. Zacharias)

   Collection:
Japanese Prints
   Collection:
Hiroshige's "Tokaido"
   Collection: Hokusai's "Views of Mt. Fuji" and "Panoramic View of Sumidagawa River"
   Collection:
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi "Tsuki hyakushi" - 100 Aspects of the Moon
   Collection:
Sesshu's Long Scrolll (commentary by Reiko Chiba)

Pre-Columbian Art

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TIMELINE

ART, COMMERCE & INDUSTRY

 


The 18th and 19th Centuries

(Neoclassicism, Romanticism  Art Map)
 

Neoclassicism and Romanticism

   Collection: Between Two Revolutions (From David to Delacroix)
   Collection: Thomas Rowlandson
(comic images of familiar social types)

   EXPLORATION:
Francisco de Goya ("Life and Work" by E. L. Buchholz)

Orientalism
   Collection: David Roberts "A Journey in the Holy Land" (Commentary by E. Nistri)

A Return to the Past

Nazarenes
Pre-Raphaelites

EXPLORATION: Romantic Era ("Painting of the Romantic Era"  by Norbert Wolf)
 



Official Art (Academic Art)

Art Styles in the Industrial 19th Century

The Creation of the Metropolis

Art, Technology and Industry

   Collection:
Dore (Bible, Dante, Ariosto, Rabelais, Milton, Cervantes, Tennyson, Poe)

Furnishings and Fashions

The European Influence

  
SPOT ON LITERATURE: The 18-19th century
  
see also: Pre-Raphaelite Illustrations for  Moxon's Tennyson
    see also: Alfred Tennyson "Idylls of the King" (illustrations by G. Dore)
    see also: John Tenniel Ill. from  Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
    
see also:
Oscar Wilde "Salome" (Illustrations by Beardsley)
    see also: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust" (Ill. by Eugene Delacroix and Harry Clarke)
    see also: Edgar Allain Poe (illustrations by Gustave Dore and Harry Clarke)
    see also EXPLORATIONS (in Russian): Aleksandr Pushkin "Yevgeny Onegin"
 

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A CRISIS OF TRADITION & THE BIRTH OF CONTEMPORARY ART


Developments in the 19th Century

(Art Styles in 19th century Art Map)
 

Realism

Barbizon School


The Impressionism
  
 
New Trends in the 19th and 20th Centuries
 

Post-Impressionism

Pointillism

   EXPLORATION: Vincent van Gogh ("Fields and Flowers" by Debra N. Mancoff)
   EXPLORATION:
The Chronicle of Impressionism (by Bernard Denvir)
 

 

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A CRISIS OF TRADITION & THE BIRTH OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Symbolism

   EXPLORATION:
Henri Rousseau  (by Cornelia Stabenow)

Nabis

   EXPLORATION:
Matisse ("Cut-Outs"
by Gilles Neret)

Fauvism

   Collection: Odilon Redon "The Unconscious"
   Collection: Aubrey Beardsley (Beardsley's Vision)
   EXPLORATION: Gustav Klimt (by Gilles Neret)
   EXPLORATION:
Alphonse Mucha  ("Master of Art Nouveau" by Renate Ulmer)
  
Collection: Cards and Posters (G. BarbierR. Cramer, J. Harbour, R. Kirchner, C. Zander, d'Erte)

The Modern Style

Art Nouveau
   Collection: Blaine Mahlon "Nova Venus"

The Art of Africa and Oceania

Artistic Cultures of sub-Saharan Africa


Artistic Cultures of the Pacific



 


PART
TWO







 
 

TIMELINE

ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY

A Revolution in the Art

(Art of the 20th century Art Map1900-1916)


I
NTRODUCTION (S
TYLES, MOVEMENTS & GROUP)

Folk Art, Naive Art
   EXPLORATION: Naive Art (by Nathalia Brodskaia and Viorel Rau)
  
EXPLORATION: Grandma Moses (by Jane Kallir)


Year by Year - 1900 -1916

Russian  Silver Age 
World of Art (Mir iskusstva) - 1898
Blue Rose - 1904

Expressionism - 1905
Die Brucke - 1905

   EXPLORATION:
Edvard Munch (by Jean Selz)
   EXPLORATION:
Amedeo Modigliani ("The Poetry of Seeing" by Doris Krystof)
   Collection: "The Second Temple of Beauty"
   EXPLORATION:
Francis Bacon "The Theater of the Body" (by Jose Maria Faerna)

The Great Avant-garde Movements

Cubism - 1907

   EXPLORATION: Pablo Picasso
(by Carsten-Peter Warncke)

The Eight. The Ashcan school - 1908

Futurism - 1909

Jack of Diamonds - 1910
Union of Youth - 1910
Der Blaue Reiter - 1911
The Camden Town Group of Painters - 1911
Section d'Or (Golden Section) - 1912
Orphism - 1912
Rayonism - 1912
Constructivism - 1913
Vorticism - 1914
Suprematism - 1915

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ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Year by Year - 1916 -1924

(Art of the 20th century Art Map1916-1924)

Dadaism - 1916

De Stijl - 1917
Pittura Metafisica (Metaphysical Art) - 1917
Purism - 1918
Neo-plasticism - 1919

The Bauhaus school -
1919

Art Deco
- 1920

Precisionism - 1920

The Mexican Muralists - 1921

   EXPLORATION:
Diego Rivera ("A Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art" by A.Kettenmann)

New Objectivity - 1924
Novecento group - 1924

   EXPLORATION:
Marc Chagall ("Painting as Poetry" by Ingo F.Walther, Rainer Metzger)
                     (Marc Chagall "Tapestries" by Jacob Baal-Teshuna)

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ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Year by Year - 1924 -1929

(Art of the 20th century Art Map1924-1929)

Surrealism - 1924

 
   EXPLORATION: Surrealist Art (by Sarane Alexandrian)
  
EXPLORATION: Salvador Dali (by Robert Descharnes & Gilles Neret)

Max Ernst "A Week of Kindness" (A surrealistic novel in collage)

   EXPLORATION:
Rene Magritte "Thought rendered visible" (by Marcel Paquet)

   EXPLORATION: Surrealism  "The Dream of Revolution" (by Richard Leslie)

  
Collection: Frida Kahlo "Frida - The Life in Self-Portraits"

ADDITION:
From Surrealism to Fantastic Art 
(
Dream art, Visionary art, Neo-surrealism, Magic realism, Psychedelic art, Visual art, Fantastic realism)
 

 
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ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY


Year by Year - 1930 -1999


(Art of the 20th century Art Map1930-1999)

The New Architecture
The Harlem Renaissance
American Scene Painting


Art and Politics

Socialist Realism - 1932

Postwar Developments and Contemporary Art

Art in the Postwar Period

Abstract Expressionism - 1943

Art brut - 1945
COBRA - 1948
Art Informel -1948
Tachism - 1954

The New Avant-garde and Postmodernism
Soviet Nonconformist Art
Neo-figurative art