Western art history

Eighteen chapters on art in Europe and North America, from the caves of the Ice Age to today's installations. This is the main track; the countries and side trips link back here. The boundaries are approximate: styles overlap, and much happened in several places at once.

• Prehistoric art
• The ancient civilisations
• Antiquity: Greece and Rome
• Early Middle Ages and Romanesque art
• The Gothic
• The Renaissance
• Mannerism
• The Baroque
• Rococo
• Neoclassicism
• Romanticism
• Realism
• Impressionism
• Post-Impressionism and Symbolism
• The avant-garde
• The interwar years
• The post-war era
• Contemporary art