Below is a work in progress of the complete History of Western Paintings. The list will continue to be updated.

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The Ancient World : From Ritual to Rationalism

• Prehistoric Paintings
• The Ancient Near East
• Ancient Egypt (new)
• Minoan Painting (new)
• Ancient Greece (new)
• Etruscan Painting
• The Roman Empire

The Middle Ages : Age of Faith

• Early Christian Painting
• Byzantine Painting
• Early Medieval Painting
• Romanesque Painting
• Gothic Painting

The Renaissance : Miracles in a Measurable Universe

• Introduction
• Renaissance 1400-1600
• Giorgio Vasari
• Giotto
• Masaccio
• Leon Batista Alberti
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
• Rahael
• Titian
• Jan van Eyck
• Hieronymus Bosch
• Albrecht Durer
• Pieter Brueghel the Elder

The Baroque : The Politics of Piety

• Introduction
• Baroque 1600-1700
• Italy
• France
• Flanders
• The Netherlands
• Spain
• Rococo

The Nineteenth Century : Realism and Revolution

• Introduction
• Neoclassicism
• Romanticism 1800-1850
• Realism 1830-1870
• Pre-Raphaelite 1848-1930
• The United States

Impressionism and Post Impressionism : Light and Modern Life

• Introduction
• Claude Monet
• Pierre Auguste Renoir
• Mary Cassatt
• Edouard Manet
• Edgar Degas
• Berthe Morisot
• Georges Seurat
• Paul Gauguin
• Vincent van Gogh
• Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
• Paul Cezanne
• Impressionism 1867-1886
• Post Impressionism 1886-1906
• Art Nouveau 1890-1914

The Twentieth Century : Age of -isms

• Introduction
• Cubism
• Fauvism
• Expressionism 1905-1925
• Futurism
• Suprematism
• De Stijl
• Dada
• Surrealism 1918-1945
• The Muralists
• Realism
• Abstract Expressionism 1940-1955
• Pop Art
• Contemporary Art c.1960