Outline of painting history

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the history of painting:

History of painting – painting is the production of paintings, that is, the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base, such as paper, canvas, or a wall) with a brush, although other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts and artworks created by pre-historic artists, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted tradition from Antiquity.

Prehistoric painting

 * Pre-historic art
 * Cave painting
 * Petroglyph
 * Pictogram
 * List of Stone Age art

Ancient painting

 * Art of Ancient Egypt
 * Knossos
 * Mycenaean Greece
 * Pottery of ancient Greece
 * Roman art
 * Pompeian Styles
 * Fayum mummy portraits
 * Early Christian art and architecture

Medieval painting

 * Medieval art
 * Byzantine art
 * Icon
 * Insular art
 * Carolingian art
 * Ottonian art
 * Romanesque art
 * Gothic art
 * Early Netherlandish painting
 * Illuminated manuscript
 * Miniature (illuminated manuscript)
 * Panel painting

Painting during the Renaissance

 * Early Renaissance painting
 * Italian Renaissance painting
 * Northern European Renaissance painting
 * Artists of the Tudor court
 * High Renaissance painting
 * Mannerism

Baroque painting

 * Baroque painting

18th-century painting

 * Rococo
 * Neoclassicism

19th-century painting
• Romanticism

• Academic art

• Realism

• Naturalism (art)

• Hudson River School

• Luminism

• Impressionism

• Pre-Raphaelites

• Symbolism

• Post-Impressionism

• Neo-Impressionism

• Pointillism

• Divisionism

• Art Nouveau

20th-century painting
This list is in random order. Date given is for the start of the style or movement. • Fauvism (Les Fauves) 1905

• Cubism 1907

• Jack of Diamonds 1910

• Orphism

• Synchromism 1912

• Dada

• Surrealism

• Geometric abstraction

• Rayonnism

• Expressionism

• Abstract art

• Abstract Expressionism 1946

• Post-painterly abstraction 1964

• Neo-expressionism

• Art Deco

• Futurism 1909

• Op art

• Pop art

• Minimalism

• Art Brut / Folk Art / Naïve Art / Outsider Art

• Suprematism 1913

• Vorticism 1914

• Tachism

• Constructivism

• Russian avant-garde

• De Stijl (Neoplasticism)

• Neue Sachlichkeit

• American realism

• Social Realism

• Socialist realism

• Action painting

• Lyrical Abstraction 1967

• Monochrome painting

• Leningrad School

• Russian Non-Conformist

• Photorealism

• Concept art

• Neue Wilde

• Figuration Libre

• Graffiti

• Stuckism 1999