Outline of History from a Perspective of Visual Culture

 

Dates are very approximate.
BCE = "before the common era" 5th C. = 499-400 BCE
CE = "in the common era" 5th C. = 400-499 CE
c. = circa (about, approximately) C. = century

 

Late Antiquity c. 200 CE (Severans 193- ) - 6/7th C. CE

 

last Roman emperor in the West deposed 476 CE

Early Christian visual culture 3rd-4th C.

Christian Empire, 4th C., -->

Byzantine 6/8th C. - 1453 (fall of Constantinople)

Islam 610 -->

 

Early Medieval 6th - 10th C.

 

migrations 8th C. BCE - 5/6th C. CE (earlier for peoples, e.g., Etruscans, Dorians, who do not figure in this course)
Scyths/Scythians 8th C. BCE - ?
Celts 8th C. BCE - 4/5th C. CE or so
Germanic groups 3rd/2nd C. BCE - 7th C. CE or so

Hiberno-Saxon (Insular) 7-10th C.
Merovingian (Frankish dynasty) 482(?) - 743
Carolingian (Frankish dynasty) 743-987 West Franks (France)

- 911 East Franks (German)

revival of Roman Empire under Charlemagne 800 -->
Ottonian 936-1024 (Holy Roman Empire)

 

Central Middle Ages 11th - 13th C.

 

Romanesque 11th - 12th C. c. 1030-1150

Gothic 12th - 15th C. c. 1140-1500

 

Late Middle Ages 14th - 16th C.

 

Late Gothic c. 1290-1530

Trecento (Italy) 14th C. (1300s)

"International Style" c. 1400

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