Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• World Regions
  • All World Regions
    • 8000–2000 B.C.
    • 2000–1000 B.C.
    • 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
    • 1–500 A.D.
    • 500–1000 A.D.
    • 1000–1400 A.D.
    • 1400–1600 A.D.
    • 1600–1800 A.D.
    • 1800–1900 A.D.
    • 1900 A.D.–Present
  • Africa
    • 8000–2000 B.C.
    • 2000–1000 B.C.
    • 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
    • 1–500 A.D.
    • 500–1000 A.D.
    • 1000–1400 A.D.
    • 1400–1600 A.D.
    • 1600–1800 A.D.
    • 1800–1900 A.D.
    • 1900 A.D.–Present
  • Central America
    • 8000–2000 B.C.
    • 2000–1000 B.C.
    • 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
    • 1–500 A.D.
    • 500–1000 A.D.
    • 1000–1400 A.D.
    • 1400–1600 A.D.
    • 1600–1800 A.D.
    • 1800–1900 A.D.
    • 1900 A.D.–Present
  • Central and North Asia
    • 8000–2000 B.C.
    • 2000–1000 B.C.
    • 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
    • 1–500 A.D.
    • 500–1000 A.D.
    • 1000–1400 A.D.
    • 1400–1600 A.D.
    • 1600–1800 A.D.
    • 1800–1900 A.D.
    • 1900 A.D.–Present
  • East Asia
    • 8000–2000 B.C.
    • 2000–1000 B.C.
    • 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
    • 1–500 A.D.
    • 500–1000 A.D.
    • 1000–1400 A.D.
    • 1400–1600 A.D.
    • 1600–1800 A.D.
    • 1800–1900 A.D.
    • 1900 A.D.–Present
  • Europe
    • 8000–2000 B.C.
    • 2000–1000 B.C.
    • 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
    • 1–500 A.D.
    • 500–1000 A.D.
    • 1000–1400 A.D.
    • 1400–1600 A.D.
    • 1600–1800 A.D.
    • 1800–1900 A.D.
    • 1900 A.D.–Present
  • North America
    • 8000–2000 B.C.
    • 2000–1000 B.C.
    • 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
    • 1–500 A.D.
    • 500–1000 A.D.
    • 1000–1400 A.D.
    • 1400–1600 A.D.
    • 1600–1800 A.D.
    • 1800–1900 A.D.
    • 1900 A.D.–Present
  • Oceania
    • 8000–2000 B.C.
    • 2000–1000 B.C.
    • 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
    • 1–500 A.D.
    • 500–1000 A.D.
    • 1000–1400 A.D.
    • 1400–1600 A.D.
    • 1600–1800 A.D.
    • 1800–1900 A.D.
    • 1900 A.D.–Present
  • South America
    • 8000–2000 B.C.
    • 2000–1000 B.C.
    • 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
    • 1–500 A.D.
    • 500–1000 A.D.
    • 1000–1400 A.D.
    • 1400–1600 A.D.
    • 1600–1800 A.D.
    • 1800–1900 A.D.
    • 1900 A.D.–Present
  • South and Southeast Asia
    • 8000–2000 B.C.
    • 2000–1000 B.C.
    • 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
    • 1–500 A.D.
    • 500–1000 A.D.
    • 1000–1400 A.D.
    • 1400–1600 A.D.
    • 1600–1800 A.D.
    • 1800–1900 A.D.
    • 1900 A.D.–Present
  • West Asia
    • 8000–2000 B.C.
    • 2000–1000 B.C.
    • 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
    • 1–500 A.D.
    • 500–1000 A.D.
    • 1000–1400 A.D.
    • 1400–1600 A.D.
    • 1600–1800 A.D.
    • 1800–1900 A.D.
    • 1900 A.D.–Present
• Timelines
  • 8,000–2,000 b.c.
    • Africa
    • Central America
    • Central and North Asia
    • East Asia
    • Europe
    • North America
    • Oceania
    • South America
    • South and Southeast Asia
    • West Asia
  • 2,000–1,000 b.c.
    • Africa
    • Central America
    • Central and North Asia
    • East Asia
    • Europe
    • North America
    • Oceania
    • South America
    • South and Southeast Asia
    • West Asia
  • 1,000 b.c.–1 a.d.
    • Africa
    • Central America
    • Central and North Asia
    • East Asia
    • Europe
    • North America
    • Oceania
    • South America
    • South and Southeast Asia
    • West Asia
  • 1–500 a.d.
    • Africa
    • Central America
    • Central and North Asia
    • East Asia
    • Europe
    • North America
    • Oceania
    • South America
    • South and Southeast Asia
    • West Asia
  • 500–1,000 a.d.
    • Africa
    • Central America
    • Central and North Asia
    • East Asia
    • Europe
    • North America
    • Oceania
    • South America
    • South and Southeast Asia
    • West Asia
  • 1,000–1400 a.d.
    • Africa
    • Central America
    • Central and North Asia
    • East Asia
    • Europe
    • North America
    • Oceania
    • South America
    • South and Southeast Asia
    • West Asia
  • 1400–1600 a.d.
    • Africa
    • Central America
    • Central and North Asia
    • East Asia
    • Europe
    • North America
    • Oceania
    • South America
    • South and Southeast Asia
    • West Asia
  • 1600–1800 a.d.
    • Africa
    • Central America
    • Central and North Asia
    • East Asia
    • Europe
    • North America
    • Oceania
    • South America
    • South and Southeast Asia
    • West Asia
  • 1800–1900 a.d.
    • Africa
    • Central America
    • Central and North Asia
    • East Asia
    • Europe
    • North America
    • Oceania
    • South America
    • South and Southeast Asia
    • West Asia
  • 1900 a.d.–present
    • Africa
    • Central America
    • Central and North Asia
    • East Asia
    • Europe
    • North America
    • Oceania
    • South America
    • South and Southeast Asia
    • West Asia
• Thematic Essays
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    • African Art
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    • Art of the Americas
    • Asian Art
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    • Greek and Roman Art
    • Islamic Art
    • Medieval Art
    • Oceanic/Pacific Art
    • Prehistory
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    • Africa
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    • East Asia
    • Europe
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  • Browse by Time Period
    • 20,000–8000 B.C.
    • 8000–2000 B.C.
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    • 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
    • 1–500 A.D.
    • 500–1000 A.D.
    • 1000–1400 A.D.
    • 1400–1600 A.D.
    • 1600–1800 A.D.
    • 1800–1900 A.D.
    • 1900 A.D.–Present
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• Pabst, Daniel (American, 1826–1910)
• Pacetti, Vincenzo
• Pacino di Bonaguida (Italian, active 1303–ca. 1340)
• Painter of London E 497 (Greek)
• Painter of Munich 2660 (Greek)
• Painter of the Yale Lekythos (Greek, Attic, active ca. 475–450 B.C.)
• Painter: List of Artists
• Paladino, Mimmo (Italian, born 1948)
• Palagi, Filippo Pelagio (Italian, 1775–1860)
• Palissy, Bernard (French, 1510–1589)
• Palladio, Andrea (Andrea di Pietro della Gondola) (Italian, 1508–1580)
• Palmer, Erastus Dow (American, 1817–1904)
• Palumba, Giovanni Battista (Italian, active ca. 1500–1516)
• Panini, Giovanni Paolo (Italian, 1692–1765)
• Pannemaker, Willem de (Flemish, flourished 1535–78)
• Panton, Verner (Danish, 1926–1998)
• Paolo di Giovanni Fei (Italian, Sienese, active by 1369, died 1411)
• Paradisi, Domenico (Italian, active 1691–1721)
• Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma, 1503–1540)
• Parry, Roger M. (French, 1905–1977)
• Parsons, Charles (American, 1821–1910)
• Pasquier Grenier of Tournai (South Netherlands, flourished 1447–93)
• Pater, Jean–Baptiste–Joseph (French, 1695–1736)
• Patinir, Joachim (Netherlandish, active by 1515, died 1524)
• Patou, Jean (French, 1887–1936)
• Paxton, William McGregor (American, 1869–1941)
• Peake, Robert, the Elder (British, active by 1576, died 1619)
• Peale, Charles Willson (American, 1741–1827)
• Peale, James (American, 1749–1831)
• Peale, Rembrandt (American, 1778–1860)
• Pearce, Charles Sprague (American, 1851–1914)
• Peche, Dagobert (Austrian, 1887–1923)
• Peck, Peter (German, 1500/10–1596)
• Peckham, Robert (American, 1785–1877)
• Pelham, Henry (American, 1749–1806)
• Penard, Isaac (Swiss, 1619–1676)
• Penone, Guiseppe (Italian, born 1947)
• Penthesilea Painter (Attic vase painter, active ca. 460–ca. 440 B.C.)
• Percier, Charles (French, 1764–1838)
• Perelle, Adam (French, 1640–1695)
• Peress, Gilles (French, born 1946)
• Performance artist: List of Artists
• Permoser, Balthasar (German, 1651–1732)
• Pernon, Camille (French, 1753–1808)
• Perriand, Charlotte (French, 1903–1999)
• Perry, Enoch Wood (American, 1831–1915)
• Persephone Painter
• Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci) (Italian, Umbrian, ca. 1445/50–1523?)
• Peruzzi, Baldassare Tommaso (Italian, Sienese, 1481–1536)
• Pesce, Luigi (Italian, active 1848–1861)
• Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano) (Italian, ca. 1422–1457)
• Pesquera, Diego de (Spanish, active Granada 1563; Seville 1580)
• Pether, William (British, 1738–1821)
• Petitjean, Hippolyte (French, 1854–1929)
• Peuerbach, Georg von (1423–1461)
• Pfalz, Rupert von der (Bohemian, 1619–1682)
• Pheidias (Greek, ca. 500–432 B.C.)
• Phillips, Ammi (American, 1788–1865)
• Photographer: List of Artists
• Phyfe, Duncan (Scottish, 1768–1854)
• Picabia, Francis (French, 1879–1953)
• Picart, Bernard (French, 1673–1733)
• Picasso, Pablo (Spanish, 1881–1973)
• Piccolomini, Aeneas Silvius (later Pope Pius II) (1405–1464)
• Pichler, Giovanni (Italian, 1734–1791)
• Pierre II Woeiriot (French, 1532–1596/99)
• Pierson, Jack (American, born 1960)
• Pierson, Pierre–Louis (French, 1822–1913)
• Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano (Italian, Marchigian, active first quarter of 15th century)
• Pilon, Germain (French, 1536/7–1590)
• Pioté, Emanuel (Austrian, 1781–1865)
• Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (Italian, 1720–1778)
• Piretti, Giancarlo (Italian, born 1940)
• Pissarro, Camille (French, 1830–1903)
• Pistrucci, Benedetto (Italian, 1789–1855; active in England, 1815–55)
• Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm (German, ca. 1460–1494)
• Poiret, Paul (French, 1879–1944)
• Poliziano (Politian), Angelo (1454–1494)
• Polk, Charles Peale (American, 1767–1822)
• Polke, Sigmar (German, born 1941)
• Pollaiuolo, Antonio (Italian, Florentine, 1431/32–1498)
• Pollock, Jackson (American, 1912–1956)
• Polygnotos Group (Attic vase painters, active ca. 440—430 B.C.)
• Ponti, Gio (Italian, 1891–1979)
• Pontormo, Jacopo da (Italian, 1494–1557)
• Possdorffer, or Poestdorffer, Johann (Bohemian or German, recorded 1620–24)
• Pousette–Dart, Richard (American, 1916–1992)
• Poussin, Nicolas (French, 1594–1665)
• Powers, Hiram (American, 1805–1873)
• Prada (Italian, founded 1913)
• Pratt, Matthew (American, 1734–1805)
• Prendergast, Maurice (American, 1858–1924)
• Preti, Mattia (Italian, 1613–1699)
• Prevost, Victor (French, 1820–1881)
• Price, William Lightfoot (American, 1861–1916)
• Prieur, Barthélemy (French, 1536–1611)
• Primaticcio, Francesco (Italian, Bolognese, 1504–1570)
• Prince Lu (Chinese, active 1628–44)
• Prince, Richard (American, born 1949)
• Printmaker: List of Artists
• Procaccini, Giulio Cesare (Italian, Milanese, 1574–1625)
• Proctor, Alexander Phimister (American, 1862–1950)
• Prud'hon, Pierre–Paul (French, 1758–1823)
• Psiax (Greek, ca. 530–500 B.C.)
• Pucci, Emilio (Italian, 1914–1992)
• Pucelle, Jean (French, active in Paris, ca. 1320–34)
• Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore (British, 1812–1852)
• Pugin, Edward Welby (British, 1837–1875)
• Pulzone, Scipione (Il Gaetano) (Italian, Roman, active by 1569, died 1598)
• Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (French, 1824–1898)
• Puyo, Émile Joachim Constant (French, 1857–1933)