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

Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes related to an ever-evolving definition of art. Art history encompasses the study of objects created by different cultures around the world and throughout history that convey meaning, importance or serve usefulness primarily through visual representations.

What type of thing is art history?

Art history can be described as all of the following:

Art history, by Region

European

Art of Europe

• Minoan art
• Ancient Greek art
  • Classical antiquity
  • Late antiquity
  • Hellenistic period
• Roman art
• Medieval art
  • Anglo-Saxon art
  • Carolingian art
  • Insular art (Hiberno-Saxon)
  • Merovingian art
  • Migration art
  • Ottonian art

• Gothic art
• International Gothic
• The Renaissance
  • Italian Renaissance
  • High Renaissance
  • Northern Renaissance
  • Early Netherlandish painting
  • Dutch Golden Age painting
• Mannerism
  • Antwerp Mannerism
  • Northern Mannerism
• Baroque
  • Flemish Baroque painting
  • Lutheran art
• Rococo
  • Rocaille
  • Friderizianisches Rokoko
• Neoclassicism
  • Empire style
• Romanticism
  • Danish Golden Age
  • German Romanticism
  • Troubadour style
• Academic art
  • Orientalism
• Realism
• Modern art
  • Expressionism
  • Impressionism
    • Amsterdam Impressionism
    • Neo-Impressionism
    • Pointillism
    • Post-Impressionism
  • Symbolism (arts)
• Art Nouveau
  • Jugendstil
• Abstract art
  • Spiritualist art
• Contemporary art

Asian

Art of Asia

African

Art of Africa

History of art history

• History of art history
• History of painting

General art history concepts

• Iconography
• Provenance

Persons influential in art history

Art history scholars

See Category:Art historians

• Émile Mâle
• Erwin Panofsky
• Nikolaus Pevsner
• Ernst Kitzinger
• Jacob Burckhardt
• Heinrich Wölfflin
• Kenneth Clark
• Svetlana Alpers
• Roy Strong
• Nicholas Penny
• Ernst Gombrich
• Meyer Schapiro
• Kurt Weitzmann
• David Rosand
• Germaine Greer
• Sydney Joseph Freedberg
• Vienna School of Art History

See also

• History of art
• Art movement

References

External links

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