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

History of western painting

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

20th-century painting

This list is in random order. Date given is for the start of the style or movement.

21st-century painting

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History of eastern painting

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See also

• Art history
• Western painting
• History of painting
• History of art
• Painting
• Index of painting-related articles

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