The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the history of painting:
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
History of eastern painting
See also
Art history Western painting History of painting History of art Painting Index of painting-related articles
External links
History of Art: From Paleolithic Age to Contemporary Art Kandinsky Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History Ancient Roman Wall-Painting