Painting timeline

Many factors have influenced the history of painting. Geography, religion, national characteristics, historic events, the development of new materials-all help to shape the artist's vision. Throughout history, painting has mirrored the changing world and our ideas about it. In turn, artists have provided some of the best records of the development of civilization, sometimes revealing more than the written word.

Sculpture timeline

Any chronological account of the origins and evolution of three-dimensional art should properly occupy several volumes, if not a whole library of books. Compressing it into a single page means that most of the story is unavoidably omitted.

Architecture timeline

This quick review illustrates how each new movement builds on the one before. Although our timeline lists dates, historic periods do not start and stop at precise points on a calendar. Periods and styles flow together, sometimes merging contradictory ideas, sometimes inventing new approaches, and often re-awakening and re-inventing older movements. Dates are always approximate: Architecture is a fluid art.

Literature timeline

Invention of Writing and Earliest Literature [Beginnings to 100 A.D.]

1. Writing was not invented for the purpose of preserving literature; the earliest written documents contain commercial, administrative, political, and legal information, and were created by the first "advanced" civilizations in an area that Westerners commonly call the Middle East.

Classical music timeline

Contents

• Medieval era (476-1400)
• Renaissance era (1400-1460)
• Baroque era (1600-1760)
• Classical era (1730-1820)
• Romantic era (1815-1910)
• 20th century (1900-2000)
• 21st century (since 2000)
• Giai đoạn trung cổ (476-1400) - Medieval era

Theater timeline

Classical (600BC-600AD)

Greek Theatre

Development of the classical genres of Comedy and Tragedy. The philosopher Aristotle established the classical rules of tragedy (unities of time, place and action). Aristotle identified the central  purpose of theatre ± to arouse strong emotions in its audience(catharsis).Greek Tragedies were often based on explorations of conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist. Masks wereused for characters.

Cinema timeline

1889

• William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison, builds the first motion-picture camera and names it the Kinetograph.

1894

• The Edison Corporation establishes the first motion-picture studio, a Kinetograph production center nicknamed the Black Maria (slang for a police van).

Television timeline

Television lets us see into worlds we would never know otherwise. The TV wasn't just one invention. It was the accumulation of lots of discoveries. This timeline goes over those discoveries, and how they led to the TV we know today.

Timeline of Comic

Comic books are commonly categorized into four major ages based on when they were published. Each age has a different feel and tone to them. And if you’re interested in selling your comic books, knowing what age they fall in is vitally important for valuing your comic books. Here are the four major ages for comic books in chronological order: