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Domain reference chart
The movements chart, tappable, with dates that hold up.
Getty Research Institute, Art and Architecture Thesaurus
One of the eight facets is Styles, periods and cultures, kept as a polyhierarchy rather than a straight line, because movements overlap.
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/Reference
The movements chart
They overlap. That is the point of the chart.
1420 to
1600RenaissanceLinear perspective, classical proportion, and the artist as an individual with a name.
1600RenaissanceLinear perspective, classical proportion, and the artist as an individual with a name.
1590 to
1750BaroqueMovement, deep shadow and drama, often in the service of church or court.
1750BaroqueMovement, deep shadow and drama, often in the service of church or court.
1720 to
1780RococoLighter, smaller, more ornament, less thunder.
1780RococoLighter, smaller, more ornament, less thunder.
1760 to
1850NeoclassicismA deliberate return to Greek and Roman restraint after all that.
1850NeoclassicismA deliberate return to Greek and Roman restraint after all that.
1800 to
1870RomanticismFeeling over rule. Weather, ruins and the sublime.
1870RomanticismFeeling over rule. Weather, ruins and the sublime.
1848 to
1900RealismOrdinary people at ordinary scale, painted seriously.
1900RealismOrdinary people at ordinary scale, painted seriously.
1860 to
1890ImpressionismLight and the moment, worked outdoors and fast.
1890ImpressionismLight and the moment, worked outdoors and fast.
1886 to
1905Post-ImpressionismStructure and colour pushed past what the eye reported.
1905Post-ImpressionismStructure and colour pushed past what the eye reported.
1905 to
1935ModernismAbstraction, and the idea that a painting is a made object first.
1935ModernismAbstraction, and the idea that a painting is a made object first.
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Tap a band for the one-line definition. The bars are positioned from the dates, so correcting a date moves the bar.
The bars are computed from the dates rather than drawn, so the chart cannot disagree with its own data. Overlap is visible instead of hidden. The Getty thesaurus keeps styles as a polyhierarchy for the same reason.