Art of Europe | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-04

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00:02:31 1 Prehistoric art
00:06:46 2 Ancient Classical art
00:12:14 3 Medieval
00:13:17 3.1 Byzantine
00:14:14 3.2 Early Medieval art
00:15:19 3.3 Romanesque
00:16:10 3.4 Gothic
00:17:15 4 Renaissance
00:18:40 4.1 From Gothic to the Renaissance
00:20:05 4.2 Early Renaissance
00:21:22 4.3 High Renaissance
00:23:01 4.4 Northern art up to the Renaissance
00:24:19 5 Mannerism, Baroque, and Rococo
00:28:55 6 Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Academism and Realism
00:34:53 7 Modern art
00:37:10 8 Contemporary art and Postmodern art
00:41:34 9 See also



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The art of Europe, or Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe. European prehistoric art started as mobile Upper Paleolithic rock and cave painting and petroglyph art and was characteristic of the period between the Paleolithic and the Iron Age.  Written histories of European art often begin with the art of the Ancient Middle East and the Ancient Aegean civilizations, dating from the 3rd millennium BC. Parallel with these significant cultures, art of one form or another existed all over Europe, wherever there were people, leaving signs such as carvings, decorated artifacts and huge standing stones. However a consistent pattern of artistic development within Europe becomes clear only with the art of Ancient Greece, adopted and transformed by Rome and carried; with the Empire, across much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.The influence of the art of the Classical period waxed and waned throughout the next two thousand years, seeming to slip into a distant memory in parts of the Medieval period, to re-emerge in the Renaissance, suffer a period of what some early art historians viewed as "decay" during the Baroque period, to reappear in a refined form in Neo-Classicism and to be reborn in Post-Modernism.Before the 1800s, the Christian church was a major influence upon European art, the commissions of the Church, architectural, painterly and sculptural, providing the major source of work for artists. The history of the Church was very much reflected in the history of art, during this period. In the same period of time there was renewed interest in heroes and heroines, tales of mythological gods and goddesses, great wars, and bizarre creatures which were not connected to religion.  Most art of the last 200 years has been produced without reference to religion and often with no particular ideology at all, but art has often been influenced by political issues, whether reflecting the concerns of patrons or the artist.
European art is arranged into a number of stylistic periods, which, historically, overlap each other as different styles flourished in different areas. Broadly the periods are, Classical, Byzantine, Medieval, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, Modern, Postmodern and New European Painting.