Paleolithic Art -The earliest known art, produced roughly between 40,000 and 10,000 BC, during the most recent ice age or the Old Stone Age.
    --Egyptian beginnings
    --Stone age of Italy and Sicily

Mesolithic Art - Middle Stone Age about 10,000 years ago

Neolithic Art - The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age began in Asia around 7000 B.C

    --Yang-Shao Culture, Neolithic culture that flourished in 
    China about 3950-1700 BC.
    --Irish Art,  2500 BC
   --Japanese Art. 3000 BC

The Bronze Age - between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, when most tools and weapons were made of bronze.

    
--Cycladic Culture, unique and distinctive Greek civilization that flourished from about 3200 to 2000 BC
   
--Indian Art - the art produced on the Indian subcontinent from about the 3rd millennium BC
   
--Indus Valley Civilization, 2500-1700 BC, earliest known civilization of South Asia
   
--Pre-Columbian Art - Art of the indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica, the Andes and neighboring cultures before the 16th  century AD.
   
--Etruscan Art, early Italian Art to 1st cent. B.C.

--Greek Art about 1100 BC to the 1st century BC.
   
--Roman art - 500 BC.
   
--African Art -500 - 200 B.C.
   
--Eskimo Art - The art of the Eskimo peoples emerged about 2,000 years ago in the Bering Sea area and in Canada.

--Coptic Art, artwork of the Copts, or Egyptian Christians, from the 3rd to the 12th century

--Native American Art, the diverse traditional arts of the indigenous peoples of North America.

--Oceanic art, works produced by the island peoples of the S and NW Pacific

--Islamic Art, beginning in the 7th century AD

--Anglo-Saxon Art, art produced in England by invading Germanic peoples from the 7th century to the Norman conquest in 1066.

--American Art- beginning in the 17th Century
  
--Canadian Art - beginning in the 17th Century 
 

 
Early Christian Art - Biblical figures on catacomb walls in Rome from the early 3rd century

Medieval Art (or Art of the Middle Ages)
The Middle Ages spans the time from the 5th century A.D to the 15th century
    Romanesque period - 11th and 12th centuries
    Gothic style - 12th to16th centuries (The International Gothic style emerged by the end of the 14th century)

The Italian Renaissance - In Italy the Renaissance emerged in the 14th century and reached its height in the 15th and 16th century. elsewhere in Europe it dated from the 15th to the mid-17th century
    The Early Italian Renaissance
    The High Renaissance
    Mannerism ( Late Renaissance)
    Northern European Renaissance Painting - the northern countries, such as Germany, the Lowlands (Flanders and the Netherlands), England, France, and Spain

 Baroque
Early Baroque (c.1590–c.1625)
High Baroque (c.1625–c.1660) 
Late Baroque (c.1660–c.1725)

Rococo Style -18th-century

 Romanticism -  late 18th and 19th century 
England, France, Germany, United States

Barbizon School - group of French painters, from about 1830 to 1870

Neoclassical Art  - art produced in Europe and North America from about 1750 through the early 1800s, marked by the emulation of Greco-Roman forms.

Nazarenes - young German artists who formed a brotherhood in Rome in 1810 to restore Christian art to its medieval purity.

Pre-Raphaelites - English brotherhood formed in 1848 to protest the formula-driven art of the Royal Academy

Realism - began in the mid-19th century

Impressionism - 1874 - 1886

Symbolist Movement - late 19th century.

Neoimpressionism or Pointillism - late 19th century

Post-Impressionism - 1886 - 1910