Smarthistory offers more than 1500 videos and essays on art from around the world and across time. We are working with more than 200 art historians and some of the world's most important museums to make the best art history resource anywhere. Use the "subject" pulldown menu (go to "Arts and Humanities") at the top of this window or click on the headings below to access our content:
- First things first (you are here)
- The materials and techniques artists use
- Art 1010
Prehistoric art in Europe and West Asia
- Paleolithic art
- Neolithic art
Art of the ancient Mediterranean
- Ancient Near East
- Egyptian art and culture
- Aegean
- Greek
- Nabatean
- Etruscan
- Roman
- Judaism in art
- A beginner's guide to medieval Europe
- Books and the dissemination of knowledge in medieval Europe
- Early Christian
- Byzantine (late Roman Empire)
- Latin (Western) Europe
- Late Gothic art in Italy
- A beginner's guide to art of the Islamic world
- Early period
- Medieval period
- Late period
Renaissance and Reformation in Europe
- Northern Renaissance: the fifteenth century
- Early Renaissance in Italy: the fifteenth century
- High Renaissance in Florence and Rome
- The Renaissance in Venice
- Reformation and Counter-Reformation
- Northern Renaissance: the sixteenth century
- Mannerism
Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassical art in Europe
- Baroque
- Rococo
- Neoclassicism
- British art in the eighteenth century
- North America (including Central America): early cultures
- South America: early cultures
- North America (including Central America): later cultures before European colonization
- South America: later cultures before European colonization
- Spanish colonies in the Americas
- Native American art after 1600
- British Colonies to the Early Republic
- Art of the United States in the 19th century
- Art of Mexico in the 19th century
Art in nineteenth century Europe
- Introduction
- Romanticism
- Early photography
- Victorian art and architecture
- The birth of the avant-garde in France
- Symbolism and Art Nouveau
- America: Civil War to the Gilded Age
- A beginner's guide to 20th century art
- Early abstraction: Fauvism, Expressionism, and Cubism
- World War I, Futurism and Dada
- Art between the wars: the avant-garde and the rise of totalitarianism
- Figuration and abstraction in post-war Britain
- Abstract Expressionism and the New York School
- Pop
- Minimalism and Earthworks
- Architecture
- A beginner's guide to contemporary art
- Identity, the body and the subversion of modernism
- Conceptual and Performance art
- Global modernisms in the 21st century
- A beginner's guide to Asian art and culture
- China
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Korea
- Japan
- African art, an introduction
- Aksum
- Ife
- Benin
- Sierra Leone
- Kongo Peoples
- Kuba
- Mal
- Polynesia
- Melanesia
- Micronesia