Styles of Sculpture from Antiquity to Present Day

Mesopotamian
   Sumerian c. 3500-2500 BC
   Akkadian c. 2340-2180 BC
   Babylonian c. 2125-1750 BC
   Assyrian c. 1000-612 BC
   Persian c. 539-331 BC

Egyptian
   Prehistoric Pre-3200 BC
   Early Dynastic c. 3100-2686 BC
   Old Kingdom c. 2686-2040 BC
   Middle Kingdom c. 2040-1650 BC
   New Kingdom c. 1550-1070 BC
   Third Intermediate c. 1075-665 BC
   Late Period c. 664-332 BC
   Ptolemaic Period c. 332-30 BC
   Roman Period c. 30 BC-AD 642

Aegean
   (Cycladic, Minoan & Mycenaean) c. 3000-1000 BC

Greek
   Sub-Mycenaean/Early Iron Age c. 1100-900 BC
   Geometric 900-700 BC
   Orientalizing 700-600 BC
   Archaic 600-480 BC
   Classical 480-320 BC
   Hellenistic 323-31 BC

Etruscan c. 753-380 BC

Roman
   Republican 509-27 BC
   Julio-Claudian 27 BC-AD 68
   Trajanic AD 98-AD117
   Hadrianic AD 117-AD 138
   Antonine AD 138-193
   Severan AD 193-211


Byzantine (Early, Middle, Late) 330-1453

Medieval 500-1000

Romanesque 1050-1200

Gothic (Early, High, Late, International Style) 1140-1420

Italian Renaissance (Early, High) 1400-1520

Northern Renaissance 1420-1550

Mannerism 1520-1600

Baroque 1600-1750

Rococo 1720-1750

Neoclassicism 1775-1815

Romanticism 1775-1840

Impressionism 1860-1886

Post-Impressionism 1880-1895

Abstract 1907-1930

Cubism 1907-1925

Futurism 1909-1914

Dada 1915-1922

Surrealism 1924-1945

Contemporary 1950-