The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to art history:

Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past.

Art history can be described as all of the following:

Art of Africa

• Visual art of the United States
• African-American art

Art of Asia

Art of Europe

• Minoan art
• Ancient Greek art
  • Classical antiquity
  • Late antiquity
  • Hellenistic period
• Roman art
• Medieval art
  • Anglo-Saxon art
  • Carolingian art
  • Insular art (Hiberno-Saxon)
  • Merovingian art
  • Migration art
  • Ottonian art

• Gothic art
• International Gothic
• The Renaissance
  • Italian Renaissance
  • High Renaissance
  • Northern Renaissance
  • Early Netherlandish painting
  • Dutch Golden Age painting
• Mannerism
  • Antwerp Mannerism
  • Northern Mannerism
• Baroque
  • Flemish Baroque painting
  • Lutheran art
• Rococo
  • Rocaille
  • Friderizianisches Rokoko
• Neoclassicism
  • Empire style
• Romanticism
  • Danish Golden Age
  • German Romanticism
  • Troubadour style
• Academic art
  • Orientalism
• Realism
• Modern art
  • Expressionism
  • Impressionism
    • Amsterdam Impressionism
    • Neo-Impressionism
    • Pointillism
    • Post-Impressionism
  • Symbolism (arts)
• Art Nouveau
  • Jugendstil
• Abstract art
  • Spiritualist art
• Contemporary art

• Albanian art
• Armenian art
• Belarusian art
• Belgian art
• Croatian art
• Cypriot art
• Czech art
• Danish art
• Dutch art
• Estonian art
• Finnish art
• Georgian art
• German art
  • Art in Nazi Germany
• Greek art
  • Ancient Greek art
    • Ancient Greek sculpture
  • Byzantine art
    • Macedonian art (Byzantine)
  • Modern Greek art
• History of French art
• Hungarian art
• Icelandic art
• Irish art
• Italian art
• Kazakh art
• Maltese art
• Norwegian art
• Polish art
• Portuguese art
• Romanian art
• Russian art
• Serbian art
• Spanish art
• Swedish art
• Swiss art
• Turkish art
• Art of the United Kingdom
  • English art
  • Northern Irish art
  • Scottish art
  • Welsh art

Latin American art

• Caribbean art
• Mexican art

• Argentine painting
• Brazilian art
• Chilean art
• Colombian art
• Ecuadorian art
• Paraguayan art
  • Paraguayan Indigenous art
• Peruvian art
• Uruguayan art
• Venezuelan art

• History of the performing arts
  • History of dance
  • History of film
  • History of music
  • History of opera
  • History of theatre
• History of visual arts
  • History of architecture (timeline)
  • History of design
  • History of drawing
  • History of film
  • History of painting
  • History of photography
  • History of sculpture

History of art history

• Iconography
• Provenance

See Category:Art historians

• Émile Mâle
• Erwin Panofsky
• Nikolaus Pevsner
• Ernst Kitzinger
• Jacob Burckhardt
• Heinrich Wölfflin
• Kenneth Clark
• Svetlana Alpers
• Roy Strong
• Nicholas Penny
• Ernst Gombrich
• Meyer Schapiro
• Kurt Weitzmann
• David Rosand
• Germaine Greer
• Sydney Joseph Freedberg
• Vienna School of Art History

• History of art
• Art movement

• Art History 101: A Brisk Walk Through the Art Eras
• Art History Resources on the Web, in-depth directory of web links, divided by period
• Art timeline

Art history