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The Periods of Design
Designers, Students, Teachers!
Use this handy guide to help you navigate through the pitfalls of period/style
research. These charts are unique in that they provide a Rosetta Stone
approach. It can be so aggravating to do research with so many different ways of
classifying period. Do we go by years? Do we go by fancy period titles? Do we go
by ruler of the day? In what country? You can find any number of charts of
rulers or periods. Many of these are too simplified to be of use or so
comprehensive as to be downright aggravating! ...and never do the charts seem to
be indexed in the type of language you are looking for.
It is my hope that you find these
charts to be "just right". Besides having the information you need in
a handy form, it should be useful to see the variety of terminology types placed
in proper relation to each other. Feel free to use these charts in your own work
but try to give proper credit. Hey! If you find these or other Artslynx features
to be of use, do feel free to let me know as well. Fan mail is always fun to
read. Richard
Finkelstein
Early European Periods
| Byzantine |
300 - 1453 |
| Early Christian |
330 - 1800 |
| Romanesque |
500 - 1150 |
| Norman |
1066 - 1184 |
| Gothic |
1150 - 1500 |
| Renaissance
Early
High
Late |
1400 - 1500
1500 - 1520
1520 - 1600 |
| Baroque
High |
1600 - 1720
1630 - 1670 |
| Rococo |
1720 - 1755 |
British Design Periods
| Period |
Rulers |
Tudor /
Early Renaissance |
1500 - 1660 |
Henry VII
Henry VIII
Edward VI
Mary |
1485 - 1509
1509 - 1547
1547 - 1553
1553 - 1558 |
Elizabethan
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Elizabeth I |
1558 - 1603 |
| Jacobean |
1603 - 1660 |
James I |
1603 - 1625 |
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Charles I |
1625 - 1649 |
| Restoration |
1660 - 1690 |
Charles II |
1660 - 1685 |
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James II |
1685 - 1701 |
| Middle Renaissance |
1660 - 1750 |
William III & Mary |
1689 - 1702 |
| Queen Anne |
1700 - 1720 |
Queen Anne |
1702 - 1714 |
| Georgian
Early
Middle
Late |
1715 - 1750
1750 - 1770
1770 - 1810 |
George I - IV
George III |
1714 - 1830
1760 - 1820
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| Age of Mahogany |
1710 - 1765 |
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| Chippendale |
1740 - 1765 |
| Adam |
1765 - 1795 |
| Hepplewhite |
1775 - 1800 |
| Sheraton |
1790 - 1810 |
| Regency |
1810 - 1837 |
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1810 - 1820 |
| Victorian |
1837 - 1901 |
Victoria |
1837 - 1901 |
| Edwardian |
1901 - 1910 |
Edward VII |
1901 - 1910 |
French Design Periods
| Period |
Rulers |
| Early Renaissance |
1484 - 1547 |
Charles VIII
Louis XII
Francis I |
1483 - 1498
1498 - 1515
1515 - 1547 |
| Middle Renaissance |
1547 - 1589 |
Henry II
Francis II
Charles IX
Henry III |
1547 - 1559
1559 - 1560
1560 - 1574
1574 - 1589 |
| Late Renaissance |
1589 - 1643 |
Louis XIII |
1610 - 1643 |
| Baroque |
1643 - 1700 |
Louis XIV |
1643 - 1715 |
| Regency |
1700 - 1730 |
Duc D'Orleans |
1713 - 1723 |
| Rococo |
1723 - 1774 |
Louis XV |
1723 - 1774 |
| Neoclassical |
1760 - 1789 |
Louis XVI |
1774 - 1789 |
| Directoire & Consolate |
1789 - 1820 |
Directory |
1795 - 1799 |
| First Empire |
1804 - 1820 |
Napoleon |
1804 - 1814 |
| Second Empire |
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Napoleon III |
1852 - 1870 |
| Art Nouveau |
1880 - 1910 |
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American Design Periods
(architectural)
| Period |
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Sub-Period / Style |
| Pilgrim |
1620 - 1690 |
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| Colonial |
1670 - 1820 |
| William & Mary |
1690 - 1725 |
| Country Style |
1690 1850 |
| Queen Anne |
1725 - 1750 |
| Georgian |
1735 - 1790 |
| Windsor |
1730 - 1830 |
| American Chippendale |
1755 - 1780 |
| Arts & Craft |
1780 - 1820 |
| Shaker |
1790 - 1900 |
| Neoclassical |
1790 - 1825 |
| Federal (Adam) |
1790 - 1820
1780 - 1800
1790 - 1830
1800 - 1815 |
(began in the 1780s)
Hepplewhite
Sheraton
Duncan Phyfe |
| Greek Revival |
1820 - 1860 |
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| Empire |
1815 - 1840 |
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| Victorian |
1837 - 1901
1830 - 1850
1840 - 1900
1840 - 1860
1840 - 1870
1840 - 1880
1860 - 1870
1840 - 1870
1840 - 1900
1851 - 1900
1852 - 1870
1850 - 1880
1860 - 1900
1860 - 1900
1870 - 1900
1876 - 1900
1878 - 1890
1880s
1880 - 1890
1890 - 1925
1890s
1890 - 1910 |
Victoria's Reign
Transitional
Cottage
Late Empire
Rococo Revival (furniture)
Gothic Revival
Gingerbread
Moorish Revival
Cast Iron
Stick Gothic (2nd Gothic Revival)
Second Empire
Renaissance Revival
Italianate
Bentwood Furniture
Eastlake
Centenial
Queen Anne
Richardson Romanesque
Stained Glass Era
Neo-Tudor
Colonial Revival
Shingle
Age of Oak |
| Art Nouveau |
1890 - 1910 |
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| Age of Tall Buildings |
1825 - |
| Beaux Arts |
1895 - 1920 |
| Mission |
1900 - 1925 |
| Arts & Craft |
1900 - 1925 |
| Prairie School |
1900 - 1940 |
| Period Revivals |
1910 - 1930 |
| Art Deco |
1925 - 1945 |
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