The history of art usually refers to visual arts, such as painting, sculpture and architecture. It attempts an objective survey of art throughout human history, classifying cultures and periods. At the beginning it dealt exclusively with Western Art but with the onset of Modernism, a wider vision of history has developed, seeking for other societies in a global overview by analyzing their artifacts in terms of their own cultural values. Thus, the subject is now seen to encompass all visual art, from the megaliths of Western Europe to the paintings of the Tang Dynasty in China.

	Prehistoric Art Prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or it makes significant contact with another culture that has… [More]
	Ancient Art Ancient art refers to the many types of art that were in the cultures of ancient societies, such as those of ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome… [More]
	Western Art Western art refers to European Countries, and those parts of the world that have come to follow predominantly European cultural traditions such as the Americas. The written histories often begin with the art of the Ancient Middle East, Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Aegean civilisations… [More]
	Eastern Art Eastern art is devoted to the arts of the Far East and includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions in Asia, such as African, Islamic, Indian, Chinese and Japanese… [More]