Period

When was it made, or when does it evoke?

Period is a date. Style is a set of moves. Periods here are named by date range or dynastic label, never by the style that flourished in them, so an Art Deco bar built in 2024 is style art-deco in period contemporary.

Terms: 11
Defined: 11 of 11
Beneath a broader term: 1
Links to other axes: 11
Release: 2.5.0

Permanent address

/id/axis/period

11 periods, on one scale

Late Twentieth Century

Contemporary

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Solid is the span a period uncontroversially is; hatched is where it could still defensibly be called that. Georgian and Regency overlap because they do — Regency is the last Georgian phase — and contemporary has no right edge because it has not ended.

Terms

One rule per link to a term on another axis

Period terms
Term	Span	Links to other axes	Reviewed
Medieval	c. 1150-1485, defensibly 1066-1550	1	30 Aug 2026
Renaissance	c. 1420-1600, defensibly 1400-1650	0	30 Aug 2026
Baroque	c. 1600-1750, defensibly 1580-1780	0	30 Aug 2026
Georgian	1714-1830, defensibly 1714-1837	0	30 Aug 2026
Regency	1811-1820, defensibly 1795-1837	0	30 Aug 2026
Victorian	1837-1901	0	30 Aug 2026
Edwardian	1901-1910, defensibly 1901-1914	0	30 Aug 2026
Interwar	1918-1939	3	30 Aug 2026
Mid-Century	c. 1945-1965, defensibly 1933-1975	2	30 Aug 2026
Late Twentieth Century	c. 1970-1999, defensibly 1965-2000	3	30 Aug 2026
Contemporary	c. 2000 to now, defensibly from 1990	2	30 Aug 2026