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Gothic Medieval |
1140 |
1500 |
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International Gothic |
1300 |
1400 |
This amalgamation of northern European and Italian styles was fashionable in the late fourteenth century and is characterized by elegance and an interest in detail. |
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Early Renaissance |
1400 |
1600 |
Beginning in the fourteenth century in Italy, this period attempted to emulate Classical art's concern with symmetry and naturalism, searching for the perfect form. |
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High Renaissance |
1400 |
1600 |
Developing from the early Renaissance in the fifteenth century, Italian artists such as Michelangelo and Titian were interested in perspective and the illusion of space. They created more realistic pictures than ever before. |
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Northern Renaissance |
1500 |
1600 |
From the sixteenth century, the Netherlands and Germany were influenced by Italy, but the “rebirth’’ of their art was concerned wish religious reform and old Christian values. |
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Mannerist |
1520 |
1600 |
A reaction against the harmony and order of sixteenth-century art, typified by elongated forms and dramatic movement. |
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Flemish Baroque |
1585 |
1702 |
Spain and Catholicism influenced seventeenth-century Flanders, producing works that focused on spirituality and play of light, yet were still sensuous and colorful. |
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Baroque |
1600 |
1730 |
A style of art and architecture that flourished in Europe front the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. This highly ornamented style was concerned with balance and harmony of the work. |
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Dutch Genre Painting |
1620 |
1680 |
A type of painting concerned with the realistic depiction of scenes from ordinary life, including family life, sports, street scenes, picnics, festivals, tavern, and brothel scenes. Important places and times are ancient Egypt and Rome, the Middle Ages, and Italy in the early Renaissance and 15th Century.</p>
<p>The most illustrious national school of genre painting is that of the Netherlands in the 17th Century. Never before or since has the ordinary life of a nation been depicted so fully as was the Dutch life of this period, with works by the great Dutch masters, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Jan Vermeer, and the lesser Dutch genre painters, Gerard Ter Borch, Jan Steen, Gabriel Metsu, Pieter de Hooch, Gerrit Dou, and Adriaen van Ostade. The genre style of painting has continued to be an important form to the present day.</p> |
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Spanish Baroque |
1630 |
1670 |
The seventeenth-century Inquisition influenced Spanish art, encouraging devotional works. Mythology and still life were also popular but painted in a dark palette. |
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Northern Landscape |
1650 |
1690 |
Paintings of northern European countryside on a large scale, in particular the Netherlands and Germany. This genre was most popular in the sixteenth century. |
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Rococo |
1720 |
1780 |
This eighteenth-century style is highly decorative and ornamental. The palette was often pastel and the subjects were playful and erotic. |
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Neoclassical |
1750 |
1830 |
Influenced by the Classical concern with symmetry and order and the eighteenth century’s fascination with science, this European movement was fashionable during the Enlightenment. |
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Classical Art |
1750 |
1880 |
Relating to or in form of ancient Roman and Greek art and architecture, Primarily concerned with geometry and symmetry rather than individual expression. |
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Romantic |
1790 |
1880 |
An American and European movement of the late eighteenth century. The works were idealized and emotional rather than intellectual, laying importance on individual experience and expression. |
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Realist |
1840 |
1880 |
Art that attempts to represent the world in an accurate or familiar way Everyday scenes are favored over idealized, historical, or mythological subjects. |
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Pre-Raphaelite |
1848 |
1854 |
A British artistic group formed in 1848 that emulated Renaissance painters. The subject matter was often historical or literary, and concerned itself with morality. |
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Symbolist |
1860 |
1890 |
Interested in dreamscape and emotional, often exotic, scenes, this late-nineteenth-century movement war inspired by literature. The works often use color and line to suggest and evoke. |
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Impressionist |
1870 |
1890 |
Named after Monet’s depiction of the effect of light on the French countryside in the 1860s, this group of artists was concerned with representing contemporary experience rather than historical events or the imagination. |
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Post-impressionist |
1880 |
1900 |
A late nineteenth-century reaction to Impressionism, this group explored a symbolic use of strong colors and form rather than concerning itself with naturalism. |
