Archives: Art Movements

1790 -1890 The Romantic period arose in part when a society has grown tired of trends in intellectual thought, rationalization,…

1600-1700 With European Imperial expansion, wars on the continent, and the subsequent increase in travel and emigration, wealthy Europeans found…

1600-1700 Although Rococo was a response to the heaviness and grandeur of Baroque, its attempt at delicacy was only lighter…

1600-1700 Baroque art is all about grandeur, and when you talk about baroque in art, it is the magnitude of…

1520 – 17th Century Mannerism is extended from the influence of High Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo (Doni Tondo), Da…

1500 – 1615 The Northern Renaissance refers to the Renaissance after 1497 outside of Italy and north of the Alps.…

Origin of Renaissance Art 1300-1700 With the advent of the printing press, knowledge was for the first time in over…

The Survival of Antiquity is a construct of the German Bibliophile and founder of the Warburg Institute (University of London),…

1100 – 1600 AD This medical art form was the successor of Romanesque art. Initially known as “French work”, from…

1000 AD – 1150 AD Roman art spans the centuries of the Republic and of the later Empire that governed…