Art movements

Movement · 17 works

Renaissance Paintings

Perspective, oil paint, anatomy and the rediscovery of antiquity: how painters in Florence, Rome, Venice and the North reinvented the picture between 1400 and 1600.

Movement · 22 works

Baroque Art

From Caravaggio's spotlight to Bernini's marble ecstasies and Rembrandt's shadows: the seventeenth-century art that set out to move you.

Movement · 15 works

Gothic Art

Pointed arches, stained glass and gold-ground panels, and the darker Gothic that the Romantics built on top of them.

Movement · 23 works

Academic Art

Flawless flesh, gods and heroes, and invisible brushstrokes: the official art of the nineteenth century, its fall from favor and its remarkable return.

Movement · 12 works

Romanticism

Shipwrecks, barricades, fog-filled valleys and nightmares: how painters between 1780 and 1850 put feeling above reason and nature above everything.

Movement · 16 works

Symbolism

Islands of the dead, brooding angels and skeletal gardeners: the late nineteenth-century painters who turned away from the visible world to paint the soul.

Movement · 13 works

The Pre-Raphaelites

Seven young rebels in 1848 London, a drowned Ophelia, a cursed Lady of Shalott, and the long afterglow of the most literary movement in British art.

Movement · 26 works

Impressionism

How a group of rejected painters, a hostile critic and a hazy sunrise over Le Havre changed the way the world sees color.