Paintings by style and period
Movements in the order they began, then the centuries for paintings that belong to no single movement.
Movements
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Renaissance Gold grounds give way to perspective, portraits and calm, balanced compositions in Italy and the North. -
Mannerism Long necks, cool colors and restless poses: the elegant, slightly strange art after the High Renaissance. -
Baroque Drama, deep shadow and rich color, from Caravaggio's Rome to Rubens's Antwerp and Velázquez's Madrid. -
Dutch Golden Age Quiet interiors, flat polder landscapes and still lifes of astonishing detail from the Dutch Republic. -
Rococo Pastel color, garden parties and light-hearted love scenes from eighteenth-century France and Venice. -
Folk & Naive Self-taught painters with flat color, bold pattern and an honesty trained artists envy. -
Neoclassicism Crisp outlines, sober color and the ideals of ancient Greece and Rome. -
Romanticism Storms, ruins, wild landscapes and strong feeling, painted against the age of reason. -
Hudson River School Grand American wilderness, from the Catskills to the Rockies, painted with a sense of wonder. -
Orientalism European painters' views of North Africa and the Middle East: markets, mosques and desert light. -
Barbizon School The French painters who left the studio for the Forest of Fontainebleau and painted the countryside as they found it. -
Academic Polished surfaces and perfect drawing from the official Salons of Paris and London. -
Realism Ordinary people and everyday work, painted plainly and at full scale. -
Luminism Still water, hazy light and glassy calm: the quietest American landscapes. -
Impressionism Broken brushwork, open-air light and modern life, from Monet's gardens to Degas's dancers. -
Symbolism Dreams, myth and mood over description, in hushed and jewel-like color. -
Tonalism Soft, misty landscapes in a narrow band of color: the most restful paintings in American art. -
Post-Impressionism Bold color and solid form after Impressionism: van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and their circle. -
Neo-Impressionism (Pointillism) Pure color laid down in dots and dashes, to be mixed by the eye rather than the brush. -
Expressionism Inner feeling made visible through distorted form and charged color. -
Ashcan School New York's streets, rivers, boxing rings and tenement roofs, painted fast and dark.
By century
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14th-Century Painting Gold-ground panels and the first steps toward naturalism, from Siena, Florence and the courts of Europe. -
15th-Century Painting Altarpieces, devotional panels and the first great portraits of the early Renaissance. -
18th-Century Painting Society portraits, city views and conversation pieces from the age of the Grand Tour. -
Early 19th-Century Painting Portraits, landscapes and genre scenes from the decades between revolution and railway. -
Late 19th-Century Painting Salon pictures, open-air sketches and American portraits from a fast-changing half century. -
Early 20th-Century Painting Modern painting in all its variety, from city realism to the first abstractions.
Also in the collection
A few styles have too few paintings here for a page of their own. You will find them on artist pages and in search.
- 16th-Century Painting (10)
- 17th-Century Painting (6)