Year: 1889 Movement: Symbolist Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY The symbolism movement sought to reflect emotions and ideas rather than reflect the natural world. This means that they used…
Year: 1871 Movement: Italian Purism Location: Gallery of Modern Art, Pitti Palace This painting of Jesus is in Florence, Italy. Antonio Ciseri was an Italian painter born in Ronco, Switzerland….
Year: 1633 Movement: Dutch Golden Age Location: Whereabouts unknown since 1990 The Dutch Golden Age shares a lot with the Baroque period. Not only do they share the same time…
Year: 1536–1541 Movement: High Renaissance Location: Sistine Chapel, Vatican City Pope Julius II commissioned Michaelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Upon completing the ceiling, Michelangelo returned to…
Year: 1499–1510 Movement: High Renaissance Location: Louvre, Abu Dhabi In 2017, Salvator Mundi was sold by Christie’s in New York for $450.3 million, the most expensive painting ever sold at a public auction. Despite the…
Year: 1516–1520 Movement: High Renaissance Location: Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City Known throughout the world as Raphael, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino was an Italian High Renaissance artist. High Renaissance found its…
Year: 1632 Movement: Baroque Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid Another remarkable example of the Baroque movement is Diego Velázquez’ Christ Crucified. In this Spanish painting, Jesus’ pale complexion is contrasted against a…
Year: 1495–1498 Movement: High Renaissance Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan Da Vinci’s The Last Supper is probably the most important mural painting in the history of the world. The Dominican monastery of Santa Maria…
Year: 1310 Style: Gothic Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence This altarpiece, painted for the Florentine Church of Ognissanti, had a profound impact on religious art. Older Byzantine styles were often two-dimensional and rigid. They…
Year: 537 AD Style: Iconography Location: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul Known belovedly for centuries as Christ Pantocrator (“ruler of all”), the gorgeous and warm color palette, This Jesus painting is currently in Instanbul….