The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.

The discussions in this volume present historical painting techniques from a variety of professional perspectives.

European Paintings

A major strain of Late Renaissance art was mannerism: the deliberate pursuit of novelty and complexity. In painting, mannerism entailed distortion of physical forms (e.g. elongated human anatomy), unnatural colouring and lighting, the arrangement of figures in complex poses

painters art artists Monet Michelangelo Matisse Manet Klee Hopper Greco Goya van Gogh Gauguin Gainsborough Delacroix Degas Cézanne Botticelli Blake Bacon

paintings Gothic Painting The Italian Renaissance Baroque Impressionism 20th century Fauvism Expressionism Matisse Picasso Cubism Paul Klee Abstract Expressionism Pop Art Japanese Art

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Provides explanations of the major art movements from the Renaissance through modern times.