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List of Web Pages featuring the classification and explanation of the different types of art, the History of Western Art, including Stone age cave painting, the sculpture of ancient Greece and Rome, the Renaissance, as well as all modern and contemporary art movements and styles. In addition, you'll find biographies of the world's greatest painters and sculptors, profiles of the top European museums, and articles about the global art market.
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Contents

• Types of Art
• Reference: (Questions/Glossaries/Colour)
• History of Western Art
• Painting Genres
• Best Artists
• Old Masters (c.1300-1800)
• Famous Painters (1800-2009)
• Famous Sculptors
• Famous Museums
• World Art Market

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Details of arts institutions, artist groups and collectives, articles about the history of Irish art, details of visual art in each of the 32 counties, plus a list of museums and galleries. Also includes info on the Irish art market, and a review of educational art courses.

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Types of Art

Visual arts is a relatively modern term encompassing fine art (eg. drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking), as well as contemporary art forms (eg. collage, assemblage, photography, video, conceptualism, performance, installation, land art, among others), decorative arts (eg. ceramics, stained glass and interior design), graphic arts (eg. illustration, calligraphy) and printmaking (eg. woodcuts, etching, drypoint, engraving, lithographics and silkscreen). See below for articles on most types of art.
See also: Art Definition, Meaning.

A-Z Types of Art
Animation
Assemblage
Calligraphy
Ceramics
Collage
Conceptual Art
Crafts: History, Types
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Drawing: History, Types, Artists
- Chalk Drawings
- Charcoal
- Conte Crayons
- "Disegno"
- Figure Drawing
- Pastel
- Pen and Ink
- Pencil Drawing
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Graphic Art
Happenings
Installation
Land/Environmental Art

A-Z Types of Art
Painting: History, Types, Painters
- Acrylics
- Encaustic Painting
- Fresco
- Gouache
- Ink and Wash
- Oil Painting
- Chiaroscuro
- Impasto Technique
- Panel-Painting
- Tempera
- Watercolours
Body Painting
Face Painting
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Performance
Photography
Printmaking: History, Types, Printmakers
- Engraving
- Etching
- Lithography
- Screen Printing
- Woodcuts
Public Art
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Sculpture Art
- Bronze
- Stone
- Wood
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Stained Glass Art
Stained Glass Materials & Methods
Video

Reference

For answers to popular questions about the origins, history, types and terminology of art, plus information about the theory and practice of colour in painting, see below:

Questions

Art Questions (General)
Questions about History of Art
Questions about Famous Artists
Questions about Irish Art

Glossaries

Glossary of Art Terms
Painting Glossary
Colour Glossary
Art Movements
Architecture Glossary
Printmaking Glossary
Best Art Books

Colour

Colour in Painting
Colour Theory
Colour Pigments
Colour Mixing Tips

Colour Palettes

Prehistoric Colour Palette
Egyptian Colour Palette
Classical Colour Palette
Renaissance Colour Palette
18th Century Colour Palette
19th Century Colour Palette

History of Western Art
Includes articles on all types, styles and periods/movements of Western art from the Early Stone Age and early Mediterranean cultures, through Classical Antiquity (Greek, Roman art), and the Middle Ages as far as the Renaissance. Thereafter, the Italian Renaissance is covered in detail, as are several other movements including Impressionism, Expressionism and Cubism. In addition, there are profiles of all major modern and contemporary art styles. See also our detailed "Timeline," and our review of the most influential architectural styles up to the 20th century.
History of Art
Prehistoric Art Timeline
History of Art: Timeline
Architecture: History, Styles
History of Sculpture

Earliest Cultures
Paleolithic Art & Culture
Stone Age Art
Prehistoric Art
Oldest Art: Top 10
Oldest Art: Top 50
Earliest Art
Cupules: Rock Art
Bhimbetka Petroglyphs
Venus of Berekhat Ram
Venus of Tan-Tan
Blombos Cave Art Engravings
La Ferrassie Cave Cupules
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Stone Age Sculptures
Ivory Carvings: Swabian Jura
Venus Figurines
Venus of Kostenky
Venus of Willendorf
Venus of Brassempouy
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Stone Age Murals
Cave Painting
Chauvet
Pech-Merle
Cosquer
Lascaux
Altamira
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Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Art Guide
Bronze Age
Iron Age
African
Egyptian
Egyptian Pyramid Architecture
Egyptian Sculpture
Etruscan
Tribal Art
Oceanic
Persian
Minoan
Mycenean
Viking
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Classical Antiquity: Ancient Greece
Greek Art
Greek Sculpture
Archaic Style
Daedalic Style
Early Classical Period
High Classical Period
Late Classical Period
Hellenistic Period
Hellenistic Statues/Reliefs
Painting: Archaic
Painting: Classical
Painting: Hellenistic
Mural/Panel Painting Legacy
Greek Metalwork
Greek Pottery
Classical Antiquity: Ancient Rome
Roman Art
Roman Sculpture
Early Roman Art
Relief Sculpture
Hellenistic Roman
Late Roman Art
Christian Roman
Celtic Roman
Gundestrup Cauldron
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Oriental Art
Visual Arts of India
Chinese Visual Art
Chinese Painters
Chinese Pottery
Chinese Terracotta Army
Japanese Art

Middle Ages
Islamic Art
Byzantine
Medieval Christian Art
Gothic
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Europe 1400-1600
Renaissance Art
- In Forence
- Medici Family
- In Rome
- In Venice
Proto Renaissance Period (c.1300-1400)
Proto-Renaissance Artists
Early Renaissance Period (1400-90)
Early Renaissance Artists
High Renaissance Period (1490-1530)
High Renaissance Artists
Mannerism Style (1530-1600)
Mannerist Artists
Spanish Renaissance Artists (1400-1600)
Northern Renaissance (1400-1600)
Northern Renaissance Artists
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17th Century
Baroque Style
French Baroque Artists
Italian Baroque Artists
Dutch Realist Genre Painting
Dutch Realist Artists
Spanish Baroque Artists
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18th Century
Rococo Style
Rococo Artists
Neo-Classical
Neoclassical Artists
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19th Century
Romanticism
Romantic Artists
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Realism
Realist Artists
French Impressionism
- Origins and Influences
- Early History
- Impressionist Manet
- Impressionism Monet
- Sisley, Pissarro, Renoir, Degas and Cezanne
- Monet & Pissarro in London
- Painting Developments
- Impressionist Exhibitions
- Group Splits
- Legacy of Monet
Post Impressionism
Art Nouveau
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20th Century
Fauvism
Expressionism
- German Expressionism
Cubism
- Early Cubist Painting
- Analytical Cubism
- Synthetic Cubism
- Cubist Artists
Dada
Bauhaus Design School
Art Deco
Surrealism
Abstract Expressionism
Op-Art
Pop Art
Minimalism
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Modernism (c.1970 onward)
Modern Art
Modern Art Movements
Postmodernism
Contemporary Art
Contemporary British Painting (1960-2000)
Contemporary Art Movements

Genres
Since the Renaissance, painting (and to some extent, sculture) has been classified according to five major genres: history (ie. narrative) works, portraiture, genre-painting (ie. everyday scenes), landscapes and still-life. We review the history and styles of all five genres, as well as abstraction and representational painting.

The Main Types of Paintings
Painting Genres
Hierarchy of Genres
(1) History Painting
(2) Portraits
- Renaissance Portraits
- Baroque Portraiture
- Rococo/Neo-classical
- 19th Century Portrait Art
- Impressionist Portraits
- Expressionist Portraiture
- 20th Century Portraits
- Portraits by Picasso
- Surrealist/Pop-Art Portraiture
- Self Portraits
(3) Genre-painting

(4) Landscapes
Plein-Air Painting
- Barbizon Landscape School
- Wanderers Art Movement
- Impressionist Landscapes
Famous Landscape Paintings
(5) Still Life
Abstract Art
Representational
Figure Painting
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The European Academies
Academic Style of Art
Academy of Art Florence
Academy of Art Rome
Royal Academy of Arts London

Best Artists

For a list of the Top 10 greatest artists in the history of Western art, across all the genres, see:
- Best Artists of All Time: Top 10.
- Best History Painters
- Best Portrait Artists
- Best Genre-Painters
- Best Landscape Artists
- Best Still Life Painters

Old Masters
The term "Old Masters" refers to great European painters from the Renaissance to the early 19th century. See below for biographies of great artists working in all the genres, using oils and watercolours.

Proto-Renaissance
Cimabue
Giotto di Bondone
Early Renaissance
Gentile da Fabriano
Filippo Brunelleschi
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Paolo Uccello
Fra Angelico
Tommaso Masaccio
Leon Battista Alberti
Donato Bramante
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Piero della Francesca
Andrea Mantegna
Alessandro Botticelli
High Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Raphael
Northern Renaissance
Jan van Eyck
Roger Van der Weyden
Hieronymus Bosch
Matthias Grunewald
Albrecht Dürer
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Hans Holbein The Younger
Venetian Renaissance
Titian
Jacopo Tintoretto
16th Century/Mannerism School
Arcimboldo
El Greco
Caravaggio
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Giorgio Vasari
Paolo Veronese

17th Century Baroque
Peter Paul Rubens
Jusepe (Jose) Ribera
Nicolas Poussin
Anthony Van Dyck
Diego Velazquez
Claude Lorrain
Francisco Zurbaran
17th Century Dutch Realism School
Adriaen Brouwer
Aelbert Cuyp
Frans Hals
Pieter de Hooch
Gabriel Metsu
Adriaen van Ostade
Rembrandt van Rijn
Jacob van Ruisdael
Frans Snyders
Jan Steen
David Teniers the Younger
Gerard Terborch
Hendrik Terbrugghen
Jan Vermeer
18th Century Rococo Period
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Giambattista Tiepolo
Francois Boucher
Jean-Honore Fragonard
Canaletto
Neoclassical
Jean Chardin
Jacques-Louis David
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Francisco de Goya

Famous Painters (1800-2000)
Biographies of a wide range of Famous Artists from most of the major modern schools (c.1800-2009).
See also: Greatest Paintings Ever

The English School (c.1700-1900)
English Figurative Painting 18th/19th century
English Landscape Painting 18th/19th century
William Hogarth
Richard Wilson
Joshua Reynolds
Thomas Gainsborough
Henry Fuseli
William Blake
Thomas Girtin
JMW Turner
John Constable
Alfred Stevens
George Frederick Watts
John Everett Millais
William Morris
Romantics
Caspar David Friedrich
Theodore Gericault
Eugene Delacroix
Thomas Cole
Pre-Raphaelites
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
19th Century Realism
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Honore Daumier
Jean-Francois Millet
Gustave Courbet
Winslow Homer
Ilya Repin
Thomas Eakins
Impressionism
Edouard Manet
Claude Monet
Camille Pissarro
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Alfred Sisley
Berthe Morisot
Edgar Degas
John Singer Sargent
Post-Impressionism
Georges Seurat
Vincent Van Gogh
Paul Cezanne
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Paul Gauguin
Edouard Vuillard
James McNeil Whistler
Primitive/Fantasy Art
Henri Rousseau
Paul Klee
Marc Chagall

Art Nouveau
Gustav Klimt
Aubrey Beardsley
Fauvism
Henri Matisse
Expressionism
Wassily Kandinsky
Edvard Munch
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Amedeo Modigliani
Egon Schiele
Max Beckmann
Oskar Kokoschka
Otto Dix
Dada
Kurt Schwitters
Marcel Duchamp
Cubism
Georges Braque
Pablo Picasso
Juan Gris
Fernand Leger
Robert Delaunay
20th Century Realism
Edward Hopper
Lucian Freud
Abstraction
Kasimir Malevich
Josef Albers
Piet Mondrian
Surrealism
Giorgio De Chirico
Salvador Dali
Rene Magritte
Joan Miro
Abstract Expressionism
Jackson Pollock
Willem De Kooning
Mark Rothko
Clyfford Still
Pop Art
Robert Rauschenberg
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Contemporary Art
Bridget Riley
David Hockney
Fernando Botero
Damien Hirst

Sculpture Styles & Famous Sculptors
Biographies of the Greatest Sculptors, from the Renaissance onwards. See also: Greatest Sculptures Ever.

Periods/Movements
Sculpture of Ancient Greece
Medieval Sculpture (c.400-1000)
Romanesque Sculpture (c.1000-1200)
Gothic Sculpture (c.1150-1280)
English Gothic Sculpture
German Gothic Sculpture
Renaissance Sculptors (c.1400-1600)
Baroque Sculptors (1600-1700)
Neo-Classical Sculptors (c.1775-1825)
19th Century Sculptors
Sculptors: Antiquity
Phidias (488-431 BCE)
Myron (Active 480-444)
Polykleitos (5th century)
Callimachus (Active 432-408)
Skopas (Active 395-350)
Lysippos (c.395-305)
Praxiteles (Active 375-335)
Leochares (Active 340-320)
Sculptors: Romanesque
Gislebertus (12th century)
Master of Cabestany (12th century)
Master Mateo (12th century)
Benedetto Antelami (active 1178-1196)
Sculptors: Gothic
Nicola Pisano (c.1206-1278)
Giovanni Pisano (c.1250-1314)
Arnolfo di Cambio (c.1240–1310)
Giovanni di Balduccio (c.1290–1339)
Andrea Pisano (1295-1348)
Filippo Calendario (pre-1315-1355)
Andre Beauneveu (c.1335-1400)

Sculptors: Gothic (cont)
Claus Sluter (c.1340-1406)
Hans Multscher (c.1400-1467)
Giorgio da Sebenico (1410-1473)
Michel Colombe (c.1430-1512)
Veit Stoss (c.1447-1533)
Tilman Riemenschneider (c.1460-1531)
Gregor Erhart (c.1460-1540).
Sculptors: Renaissance
Donatello (1386-1466)
Nanni di Banco (c.1386-1421)
Luca Della Robbia (1400-1482)
Antonio Rossellino (1427-79)
Antonio Pollaiuolo (1432-98)
Andrea Della Robbia (1435-1525)
Niccolo Dell 'Arca (1435-94)
Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-88)
Guido Mazzoni (1450-1518)
Alonso Berruguete (c.1486-1561)
Jacopo Sansovino (1486-1570)
Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560)
Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71)
Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570)
Juan de Juni (1507-1577)
Jean Goujon (c.1510-68)
Germain Pilon (1529-1590)
Giambologna (1529-1608)
Barthelemy Prieur (1536-1611)
Adriaen de Vries (1560-1626)
Stefano Maderno (1576-1636)
Sculptors: Baroque
Giovanni Bernini (1598-1680)
Sculptors: 19th Century
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Sculptors: Modern
Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957)
Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Famous Museums
See below for profiles of the most famous galleries and best art museums around the world.
See also: Museums of Islamic Art.

France
Louvre Museum, Paris
Musee d'Orsay
Germany
Pinakothek Museum Munich
Guggenheim Museum Berlin
Italy
Uffizi Gallery Florence
Sistine Chapel (Frescoes)
Peggy Guggenheim Museum Venice
Netherlands
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Russia
Hermitage St Petersburg

Spain
Prado Museum Madrid
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Israel
Jewish Art Museum, Jerusalem
USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Frick Collection
Guggenheim Museum New York
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
National Gallery of Art Washington DC
UK
National Gallery London
Tate Gallery Britain

World Art Market
Profiles of the world's leading auction houses, plus articles on the highest prices achieved at auction or private treaty by Old Masters, modern and contemporary artists.

Auction Houses
Christie's Art Auctioneers
Sotheby's Art Auctioneers
Top Auction Sales
Most Expensive Paintings Top 10
Most Expensive Paintings Top 20
Top 20 Contemporary Artists