My favourite paintings from each major movement of art - a thread 🧵
1. Northern Renaissance: "The Garden of Earthly Delights", Hieronymus Bosch (c.1490-1510)
1. Northern Renaissance: "The Garden of Earthly Delights", Hieronymus Bosch (c.1490-1510)
2. Early Renaissance: "Saint George and the Dragon",
Paolo Uccello (c.1470)
Paolo Uccello (c.1470)
3. High Renaissance: "Madonna Litta", Leonardo da Vinci (c.1490)
4. Mannerism: "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz",
El Greco (1586)
El Greco (1586)
5. Baroque: "The Fall of the Damned", Peter Paul Rubens (c.1620)
6. Rococo: "The Swing", Jean-Honoré Fragonard (c.1768)
7. Romanticism: "Pandemonium", John Martin (1841)
8. Neoclassicism: "Dante And Virgil", William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1850)
9. Impressionism: "Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son", Claude Monet (1875)
10. Post-Impressionism: "Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette", Vincent van Gogh (c.1886)
11. Academicism: "Flaming June", Frederic Leighton (1895)
12. Art Deco: "Young Girl in Green", Tamara Łempicka (1929)
13. Surrealism: "The Face of War", Salvador Dalí (1940)
14. Contemporary Realism: "Christina's World", Andrew Wyeth (1948)
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