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Jan 1, 1200
Byzantine
The art of Christ Pantocrator was painted in the 12th century. It is the most famous of the surviving Byzantine arts, with an unknown artist. The art of Christ Pantocrator has a relation with the Greek Christianity. It symbolizes mosaic art while keeping the use of sacred images on hand. -
Jan 1, 1505
Renaissance
The San Zaccaria Altarpiece is a painting created by the famous Renaissance painter Giovanni Bellini. The painting was performed in 1505. The artist used new perspectives such as the side openings with landscape. Giovanni Bellini used colors and light to emphasis the realistic details within the painting. The painting was created by an Italian painter and now is located in the church of San Zaccaria, Venice, and is most familiar to the westerners.
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Baroque
The Elevation of the Cross is a painting created by the artist Peter Paul Rubens in 1611. It is a large dramatic painting created by oil paints on a canvas. The painting shows a powerful religious tension of muscled men trying to lift the cross with the weight of Christ on it. The elevation of the cross represents a powerful historical event with powerful religious icons within the painting. -
Modernism
La Liberté guidant le peuple is a famous painting by Eugène Delacroix done in 1830. It represents modernism because of the way of expressing the feelings within the picture. It also shows a movement in art associated with cultural movements. The painting doesn’t do much with religion because many modernists rejected religious belief. -
Romanticism
The Course of Empire: The Savage State is a painting representing Romanticism created by the artist Thomas Cole in 1836. It represents a landscape view using dark colors, giving the painting a Gothic edge. The dark smoked out atmosphere add an exotic touch to the painting while achieving a detailed view of the landscape. This painting used oil colors on a canvas. -
Impressionism
Vue du canal Saint-Martin is a painting by Alfred Sisley in 1870 that represents Impressionism. It’s a painting with the view of the Saint-Martin Canal representing urban life. It has a beautiful edge of nature’s colors with brilliant blending in-between the colors and is considered to be a sketchy painting. -
Realism
A Norman Milkmaid at Gréville is a painting created by Jean-François Millet in 1871. This photo represents Realism art as the scene is about grimy workers back in the old days. It also shows a tired face of a peasant bowed by years of work. The lady is carrying something that looks quite heavy and tiring on her back walk across a land. -
Contemporary
Study for a Self Portrait -Triptych, is a painting by the contemporary artist by Francis Bacon done in-between 1985-86. This painting represents contemporary art because it does not have an actual meaning to it. It is something that only came to the artist minds and then he copied the idea from his mind onto the painting.
