Painting Timeline

By KhalidAhmed
  • Dec 1, 1270

    Byzantine Art

    Byzantine Art
    The person who painted this was Guido of Siena. The name of the painting is Enthroned Madonna and Child. This painting was painted around 1270s in Italy. This was painted during the byzantine era because during that time Jesus was always potrayed. Also their bodies are curved. And they used alot of gold espically in the background and highlights.
  • Dec 1, 1498

    Renaissance Art

    Renaissance Art
    The artist that painted this was Leondardo Da Vinci. The painting was names The Last Supper. Leonardo started this paitning at 1494 and finished in 1498. The painting was painted at Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. What makes this painting part of the renaissance art is the use of prespective. The scene is real and has real people which is called realism. And there is Chiaroscuro, the shading and modeling of forms from light to dark.

  • Baroque Art

    Baroque Art
    The person who painted this was Rembrandt van Rijn. The name of the painting is The Night Watch. The paininting was painted at year 1642. It was painted at Groote Zall, Amesterdam. What makes this painting baroque is that there is chiaroscuro and tenebrism - or dramatic lights and darks. There is alot of emotions in the painting. And the painting contains alot of movement of people, they dont have a uniform pose.

  • Romanticism Art

    Romanticism Art
    The artist who painted this wasThéodore Géricault. He named his work Raft of the Medusa. He painted at the year 1819 in Louvre, Paris. The painting belongs to the romanticism era because the painting has passion and alot of emotion and a mood. Romanticism alos depicts current events, the event in the painting resembles the French Revolution. Also romanticism expresses survival and despair, this painting resembles those emotions.

  • Realism Art

    Realism Art
    The artist name is Gustave Courbet. The name of the painting is Stone-Breakers. It was painted at 1849 in Paris Salon. What makes this painting realism is that the artist depicted the real world exactly as it appears. The subject is an everyday event. The painting didnt try to interperet any emotion or setting.

  • Impressionism Art

    Impressionism Art
    Edgar degas painted this art and named it The Dance Lesson. He painted it at the year 1879 at Paris, France. There are dots, dashes, commas and other short brushstrokes which makes it impressionist. There is light and reflection. And there is a seperate in colors for letting our eye's preception mix them.

  • Modernism Art

    Modernism Art
    Pablo Picasso painted the Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. He painted it in Paris 1907. What make this painting modernist is that it tends to stay away from old traditions and toards abstract. Also what makes it modernist is the use of shapes. And that it stays away from logic and see new ways of materials.

  • Contemporary Art

    Contemporary Art
    Kenneth Noland painted the 'Beginning'. He painted in New York city in 1958. This painting represents contemporary art because contemporary art is the use of existing oobjects. Contemporary is all about originality, this painting is is an original idea. And the painter used some abstract to it by using circles.