The Use of Light in Art

  • 1298 BCE

    Unknown, "Ra with Solar Disk," circa 1298-35

  • Period: 1298 BCE to

    The Use of Light in Art

  • Period: 1 CE to

    The Use of Light in Art

  • 30

    Death of Christ

  • 1498

    da Vinci, "The Last Supper," 1498

  • 1503

    da Vinci, "Mona Lisa," 1503

  • El Greco, "Resurrection," 1584-94

  • Rembrandt, "Artist in his Studio," 1628

  • Gericault, "The Raft of the Medusa," 1818-19

  • Turner, "Rain, Steam, and Speed," 1844

  • American Civil War

  • Renoir, "Bal du Moulin de la Galette," 1876

  • Monet, "Rouen Cathedral, Facade Sunset," 1894

  • The Golden Gate by Albert Bierstadt, 1900

  • Derain, "Big Ben," 1906

  • World War I

  • World War II

  • Shurui, "Lights No. 100

  • Shurui, "Lights No. 85

  • Terry Winters, patterns in a chromatic field (14), 2013

  • "Dreams of no thing, no time," 2014

  • Shurui," Lights No. 97