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Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church.
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Rococo art featured aristocrats playing in their Baroque palaces and bucolic backyards.
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Holy relics were contained in dazzling jeweled vessels called reliquaries.
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These painters brought art from medieval two-dimensional to more life-like 3-D.
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The sculptor Donatello gave his proud statues unprecedented realism and emotion.
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Oil paints freed artists like Jan van Eyck, Raphael, and Leonardo to raise the bar.
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Medieval Europe was filled with bronze horses, rich mosaics, and magnificent churches.
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The Medici family nurtured and employed the great Florentine Renaissance artists.
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A humble monk, Fra Angelico frescoed exquisite sacred scenes for his monastery.
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The art of Communism diligently promoted the heroic symbols of the state as propaganda.
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With the large Cubist-inspired painting, Picasso put a human face on “collateral damage.”
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Surrealists explored the subconscious painting everyday images in jarring juxtapositions.
