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Art Movements: Renaissance to Romanticism
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Mannerism
Description: Characterized by artificiality, elongated proportions, and tension as a reaction against the harmony of the Renaissance. Key Artists: El Greco, Pontormo, Bronzino. Time Period: 1520 - 1600.
Neoclassicism
Description: A style of art and architecture that drew inspiration from the 'classical' art and culture of Ancient Greece and Rome. Key Artists: Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Antonio Canova. Time Period: Mid 18th - Early 19th Century.
Renaissance
Description: A period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning that focused on classical antiquities and humanism. Key Artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael. Time Period: 14th - 17th Century.
Impressionism
Description: Characterized by small, thin brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on the accurate depiction of light. Key Artists: Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Time Period: Late 19th Century.
Post-Impressionism
Description: A diverse art movement that emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color. Key Artists: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne. Time Period: Late 19th - Early 20th Century.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Description: A group of English painters who aimed to revive the detail, intense colors, and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian art. Key Artists: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt. Time Period: Founded in 1848.
Rococo
Description: An ornate style that was an evolution of Baroque with a lighter, more playful and decorative aesthetic. Key Artists: Jean-Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Time Period: Early 18th Century.
Romanticism
Description: Emphasized emotion, individualism, and the glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval to the classical. Key Artists: Francisco Goya, William Turner, Eugène Delacroix. Time Period: Late 18th - Mid 19th Century.
Baroque
Description: Featured dramatic use of light and shadow, rich colors, and grandiosity in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music. Key Artists: Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Bernini. Time Period: Late 16th - Early 18th Century.
Realism
Description: An artistic movement that aimed to represent subject matter truthfully, without artifice or stylization. Key Artists: Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, Honoré Daumier. Time Period: Mid 19th Century.
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