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Forty thousand years of people making stuff.

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ImpressionismThe RenaissancePicasso & Cubism
Prehistoric
Prehistoric
40,000–3,000 BCE
Hands and horses on a cave wall, somewhere in France.
Ancient
Ancient
3000 BCE–500 CE
Egypt, Greece, Rome — and a remarkable number of urns.
Phidias · Praxiteles · Polykleitos · Myron · Apelles · Exekias
Medieval
Medieval
500–1400
Mostly church business. Mostly gold.
Giotto · Cimabue · Duccio · Simone Martini · Andrei Rublev · Limbourg Brothers
Renaissance
Renaissance
1400–1600
Math meets paint. Faces start looking back.
Leonardo da Vinci · Michelangelo · Raphael · Botticelli · Titian · Dürer
Baroque
Baroque
1600–1750
Drama, candlelight, and Caravaggio in a bad mood.
Caravaggio · Rembrandt · Vermeer · Rubens · Velázquez · Bernini
Neoclassical & Romantic
Neoclassical & Romantic
1750–1850
Reason vs. feelings. Feelings win the second half.
David · Goya · Turner · Delacroix · Ingres · Friedrich
Modern
Modern
1850–1970
Painters break the picture and put it back wrong on purpose.
Monet · Cézanne · Van Gogh · Picasso · Matisse · Duchamp
Contemporary
Contemporary
1970–today
Anything goes. The wall label is half the work.
Warhol · Basquiat · Richter · Hockney · Kusama · Ai Weiwei