Renaissance (1400-1600)

 The term Renaissance refers to the revival of interest in

classical antiquity, ancient literature, humanistic principles,
and classical artistic styles during this period. Many textbooks
contrast Renaissance art's interest in naturalism and
humanism with medieval art's more abstract style and
otherworldly focus.
Arts works of renaissance:
Donatello, David, mid-fifteenth century.

Brunelleschi, Dome for Florence

Cathedral, 1420–35
Baroque (1600-1750)
 In fine art, the term Baroque (derived from the Portuguese ‘barocco’
meaning ‘irregular pearl or stone’) refers to a fairly complex idiom that
originated in Rome and flourished between 1590 and 1720,
encompassing painting, sculpture, and architecture. Following the
idealism of the Renaissance (c.1400-1530) and the slightly ‘forced’
nature of Mannerism (c.1530-1600), Baroque art reflected the religious
tensions of the time, particularly the desire of the Catholic Church in
Rome (as announced at the Council of Trent, 1545-63) to reassert itself
in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation.
Artworks of Baroque:
Samson and Delilah (1609-1610) by
Peter Paul Rubens, the great Flemish
Baroque painter.

The Apotheosis of St Ignatius

(1694) San Ignazio, Rome, by Pozzo.
One of the Baroque’s most inspiring
Religious paintings ever created.
Classical (1750-1827)
 Classical art, also known as Classicism, is artwork that is inspired by
ancient Roman or Greek culture, architecture, literature, and art.
Classicism was most popular in Western art during the Renaissance
period, and it frequently depicted mythological scenes in painting,
sculpture, and printmaking.
Artworks of Classical period:
Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1786, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Cascade, 1775, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Romantic (1827-1900)
 Romanticism was a European art movement that valued imagination
and aesthetics over logic and conventional order. It was a broad
movement encompassing many different styles of art, across most of the
painting genres. If there was a unifying factor, it was a mental attitude
that valued “individual experience” in a world that was becoming
increasingly mechanized, ordered, and rational.
Artworks of Romantic period:
Liberty Leading the People (1830) Louvre, Paris. By Eugene Delacroix.

Ville d’Avray (1867) By Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. National Gallery of Art, Washingon DC
By the most famous French Romanticb Landscape artist.
Modern (1900-1970)
 When the twentieth century arrived, artists had every reason to believe
they were entering a completely new and distinct modern era.
Philosophers such as Henri Bergson were expanding and contracting
our understanding of time, while Sigmund Freud’s theories were
revealing previously unknown aspects of the human mind. The
nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution gave birth to modern
conveyances such as the automobile, airplane, and electric elevator,
which worked in tandem with steel-and-glass construction to give birth
to the skyscraper—the modern city’s emblem. Life had never been more
frantic.