The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from antiquity until the present time. Until the mid-19th century...

portion of the history of painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by religious art. Examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting...

20th-century Western painting begins with the heritage of late-19th-century painters Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Henri...

traditional Chinese: 國畫), meaning "national painting" or "native painting", as opposed to Western styles of art which became popular in China in the 20th century...

Kalighat painting, Kalighat Patachitra, or Kalighat Pat (Bengali: কালীঘাট পটচিত্র) is style of Indian paintings which originated in the 19th century. It...

tradition of representing other subjects. Two main traditions spring from Western painting and Chinese art, going back well over a thousand years in both cases...

throughout Western Europe underscores its widespread popularity. Baroque painting encompasses a great range of styles, as most important and major painting during...

Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has...

Cabanel. Using an eclectic mix of techniques and formulas established in Western painting since the Renaissance—such as linear perspective and figure types derived...

approaches gained favor. Developments in Eastern painting historically parallel those in Western painting, in general, a few centuries earlier. African art...

influence upon the subsequent development of Western painting. By chance, the main phases of Venetian painting fit rather neatly into the centuries. The...

of emotional liberation and hedonism. At the start of 20th-century Western painting, and initially influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin and other late-19th-century...

Mughal painting is a South Asian style of painting on paper confined to miniatures either as book illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums...

Depictions of childbirth, abortion, or miscarriage are rare in the canon of Western painting, and Kahlo is "one of the only major artists to directly communicate...

Lorenzetti in Italy, and Early Netherlandish painting, brought realism and more natural humanity to art. Western artists, and their patrons, became much more...

to differentiate it from its counterpart, known as Yōga (洋画) or Western-style painting. The term literally translates to "pictures of Japan." Nihonga began...

Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later...

states and rising influence of Western painting and photography, Rajput painting gradually ceased to exist. Rajput painting essentially offers one a captivating...

Color field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. It was inspired by European modernism and...

Rococo painting represents the expression in painting of an aesthetic movement that flourished in Europe between the early and late 18th century, migrating...

of night in paintings is common in Western art. Paintings that feature a night scene as the theme may be religious or history paintings, genre scenes...

History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment...

Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical...

their own Western tradition. Ironically enough, it was this very work of Hokusai and Hiroshige that helped to revitalize Western painting toward the...

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of the High Renaissance is considered to be the absolute zenith of western painting and achieved the balancing and reconciliation, in harmony, of contradictory...

illusionism and becomes especially marked in European painting in the Early Netherlandish painting of Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck and other artists in the...

Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries...

Indian painting Indian painting has a very long tradition and history in Indian art. The earliest Indian paintings were the rock paintings of prehistoric...

recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary...