Art History - Major Movements and Famous Works

Renaissance (1400 - 1600)  

- The Last Supper (1495 - 1498) – Leonardo da Vinci  

- Mona Lisa (1503 - 1506) – Leonardo da Vinci  

- The School of Athens (1509 - 1511) – Raphael  

Baroque (1600 - 1725)  

- Judith and her Maidservant (1612 - 1613) – Artemisia Gentileschi  

- Las Meninas (1665) – Diego Velázquez  

(Note: Peter Paul Rubens was a Baroque artist, but Galileo Galilei is not associated with painting.)  

Neoclassicism (1760 - 1830)  

- The Oath of Horatii (1784) – Jacques‑Louis David  

- The Death of Socrates (1787) – Jacques‑Louis David  

- The Coronation of Napoleon (1807) – Jacques‑Louis David  

Romanticism (1770 - 1850)  

- The Nightmare (c.1781) – Henry Fuseli  

- The Third of May 1808 (1814) – Francisco Goya  

- Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (c.1818) – Caspar David Friedrich  

- Liberty Leading the People (1830) – Eugène Delacroix  

Realism (1840 - 1880)  

- The Gleaners (1857) – Jean‑François Millet  

- Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870 - 1873) – Ilya Repin  

- October (1878) – Jules Bastien‑Lepage  

Impressionism (1872 - 1892)  

- Woman with a Parasol (1875) – Claude Monet  

- The Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880 - 1881) – Pierre‑Auguste Renoir  

- Haystacks at Giverny (1884) – Claude Monet  

Post‑Impressionism (1885 - 1905)  

- Mont Sainte‑Victoire (1885 - 1887) – Paul Cézanne  

- The Night Café (1888) – Vincent van Gogh  

- Red Vineyards at Arles (1888) – Vincent van Gogh  

- Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers (1888) – Paul Gauguin  

- Paul Gauguin’s Armchair (1888) – Vincent van Gogh  

- The Starry Night (1889) – Vincent van Gogh  

- The Siesta (1892 - 1894) – Paul Gauguin  

Fauvism (1905 - 1908)  

- Luxury, Calm and Pleasure (1904) – Henri Matisse  

- Joy of Life (1905) – Henri Matisse  

Expressionism (1905 - 1933)  

- Large Blue Horses (1911) – Franz Marc  

- Criança Morta (1944) – Cândido Portinari  

- Os Retirantes (1944) – Cândido Portinari  

Cubism (1907 - 1922)  

- Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) – Pablo Picasso  

- Tea Time (1911) – Jean Metzinger  

Dadaism (1916 - 1924)  

- Fountain (1917, replica 1964) – Marcel Duchamp  

- L.H.O.O.Q. (1919) – Marcel Duchamp  

- Cut with a Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany (1919) – Hannah Höch  

Surrealism (1924 - 1966)  

- Ubu Imperator (1923) – Max Ernst  

- The Lovers (1928) – René Magritte  

- The Persistence of Memory (1931) – Salvador Dalí  

- Henry Ford Hospital (The Flying Bed) (1932) – Frida Kahlo  

- Lobster Telephone (1936) – Salvador Dalí  

- The Pleasure Principle (1937) – René Magritte  

Abstract Expressionism (1943 - 1965)  

- Number 5 (1948) – Jackson Pollock  

- Number 61 (Rust and Blue) – Mark Rothko  

- Mountains and Sea (1952) – Helen Frankenthaler  

Pop Art (1954 - 1970)  

- Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956) – Richard Hamilton  

- Whaam! (1963) – Roy Lichtenstein  

- Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962) – Andy Warhol  

- Marilyn Monroe (1967) – Andy Warhol  

- Kimiko (1981) – Andy Warhol  

Minimalism (1960 - 1975)  

- Empress of India (1965) – Frank Stella  

- Untitled (1972) – Donald Judd  

- Equivalent VIII (1972) – Carl Andre  

Photorealism (1960s onward)  

- Golden Dodge (1971) – Ralph Goings  

- Circus Act (1995) – Charles Bell  

- Deliverance (2011) – Teresa Elliott