Art History - Bangalore - Masters Painting Gallery

<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div> <a name="Art-History"></a><b><font size="-1">Art History - Byzantine to Romanticism to Op Art to Modern Art - <a href="#Art-History">Art History</a></font></b> <h1>Art Styles & Movements</h1> <p class="movements"> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#byzantine">Byzantine Art (400s - 1450s)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#romanesque">Romanesque Art (800s - 1100s)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#gothic">Gothic Art (1280 - 1515)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#renaissance">Renaissance (1420 - 1600)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#mannerism">Mannerism (1520 - 1600)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#baroque">Baroque (1600 - 1790)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#roccoco">Rococo (1715 - 1774)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#expressionism">Expressionism (1905 - 1940s)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#cubism">Cubism (1908 - 1920)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#futurism">Futurism (Italy, 1909 - 1914)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#dada">Dada (1916 - 1924</a>)<br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#surrealism">Surrealism (1924 - 1950s)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#artdeco">Art Deco (1920s - 1930s)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#abstractexpressionism">Abstract Expressionism (1946 - 1960s)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#popart">Pop Art (1950s - 1960s)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#opart">Op Art (1950s - 1960s)</a><br> <a href="04_HistoryTXT.html#photorealism">Photorealism (1960s - 1970s)</a><br> <img src="../paintings/landscape.gif" alt="Art History" width="200" height="23" align="middle"> </p> </div> <p>Byzantine art thrived from about 300 A.D into the 1400s, growing out of the early Christian world. It was named after Byzantium, the capital city of the Roman Empire, which was later called Constantinople and Istanbul.</p> <p>Romanesque art in Western Europe was popular from about 800 A.D. to the 1100s. The Romanesque style was named after Roman art which was only one of the many sources that inspired the Romanesque period.</p> <p>The Gothic style arose in the 12th century, at the height of the Middle Ages, an era of wealth and certainty, and dominated until the end of the fifteenth century. Christianity was prospering with the building of magnificent Gothic cathedrals. In contrast to the <a href="#romanesque">Romanesque</a> and <a href="#byzantine">Byzantine</a> styles, the most notable feature of the art of the Gothic period is its increased earthiness, first appearing in Italian artistry in the late 13th century.</p> <p>The Renaissance or period of "rebirth,"was a period of great cultural accomplishment which lasted more than three hundred years. This concept of rebirth is at the heart of the Renaissance style: artists, scholars, architects, and leaders held that the path to enlightenment was to study the Golden Ages of the ancient Greeks and Romans.</p> </body>