What art style is this? Compare your painting with the visual signs below, from Gothic altarpieces to abstract canvases. Each style lists three things to look for and one well-known example. If you are not sure, answer the five questions and we will point you to the closest match.
about 1150–1450 · example: Madonna of the Franciscans, Duccio
Gothic paintings · read the guide
about 1430–1580 · example: The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck
about 1400–1527 · example: Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance paintings · read the guide
about 1600–1750 · example: The Calling of Saint Matthew by Caravaggio — Hand-Painted Reproduction, Caravaggio
Baroque paintings · read the guide
the 1600s · example: The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer
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about 1720–1780 · example: The Swing, Jean-Honore Fragonard
Rococo paintings · read the guide
about 1760–1830 · example: Oath of the Horatii, Jacques-Louis David
Neoclassicism paintings · read the guide
about 1790–1850 · example: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Friedrich — Hand-Painted Reproduction, Caspar David Friedrich
Romanticism paintings · read the guide
about 1840–1880 · example: The Gleaners, Jean-Francois Millet
Realism paintings · read the guide
1848 to about 1900 · example: Ophelia, John Everett Millais
Pre-Raphaelite paintings · read the guide
about 1820–1900 · example: Birth Of Venus, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
about 1867–1886 · example: Impression, Sunrise, Claude Monet
about 1886–1906 · example: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat
about 1886–1905 · example: The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism paintings · read the guide
about 1890–1910 · example: The Kiss, Gustav Klimt
about 1905–1925 · example: The Scream, Edvard Munch
from about 1910 · example: Composition VII, Wassily Kandinsky
Abstract art paintings · read the guide
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