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Camden Town Group, group of English Post-Impressionist artists who met on a weekly basis in the studio of the painter......
Carolingian art, classic style produced during the reign of Charlemagne (768–814) and thereafter until the late......
casein painting, painting executed with colours ground in a solution of casein, a phosphoprotein of milk precipitated......
Central African Workshop, art workshop established in the late 1950s by Frank McEwen, the director of the Rhodesian......
Chan painting, school of Chinese painting inspired by the “meditative” school of Buddhism called, in Chinese, Chan......
chiaroscuro, (from Italian chiaro, “light,” and scuro, “dark”), technique employed in the visual arts to represent......
The Child’s Bath, oil-on-canvas painting created in 1893 by American artist Mary Cassatt during her mature period.......
Chinese painting, one of the major art forms produced in China over the centuries. The other arts of China are......
- Introduction
- Calligraphy, Brushwork, Ink
- Brushwork, Landscapes, Calligraphy
- Qin, Han, Brushwork
- Sui, Tang, Dynasties
- Five Dynasties (907–960) and Ten Kingdoms (902–978)
- Ming Dynasty, Brushwork, Landscapes
- Brushwork, Landscapes, Calligraphy
- Brushwork, Landscapes, Calligraphy
- Brushwork, Landscapes, Calligraphy
chinsō, in Japanese art, type of Buddhist portraiture developed especially by the Zen sect about 1200. Chinsō were......
Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, fresco in the Sistine Chapel that was painted in 1481–82 by Italian Renaissance......
Christina’s World, tempera painting on panel created in 1948 by American realist artist Andrew Wyeth. It became......
classicism, aesthetic attitude and art style based on or reiterating themes, techniques, and subjects of art from......
Claude Lorrain glass, black convex glass used by artists to reflect the landscape in miniature and, in doing so,......
COBRA, Expressionist group of painters whose name is derived from the first letters of the three northern European......
color-field painting, with Action painting, one of two major strains of the 20th-century art movement known as......
Company school, style of miniature painting that developed in India in the second half of the 18th century in response......
Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, oil painting by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian that was begun in 1937–38 and......
Composition, 1943, abstract still-life oil painting created in 1943 by American artist Lee Krasner. It exemplifies......
Concrete Invention, a group of artists based in Buenos Aires in the 1940s known for its works of geometric abstraction.......
The Condottiere, one of the most striking portraits by Italian painter Antonello da Messina, created in 1475 and......
The Conversion of St. Paul, two paintings (c. 1601) by Italian artist Caravaggio portraying the conversion of Paul......
The Coronation of Napoleon, monumental oil painting (20.37 × 32.12 feet [6.21 × 9.79 meters]) by French artist......
The Course of Empire: Destruction, allegorical oil painting created in 1836 by American painter Thomas Cole that......
Cubism, highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by the artists Pablo......
Cubo-Futurism, Russian avant-garde art movement in the 1910s that emerged as an offshoot of European Futurism and......
cun, in Chinese painting, brushstrokes or dabs that give texture, or surface, to the pictorial elements. The Chinese......
Cuzco school, the group of European and indigenous painters active in Cuzco, Peru, from the 16th through the 18th......
Dance (I), huge oil painting created in 1909 by French Fauvist artist Henri Matisse as the full-size study for......
Danube school, a tradition of landscape painting that developed in the region of the Danube River valley in the......
Deccani painting, style of miniature painting that flourished from the late 16th century among the Deccani sultanates......
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, painting by Pablo Picasso completed in 1907. At 25 years of age, with an already serious......
Descent from the Cross, triptych created by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens in 1611–14 for the altar of the Cathedral......
The Descent from the Cross, an early oil painting by Northern Renaissance artist Rogier van der Weyden that is......
divisionism, in painting, the practice of separating colour into individual dots or strokes of pigment. It formed......
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, oil painting by Giacomo Balla that was completed in 1912. It is an iconic Futurist......
décor bois, (French: “wood decoration”), in decorative arts, trompe l’oeil decoration of porcelain and faience......
Düsseldorf school, painters who studied at the Düsseldorf Academy (now Düsseldorf State Academy of Art) and whose......
easel painting, painting executed on a portable support such as a panel or canvas, instead of on a wall. It is......
Eastern Indian painting, school of painting that flourished in the 11th and 12th centuries in the area of what......
Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, Chinese painters who worked in the area of Yangzhou, in Jiangsu province, during......
In the 19th century thousands of professional artists were working in Paris, but they had few places to exhibit......
Eight Masters of Nanjing, group of Chinese artists who lived and worked during the late 17th century in Nanjing......
The Eight, group of American painters who exhibited together only once, in New York City in 1908, but who established......
emaki, Japanese illustrated text, or narrative picture scroll. The makimono, or horizontal hand-scroll, format......
encaustic painting, painting technique in which pigments are mixed with hot liquid wax. Artists can change the......
English school, dominant school of painting in England throughout the second half of the 18th century and the first......
Examination of Country Magistrates, watercolor painting that was created by an unknown artist during the Qing dynasty......
According to Ernst van de Wetering, in his biography of Rembrandt van Rijn in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Rembrandt......
Expressionism, artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective......
Eṣfahān school, last great school of Persian miniature painting, at its height in the early 17th century under......
The Family of Carlos IV, oil painting by Francisco Goya in 1800 depicting the royal family of Spain. It has often......
Fauvism, style of painting that flourished in France around the turn of the 20th century. Fauve artists used pure,......
Fayum portrait, any of the funerary portraits dating from the Roman period (1st to the 4th century) found in Egyptian......
Flag (1954–55), encaustic, oil, and collage painting on wood panel that was created in 1954–55 by American artist......
The Flagellation of Christ, oil and tempera painting created by Florentine artist Piero della Francesca in about......
Flemish art, art of the 15th, 16th, and early 17th centuries in Flanders and in the surrounding regions including......
school of Fontainebleau, the vast number of artists, both foreign and French, whose works are associated with the......
fore-edge painting, technique of painting the edges of the leaves, or folios, of a book, employed in the European......
Four Masters of Anhui, group of Chinese artists who were born and worked in Anhui province in the 17th century......
Four Masters of the Yuan dynasty, Chinese painters who worked during the Yuan period (1206–1368) and were revered......
Four Wangs, Chinese landscape painters (Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Hui, Wang Yuanqi) who were members of the......
Franco-Cantabrian art, style of art associated with a group of Paleolithic cave sites in southwestern France and......
fresco painting, method of painting usually on walls by applying water-based pigments on either fresh plaster or......
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You......
Fruit and Insects, oil painting by Dutch artist Rachel Ruysch, that, together with Basket of Flowers, was commissioned......
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, luminist oil painting created in 1845 by American frontier artist George Caleb......
Futurism, early 20th-century artistic movement centered in Italy that emphasized the dynamism, speed, energy, and......
fête champêtre, (French: “rural festival”), in painting, representation of a rural feast or open-air entertainment.......
The Garden of Earthly Delights, painting by Hiëronymus Bosch, completed c. 1490–1500, that depicts the earthly......
Gemäldegalerie, art museum in Berlin possessing one of the top collections of European paintings from the 13th......
genre painting, painting of scenes from everyday life, of ordinary people in work or recreation, depicted in a......
Geometric style, style of ancient Greek art, primarily of vase painting, that began about 900 bc and represents......
George Washington, full-length oil portrait of George Washington created in 1796 by his most famous portraitist,......
gesso, fluid white coating, composed of plaster of paris, chalk, gypsum, or other whiting mixed with glue, applied......
Getty Museum, museum and research center established by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty as a home for his collection of......
Ghent Altarpiece, large and complex altarpiece in the Cathedral of St. Bavo in Ghent, Belgium, that is attributed......
Ghent-Bruges school, group of manuscript illuminators and scribes active during the last quarter of the 15th and......
The Giantess, tempera painting by English-born Mexican Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that was created about......
Girl with a Pearl Earring, oil painting on canvas (c. 1665) by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, one of his most well-known......
Girl with the Red Hat, oil-on-panel painting (c. 1669) by Johannes Vermeer. The painting is from Vermeer’s later......
gongbi, in Chinese painting, meticulous brush technique that delimits details very precisely and without independent......
gouache, painting technique in which a gum or an opaque white pigment is added to watercolours to produce opacity.......
grisaille, painting technique by which an image is executed entirely in shades of gray and usually severely modeled......
Guernica, a large black-and-white oil painting executed by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in 1937 following the German......
Hague school, Dutch painters who worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1900, producing renderings of local landscapes......
Hausmalerei, white pottery wares obtained from a factory and painted at home by a Hausmaler (freelance home painter......
The Head of Medusa, oil painting on canvas mounted on a wooden shield that was created about 1597 by Italian artist......
Herāt school, 15th-century style of miniature painting that flourished in Herāt, western Afghanistan, under the......
Hiberno-Saxon style, in Western visual arts, the decorative vocabulary that resulted from the interaction of the......
Hudson River school, large group of American landscape painters of several generations who worked between about......
Hunters in the Snow (Winter), oil painting on wood panel that was created in 1565 by Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel......
I and the Village, oil painting created in 1911 by Belorussian-born French artist Marc Chagall. Painted about a......
illuminated manuscript, handwritten book that has been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colours, or elaborate......
impasto, paint that is applied to a canvas or panel in quantities that make it stand out from the surface. Impasto......
Impression, Sunrise, is an oil painting created by Claude Monet in 1872. The artistic movement known as Impressionism......
Impressionism, a broad term used to describe the work produced in the late 19th century, especially between about......
Intimism, variety of late 19th- and early 20th-century painting that made an intense exploration of the domestic......
Irises, a pair of painted six-panel gold-ground folding screens created in the early 18th century by Japanese artist......
Isenheim Altarpiece, panels painted in oils on a sculpted altarpiece created by German artist Matthias Grünewald......
Island of the Dead, oil painting on wood that was created in 1886 by Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin, who was known......