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Editorial guides to art history

In-depth, hand-written guides to the movements, artists, and artworks that shaped Western art. Body content in English; navigation and metadata available in 13 languages.

Artworks

  • Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa (c. 1503–1519), oil on poplar panel, 77 × 53 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
    Artworks

    Mona Lisa: History, Sfumato, and the World's Most Famous Painting

    Leonardo's Mona Lisa (c. 1503–1519) — the world's most-visited painting. Guide to the sitter, sfumato technique, 1911 theft, and seeing it at the Louvre.

Artists

  • Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa (c. 1503–1519), oil on poplar panel — the painting Leonardo carried with him to France and kept until his death.
    Artists

    Leonardo da Vinci: Life, Paintings, and the Universal Mind

    Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519): Italian Renaissance painter, scientist, and engineer whose Mona Lisa and Last Supper defined Western art's idea of genius.

  • Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (June 1889), painted from the asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
    Artists

    Vincent van Gogh: Life, Paintings, and the Birth of Modern Art

    Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose vivid color and expressive brushwork shaped 20th-century art.

Movements

  • Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise (1872) — the painting that gave Impressionism its name
    Movements

    What Is Impressionism? Origins, Artists, and Influence on Modern Art

    Impressionism is a 19th-century French art movement defined by visible brushwork, open-air painting, and the depiction of fleeting light and everyday life.

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