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The most comprehensive free reference for European painting. Over 40,000 works and 3,000 artists across ten eras, from Gothic to Post-Impressionism.

40,050 paintings · 3,294 artists · Seven eras of European masterworks

Painting of the Day

Saturn Devouring His Son

Francisco Goya·1820

Did You Know?

“Albrecht Dürer was the first artist to paint a full frontal self-portrait, deliberately echoing the iconography of Christ. It was an audacious statement about the divine nature of artistic creation.”

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Gothic

c. 1200–1400

1,234 paintings

Early Renaissance

c. 1400–1490

4,429 paintings

High Renaissance

c. 1490–1530

6,994 paintings

Mannerism

c. 1530–1600

1,827 paintings

Baroque

c. 1600–1700

5,635 paintings

Rococo

c. 1700–1770

3,160 paintings

Neoclassicism

c. 1770–1820

3,240 paintings

Romanticism

c. 1820–1850

4,475 paintings

Impressionism

c. 1860–1890

4,398 paintings

Post-Impressionism

c. 1886–1910

4,658 paintings

Artist Spotlight

Odilon Redon

French · –

39 paintings in our collection

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Bertrand Jean Redon, known as Odilon, was born on April 22, 1840, in Bordeaux. He received an unusually diverse formation: he studied drawing under Stanislas Gorin, then briefly under the sculptor Joseph-Isidore Dauzats, then botanical drawing under the botanist Armand Clavaud (who introduced him to the microscopic world of cells and spores), and finally etching and engraving under Rodolphe Bresdin.