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The comprehensive free reference for European painting. Over 50,000 works and 3,300 artists across ten eras, from Gothic to Post-Impressionism.

52,947 paintings · 3,296 artists · Ten eras of European masterworks

Painting of the Day

Saturn Devouring His Son

Francisco Goya·1820

Did You Know?

“Caravaggio killed a man in a street brawl in 1606 and spent the last four years of his life as a fugitive, painting masterpieces at every stop.”

Explore by Era

Gothic

c. 1200–1400

1,230 paintings

Early Renaissance

c. 1400–1490

4,373 paintings

High Renaissance

c. 1490–1530

7,088 paintings

Mannerism

c. 1530–1600

2,587 paintings

Baroque

c. 1600–1700

8,534 paintings

Rococo

c. 1700–1770

4,202 paintings

Neoclassicism

c. 1770–1820

4,046 paintings

Romanticism

c. 1820–1850

8,371 paintings

Impressionism

c. 1860–1890

5,750 paintings

Post-Impressionism

c. 1886–1910

6,766 paintings

Artist Spotlight

Hans Thoma

German Empire · –

34 paintings in our collection

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Hans Thoma was born on October 2, 1839, in Bernau im Schwarzwald, the son of a clockmaker. He studied at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts under Hans Canon and Ludwig des Coudres, then in Düsseldorf, and crucially in Paris in 1868 where he encountered Courbet's Realism. He became associated with the Leibl Circle in Munich in the early 1870s, and his friendship with Wilhelm Leibl was a formative influence.