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perhaps 1500-5

1521-4

Academies for painting were established across Europe during the 18th century although they first arose in Italy in the 16th century. They replaced and supplemented the medieval painters' guilds. The single most influential academy, the Royal Acad...

The word is widely used to describe something which is an exemplar of quality. In an art-historical context it is often employed to describe the culture and artefacts of Greco-Roman antiquity (as well as a specific period of Greek art). In many co...

Neoclassicism literally means 'new classicism' or a revival of classical values. The word is used as a style label and is applied to aspects of the arts of the later 18th and early 19th centuries. At that period there was a conscious revival and a...

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (P.R.B.) was a 19th-century English art movement founded in 1848 by Holman Hunt, Millais, Rosetti and others. Such painters shared the ideal of emulating or recreating works akin to Italian paintings produced before...

early 16th century

possibly 1540s

1660-85

The Sistine Chapel in Rome is a papal chapel in the Vatican Palace. It was built by Pope Sixtus IV before 1481, when a team of painters from Tuscany and Umbria were commissioned to fresco the walls with scenes from the life of Moses and the life o...