Periods · The Gallery Walk

Periods

Ten periods spanning more than five hundred years, each with its own world view and pictorial language.

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Renaissance Northern Renaissance Baroque Rococo Neoclassicism Romanticism Realism Impressionism Post-Impressionism Modern

Renaissance

1400–1520 · 8 works · 5 artists

Humanity at the centre, and the rediscovered order and beauty of the classical world.

Northern Renaissance

1430–1580 · 5 works · 5 artists

A microscopic world in oil paint, where every hair and every reflection is rendered with care.

Baroque

1600–1720 · 9 works · 6 artists

A shaft of light in the darkness, and a dramatic instant that moves the viewer.

Rococo

1720–1780 · 3 works · 3 artists

Pastels, silks and flirtation in the garden: the lighthearted hours of the aristocratic salon.

Neoclassicism

1760–1830 · 4 works · 2 artists

The virtue and reason of ancient Rome, answering an age of revolution.

Romanticism

1790–1850 · 19 works · 10 artists

Feeling over reason: the sublime in nature and the passions of the heart.

Realism

1840–1880 · 8 works · 6 artists

No idealising, no sermons: painters show workers and daily life as they are.

Impressionism

1860–1890 · 13 works · 7 artists

Out of the studio to catch the flicker of light at a single moment.

Post-Impressionism

1886–1905 · 14 works · 6 artists

Beyond recording light: colour and structure express inner feeling and order.

Modern

1900–1930 · 4 works · 4 artists

Farewell to representation; towards expression and abstraction.