Visual history
Movements
14th to 16th century
Renaissance
- Perspective and geometric order
- Balance between figure and space
- Modeling light and harmonized color
17th and early 18th century
Baroque
- Diagonals and tension
- Strong light contrast
- Depth and theatrical gesture
Second half of the 19th century
Impressionism
- Moment and atmosphere
- Visible brushwork
- Color shaped by light
Late 19th century
Post-Impressionism
- Expressive structure
- Subjective color
- Visible picture surface
Late 18th and 19th century
Romanticism
- Emotional scale
- The sublime in nature
- Atmospheric light and movement