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The Renaissance Wing
From Giotto's frescoes to El Greco's flames — the centuries that invented the artist.
the fresco painter who brought weight and feeling back to Western art
microscopic oil-paint realism and the Arnolfini Portrait
serene devotional frescoes in San Marco
perspective-driven frescoes that founded Renaissance painting
geometric calm and the light of Urbino
The Birth of Venus and Primavera
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The Garden of Earthly Delights and its impossible creatures
the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and sfumato
engravings and watercolors of scientific precision
the Sistine ceiling and David
The School of Athens and perfect grace
Venetian color that painters studied for centuries
The Ambassadors and Tudor court portraits
theatrical speed and scale in Venetian painting
peasant scenes and Hunters in the Snow
colossal silver-lit feast paintings
pioneering portraits that opened doors for women painters
flame-like figures three centuries ahead of their time
The Baroque & Rococo Wing
Drama, daylight and gilded pleasure, from Caravaggio to Fragonard.
violent light and street-cast saints
muscular color and Europe's busiest studio
the liveliest brushwork of the Dutch Golden Age
Judith Slaying Holofernes and baroque heroines
classical order that founded French painting
Las Meninas and truth at the Spanish court
the elegant court portrait, perfected
golden ideal landscapes at sunset
The Night Watch and the most honest self-portraits ever painted
sparkling genre scenes rediscovered under another's name
soft devotional light and Seville street children
Girl with a Pearl Earring and rooms full of daylight
flower still lifes of scientific splendor
the fête galante — parties tinged with melancholy
the last great ceiling painter
Venice, canal by canal, for the Grand Tour
quiet still lifes that outweigh palace ceilings
pink silk, powdered skies, and Madame de Pompadour
The Swing and rococo's final flourish
The Nineteenth-Century Wing
Revolutions on canvas: Neoclassicists, Romantics, Realists and Academicians.
founding Royal Academician and neoclassical history painter
The Third of May 1808 and the Black Paintings
The Oath of the Horatii and painting as politics
portraitist to Marie Antoinette and survivor of revolutions
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
storms, steam, and light dissolving the world
The Hay Wain and the English countryside
porcelain-smooth portraits and impossible spines
The Raft of the Medusa
silvery landscapes bridging classicism and Impressionism
Liberty Leading the People and color set loose
founder of the Hudson River School
caricature with teeth and paintings of the crowd
The Gleaners and the dignity of labor
six thousand paintings of the sea
Realism as a battle cry
The Horse Fair and Europe's most famous woman painter
the polished summit of academic painting
Pre-Raphaelite muses and medieval dreams
Ophelia, petal by petal
Whistler's Mother and art for art's sake
marble terraces of an imagined antiquity
the Atlantic, watercolor and oil
Barge Haulers on the Volga and Russian realism at full power
The Lady of Shalott
Madame X and the bravura society portrait
The Impressionist Wing
The painters of modern life — and the post-Impressionists who broke their rules.
the patriarch who showed in all eight Impressionist exhibitions
Olympia and the bridge to modern painting
dancers, bathers, and merciless drawing
the purest Impressionist landscapes
Mont Sainte-Victoire and the road to Cubism
Impression, Sunrise and the water lilies
dream charcoals and floating eyes
Bal du moulin de la Galette and painted joy
founding Impressionist with the freest brush of the group
mothers, children, and the modern woman in Paris
self-taught jungles that stunned the avant-garde
Paris Street; Rainy Day and radical viewpoints
flat color, Brittany, and Tahiti
The Starry Night and paint as pure emotion
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, dot by dot
pointillism's champion and theorist
Moulin Rouge posters and Montmartre nights
The Modern Wing
Expression, abstraction and the boldest experiments before 1955.
expressionist visions in acid color
The Kiss and Vienna's golden decade
monumental abstractions painted years before the famous ones
The Scream
model turned master of the bold figure
the leap into pure abstraction
color unleashed — from Fauvism to the cut-outs
totem poles and swirling British Columbia forests
grids of primary color that redefined painting
trailblazing self-portraits and early Expressionism
The Jack Pine and the northern wilderness
taking a line for a walk
the Black Square and Suprematism
co-founder of Fauvism's wild color
blue horses and spiritual color
jagged Berlin street scenes
Futurist speed in paint and bronze
long-necked portraits with almond eyes
luminous parks and shop windows before the war
raw, angular figures and unflinching self-portraits
Prouns and revolutionary graphic design
American Gothic
Beyond the Salon
Masters of Japan and India, and the golden-age illustrators.
Zen ink landscapes at the summit of Japanese painting
portraits of beauties that defined ukiyo-e
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
rain, snow, and the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
fusing Indian epics with European oil technique
the Art Nouveau poster, perfected
the golden age of fairy-tale illustration
scandalous black-and-white ink elegance
Russian fairy tales in ornamental splendor
trolls and forest princesses of Swedish folklore