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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

Sailing Vessel in Moonlight

Paul Gauguin·1878

Did You Know?

“Leonardo da Vinci worked on the Mona Lisa for at least four years and may never have considered it finished. He kept it with him until his death.”

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

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Austrian · 1793–1858

40 paintings in our collection

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller was a European painter active during the Romantic period, an era that championed emotion over reason, celebrated the sublime power of nature, valued individual artistic vision above academic convention, and explored the full range of human experience from ecstatic joy to existential despair.