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45,098 paintings · 3,151 artists · Ten eras of European masterworks

Painting of the Day

Panel 4. The Vengeance of Venus

Maurice Denis·1908

Did You Know?

“Constable's The Hay Wain received a lukewarm reception in England but won a gold medal at the 1824 Paris Salon, where it so impressed Delacroix that he repainted the background of his own Massacre at Chios.”

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Gothic

c. 1200–1400

1,229 paintings

Early Renaissance

c. 1400–1490

4,324 paintings

High Renaissance

c. 1490–1530

6,906 paintings

Mannerism

c. 1530–1600

2,340 paintings

Baroque

c. 1600–1700

6,265 paintings

Rococo

c. 1700–1770

3,876 paintings

Neoclassicism

c. 1770–1820

3,792 paintings

Romanticism

c. 1820–1850

5,937 paintings

Impressionism

c. 1860–1890

4,834 paintings

Post-Impressionism

c. 1886–1910

5,595 paintings

Artist Spotlight

Antonio da Correggio

Italian · 1489–1534

110 paintings in our collection

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Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio after his birthplace near Parma, was one of the most innovative and influential painters of the Italian Renaissance, whose pioneering use of illusionistic ceiling painting and sensuous grace of form made him a crucial precursor of the Baroque. Working in relative provincial isolation from the major artistic centers of Florence, Rome, and Venice, Correggio developed a distinctive style that combined the warmth of Leonardo's sfumato with a dynamic sense of movement and an almost voluptuous beauty that were entirely his own.