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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

The Beach at Palavas

Gustave Courbet·1854

Did You Know?

“Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman admitted to the Florentine Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in 1616, building an international career at a time when women could not even buy paint supplies without a male guardian.”

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

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

French · 1725–1805

99 paintings in our collection

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a French painter who achieved enormous fame for his moralistic genre paintings depicting scenes of domestic virtue, family conflict, and sentimental emotion. Born in Tournus, Burgundy, in 1725, he studied in Paris and burst onto the artistic scene with his painting Father Reading the Bible to His Family at the Salon of 1755, which was celebrated by the philosopher Denis Diderot as a model of painting that could serve moral purposes.