From gold leaf to colour as feeling
Scroll slowly. Seven hundred years of painting, era by era.
1250–1499
Early Renaissance
Gold leaf gives way to perspective. Painters discover depth, faces and real light.
42 works in our gallery
1500–1599
High Renaissance & Mannerism
Leonardo, Raphael, Titian: balance, harmony, and then elegant strangeness.
94 works in our gallery
1600–1699
Baroque & the Dutch Golden Age
Drama in the dark: Caravaggio's spotlights, Rembrandt's shadows, Vermeer's quiet rooms.
85 works in our gallery
1700–1799
Rococo & Neoclassicism
Pastel playfulness, then a return to stern Greek and Roman ideals.
40 works in our gallery
1800–1859
Romanticism & Realism
Storms, ruins and feelings - then ordinary people painted as they really were.
65 works in our gallery
1860–1885
Impressionism
Paint outdoors, paint fast, paint the light itself.
105 works in our gallery
1886–1930
Post-Impressionism & Early Modern
Colour as emotion: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Klimt, Munch.
97 works in our gallery
