Time: Formed during the Italian Renaissance. Florence is a city in central Italy and the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance

Three Masters of Art

By the 19th century, Western art flourished and many schools emerged. Before and after the French Revolution, the French bourgeoisie's pursuit of ancient Greek and Roman heroism gave rise to neoclassical art.

Jacques-Louis David (French painter)

In the first half of the 19th century, the artistic school that emerged in the French painting world got rid of the constraints of academicism and classicism, and gave full play to the artist's own imagination and creativity. The themes of his creations were taken from real life, medieval legends, and literary masterpieces, such as Shakespeare, The works of Dante and Goethe are somewhat progressive

Eugène Delacroix (French painter)

In the mid-19th century, realist painting, which focused on expressing social reality, emerged.

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The rise of Impressionist painting, dominated by young painters, in the 1860s

Features: Focus on using light and color to depict the external world

Manet (pioneer of Impressionism)

Monet (founder of Impressionism)

Appeared in the late nineteenth century

Van Gogh (Netherlands)

Cézanne (France)

Gauguin (French Post-Impressionist painter)

The emergence of modernist art in the West in the 20th century

Picasso