| Religious in focus, often funded by the Church, lack of realism, trying to send a religious message with clear iconic images instead of precisely rendered ones.
| Ancient Greek art
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| Stone vaulting, thick, load-bearing walls with few windows, a heavy-looking and simple style.
| Renaissance
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| employing distortion of light and spatial frameworks in order to emphasize the emotional content of a painting and the emotions of the painter
| Ancient Roman art
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| Depicting gods as idealized humans, shown with characteristic distinguishing features, commemorating great events in the life of the state and to glorifying the emperors rather than recording the inner life of man and expressing ideas of beauty and nobility
| Impres-sionism
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| Focused on the use of color and motion in order to portray emotion, used Greek and Roman mythology and tradition as an important source of symbolism, emphasis on nature and portraying the power and beauty of the natural world.
| Mediaeval Art
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| emphasizing detail, movement, lighting, and drama in search for beauty, the emphasis is placed on grandeur, love for detail, often considered overly-ornate and gaudy
| Expres-sionism
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| Engraved and painted cave paintings using red ochre and black pigment and showing horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, mammoth or humans often hunting.
| Mannerism
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| Accurate portrayal of the conditions and hardships of the poor in the hopes of changing society, offered a stark vision of poverty and despair, portrayed life in the depths of an urban wasteland.
| Pre-
historic art
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| Enhancing realism of the work by using new techniques in perspective, thus representing three dimensions more authentically, using new techniques in the manipulation of light and darkness, rediscovering many ancient techniques such as contrapposto. More secular in subject matter, depicting ancient mythology in addition to Christian themes.
| Baroque
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| A veneration of the human physical form and the development of equivalent skills to show musculature, poise, beauty and anatomically correct proportions. Survived most successfully in the forms of sculpture and architecture, as well as in such minor arts as coin design, pottery and gem engraving.
| Neo-classicism
Romanticism
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| The use of light in painting in an attempt to capture light as seen from the human eye.
| Ancient Egyptian art
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| The art of transposing a three-dimensional reality onto a flat canvas
| Fauvism
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| Characterized by the idea of order. Clear and simple lines combined with simple shapes and flat areas of color help to create a sense of order and balance, use of vertical and horizontal reference lines in order to maintain the correct proportions, symbolism, highly realistic.
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| Painting the canvases in bright, wild hues
| Romanesque
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| Evoking emotion through objective works of art
| Cubism
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