Art of Europe
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| - | :In [[Western art]], artists' patrons have been the [[church]] in the [[Middle Ages]]; the [[court]]s in the Renaissance and the [[bourgeoisie]] (the new middle class) in the [[Enlightenment]] era. During the 20th century private patrons were joined by state funded [[arts council]]s and museums. | + | :In [[Western art]], artists' [[patron]]s have been the [[church]] in the [[Middle Ages]]; the [[court]]s in the Renaissance and the [[bourgeoisie]] (the new middle class) in the [[Enlightenment]] era. During the 20th century private patrons were joined by state funded [[arts council]]s and museums. |
| '''Western art''' is the [[European art|art of Europe]], and those parts of the world that have come to follow predominantly European cultural traditions such as [[North America]]. | '''Western art''' is the [[European art|art of Europe]], and those parts of the world that have come to follow predominantly European cultural traditions such as [[North America]]. | ||
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- In Western art, artists' patrons have been the church in the Middle Ages; the courts in the Renaissance and the bourgeoisie (the new middle class) in the Enlightenment era. During the 20th century private patrons were joined by state funded arts councils and museums.
Western art is the art of Europe, and those parts of the world that have come to follow predominantly European cultural traditions such as North America.
Written histories of Western art often begin with the art of the Ancient Middle East, Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Aegean civilisations, dating from the 3rd millenia BC. Parallel with these significant cultures, art of one form or another existed all over Europe, wherever there were people, leaving signs such as carvings, decorated artifacts and huge standing stones. However a consistent pattern of artistic development within Europe becomes clear only with the art of Ancient Greece, adopted and transformed by Rome and carried, with the Empire, across much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
The influence of the art of the Classical period waxed and waned throughout the next two thousand years, seeming to slip into a distant memory in the Medieval period, to re-emerge in the Renaissance, suffer a period of what some early art historians viewed as "decay" during the Baroque period, to reappear in a refined form in Neo-Classicism and to be re-born in Post-Modernism.
The other major influence upon Western art has been Christianity, the commissions of the Church, architectural, painterly and sculptural, providing the major source of work for artists for about 1400 years, from 300 AD to about 1700 AD. The history of the Church was very much reflected in the history of art, during this period.
Secularism has influenced Western art since the Classical period, while most art of the last 200 years has been produced without reference to religion and often with no particular ideology at all. On the other hand, Western art has often been influenced by politics of one kind or another, of the state, of the patron and of the artist.
Western art is arranged into a number of stylistic periods, which, historically, overlap each other as different styles flourished in different areas. Broadly the periods are, Classical, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern. Each of these is further subdivided.
Periodization
- 1 Ancient art
- 2 Medieval
- 2.1 Byzantine
- 2.2 Celtic
- 2.3 Romanesque
- 2.4 Gothic
- 3 Renaissance
- 3.1 From Gothic to the Renaissance
- 3.2 Early Renaissance
- 3.3 High Renaissance
- 3.4 Northern Renaissance
- 4 Mannerism, Baroque and Rococo
- 5 Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Academism and Realism
- 6 Modern art
- 7 Contemporary art and Postmodern art
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