17th-18th century.

Drama, meaning, intensity.

A relationship to Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation

Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Vermeer, Rembrandt

Emotional, exotic, sensual.

Delacroix, Friedrich

Realistic... duh.

"Interior of my Studio" by Courbet

"The Horse Fair" by Bonheur

Light palette, light subjects, light brushstrokes

"Impression: Sunrise" by Monet

Analytical (Seurat and Cezanne)

Expressionistic (Van Gogh and Gauguin)

Picasso: cubism; Duchamp: elevation of idea; Wright: modern architecture.

Rapidly changing trends.

General sense of movement away from and eventual return to "traditional" narrative painting.

cubism, expressionism, surrealism, regionalism, abstract expressionism, minimalism, conceptualism.