From the early Renaissance through Baroque and Romanticism to Cubism,
Surrealism, and Pop, these canonical works of Western Art span eight
centuries and a vast range of subjects. Here are the sacred and the
scandalous, the minimalist and the opulent, the groundbreaking and the
conventional. There are paintings that captured the feeling of an era
and those that signaled the beginning of a new one. Works of art that
were immediately recognised for their genius, and others that were at
first met with resistance. All have stood the test of time and in their
own ways contribute to the dialectic on what makes a painting great, how
notions of art have changed, to what degree art reflects reality, and
to what degree it alters it. Brought together, these great works
illuminate the changing preoccupations and insights of our ancestors,
and give us pause to consider which paintings from our own era will
ultimately join the canon.
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