As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came prehi...

The Romans gave Europe its first taste of a common culture—and awe-inspiring art. From its groundbreaking architectur...

After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of civilization flicke...

Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. This rebirth of classical culture showed ...

In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes — and of revolutionaries and Reformers — tells the story ...

In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spawned new artistic styles: idealized Romanticism, light-chasing Impressioni...