The Art of the Modern Period

1400-1550: Renaissance

• 1386-1466: Donatello
• 1475-1564: Michelangelo
• 1471-1528: Albrecht Durer

1550-1700: Baroque

• 1573-1610: Caravaggio
• 1594-1665: Nicholas Poussin
• 1606-1669: Rembrandt van Rijn

1700-1800: Rococo and Classical

1790-1850: Romantic

• 1774-1840: Caspar David Friedrich

1850-1910: Realism, Impressionism and Expressionism

• 1840-1926: Claude Monet
• 1841-1919: Auguste Renoir
• 1862-1918: Gustav Klimt

1910-1950: Cubism, Abstraction, Modernism and Dada

1950-present: Recent

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