Renaissance (14th-16th Centuries)

- Famous Renaissance Artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Sandro Botticelli

- Preferred Medium: Oil on wood or canvas

Mannerism (16th Century)

- Famous Mannerist Artists: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, El Greco, Benvenuto Cellini, Jacopo da Pontormo, Parmigianino, Bronzino

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas, sculpture, and architecture

Baroque (17th Century)

- Famous Baroque Artists: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas

Rococo (18th Century)

- Famous Rococo Artists: Jean-Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas

Neoclassicism (18th-19th Centuries)

- Famous Neoclassical Artists: Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Antonio Canova

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas

Romanticism (late 18th-19th Centuries)

- Famous Romantic Artists: Joseph Mallord William Turner, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas

Realism (mid-19th Century)

- Famous Realist Artists: Gustave Courbet, Honoré Daumier, Jean-François Millet

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas

Impressionism (late 19th Century)

- Famous Impressionist Artists: Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas

Symbolism (late 19th to early 20th Century)

- Famous Symbolist Artists: Gustave Moreau, Edvard Munch, Odilon Redon, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Fernand Khnopff, Franz von Stuck

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas, drawing, and printmaking

Expressionism (early 20th Century)

- Famous Expressionist Artists: Edvard Munch, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas or woodcuts

Cubism (early 20th Century)

- Famous Cubist Artists: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas or collage

Futurism (1909-1916)

- Famous Futurist Artists: Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas or mixed media

Dada (1916-1924)

- Famous Dada Artists: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Hannah Höch, Jean Arp, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters

- Preferred Medium: Collage, assemblage, and performance

Bauhaus (1919-1933)

- Famous Bauhaus Artists: Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Josef Albers

- Preferred Medium: Architecture, furniture, and graphic design

Surrealism (1920s-30s)

- Famous Surrealist Artists: Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas or mixed media

Abstract Expressionism (1940s-50s)

- Famous Abstract Expressionist Artists: Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning

- Preferred Medium: Oil on canvas or mixed media

Pop Art (1950s-60s)

- Famous Pop Art Artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton

- Preferred Medium: Acrylic or oil on canvas or mixed media

Minimalism (1960s-70s)

- Famous Minimalist Artists: Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt

- Preferred Medium: Acrylic or oil on canvas or mixed media

Postmodernism (1970s-90s)

- Famous Postmodern Artists: Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger

- Preferred Medium: A wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, installation, and performance art