From Greek vase painting to Roman frescoes — the foundations of Western representation.

Gold-ground icons, illuminated manuscripts and Gothic altarpieces of the Christian Middle Ages.

Florence and Flanders rediscover perspective, anatomy and oil paint — Masaccio to van Eyck.

The classical summit: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian and Dürer.

Elongated grace and theatrical tension — El Greco, Tintoretto, Bronzino, Arcimboldo.

Drama, shadow and motion — Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez, Vermeer.

Pastel pleasure and ornament — Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Tiepolo, Canaletto.

Order, virtue and antiquity reborn — David, Ingres, Mengs, Kauffman.

Emotion, the sublime and the wild — Goya, Delacroix, Turner, Friedrich, Géricault.

Ordinary life painted without idealization — Courbet, Millet, Corot, Repin.

Light, color and the fleeting moment — Monet, Renoir, Degas, Manet, Pissarro.

Beyond the visible — Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Klimt, Munch.

Fauvism, Expressionism and abstraction through artists whose works have entered the public domain.

Modernist and interwar art selected only from creators and image files whose copyright restrictions have expired.