Understanding Different Periods

- Gold backgrounds giving way to perspective - Religious themes dominating - Increasing naturalism - Individual personalities emerging

- Drama through light and shadow - Movement and emotion - Religious ecstasy and doubt - Power displayed theatrically

- Frivolity to moral severity - Pastel pleasures to stoic virtues - Private moments to public statements - Revolution changing everything

- Emotion over reason - Individual experience supreme - Nature as spiritual force - Exotic and Gothic themes