Painting
From Renaissance masters to contemporary visionaries — five centuries of pigment, light, and vision.
69 profiles · 21 eras
Renaissance and Baroque
From egg tempera to oil on canvas — when colour was still ground in the workshop and blue cost more than gold.
20 profiles · 5 eras
Nineteenth Century
The tin tube, synthetic pigments and the move outdoors. The palette lightens and the painting stops being finished in the studio.
21 profiles · 6 eras
The Avant-Gardes
From the Vienna Secession to Mexican muralism. Colour comes loose from the object and starts to count on its own, with the first industrial range in the tube.
14 profiles · 7 eras
Postwar to Now
Acrylic, large formats and an unlimited range. Pigment stops being a constraint and becomes a choice.
14 profiles · 3 eras