Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts (painting, sculpture) of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800), containing over 10, 100 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours, free postcard service are available.

Gothic Painting (1280-1515) The Gothic style began with the architecture of the 12th century, at the height of the Middle Ages, when Europe was putting the memory of the ``Dark Ages'' behind it and moving into a radiant new era of prosperity and confidence. At the same time, Christianity was entering a new and triumphant phase of its history, and so the age of chivalry was also the time of the ...