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Over 700 Paintings by more than 100 Northern Renaissance artists in one screensaver. Works by Albrecht Durer, Pieter Bruegel, Jan Brueghel, Hieronymus Bosch, Hans Holbein, Jan van Eyck, Lucas Cranach, Hans Memling, Quentin Massys, Jan Steen, David Teniers, Petrus Christus, Jean Fouquet, Adriaen Brouwer, van der Goes, Momper, Clouet, Ostade, Gossaert (Mabuse), van der Weyden, [...]

Renoir (1841-1919) was a master in the Impressionist style and a major figure in it’s development. He celebrated beauty from whatever elements he might come across. It has been said that Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau. Renoir’s paintings are notable for their vibrant light and [...]

Monet (1840-1926) is recognized as one of the true founders of impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions of nature. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression Sunrise. He was entranced by the way sunlight played off subjects. Trusting his [...]

Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. His entire life was spent in the town of Delft and was a moderately successful provincial painter. Virtually forgotten for nearly two hundred years, he was rediscovered in the mid 1800s. Since that time, despite the fact that very [...]

Over 800 Paintings by more than 100 Italian Renaissance artists spanning over than 400 years in one screensaver. The Renaissance was a spark of brilliant creativity, ingenuity, and excellence in the Sciences and Arts includining painting and sculpture, which grew to inspire the globe. Works by Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Botticelli, Raphael, Ghirlandaio, Titian, Veronese, Giotto, [...]

Over 800 Paintings by more than 100 Baroque and Rococo artists in one screensaver. Works by Peter Paul Rubens, Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Caravaggio, Francois Boucher, Georges de La Tour, Diego Velazquez, Canaletto, Jean Honore Fragonard, Thomas Gainsborough, Bartolome Murillo, Frans Hals, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, Pieter Brueghel, Jan Brueghel, Antoine Watteau, Antonio da [...]

Degas (1834-1917) was one of the true founders of the impressionism movement, although he disliked the term and thought of himself as working in realism, his work actually traversed many artistic styles. His paintings display his mastery in the depiction of movement, apparent in his studies of dancers and of racehorses, and he liked to [...]

Manet (1832-1883) was one of the first 19th century artists to approach modern life subjects of the day. He was a pivotal figure in the transition of styles from Realism to Impressionism. His approach engendered controversy with the established art world, and served as a rallying point for young painters who would create new forms. [...]

Gauguin (1848-1903) was a major catalyst during the Post Impressionism period. His bold experimentation with colour, and incorporation of cloisonnism, led directly to the Synthetism style of modern art, in which neither form nor colour predominate but each has an equal role. He had a great admiration for the folk art of cultures of the [...]

The works of Rembrandt (1606-1669) are among the most recognizable from the golden age of Dutch baroque painting. He would become a teacher to all the great Dutch painters of his time. He was a master in the use of light and shade, and his colour application produced almost celestial like effects. Above all, his [...]