Extras
With Europe as our classroom, Rick shares the essential skills for smart, smooth travel.
Painters, such as Velázquez, were paid to make royals look more divine than they were.
Neoclassical was a stern, no-frills style that celebrated a new age of science and reason.
The French Revolution came with art that celebrated liberty, equality, and brotherhood.
Rococo art featured aristocrats playing in their Baroque palaces and bucolic backyards.
Versailles, with its heavenly painted ceilings, was the ultimate Baroque palace.
Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church.
Gritty realism, stark lighting, and drama gave Caravaggio’s art an emotional punch.
Rubens painted mythic battles, Catholic miracles, bloody hunts, and “Rubenesque” women.
Pro-Vatican Baroque featured big canvases, dramatic statues, and exuberant architecture.
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Greece’s timeless art: Golden Age temples, alluring Venuses, and exuberant Winged Victory.
We marvel at Stone Age cave paintings, mighty megaliths, and mysterious goddesses.
Early Europeans produce diverse art: from Christians to Muslims and Byzantines to Vikings.
The grand cities of ancient Rome’s vast empire and majestic churches of its fall.
Soaring Gothic cathedrals of radiant stained glass, plus art celebrating worldly pleasure.
Rome’s rise, as seen in its supersized monuments, colorful mosaics, and marble Caesars.
From Portugal to Germany, booming economies and new technologies produce exquisite art.
We marvel at Baroque’s over-the-top churches, palaces, bubbly fountains, and theatric art.
Florence’s bold “rebirth” is powered by the genius of Leonardo, Rafael, and Michelangelo.
The turbulent century and its rule-breaking art—Picasso, Surrealism and edgy architecture.