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Middle Ages
Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic -
Romanticism
The triumph of imagination and individuality -
Early and High Renaissance
Rebirth of classical culture -
Venetian and Northern Renaissance
The Renaissance spreads north- ward to France, the Low Countries, Poland, Germany, and England -
Realism
Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air rustic painting -
Mannerism
Art that breaks the rules; artifice over nature