Art History Note

Android app · English & Korean

Western art history, by movement, artist and artwork.

From the Renaissance to Surrealism, search the movements that shaped Western art, the artists who led them and the paintings they left behind. Then see where each work hangs today.

Available in English and Korean

Movements, in the order they happened

Each movement in the app explains its features and background, and lists its key artists.

    Search

    Find any movement, artist or artwork in one search

    One search box covers everything in the app. Results are grouped into movements, artists and works, with the matching words highlighted.

    • English, Korean and original titlesMonet or 모네, The Angelus or L'Angélus. Accents are optional, so cezanne finds Cézanne.
      monet모네L'Angéluscezanne
    • Search by artist, find the movementTyping an artist's name also brings up the movement they belong to and all of their works.
    • Know where to startKey works are marked, and lists are ordered so the essential pieces come first.

    Artworks and artists

    Every painting with what you need to look at it

    Each artwork has a short description, a viewing tip, and its date, medium, size and museum. Each artist has a short biography and their major works.

    • Original titles, like the museum labelLa Joconde at the Louvre, Het melkmeisje at the Rijksmuseum. Titles are shown in the language of the label you will read on the wall.
    • A viewing tip for each workOne thing to look for, such as the skull hidden in Holbein's The Ambassadors.
    • Linked togetherGo from a painting to its artist, its movement and the museum that holds it, and back.

    Also in the app

    For the day you go and see the paintings in person.

    Every day

    Artwork of the day

    A different masterpiece on the home screen each day. The same artist or movement never shows up two days in a row.

    Museums

    Where to see it

    The Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Uffizi, Prado, The Met and more. Filter by country, and see each museum's collection by movement and artist.

    Visit notebook

    Plan your visit, then check it off

    Save the works you want to see at each museum. On the day, use them as a checklist, with each visit kept by date.

    About the images

    Artwork images are public domain reproductions, taken first from museums' own open-access collections and otherwise from Wikimedia Commons. Each image shows its source.

    Works whose artists are still under copyright are shown with an abstract substitute illustration, clearly marked as a substitute, instead of the real painting.