Famous painters
Genius of the Italian Renaissance who painted the famous Mona Lisa or La Gioconda.
Leonardo da Vinci
A movement from the early 20th century characterized by the use of geometric figures to represent reality. Pablo Picasso was one of its founders.
Cubism
Monumental white marble sculpture created by Michelangelo that represents a biblical hero before facing Goliath.
David
Majestic white marble mausoleum located in Agra, India, built by Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife.
Taj Mahal
El museo de arte más visitado del mundo, ubicado en París y fácilmente reconocible por su gran pirámide de cristal en la entrada.
Louvre
Dutch post-impressionist painter known for his work The Starry Night and for having cut off part of his own ear.
Vincent van Gogh
A 19th-century style that sought to capture light and the precise moment, often painting outdoors. Claude Monet is its main exponent.
Impressionism
Famous ancient Greek statue, exhibited in the Louvre Museum, representing the goddess of love and known worldwide for not having arms.
Venus de milo
Medieval European architectural style characterized by its high vaults, pointed (ogival) arches, large stained glass windows and gargoyles.
gothic architecture
Museum located in New York, considered one of the most important sanctuaries of contemporary art and often referred to by its four-letter acronym.
MoMA
Icon of Mexican art, famous for her introspective self-portraits, her unibrow, and her turbulent relationship with Diego Rivera.
Frida Kahlo
An artistic movement strongly influenced by psychoanalysis, which depicts the world of dreams and the subconscious (e.g., Dalí's melting clocks).
surrealism
French sculptor of the 19th and early 20th centuries, considered the father of modern sculpture, creator of The Thinker.
Auguste Rodin
The foremost representative of Catalan modernism, architect of fascinating and unfinished works such as the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
Antoni Gaudi
Spain's main national art museum, located in Madrid, which houses the best collections of Velázquez, Goya and Bosch.
Prado Museum
Austrian symbolist painter whose most famous work, covered with gold leaf, is titled The Kiss.
Gustav Klimt
European cultural period (15th and 16th centuries) that marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity, characterized by the resurgence of interest in Greco-Roman culture.
Renaissance
Material, an alloy of copper and tin, which was widely used in classical antiquity and the Renaissance to make statues because of its durability.
Bronze
Ancient temple in Rome dedicated to all the gods, famous for its unreinforced concrete dome which has a circular opening in the center called an oculus.
Pantheon of Rome
Immense complex of museums in St. Petersburg, Russia, whose main headquarters is the former Winter Palace of the tsars.
Hermitage Museum
Master of the Spanish Golden Age, painter to the court of King Philip IV and creator of the masterpiece Las Meninas.
Diego Velázquez
Russian avant-garde movement founded by Kazimir Malevich, focused on fundamental geometric forms such as the square and the circle, seeking pure abstraction.
suprematism
Italian sculptor and leading figure of the Baroque, whose work captures intense drama and movement, author of The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
American architect, pioneer of organic architecture, famous for integrating buildings with nature, as in his celebrated Fallingwater.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Palace in Florence, Italy, which houses one of the oldest and most famous collections of Renaissance art in the world, including works by Botticelli and Da Vinci.
Uffizi Gallery