Renaissance art which began in Italy, stressed the forms of classical antiquity, a realistic representation of space based on scientific perspective, and secular subjects. In reaction to the grandeur and massiveness of the baroque, rococo employed refined, elegant, highly decorative forms. Fragonard worked in this style. Romanesque A European style developed in France in the late eleventh century. Its sculpture is ornamental, stylized and complex.
Some Romanesque frescoes survive, painted in a monumental, active manner.
A European movement of the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth century. In reaction to neoclassicism, it focused on emotion over reason, and on spontaneous expression. The subject matter was invested with drama and usually painted energetically in brilliant colors. Delacroix, Gericault, Turner, and Blake were Romantic artists. A Russian abstract movement originated by Malevich c. 1913.