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The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from antiquity until the present time.^[1] Until the mid-19th century it was primarily concerned with representational and traditional modes of production, after which time more modern, abstract and conceptual forms gained favor.^[2]

Initially serving imperial, private, civic, and religious patronage, Western painting later found audiences in the aristocracy and the middle class. From the Middle Ages through the Renaissance painters worked for the church and a wealthy aristocracy.^[3] Beginning with the Baroque era artists received private commissions from a more educated and prosperous middle class.^[4] The idea of "art for art's sake"^[5] began to find expression in the work of the Romantic painters like Francisco de Goya, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.^[6] During the 19th century commercial galleries became established and continued to provide patronage in the 20th century.^[7]^[8]

Western painting reached its zenith in Europe during the Renaissance, in conjunction with the refinement of drawing, use of perspective, ambitious architecture, tapestry, stained glass, sculpture, and the period before and after the advent of the printing press.^[9] Following the depth of discovery and the complexity of innovations of the Renaissance, the rich heritage of Western painting continued from the Baroque period to Contemporary art.^[10]

^ Cole, Bruce Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post Modernism. Simon and Schuster, 1981, Simonsays.com Archived 7 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine accessed 27 October 2007
^ "Explaining Modernism W. Stephen Croddy, retrieved 11 November 2008". Bu.edu. 25 October 1962. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
^ Discussion of the role of patrons in the Renaissance, retrieved 11 November 2008
^ History 1450–1789: Artistic Patronage Archived 1 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 11 November 2008
^ Britannica.com Archived 7 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 11 November 2008
^ Victorianweb.org Archived 3 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Aesthetes, Decadents, and the Idea of Art for Art's Sake; George P. Landow, Professor of English and the History of Art, Brown University, retrieved 11 November 2008
^ National Gallery of Art, retrieved 11 November 2008 Archived 6 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Chicago Art Institute, retrieved 11 November 2008". Artic.edu. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
^ Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998; (pp. 58–69) ISBN 0-471-29198-6
^ Cole, Bruce & Gealt, Adelheid M. Art of the Western World: from Ancient Greece to Post-Modernism Archived 22 November 2022 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 11 November 2008

[1] Cole, Bruce Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post Modernism. Simon and Schuster, 1981, Simonsays.com Archived 7 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine accessed 27 October 2007

[2] "Explaining Modernism W. Stephen Croddy, retrieved 11 November 2008". Bu.edu. 25 October 1962. Retrieved 8 August 2014.

[3] Discussion of the role of patrons in the Renaissance, retrieved 11 November 2008

[4] History 1450–1789: Artistic Patronage Archived 1 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 11 November 2008

[5] Britannica.com Archived 7 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 11 November 2008

[6] Victorianweb.org Archived 3 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Aesthetes, Decadents, and the Idea of Art for Art's Sake; George P. Landow, Professor of English and the History of Art, Brown University, retrieved 11 November 2008

[7] National Gallery of Art, retrieved 11 November 2008 Archived 6 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine

[8] "Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Chicago Art Institute, retrieved 11 November 2008". Artic.edu. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2014.

[9] Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998; (pp. 58–69) ISBN 0-471-29198-6

[10] Cole, Bruce & Gealt, Adelheid M. Art of the Western World: from Ancient Greece to Post-Modernism Archived 22 November 2022 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 11 November 2008

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