Although the museum is one of the youngest in the United States, it is fairly large and comprehensive museum, a significant representation of European art, ranging from antiquity to the present day. The museum was inaugurated only in 1965. However, a large part of the collection came from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, which was established a century earlier. The museum is also known for its Modern art items as well.

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2. Indigenous
LACMA is very large and its collection is fairly comprehensive. It is one of the larger museum in the United States.

3. Burial Urn – 800-1000 Panama

4. Condor Ceramic – 200-500 Peru
The Moche culture (also called
Mochica) flourished along the northern
coast and valleys of ancient Peru,
between 1 AD to 800 AD. It was very
rich in sculptured figures.

5. A traditional Wedding – 17C Mexico
Painted by an unknown artist, depicting a traditional wedding around a flying pole, surrounded by acrobats and dancers.
The flying pole dance still continue today. The one on the painting had many flyers on the pole.

6. A traditional Wedding - Detail

7. A traditional Wedding - Detail Masked dances as the bride entered.

8. Early
European

9. 15C Venetian Renaissance - Bellini
Founder of an artistic dynasty of Bellini in Early
Renaissance. Jacopo was the father of Gentile and
Giovanni Bellini. Giovanni Bellini was the most well-
known of the Bellinis.

10. 16C Italian Renaissance
Vasari was a pivot in the history of Italian
Renaissance. He was most famous today for his
book, ‘Lives of the Artists’, in which he recorded
all the well-known artists of the Italian
Renaissance.

11. 16C Italian Renaissance
Portrait - Titian
Titian was the most successful Renaissance
portraitist of his time. He was also the most
important member of the 16C Venice school.

12. 16C Venetian
Renaissance -
Veronese
Veronese was known for his
huge historic paintings of
religious and mythological
subjects. He was also a
colourist. One of his well-
known huge canvas is hung
in the Louvre (The Wedding
Feast at Cana).

13. 17th
C

14. 17C Portraiture – Guido Reni
Guido Reni (1575-1642) was an Italian Baroque
portrait painter. He worked most in Rome, Naples
and Bologna. Such fine clothing for the cardinal.

15. Frans Hals was a Dutch Golden Age portrait
painter. He is one of the best portraitist in
history.
17C Dutch Portraiture

16. 17C Dutch Portraiture
Rembrandt is one of best admired Dutch
portraitist of the Dutch Golden Age.

17. 17CDutchPortraiture
This was an early painting by Honthorst, when he painted religious themes or Biblical stories.

18. 17C France Baroque Portrait
This is probably the best known LACMA
painting in its collection. It was painted by
Georges de La Tour, a Baroque Caravaggisti
artist.

19. 17C Dutch Still Life
One of the few successful Dutch woman painters of the Golden Age. She specialized in painting cheese still life.

20. 17CDutchLandscape
Heyden is known for his incredible fine detail townscape paintings. It is not unusual to see every bricks in his buildings.

21. 18th
C

22. 18C Cityscape
Canaletto is known for his paintings on Venice. The best of his paintings are in London. Rich people bought these paintings
as memento of their travel to Venice.

23. 18C English Portrait
During this period the English society was
becoming rich and there were a high demands for
portraits. Thomas Lawrence was amongst a top
bunch of portraitist in this period.

24. 18C Dutch Floral Still Life
It is general accepted that Huysum is the best
floral still life painting of his era.

25. 18C American Portrait
John Singleton is a 18th
Century American painter,
one of the finest during the colonial America era.
He is a portraitist and well-known for his paintings
on historical subjects. One of the first generation
of American painters.

26. 18C American Portrait
A first generation of American painter of historical scenes around the time of the American War of Independence.

27. 19th
C

28. 19C French Neoclassicism
David was the most important neoclassicism
painter. He was the painter of the French
Revolution.

29. 19C French Neoclassicism
Gros was decorated by Napoleon and many of his
paintings were about the Napoleonic Empire.

30. 19C French Portrait
This is really a very surprise portrait by Emile Jean
Horace Vernet, who is more well-known for
Napoleonic battle scenes and painting of French
soldiers.

31. 19CFrenchRomanticism
Delacroix is a colourist. He was the greatest French painter of the Romantic movement. He visited Morocco and painted a
number of paintings of Orientalism.

32. 19C American Hudson School
Thomas Cole is the founder of the American Hudson School of landscape painters.

33. 19C American Hudson School
Frederic Edwin Church was the best known of the Hudson school of painters.

34. 19C American Landscape
- Bierstadt
Bierstadt was a German-born American
painter best known for his lavish,
romantic sweeping landscapes of the
American West. He was also part of the
Hudson school of painters.

35. 19C American Portrait - Sargent
An excellent and successful American portraitist who spent
much of his working life, painting in Europe.

36. 19C French
Impressionist
Monet is the best known
Impressionist painter.

37. 19C French
Impressionist
Renoir was one of the leading
painter in the development of
the Impressionist style. He was
a painter of female beauty and
sensuality.

38. 19C American Impressionist
Mary Cassatt, an American lived her life mostly in France
and the she was one of the painter within the
impressionist circle. This is the first of her popular mother
and child series of paintings.

39. 19C French Impressionist
Toulouse-Lautrec was a well-known impressionist,
who painted the colourful life of Paris at times
decadent, with elegant, enticing and provocative
images.

40. 19CFrenchLandscape
Corot is a landscape and portrait painter before the Impressionism. His landscape paintings evoke the silence of the countryside

41. 19C Impressionist Landscape - Sisley

42. 19C Post-Impressionist
Landscape
Cezanne laid the foundations of the
transition between the 19C artistic style
and the 20C century artistic style
changes.

43. 19C French Post-Impressionist Gauguin

44. 19C Danish Landscape
Kobke is the most renowned Danish artist. He is most famous for his intimate depictions of landmarks of Copenhagen.

45. 19C Danish Genre
Rorbye was known both for genre works and landscapes. He was a central figure of the Golden Age of Danish Painting.

46. Modern

47. Smith – 20C American

48. 20C Mexican Still Life

49. 20C Mexican Still Life
Diego Rivera was one of the best known
artist of Latin America. He large frescoes
helped to establish the Mural Movement
in Mexican art. He was married to fellow
Mexican artist Frida Kahio. Political
active, eccentric in spirit and controversial
outside of his own country.

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