The document summarizes key artistic movements from Romanticism through Post-Impressionism, including their defining characteristics and examples. Romanticism valued emotion, nature, and the irrational over reason. Realism depicted everyday contemporary life. Impressionism sought to capture transient effects of light using short brushstrokes. Post-Impressionism combined Impressionist techniques with more structure, moving closer to abstraction while retaining depth. The document provides examples of representative works from major artists of each movement.