Pictures to build
Puzzles by art style.
Every picture here is a real painting from The Met's open collection, free to build, slice by slice. Pick a style; each one reads differently under your hands.
Japanese woodblock prints
Ukiyo-e
Floating-world prints from Edo Japan. Hokusai's waves, Hiroshige's rain, travellers on mountain roads. Flat blocks of colour, confident outlines, and weather you can almost feel.
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17th-century Netherlands
Dutch Golden Age
Lamplit interiors, wind-bitten landscapes and unflinching portraits from the Dutch 1600s. Rembrandt, Hals, Ruisdael. Deep shadow, warm skin, and a single fall of light.
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Light, caught quickly
Impressionism
Gardens, riverbanks and quiet rooms painted in broken, shimmering strokes. Cassatt, Pissarro, Morisot, Degas. Colour over line, a moment rather than a record.
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After the light
Post-Impressionism
Where colour turns structural and personal. Van Gogh's coiling strokes, Gauguin's flat heat, Seurat's dots, Rousseau's dreamed jungles. Feeling built deliberately, mark by mark.
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Quiet arrangements
Still Life
Flowers past their best, fruit and silver and the slow drama of a tabletop, from Dutch pronkstilleven to the hush of a single flower piece. Small worlds, lovingly lit.
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Field, river, weather
European Landscape
Quiet country and changing skies from 19th-century Europe. Corot's silvery groves, Daubigny's riverbanks, the Barbizon hush, a Constable cloud. Land as a mood.
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The Italian 1400s and 1500s
Italian Renaissance
Tempera and oil from Renaissance Italy. Botticelli's clean line, Crivelli's jewelled saints, Bellini's hushed light, Mantegna's hard clarity. Gold grounds, clear colour and faces that have outlasted five centuries.
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The American 1800s
American Painting
Paint from the young United States. Sargent's quick society faces, Eakins' steady gaze, Whistler's grey harmonies, Chase's sunlit rooms, Kensett's still water. Plain light, real people, an easy unhurried air.
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The German and Flemish 1400s and 1500s
Northern Renaissance
Oil and engraving from Germany and the Low Countries. Cranach's slender Venuses and Edens, Dürer's needle-fine prints, Memling's quiet devotion, Holbein's level gaze. Jewelled colour, hard clear line, and a love of the smallest detail.
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