From Middle Age to our Days

Middle Age: Imaginative Representations

In the Middle Ages, art became focused on the imagination and on symbolic representation. Next to religion, good and evil were the main sources of inspiration. Dogs played a limited, mainly decorative, role in art.

The Renaissance

In Renaissance Times, artists focused on anatomical and morphological studies in an effort to find the ideal proportions. Horses were the main subjects; dogs apparently had limited appeal.

Seventeenth Century To Today: Popular Subjects

Following the Renaissance, the dog was a subject more for experimental sculpture than for true art. But beginning in the nineteenth century, true animal artists started to use dogs as primary subjects. For example, Antoine Louis Barye (1796-1875) created anatomically accurate bronze sculptures based on dissections. Hunting breeds were his favorite.

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