The course gives the overview of trends, movements, developmental connections and personalities in the area of sculpture and painting from pre-romanticism and symbolism in Europe and in the historical lands of the Czech Crown. Transformations of art followed in the basic lines: pre-romanticism and classicism in painting and sculpture. Pleinairism, realism, naturalism, impressionism, 19th century landscape painting. Romanticism, nazarenism and its influence in the Czech lands, pre-raphaelitism. Specific situation of painting and sculpture in the Czech lands. Symbolism as the plurality of individual and local styles, its centres. Connections, links and contrasts between studio expressions and pleinairism, progressive tendencies and academism, romanticism and symbolism. Basic tendencies and personalities of European and Czech historic and academic painting.