With the waning of the Rococo era in the dominant artistic countries of France, Germany, Austria and Italy, the subsequent generations of artists sought increasingly new modes of expression. While preceding epochs could be categorized into general pan-European artistic movements-Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque and Rococo-with distinct manifestations by country and city, the 19th-century brought about so many artistic facets that any label other than "19th-century painting" will not suffice. Within this single century grew such movements as Neoclassicism, Romanticism, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Nazarenes, Impressionism, Academic Realism, Fauvism, and Cubism to name a few. While the collection of 19th-century paintings in the BJU M&G is relatively small, the examples shown here provide a quality sampling of the type of sacred art created in a century when the tide of modern and abstract art would all but extinguish biblical themes from mainstream culture.