Rich colours, textures and lights always catch your eye first - and so portraits of courtiers, Kings and Queens (or anyone in dazzling costumes) are top of your list. You love richly detailed portraits, such as those by Bronzino in Renaissance Italy, or by Mughal artists of Emperors. Later art periods which may also appeal to you include the flamboyant Rococo style in late 17th-century France, the luxuriously detailed Pre-Raphaelite paintings of 19th-century England.

For you, paintings which show the less 'public' figures in society have the most appeal. You are absorbed by paintings of ordinary people, of animals and of parts of society that are not usually recorded in traditional history books. You can appreciate great portraits of Kings and Queens, but really, it is the ordinary lives in history that spark your imagination.

You may like to look at Vincent Van Gogh depictions of French peasants, or Édouard Manet's portraits of Parisian outsiders (such as an absinthe drinker and street singer). Earlier artists you may like to learn more about include Johannes Vermeer (d.1675), Pieter Bruegel the Elder (d.1569) and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (d.1682).