This section contains the best vintage posters form the Belle Époque. Artists and audiences alike favored the bright blocks of color, stylized typography, and contemporary subject matter of the posters. Today, these pieces are considered modern masterpieces, though most would have originally served as advertisements, promoting everything from restaurants and spectacles to liquor and cigarettes,from artists like Leonetto Capiello, Alphonse Mucha, Jules Chéret, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.