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  • OriginsNeo-Assyrian Art: Human Headed Winged Lion and Bull (Lamassu)Ancient EgyptArchaic Greek Ancient Near EastClassical Greek
  • Mixing Vessel with Odysseus Escaping from the Cyclops's CaveAfter Praxiteles, Venus (Roman Copy)Roman Architecture The PantheonAncient Greece and RomeNew York KourosArch of Constantine

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  • 400-1300 Medieval EraEarly Christian Art - An IntroductionByzantine ArtEnglish Gothic ArchitectureSouthwell MinsterOttonian
  • Church Architecture: An OverviewRomanesque Bayeux TapestryGothicSanta Pudenziana, Rome
  • Early Christian Art - An Introduction (Part 2)FibulaeSarcophagus of Junius BassusEarly Christian Art before ConstantineSarcophagus in the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua (Rome) Early Christian Art & Architecture after Constantine
  • Berlinghieri

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  • 1300-1400 Proto-RenaissanceGiotto's EpiphanyFlorence Giotto's LamentationMadonna and ChildSienaPisa Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
  • Follower of Bernardo Daddi, The Aldobrandini TriptychAndrea Pisano's Reliefs on the Campanile in Florence

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  • 1400-1500 Renaissance in Italy and the NorthHow Brunelleschi CampinFlandersBrunelleschiFlorenceMadonna and Child
  • Van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (closed)DonatelloApplications of Linear Perspective in the RenaissanceMantegnaCrivelliVenice
  • Man and Woman at a CasementVan Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (open)MasaccioBrunelleschi & Ghiberti The Sacrifice of IsaacPetrus Christus's Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446Fra Filippo Lippi
  • van der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435 (Prado, Madrid)Saint SebastianThe Last Judgment, 1446-52Piero della FrancescaMasaccio's Holy TrinityBotticelli
  • The Unicorn in Captivity

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  • The PietàBronzinoDavidHigh RenaissanceMichelangeloMona Lisa
  • Virgin of the RocksLeonardoDürerParmigianinoSchool of AthensDürer's Prints
  • Last SupperCelliniHolbeinRaphael: Alba MadonnaMosesVenetian Renaissance
  • Sistine Chapel CeilingParmigianino's Madonna of the Long NeckNorthern RenaissanceJapan, Muromachi to Momoyama period Negoro ware ewerLast Judgment, Sistine Chapel
  • Galileo and the Art of Renaissance ScienceThe Interaction of Artists and Scientists in the RenaissanceHolbein's Henry VIIIPontormo's Entombment

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  • 1600-1700 The BaroqueBerniniBernini's Cathedra Petri (Chair of St. Peter)CaravaggioEcstasy of St. TheresaFranceCrucifixion of St. Peter
  • RembrandtItalyCalling of Saint MatthewHolland and VermeerNicolas PoussinFlanders
  • GuercinoSpain Velázquez, Las MeninasRembrandt, The Three Crosses, 1653Il Gesù, RomePozzo's St. Ignatius Chapel in the church Il Gesù
  • Bust of MedusaClaude's The Judgment of ParisGentileschi's Self-portrait as the Allegory of PaintingRembrandt, Self-PortraitsCarracci, Crucifixion & LamentationAnnibale Carracci, Ceiling of the Farnese Palace

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  • David's Death of SocratesRococo Fragonard's The SwingNeo-Classicism David's Oath of the HoratiiDavid's Death of MaratFragonard, The Meeting, 1771-73Emperor Napoleon In His Study
  • Boy with a SquirrelJohn Singleton CopleyCopley's Watson and the SharkBoucher's Venus Consoling LoveThe Tiepolo Family

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  • 1800-1848 Industrial Revolution IFrance: Delacroix's Liberty Leading the PeopleRomanticism in Spain Goya's Third of May, 1808United States Cole's The OxbowIngresFriedrich's A Walk at Dusk Ingres's Grand Odalisque, 1814
  • Friedrich, Monk by the Sea, 1809Romanticism in Germany Friedrich's Sea of IceAmerican Regionalism Erastus Salisbury Field, Portrait of a Young WomanSocial Realism in England: Redgrave's The SempstressPrincesse de Broglie

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  • 1848-1907 Industrial Revolution IISeuratAcademic Art Gérôme: Pygmalion and GalateaThe BatherPre-Raphaelites Millais' Christ in the House of His ParentsCassatt, The Cup of TeaThe Basket of Apples
  • Monet: Gare St. LazareRealism Courbet: Bonjour Monsieur CourbetGustave Courbet's The VioloncellestCourbet: The Artist's StudioThe RailwayCézanne Still Life with Apples
  • Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the AngelManet: OlympiaTurning Road at MontgeroultStill-Life with Plaster CupidThe Pre-Raphaelites Millais' OpheliaPortrait of Roulin
  • Impressionism Cassatt: At the OperaDegas: The Dance ClassYoung Women from the VillageBoatingDegas' Place de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters</em>Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub
  • Renoir: Two Young Girls at the PianoMoulin de la GaletteVan GoghPost-Impressionism Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884Plum BrandyMorisot: The Mother and Sister of the Artist
  • The LogeKhnopff: Jeanne Kéfer Tissot's London Visitors, 1874Cassatt, Breakfast in BedGauguin's The Red CowPotato Eaters
  • Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873A Bar at the Folies-BergèreSargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley BoitSargent's Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)Symbolism Munch: The StormAmerica in the Gilded Age Sargent's El Jaleo

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  • 1907-1960 Age of Global ConflictFauvism & MatisseMarcel Duchamp's Boite-en-valiseExpressionismPicasso: Early WorkAshcan SchoolUmbo (Otto Umbehr), The Roving Reporter, 1926
  • Kandinsky's Composition VIIGertrude SteinCubismDance IMatisse The Red StudioWillem de Kooning
  • GiacomettiJean Arp, Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance)The Piano LessonBarnett NewmanMark RothkoLes Demoiselles d'Avignon
  • FuturismDadaBraque: The PortugueseMondrian, Broadway Boogie-WoogieRené Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51
  • August Sander, PortraitsMagritte's The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), 1921Bunshaft's Lever HouseSchwitters' Merzbild 32A, The Cherry PictureSuprematism Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
  • The Reservoir, Horta de EbroFeininger's CathedralDe StijlCartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St. LazareWright's Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumGuernica
  • Neue Sachlichkeit Otto Dix's Portrait of Sylvia von HardenSurrealismAbstract ExpressionismNY School Jasper Johns' FlagSculpture Brancusi's Bird in Space
  • Architecture Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building

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  • 1960- Age of Post-ColonialismPhotography Diane ArbusRichard Serra's Torqued EllipsesDan Flavin, Untitled (To Donna) IICindy ShermanPop ArtClaes Oldenburg
  • Assemblage Ed Keinholz and Nancy Reddin Keinholz, Useful Art #5: The Western Hotel, 1992 Sherrie LevineWilliam EgglestonBernd and Hilla BecherRoy Lichtenstein's Girl with ballJudy Chicago's Pasadena Lifesaver #4 & Lynda Benglis's Omega
  • Minimalism Judd's UntitledProcess Art Eva HesseEarth Art Smithson's Spiral JettyPostmodernism Colescott's Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

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