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  • Paleolithic OriginsCuneiform and the Invention of WritingThe Neolithic RevolutionSculpture from the Parthenon's East PedimentHead of AugustusColosseum
  • Uruk 3500-3000 B.C.E.Ancient Near EastAugustus of PrimaportaLaw Code Stele of King Hammurabi
  • Victory Stele of Naram-SinZiggurat of UrAfter Praxiteles, Venus (Roman Copy)Mixing Vessel with Odysseus Escaping from the Cyclops's CaveArch of TitusSeated Scribe
  • Great Lyre from the Ramesses IIRosetta StoneJerichoParthenon FriezeAncient Greece and Rome
  • New York KourosNeo-Assyrian Art: Human Headed Winged Lion and Bull (Lamassu)The Parthenon: MetopesParthenonÇatal HöyükStonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England
  • Erechtheion: Caryatid and ColumnGeometric GreekColumn of TrajanNike of SamothraceArchaic Greek Classical Greek
  • Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus AureliusHellenistic GreekArch of ConstantineHellenistic Art: Eros Sleeping and An Old Market WomanTemple of PortunusRoman Empire

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  • 400-1300 Medieval EraThe Image in Early Medieval ArtChurch Architecture: An OverviewBayeux TapestryFibulaeEarly Christian Art - An IntroductionEnglish Gothic Architecture
  • Southwell MinsterMedieval ManuscriptsSutton Hoo Ship BurialVirgin from GerWise and Foolish Virgins, Sant Quirze de PedretSanta Pudenziana, Rome
  • Sarcophagus of Junius BassusEarly Christian Art - An Introduction (Part 2)Santa SabinaBasilica of Santa PrassedeSalisbury CathedralByzantine Art
  • Historiated Capitals, Church of Sant Miquel, Camarasa (Noguera)Ottonian Early Christian Art before ConstantineCarolingian ArtIvory panel with ArchangelSanta Maria Maggiore
  • Romanesque Early Christian Art & Architecture after ConstantineSarcophagus in the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua (Rome) BerlinghieriGothic: Chartres CathedralPre-Columbian Cup

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  • 1300-1400 Proto-RenaissanceDuccio's Rucellai MadonnaCimabue, Santa Trinita MadonnaMadonna and ChildSienaGiotto, LamentationPisa Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
  • St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata Duccio's The Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and AureaHebrew AstrolabeSimone Martini's AnnunciationGiotto, The Ognissanti MadonnaAndrea Pisano's Reliefs on the Campanile in Florence
  • Icon of Saint George (the Holy Thorn ReliquaryFollower of Bernardo Daddi, The Aldobrandini TriptychGiotto's Epiphany

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  • 1400-1500 Renaissance in Italy and the NorthFlandersOrsanmicheleCampinFlorenceRepresentations of David in the Florentine RenaissanceMadonna and Child
  • Van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (closed)Linear Perspective: Filippo Brunelleschi's ExperimentDonatelloEarly Applications of Linear PerspectiveMantegnaCrivelli
  • VeniceMan and Woman at a CasementVan Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (open)Giovanni Arnolfini and his WifeMasaccioPetrus Christus, Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446
  • Fra Angelico's The AnnunciationFra Angelico's The Annunciation (Prado)The Last Judgment, 1446-52Saint Sebastianvan der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435 (Prado, Madrid)Fra Filippo Lippi
  • Donatello, Saint MarkPiero della FrancescaMasaccio's Holy TrinityCamera degli SposiBotticelli's Birth of VenusPiero della Francesca's The Baptism of Christ
  • ContrappostoIcon of the Triumph of OrthodoxyThe Unicorn in CaptivityMasaccio, Virgin and Child EnthronedDormition of the VirginVeneziano's St. Lucy Altarpiece
  • Brunelleschi's DomeBrunelleschi & Ghiberti The Sacrifice of IsaacBotticelli, Primavera

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  • 1500-1600 The ReformationRaphael, Madonna of the GoldfinchThe PietàLeonardo, Adoration of the MagiBronzinoRaphael's La belle jardinièreDavid
  • High RenaissanceMichelangeloVirgin of the RocksLeonardoDürer's PrintsDürer
  • ParmigianinoRaphael: Alba MadonnaHolbeinCelliniLast SupperVenetian Renaissance
  • MosesMannerismMichelangelo's SlavesParmigianino's Madonna of the Long NeckNorthern RenaissanceJapan, Muromachi to Momoyama period Negoro ware ewer
  • School of AthensLast Judgment, Sistine ChapelRaphael's Portrait of Pope Julius IISistine Chapel CeilingThe Interaction of Artists and Scientists in the RenaissanceAdam and Eve
  • The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist (Burlington House Cartoon)Saint Peter's BasilicaHolbein's Henry VIIICranach's Wittenberg AltarpieceTitian's Bacchus and AriadnePontormo's Entombment
  • Dürer, Self-portraitGalileo and the Art of Renaissance ScienceTitian, Portrait of a Man El Greco's Adoration of the ShepherdsMona LisaMichelangelo, Laurentian Library

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  • 1600-1700 The BaroqueBerniniNarcissus at the SourcePluto and ProserpinaSan Carlo alle Quattro FontaneCaravaggioCaravaggio's paintings in the Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi
  • FranceRembrandtPierre Le Gros the Younger's Stanislas Kostka on his DeathbedHolland and VermeerItalyCalling of Saint Matthew
  • FlandersNicolas PoussinGuercinoAnatomy Lesson of Dr. TulpCrucifixion of St. PeterSpain Velázquez, Las Meninas
  • Il Gesù, RomeRembrandt, The Three Crosses, 1653Andrea Pozzo, Saint Ignatius Chapel in the church Il Gesù, 1965, Rome Bernini's Saint Peter's SquareBernini's Apollo and DaphneLos Borrachos or The Triumph of Bacchus
  • Arrival (or Disembarkation) of Marie de Medici at Marseilles, Medici CycleBust of MedusaClaude's The Judgment of Parisvan Huysum, Vase with FlowersVelázquez, Vulcan's ForgeGentileschi's Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting
  • Peasant Family in an InteriorRubens, The Consequences of WarEcstasy of St. TheresaRembrandt, Self-PortraitsBernini's Cathedra Petri (Chair of St. Peter)Rembrandt's Bathsheba at her Bath
  • Supper at EmmausCarracci, Crucifixion & LamentationAnnibale Carracci, Ceiling of the Farnese PalaceCaravaggio's Death of the VirginRembrandt's Girl at a WindowSant'Andrea al Quirinale
  • Riberas, Martyrdom of Saint Philip

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  • 1700-1800 Age of EnlightenmentDavid's Oath of the HoratiiDeath of SocratesRococo Fragonard's The SwingNeo-ClassicismFragonard, The Meeting, 1771-73The Sleep of Endymion
  • Canova's Paolina Borghese as Venus VictoriousCopley's Watson and the SharkBoy with a SquirrelJohn Singleton CopleyBoucher's Venus Consoling LoveVigée Le Brun's Madame Perregaux
  • Boucher's Madame de PompadourHogarth's A Rake's ProgressThe Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His SonsDavid's Death of MaratDavid's The Intervention of the Sabine WomenDavid's Napoleon Crossing the Alps
  • Emperor Napoleon In His StudyReynolds, Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest SonsThe Tiepolo Family

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  • 1800-1848 Industrial Revolution IScene of the massacre at ChiosFrance: Delacroix's Liberty Leading the PeopleTurner's Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western RailwayRomanticism in Spain Goya's Third of May, 1808The Death of SardanapalusRomanticism in England Constable's The Hay Wain
  • Goya, The Family of Charles IVFriedrich's A Walk at Dusk Gros's Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in JaffaFriedrich, Monk by the Sea, 1809Romanticism in Germany Friedrich's Sea of IceIngres' La Grand Odalisque
  • Géricault's Raft of the MedusaRaphael and the FornarinaIngresUnited States Cole's The OxbowGoya: Saturn Devouring One of His SonsBlake's The spiritual form of Nelson guiding Leviathan
  • Social Realism in England: Redgrave's The SempstressPrincesse de BroglieTurner's The Harbour of DieppeAmerican Regionalism Erastus Salisbury Field, Portrait of a Young Woman

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  • 1848-1907 Industrial Revolution IIBecoming ModernAcademic Art Gérôme: Pygmalion and GalateaCourbet's The VioloncellestHow the Impressionists Got Their NameCourbet, Burial at OrnansThe Stonebreakers
  • The BatherBonheur's Plowing in the NivernaisManet: OlympiaManet's Émile ZolaYoung Women from the VillagePre-Raphaelites, Rossetti
  • Bathers at AsnièresWilliam Holman Hunt's Claudio and IsabellaThe Basket of ApplesMillet's L'AngelusSeurat's Evening, HonfleurWilliam Morris and Philip Webb, Red House
  • The RailwayBonheur's Sheep in the HighlandsMillais: The Vale of RestThe Balcony Van GoghHaussmann the Demolisher
  • Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the AngelRealismStill-Life with Plaster CupidPortrait of RoulinTurning Road at MontgeroultCézanne Still Life with Apples
  • Garnier, Paris OperaPegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858Plum BrandyBoatingCassatt, In the LogeImpressionism
  • The Artist's StudioCaillebotte: The Floor ScrapersCorner of a Café-ConcertRenoir's La LogeCassatt, Breakfast in BedBonjour Monsieur Courbet
  • Khnopff: Jeanne Kéfer The LogeThe Bellelli FamilyThe Red CowPotato EatersManet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
  • A Bar at the Folies-BergèreCassatt, The Cup of TeaDegas: The Dance ClassThe Argenteuil BridgePost-Impressionism Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884Monet: Gare St. Lazare
  • NevermoreMorisot: The Mother and Sister of the ArtistRobert Mills and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Washington Monument, completed 1884Sargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley BoitSargent's Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)Eakins's The Gross Clinic
  • Whister, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White GirlYoung Woman Powdering HerselfUlysses S. Grant MemorialKing Cophetua and the Beggar MaidJean-François Millet (French), The Gleaners, 1857Gaudí, Sagrada Família
  • Carpeaux's DanceRenoir's Moulin de la GaletteFord Madox Brown's WorkMan at his BathVan Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul GauguinWhistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket
  • Rouen Cathedral SeriesSymbolism Munch: The StormAmerica in the Gilded Age Sargent's El JaleoWater LiliesRodin's The Gates of HellPlace de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters</em>
  • Woman Bathing in a Shallow TubTissot's London Visitors, 1874Eakins' The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt In A Single Scull)

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  • 1907-1960 Age of Global ConflictFauvism & MatisseMarcel Duchamp's Boite-en-valiseMatisse's Luxe, calme et voluptéExpressionismPicasso: Early WorkGiacometti's The Palace at 4am
  • Umbo (Otto Umbehr), The Roving Reporter, 1926Ashcan SchoolKandinsky's Composition VIIGertrude SteinCubismMatisse The Red Studio
  • Dance IGiacometti's City SquareWillem de KooningJean Arp, Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance)Barnett NewmanLes Demoiselles d'Avignon
  • The Piano LessonMark RothkoDadaItalian FuturismBraque: The PortugueseSchwitters' Merzbild 32A, The Cherry Picture
  • Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51Three Futurists Artwork by Balla, Severini and BoccioniLászló Moholy-Nagy, Climbing the MastBunshaft's Lever HouseMagritte's The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), 1921Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
  • Suprematism August Sander, PortraitsRené Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933Mondrian, Broadway Boogie-WoogieThe Viaduct at L'EstaqueThe Reservoir, Horta de Ebro
  • Feininger's CathedralSelf-Portrait Dali, Metamorphosis of NarcissusKlee's Twittering MachineDe StijlCartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St. Lazare
  • Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumNeue Sachlichkeit Otto Dix's Portrait of Sylvia von HardenGuernicaMoholy-Nagy's Composition A.XXEarly Modern PhotographySurrealism
  • O'Keeffe's The Lawrence TreeFrida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego RiveraAbstract ExpressionismNY School Jasper Johns' FlagSculpture Brancusi's Bird in SpaceArchitecture Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building

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  • 1960- Age of Post-ColonialismPhotography Diane ArbusFrancis Bacon, Triptych - August 1972Richard Serra's Torqued EllipsesClaes OldenburgLucian Freud, Standing by the Rags, 1988-89Fat Chair
  • Dan Flavin, Untitled (To Donna) IIPop ArtCindy ShermanUntitled (Rope Piece)Gerhard Richter, Uncle RudiTable with Accumulator
  • William EgglestonSherrie LevineAssemblage Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Useful Art #5: The Western Hotel, 1992 Bernd and Hilla BecherRoy Lichtenstein's Girl with ballMinimalism Judd's Untitled
  • Gerhard Richter, The Cage Paintings (1-6)Lichtenstein's Rouen Cathedral Set VProcess Art Eva HessePerformance Art: An IntroductionJoseph Beuys, Feet WashingRobert Morris, Untitled (L Beams)
  • Conceptual Art Acconci's Following PieceMary Kelly's Postpartum DocumentEarth Art Smithson's Spiral JettyNauman's The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic TruthsJackie Winsor's #1 RopeJudy Chicago's Pasadena Lifesaver #4 & Lynda Benglis's Omega
  • Gerhard Richter, SeptemberPostmodernism Colescott's Beauty is in the Eye of the BeholderAi Weiwei's So Sorry and the Politics of Dissent

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