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  • - 400 C.E. Ancient CulturesNude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)Augustus of PrimaportaCuneiform and the Invention of WritingPrehistoric Art: Paleolithic OriginsPainted Garden, Villa of LiviaThe Neolithic Revolution
  • Sculpture from the Parthenon's East PedimentSumerian ArtHead of AugustusHellenistic GreekThe Classical OrdersEgyptian Art
  • Victory Stele of Naram-SinAncient Greek Temples at Paestum, ItalyAncient Near EastThe Standard of UrAra PacisDionysiac frieze, Villa of Mysteries
  • East and West Pediments from the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina Art of Akkad and UrColosseumMaterials & TechniquesBabylonian Art - Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi The Pergamon Altar
  • Nike of SamothraceGreat Lyre from the Arch of TitusExekias, Dionysos Kylix, c. 530 B.C.E. Myron's Discobolus (Discus Thrower)Hadrian's Villa: A Virtual Tour
  • JerichoPerforated Relief of Ur-NansheParthenon FriezeMaritime Theatre at Hadrian's Villa, TivoliThe Parthenon: MetopesAssyrian Art
  • ParthenonAssyrian Human Headed Winged Lion and Bull (Lamassu)Pair of Centaurs Fighting Cats of Prey from Hadrian's VillaMixing Vessel with Odysseus Escaping from the Cyclops's CaveZiggurat of UrÇatal Höyük
  • Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, EnglandErechtheion: Caryatid and ColumnColumn of TrajanNeo-Babylonian Art: Ishtar Gate and Processional WayMedea Sarcophagus, 140 - 150 C.E.Art of the Persian Empire
  • Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus AureliusAfter Praxiteles, Venus (Roman Copy)Ludovisi Battle SarcophagusApollonius's Boxer at RestPortraits of the Four TetrarchsUnfinished Kudurru
  • Pyramid of Khafre and the Great SphinxThe The Great Pyramids of GizaDigging Through TimeAncient EgyptArch of Constantine
  • Seated ScribePyramid of KhufuPyramid of MenkaureHouse Altar with Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Three Daughters (Amarna Period)Portrait Head of Queen TiyeThe Colossus of Constantine
  • Alexander MosaicThutmose's Bust of Nefertiti (Amarna Period)Laocoön and his SonsRamesses IIEros Sleeping and An Old Market WomanRosetta Stone
  • Ancient Greece Geometric GreekEuphronios, Attic Calyx-KraterPetraExekias, Attic black figure amphoraPetra: Rock Cut Facades
  • Petra: Urban MetropolisPolykleitos, DoryphorosLysippos, Farnese HerculesBarberini Faun, c. 220 B.C.E.New York KourosEtruscan Art
  • Ancient RomeTemple of PortunusVeristic PortraitThe Pantheon, RomeBuddhist ArtIntroduction to Buddhism
  • Four Buddhas at the American Museum of Natural HistoryThe Caves at AjantaDunhuang Cave-templesBodhisattvaBuddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)Japan, Muromachi to Momoyama period Negoro ware ewer

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  • 400-1300 Medieval & Byzantine ErasEarly ChristianPilgrimage RoutesEarly MedievalChurch ArchitectureByzantine ArtPyxis of al-Mughira
  • Chartres Cathedral (part 2)Early Christian ArtAbbaye de FontenayFibulaeChartres Cathedral (part 3)Saint Trophime, Arles
  • Royal Figures (Saljuq Period)Pentecost and Mission to the Apostles Tympanum, VézelayEarly Christian Art & Architecture after ConstantineAn IntroductionLast Judgment Tympanum, Cathedral of St. Lazare, AutunOverview of Islam
  • Medieval ManuscriptsSutton Hoo Ship BurialGothic ArchitectureSaint Matthew from the Ebbo GospelsThe Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra)Chartres Cathedral (part 1)
  • Pisa Nicola and Giovanni PisanoCarolingianVirgin from GerSarcophagus in the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua (Rome) Lindau Gospels CoverSouthwell Minster
  • Sant'Apollinare in ClasseCoronation MantleSanta Pudenziana, RomeSarcophagus of Junius BassusSanta SabinaSanta Prassede
  • Salisbury CathedralIslamic Art: Early CaliphatesHistoriated Capitals, Church of Sant Miquel, Camarasa (Noguera)Hagia SophiaBlanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France; Author Dictating to a ScribeSanta Maria Maggiore
  • Ivory panel with ArchangelOttonian Romanesque Wise and Foolish Virgins, Sant Quirze de PedretCavallini, The Last JudgementCharlemagne: An Introduction
  • Qa'a: The Damascus RoomAlhambraThe Great Mosque of CordobaBirth of the Gothic: Abbot Suger and the Ambulatory at St. DenisThe Mausoleum of Galla PlacidiaThe Lindisfarne Gospels
  • The BestiaryIconoclasmMedieval CaliphatesCharlemagne and the Carolingian RevivalIlkhanid MihrabThe Paris Psalter
  • Icon of Saint George (the Bayeux TapestryBerlinghieriSpanish AstrolabeLater CaliphatesIcon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
  • Pre-Columbian CupArt of the Americas

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  • 1300-1400 Proto-RenaissanceDuccio's Rucellai MadonnaCimabue, Santa Trinita MadonnaGiotto's Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel - Part 1Madonna and ChildGiotto's Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel - Part 2 Narrative Cycle
  • Duccio's MaestaThe Allegories and Effects of Good and Bad GovernmentLorenzetti's Presentation of Jesus in the TempleSt. Francis Receiving the Stigmata Giotto's Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, Part 3 The LamentationGiotto's Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel - Part 4 The Last Judgment
  • Duccio's The Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and AureaSimone Martini's AnnunciationAndrea Pisano's Reliefs on the Campanile in FlorenceGiotto, The Ognissanti MadonnaThe Black DeathGiotto's The Entombment of Mary
  • Follower of Bernardo Daddi, The Aldobrandini Triptych

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  • 1400-1500 Renaissance in Italy and the NorthBurgundyCampinFlandersMadonna and ChildFlorenceOrsanmichele
  • Van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (closed)VeniceBrunelleschi & Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of IsaacLinear Perspective: Filippo Brunelleschi's ExperimentVan Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (open)Mantegna
  • Bellini's St. FrancisFra Filippo Lippi's Madonna and ChildDonatelloGiovanni Arnolfini and his WifeChristus’s Portrait of a Young GirlHow One-Point Linear Perspective Works
  • Petrus Christus, Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446Fra Angelico's The Annunciation (Prado)MasaccioVan der Goes' The Adoration of the KingsThe Study of Human AnatomySaint Sebastian
  • van der Weyden's Crucifixion TriptychVan der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435 (Prado, Madrid)Masaccio's ExpulsionFra Angelico's The AnnunciationUccello's The Battle of San RomanoVan Eyck's The Madonna in the Church
  • Fra Filippo LippiMasaccio's Holy TrinityPiero della Francesca's The Baptism of ChristBotticelli's Birth of VenusCamera degli SposiPiero della Francesca's Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino
  • The Unicorn in CaptivityPacher, St. Wolfgang AltarpieceDonatello, Saint MarkDormition of the VirginMasaccio, Virgin and Child EnthronedVeneziano's St. Lucy Altarpiece
  • Feast of HerodEarly Applications of Linear PerspectiveThe Last Judgment, 1446-52Donatello's Madonna of the CloudsCampin's Christ and the VirginBrunelleschi's Old Sacristy
  • Donatello, Equestrian Monument of GattamelataEnglandBellini's San Giobbe AltarpieceClaus Sluter and Claus de Werve, Mourners, from the Tomb of Philip the BoldBrunelleschi's DomeBrunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel
  • Donatello's Mary MagdaleneContrappostoCrucifixion with the Virgin and Saint JohnSan Zaccaria AltarpieceHoly Thorn ReliquaryBrunelleschi's Santo Spirito
  • Botticelli, PrimaveraAlberti's Sant' Andrea in MantuaMartini's Architectural Veduta

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  • 1500-1600 End of the Renaissance and the ReformationAn Introduction to the Protestant Reformation: Setting the Stage (1 of 4)Parmigianino's Madonna of the Long NeckDürer's Self-portrait (1498)Giorgione's The Tempest, c. 1506-8An Introduction to the Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther (2 of 4)
  • Introduction to the Protestant Reformation: Varieties of Protestantism (3 of 4)Pontormo's EntombmentAndrea del Verrocchio (with Leonardo), The Baptism of ChristThe PietàDavid and FlorenceRaphael, Madonna of the Goldfinch
  • Raphael's La belle jardinièreLeonardo, Adoration of the MagiGiorgione's The Adoration of the ShepherdsDürer's Self-portrait (1500)Counter-Reformation
  • Dürer's The Large Piece of TurfBruegel's The Dutch ProverbsVeniceDavidMichelangeloVirgin of the Rocks
  • LeonardoHigh RenaissanceDürer's PrintsLast SupperRosso Fiorentino's The Dead Christ with AngelsRaphael, Marriage of the Virgin
  • Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex MirrorTitian's Noli me TangereBellini's and Titian's The Feast of the GodsMosesBronzinoMannerism
  • Michelangelo's SlavesTempiettoHolbein's The Merchant Georg GiszeBosch, The Last JudgementCelliniSchool of Athens
  • Northern RenaissanceRaphael: Alba MadonnaRaphael's Portrait of Pope Julius IITitian, Portrait of a Man Sistine Chapel CeilingHolbein's Christina of Denmark
  • Last Judgment, Sistine ChapelArt and Science in the RenaissanceHolbein's Henry VIIISaint Peter's BasilicaThe Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist (Burlington House Cartoon)Gossaert's Saint Luke Painting the Madonna
  • Titian's Bacchus and AriadneTitian's Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1516-18Lucas Cranach the Elder's Cupid complaining to VenusCorreggio's Jupiter and IoTitian's Madonna of the Pesaro FamilyGalatea
  • Lucas Cranach's Judith with the Head of HolofernesAltdorfer, The Battle of IssusVeronese's The Family of Darius Before AlexanderBronzino's Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo with her son GiovanniScience in the RenaissanceTitian's Venus of Urbino
  • Giorgione's Three Philosophers, c. 1506Veronese's The Dream of Saint HelenaLucas Cranach, Adam and EveVeronese's Feast in the House of LeviMichelangelo, Laurentian LibraryCranach's The Law and Gospel
  • Mona LisaEl Greco's Adoration of the ShepherdsCranach's Wittenberg AltarpieceHolbeinTitian's Christ Crowned with ThornsDavid's The Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor
  • Tintoretto, The Miracle of the SlaveBruegel's Tower of BabelTintoretto's The Origin of the Milky Way

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  • 1600-1700 The BaroqueNarcissus at the SourceBerniniPluto and ProserpinaSan Carlo alle Quattro FontaneVermeer's The Glass of WineCaravaggio's paintings in the Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi
  • Caravaggio's Deposition, or EntombmentCaravaggio and Caravaggisti in 17th-Century EuropePierre Le Gros the Younger's Stanislas Kostka on his DeathbedRembrandt's Bathsheba at her BathCalling of Saint MatthewItaly
  • Nicolas PoussinFlandersGuercinoDutch RepublicSpain Velázquez, Las MeninasCrucifixion of St. Peter
  • Peter Paul Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters of LeucippusHals's Malle BabbeRembrandt's Girl at a WindowIl Gesù, RomeRembrandt, The Three Crosses, 1653Andrea Pozzo, Saint Ignatius Chapel in the church Il Gesù, 1695, Rome
  • Bernini's Apollo and DaphneBernini's Saint Peter's SquareLos Borrachos or The Triumph of BacchusHals' Singing Boy with FluteArrival (or Disembarkation) of Marie de Medici at Marseilles, Medici Cycle
  • Bust of Medusavan Huysum, Vase with FlowersVelázquez, Vulcan's ForgeEcstasy of Saint TeresaPeasant Family in an InteriorGentileschi's Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting
  • Rubens, The Consequences of WarBernini's Cathedra Petri (Chair of St. Peter)Supper at EmmausCarracci, Crucifixion & LamentationVelázquez's The Surrender of BredaAnnibale Carracci, Ceiling of the Farnese Palace
  • Caravaggio's Death of the VirginFranceRibera, Martyrdom of Saint PhilipSant'Andrea al Quirinale

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  • 1700-1800 Age of EnlightenmentDavid's Oath of the HoratiiRococo Fragonard's The SwingNeo-ClassicismReynolds, Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest SonsHogarth's A Rake's ProgressFragonard, The Meeting, 1771-73
  • The Sleep of EndymionCanova's Paolina Borghese as Venus VictoriousThomas Gainsborough's Mr. and Mrs. AndrewsBoy with a SquirrelCopley's Watson and the SharkBoucher's Venus Consoling Love
  • Vigée Le Brun's Madame PerregauxJohn Singleton CopleyBoucher's Madame de PompadourThe Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His SonsBritain and America in the Age of RevolutionPeale's Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale)
  • David's Death of MaratDavid's The Intervention of the Sabine WomenDavid's Napoleon Crossing the AlpsEmperor Napoleon In His StudyThe Tiepolo FamilyGilbert Stuart's Lansdowne Portrait

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  • 1800-1848 Industrial Revolution IView on the Stour near DedhamVanderlyn's Ariadne Asleep on the Island of NaxosScene of the massacre at ChiosFrance: Delacroix's Liberty Leading the PeopleGoya's The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
  • Friedrich's Abbey among Oak TreesTurner's The Fighting TemeraireThe Death of SardanapalusRomanticism in England Constable's The Hay WainFriedrich's The Lone TreeIngres's Portrait of Madame Rivière
  • Turner's The Harbour of DieppeTurner's Slave ShipFriedrich's Sea of IceRomanticism in GermanyIngres' La Grand OdalisqueGros's Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa
  • Goya, The Family of Charles IVGéricault's Raft of the MedusaRaphael and the FornarinaIngresRomanticism in the United States, Cole's Expulsion from the Garden of EdenCole's The Oxbow
  • Blake's The spiritual form of Nelson guiding LeviathanFriedrich's Woman at a WindowGoya: Saturn Devouring One of His SonsRedgrave's The SempstressLandseer’s Windsor Castle in Modern Times Allston's Elijah in the Desert
  • Princesse de BroglieTurner's Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western RailwayFriedrich's A Walk at Dusk Géricault's Portraits of the InsaneAmerican Regionalism Erastus Salisbury Field, Portrait of a Young WomanFuseli's Titania and Bottom

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  • 1848-1907 Industrial Revolution IIBecoming ModernEarly PhotographyLouis Daguerre, Parisian Boulevard Courbet, Burial at OrnansManet's Music in the Tuileries GardensHow the Impressionists Got Their Name
  • The StonebreakersThe BatherManet: OlympiaThe Basket of ApplesBathers at AsnièresPre-Raphaelites, Rossetti
  • Manet's Émile ZolaBonheur's Plowing in the NivernaisWilliam Holman Hunt's Claudio and IsabellaKhnopff's Jeanne Kéfer Sargent's El JaleoBonheur's Sheep in the Highlands
  • Millet's L'AngelusStill-Life with Plaster CupidHaussmann the DemolisherJulia Margaret Cameron's Mrs. Herbert Duckworth The Balcony Sir John Everett Millais's Ophelia
  • Cézanne Still Life with ApplesGauguin's Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the AngelVan Gogh, Portrait of RoulinAlma-Tadema's Listening to HomerThe Argenteuil BridgeCouture's Romans of the Decadence
  • The RailwayThe Artist's StudioCaillebotte: The Floor ScrapersGustave Caillebotte's Paris Street; Rainy DayThe Bellelli FamilyCezanne's The Red Rock
  • Emily Mary Osborn's Nameless and FriendlessSargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley BoitBurne Jones's The Golden StairsBonjour Monsieur CourbetTimothy O’Sullivan's Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelly The Red Cow
  • Potato EatersHunt's Our English Coasts (Sargent's Carnation, Lily, Lily, RoseRealismRenoir's La LogeCassatt, In the Loge
  • Church's Niagara and Heart of the AndesManet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbeDegas: The Dance ClassCassatt's Little Girl in a Blue ArmchairPlum BrandyGarnier, Paris Opera
  • Gauguin's Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1892Monet: Gare St. LazareWhistler, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White GirlYoung Woman Powdering HerselfNevermore
  • The PeredvizhnikiManet's In the ConservatoryMorisot: The Mother and Sister of the ArtistThe LogeRepin's Krestny Khod (Religious Procession) in Kursk GuberniaCarpeaux's Dance
  • Jean-François Millet (French), The Gleaners, 1857Cassatt's Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a LogeTurning Road at MontgeroultMonet's Cliff Walk at PourvilleRenoir's Moulin de la GaletteCorner of a Café-Concert
  • Man at his BathVan Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul GauguinFord Madox Brown's WorkLane's Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, MaineImpressionismBurne-Jones's Hope
  • Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling RocketRouen Cathedral SeriesA Bar at the Folies-BergèreHunt's The Awakening ConscienceSir John Everett Millais's Christ in the House of His ParentsEva Gonzàles's A Loge at the Théâtre des Italiens
  • Leighton's An Athlete Wrestling with a PythonDegas's At the Races in the CountrysideBathers LondonMonet's PoplarsRenoir's The Grands BoulevardsPost-Impressionism Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884
  • Water LiliesToulouse-Lautrec's At the Moulin RougeCassatt, Breakfast in BedRobert Mills and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Washington MonumentPegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858Gaudí, Sagrada Família
  • Place de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters</em>Degas's Visit to a MuseumGustav Klimt's Beethoven FriezeJohn Roddam Spencer Stanhope's Thoughts of the PastGustav Klimt's The KissKlimt's Death and Life
  • Rodin's The Gates of HellBöcklin's Self-Portrait with Death Playing the FiddleLeutze's Washington Crossing the DelawareKing Cophetua and the Beggar MaidRenoir's The Large BathersUlysses S. Grant Memorial
  • Cezanne's The Large BathersMillais's Marianavan Gogh's The BedroomAmerican Art after the Civil WarKhnopff's I Lock the Door Upon Myself, 1891America in the Gilded Age, Sargent's Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)
  • Stuck's The SinTissot's London Visitors, 1874Cassatt's The Child's BathMillais: The Vale of RestMunch's The StormVan Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
  • Wallis's ChattertonEakins' The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt In A Single Scull)All Saints, Margaret StreetWilliam Morris and Philip Webb, Red HouseEastman Johnson, A Ride for Liberty -- The Fugitive SlavesHomer's The Life Line
  • Homer's The Fog Warning

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  • 1907-1960 Age of Global ConflictIn Advance of the Broken ArmMatisse's Bonheur de vivreThe Impact of Abstract ExpressionismPollock's Painting TechniquesExpressionism
  • Matisse's Luxe, calme et voluptéDuchamp's FountainGiacometti's The Palace at 4amUmbo (Otto Umbehr), The Roving Reporter, 1926Picasso: Early WorkWright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • Marcel Duchamp's Boite-en-valiseKandinsky's Composition VIIPollock's One: Number 31, 1950Gertrude SteinDance ICubism
  • Matisse The Red StudioBritish Art and Literature During WWIGiacometti's City SquareThe Piano LessonJean Arp, Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance)Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
  • Braque: The PortugueseItalian FuturismDadaBoccioni, Unique FormsThree Futurists Artwork by Balla, Severini and BoccioniJawlensky's Young Girl in a Flowered Hat
  • Schwitters' Merzbild 32A, The Cherry PictureBunshaft'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 GermanyMark RothkoSuprematism
  • Representation & Abstraction: Looking at Millais and Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51Barnett NewmanAugust Sander, PortraitsRené Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933Mondrian, Broadway Boogie-WoogieThe Viaduct at L'Estaque
  • Schiele's Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait)The Reservoir, Horta de EbroGuitarWillem de KooningSelf-Portrait Architecture Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building
  • Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St. LazareDali, Metamorphosis of NarcissusDe StijlKlee's Twittering MachineGuernicaSchool of Paris, Modigliani's Young Woman in a Shirt
  • Neue Sachlichkeit Otto Dix's Portrait of Sylvia von HardenFeininger's CathedralMoholy-Nagy's Composition A.XXRobert Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 57Schiele's HermitsBarnett Newman's Painting Technique
  • Mark Rothko's Painting TechniqueDali's The Persistence of MemoryLászló Moholy-Nagy, Climbing the MastMan Ray's The GiftFranz Kline's Painting Technique
  • Art in Nazi GermanyAshcan SchoolAmerican Regionalism - Grant Wood's American GothicAmerican Abstraction-O'Keeffe's The Lawrence TreeAmerican Realism, Hopper's NighthawksFrida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego Rivera
  • Wilfredo Lam's The JungleNY School, Jasper Johns' FlagRauschenberg's BedAd Reinhardt, Abstract PaintingPhotography
  • Brancusi's Bird in SpaceRaymond Duchamp-Villon's HorseGilbert's Woolworth Building

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  • 1960- Age of Post-ColonialismPhotography Diane ArbusCampbell's Soup CansFrancis Bacon, Triptych - August 1972Richard Serra's Torqued EllipsesClaes Oldenburg
  • Conceptual Art Acconci's Following PieceLouise Bourgeois's Cumul IDan Flavin, Untitled (To Donna) IIPop ArtLucian Freud, Standing by the Rags, 1988-89Fat Chair
  • Cindy ShermanUntitled (Rope Piece)Table with AccumulatorSherrie LevineAssemblage Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Useful Art #5: The Western Hotel, 1992 William Eggleston
  • Roy Lichtenstein's Girl with ballBernd and Hilla BecherGerhard Richter, Uncle RudiMinimalism Judd's UntitledGerhard Richter, BettyGerhard Richter, The Cage Paintings (1-6)
  • Lichtenstein's Rouen Cathedral Set VProcess Art Eva HesseJeff Wall’s A View from an ApartmentPerformance Art: An IntroductionJoseph Beuys, Feet Washing
  • Robert Morris, Untitled (L Beams)Mary Kelly's Postpartum DocumentJackie Winsor's #1 RopeEarth Art Smithson's Spiral JettyJudy Chicago's Pasadena Lifesaver #4 & Lynda Benglis's Omega
  • Marina Abramović, The Artist is PresentGerhard Richter, SeptemberJohn Baldessari’s I Will Not Make Any More Boring ArtNauman's The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic TruthsPostmodernism Colescott's Beauty is in the Eye of the BeholderHirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
  • Art in the 21st CenturyAi Weiwei's So Sorry and the Politics of Dissent

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