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  • Paleolithic OriginsCuneiform and the Invention of WritingThe Neolithic RevolutionSculpture from the Parthenon's East PedimentSumerian ArtHead of Augustus
  • Ancient Near EastVictory Stele of Naram-SinPerforated Relief of Ur-NansheArt of Akkad and UrAugustus of PrimaportaColosseum
  • The Pergamon AltarArch of TitusBabylonian Art - Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi Great Lyre from the Mixing Vessel with Odysseus Escaping from the Cyclops's CaveAfter Praxiteles, Venus (Roman Copy)
  • JerichoParthenon FriezeColumn of TrajanNew York KourosParthenonAssyrian Human Headed Winged Lion and Bull (Lamassu)
  • The Parthenon: MetopesZiggurat of UrÇatal HöyükPair of Centaurs Fighting Cats of Prey from Hadrian's VillaStonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England
  • Erechtheion: Caryatid and ColumnMedea Sarcophagus, 140 - 150 C.E.Neo-Babylonian Art: Ishtar Gate and Processional WayNike of SamothraceEquestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius
  • Seated ScribeArch of ConstantineHellenistic Art: Eros Sleeping and An Old Market WomanRamesses IIRosetta Stone
  • Ancient Greece Geometric GreekArchaic Greek Classical Greek Hellenistic Greek
  • Ancient RomeTemple of PortunusRoman Empire

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  • 400-1300 Medieval EraThe Image in Early Medieval ArtBirth of the Gothic: Abbot Suger and the Ambulatory at St. DenisChurch Architecture: An OverviewFibulaeEarly Christian Art - An IntroductionEnglish Gothic Architecture
  • An IntroductionLast Judgment Tympanum, Cathedral of St. Lazare, AutunSouthwell MinsterMedieval ManuscriptsSutton Hoo Ship Burial
  • Virgin from GerWise and Foolish Virgins, Sant Quirze de PedretSanta Pudenziana, RomeSarcophagus of Junius BassusEarly Christian Art - An Introduction (Part 2)Santa Sabina
  • Basilica of Santa PrassedeSalisbury CathedralByzantine ArtHistoriated Capitals, Church of Sant Miquel, Camarasa (Noguera)Ottonian Islamic Art: Early Caliphates
  • Early Christian Art before ConstantineCarolingian ArtSanta Maria MaggioreIvory panel with ArchangelRomanesque Early Christian Art & Architecture after Constantine
  • Sarcophagus in the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua (Rome) BerlinghieriGothic: Chartres CathedralMedieval CaliphatesBayeux Tapestry
  • Bodhisattva from ChinaOverview of IslamPre-Columbian Cup

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  • 1300-1400 Proto-RenaissanceCimabue, Santa Trinita MadonnaDuccio's Rucellai MadonnaMadonna and ChildSienaGiotto, LamentationPisa Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
  • Lorenzetti's Presentation of Jesus in the TempleSt. Francis Receiving the Stigmata Duccio's The Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and AureaSimone Martini's AnnunciationGiotto, The Ognissanti MadonnaAndrea Pisano's Reliefs on the Campanile in Florence
  • BurgundyGiotto's The Entombment of MaryHoly Thorn ReliquaryHebrew AstrolabeIcon of Saint George (the Follower of Bernardo Daddi, The Aldobrandini Triptych
  • Giotto's EpiphanyBuddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)

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  • 1400-1500 Renaissance in Italy and the NorthFlandersOrsanmicheleCampinFlorenceMadonna and ChildRepresentations of David in the Florentine Renaissance
  • Van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (closed)Linear Perspective: Filippo Brunelleschi's ExperimentDonatelloEarly Applications of Linear PerspectiveCrivelliMan and Woman at a Casement
  • VeniceMantegnaVan Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (open)MasaccioGiovanni Arnolfini and his WifeFra Angelico's The Annunciation
  • Christus’s Portrait of a Young GirlPetrus Christus, Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446van der Goes' The Adoration of the KingsFra Angelico's The Annunciation (Prado)van der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435 (Prado, Madrid)van der Weyden's Crucifixion Triptych
  • Fra Filippo LippiSaint SebastianVan Eyck's The Madonna in the ChurchDonatello, Saint MarkMasaccio's Holy TrinityDonatello's Madonna of the Clouds
  • Botticelli's Birth of VenusContrappostoCamera degli SposiPiero della Francesca's The Baptism of ChristPiero della Francesca's Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of UrbinoThe Unicorn in Captivity
  • Icon of the Triumph of OrthodoxyMasaccio, Virgin and Child EnthronedDormition of the VirginVeneziano's St. Lucy AltarpieceThe Last Judgment, 1446-52Campin's Christ and the Virgin
  • Brunelleschi's DomeCrucifixion with the Virgin and Saint JohnBotticelli, PrimaveraBrunelleschi & Ghiberti The Sacrifice of IsaacMartini's Architectural Veduta

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  • 1500-1600 End of the Renaissance and the ReformationParmigianino's Madonna of the Long NeckThe PietàRaphael, Madonna of the GoldfinchLeonardo, Adoration of the MagiPontormo's EntombmentDürer
  • Raphael's La belle jardinièreHigh RenaissanceBruegel's The Dutch ProverbsVirgin of the RocksDavidLeonardo
  • MichelangeloDürer's PrintsTitian's Noli me TangereParmigianinoRaphael: Alba MadonnaRosso Fiorentino's The Dead Christ with Angels
  • Last SupperVenetian RenaissanceMosesBronzinoLucas Cranach, Adam and EveMannerism
  • Michelangelo's SlavesHolbein's The Merchant Georg GiszeNorthern RenaissanceHolbeinSchool of AthensCellini
  • Last Judgment, Sistine ChapelTitian, Portrait of a Man Sistine Chapel CeilingHolbein's Christina of DenmarkRaphael's Portrait of Pope Julius IIThe Interaction of Artists and Scientists in the Renaissance
  • The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist (Burlington House Cartoon)Saint Peter's BasilicaHolbein's Henry VIIIDavid's The Virgin and Child with Saints and DonorGerard David's Virgin and Child with AngelsTitian's Bacchus and Ariadne
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder's Cupid complaining to VenusGalileo and the Art of Renaissance ScienceBronzino's Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo with her son GiovanniVeronese's The Family of Darius Before AlexanderLucas Cranach's Judith with the Head of HolofernesVeronese's The Dream of Saint Helena
  • Titian's Venus of UrbinoDürer's The Large Piece of TurfEl Greco's Adoration of the ShepherdsMona LisaMichelangelo, Laurentian LibraryCranach's Wittenberg Altarpiece
  • Bruegel's Tower of BabelTintoretto's The Origin of the Milky WayJapan, Muromachi to Momoyama period Negoro ware ewer

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  • 1600-1700 The BaroqueBerniniNarcissus at the SourceSan Carlo alle Quattro FontaneVermeer's The Glass of WinePluto and ProserpinaCaravaggio's paintings in the Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi
  • CaravaggioFranceRembrandt's Bathsheba at her BathPierre Le Gros the Younger's Stanislas Kostka on his DeathbedCalling of Saint MatthewHolland and Vermeer
  • ItalyFlandersNicolas PoussinGuercinoHals's Malle BabbeSpain Velázquez, Las Meninas
  • Crucifixion of St. PeterAnatomy Lesson of Dr. TulpRembrandt's Girl at a WindowIl Gesù, RomeRembrandt, The Three Crosses, 1653Bernini's Saint Peter's Square
  • Bernini's Apollo and DaphneAndrea Pozzo, Saint Ignatius Chapel in the church Il Gesù, 1695, Rome Arrival (or Disembarkation) of Marie de Medici at Marseilles, Medici CycleLos Borrachos or The Triumph of BacchusBust of Medusa
  • Claude's The Judgment of ParisRubens, The Consequences of WarVelázquez, Vulcan's Forgevan Huysum, Vase with FlowersEcstasy of St. TheresaRembrandt, Self-Portraits
  • Peasant Family in an InteriorGentileschi's Self-portrait as the Allegory of PaintingBernini's Cathedra Petri (Chair of St. Peter)Supper at EmmausCarracci, Crucifixion & LamentationAnnibale Carracci, Ceiling of the Farnese Palace
  • Caravaggio's Death of the VirginSant'Andrea al QuirinaleRibera, Martyrdom of Saint Philip

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  • 1700-1800 Age of EnlightenmentDeath of SocratesDavid's Oath of the HoratiiRococo Fragonard's The SwingNeo-ClassicismFragonard, The Meeting, 1771-73The Sleep of Endymion
  • Canova's Paolina Borghese as Venus VictoriousBoy with a SquirrelJohn Singleton CopleyCopley's Watson and the SharkVigée Le Brun's Madame PerregauxBoucher's Venus Consoling Love
  • 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 WomenBenjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe
  • David's Napoleon Crossing the AlpsReynolds, Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest SonsEmperor Napoleon In His StudyThe Tiepolo FamilyPeale's Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale)

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  • 1800-1848 Industrial Revolution IScene of the massacre at ChiosFrance: Delacroix's Liberty Leading the PeopleRomanticism in Spain Goya's Third of May, 1808Friedrich's Abbey among Oak TreesTurner's Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western RailwayThe Death of Sardanapalus
  • Romanticism in England Constable's The Hay WainFriedrich's The Lone TreeIngres's Portrait of Madame RivièreGoya, The Family of Charles IVFriedrich's Sea of IceRomanticism in Germany
  • Gros's Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in JaffaIngres' La Grand OdalisqueGéricault's Raft of the MedusaIngresRaphael and the FornarinaRomanticism in the United States, Cole's The Oxbow
  • Cole's The Oxbow Goya: Saturn Devouring One of His SonsFriedrich's Woman at a WindowBlake's The spiritual form of Nelson guiding LeviathanSocial Realism in England: Redgrave's The SempstressTurner's The Harbour of Dieppe
  • Princesse de BroglieAllston's Elijah in the DesertLane's Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, MaineFriedrich's A Walk at Dusk American Regionalism Erastus Salisbury Field, Portrait of a Young WomanFuseli's Titania and Bottom

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  • 1848-1907 Industrial Revolution IIBecoming ModernCourbet's The VioloncellestHow the Impressionists Got Their NameJulia Margaret Cameron's Mrs. Herbert Duckworth Courbet, Burial at OrnansThe Stonebreakers
  • The BatherBonheur's Plowing in the NivernaisWilliam Holman Hunt's Claudio and IsabellaPre-Raphaelites, RossettiBathers at AsnièresManet's Émile Zola
  • The Basket of ApplesManet: OlympiaYoung Women from the VillageBöcklin's Self-Portrait with Death Playing the FiddleWilliam Morris and Philip Webb, Red HouseSargent's El Jaleo
  • Bonheur's Sheep in the HighlandsMillet's L'AngelusHaussmann the DemolisherThe Balcony Sir John Everett Millais's OpheliaVan Gogh, Portrait of Roulin
  • Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the AngelStill-Life with Plaster CupidCézanne Still Life with ApplesLate Victorian Alma Tadema, Listening to HomerThe Artist's StudioThe Railway
  • Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street; Rainy DayCaillebotte: The Floor ScrapersCassatt, In the LogeRenoir's La LogeSargent's Carnation, Lily, Lily, RoseHunt's Our English Coasts (
  • Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbeThe Bellelli FamilyBurne Jones's The Golden StairsCezanne's The Red RockRealismThe Red Cow
  • Khnopff: Jeanne Kéfer The LogeBonjour Monsieur CourbetPotato EatersBoatingSargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
  • Degas: The Dance ClassPlum BrandyThe Argenteuil BridgeGarnier, Paris OperaMonet: Gare St. LazareYoung Woman Powdering Herself
  • Manet's In the ConservatoryMorisot: The Mother and Sister of the ArtistNevermoreWhister, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White GirlJean-François Millet (French), The Gleaners, 1857Cassatt's Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge
  • Carpeaux's DanceTurning Road at MontgeroultCorner of a Café-ConcertRenoir's Moulin de la GaletteFord Madox Brown's WorkVan Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin
  • Man at his BathA Bar at the Folies-BergèreRouen Cathedral SeriesCassatt, The Cup of TeaWhistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling RocketImpressionism
  • Burne-Jones's HopeHunt's The Awakening ConscienceSir John Everett Millais's Christ in the House of His ParentsDegas's At the Races in the CountrysideLeighton's An Athlete Wrestling with a PythonBathers London
  • Monet's Cliff Walk at PourvilleMonet's PoplarsRenoir's The Grands BoulevardsPost-Impressionism Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884Water LiliesToulouse-Lautrec's At the Moulin Rouge
  • Robert Mills and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Washington Monument, completed 1884Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858Cassatt, Breakfast in BedGaudí, Sagrada FamíliaPlace de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters</em>Degas's Visit to a Museum
  • Woman Bathing in a Shallow TubJohn Roddam Spencer Stanhope's Thoughts of the PastSymbolism, Klimt's Death and LifeMunch's The StormRodin's The Gates of Hellvan Gogh's The Bedroom
  • Renoir's The Large BathersCezanne's The Large BathersUlysses S. Grant MemorialKing Cophetua and the Beggar MaidAmerican Art after the Civil War
  • America in the Gilded Age, Sargent's Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)Cassatt's The Child's BathMillais: The Vale of RestTissot's London Visitors, 1874Wallis's ChattertonEakins' The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt In A Single Scull)
  • Homer's The Life LineHomer's The Fog Warning

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  • 1907-1960 Age of Global ConflictMatisse's Bonheur de vivreMarcel Duchamp's Boite-en-valiseExpressionismMatisse's Luxe, calme et voluptéGiacometti's The Palace at 4am
  • Picasso: Early WorkUmbo (Otto Umbehr), The Roving Reporter, 1926Ashcan SchoolMatisse The Red StudioKandinsky's Composition VIIDance I
  • Gertrude SteinCubismJean Arp, Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance)Giacometti's City SquareMark RothkoWillem de Kooning
  • Les Demoiselles d'AvignonThe Piano LessonBarnett NewmanDadaItalian FuturismBraque: The Portuguese
  • Schwitters' Merzbild 32A, The Cherry PictureMagritte's The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), 1921Three Futurists Artwork by Balla, Severini and BoccioniJawlensky's Young Girl in a Flowered HatLászló Moholy-Nagy, Climbing the MastBunshaft's Lever House
  • Mondrian, Broadway Boogie-WoogieHannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of GermanyNewman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51René Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933August Sander, PortraitsSchiele's Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait)
  • The Viaduct at L'EstaqueThe Reservoir, Horta de EbroFeininger's CathedralDe StijlSelf-Portrait Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St. Lazare
  • Klee's Twittering MachineDali, Metamorphosis of NarcissusWright's Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumGuernicaSchool of Paris, Modigliani's Young Woman in a ShirtNeue Sachlichkeit Otto Dix's Portrait of Sylvia von Harden
  • Schiele's HermitsMoholy-Nagy's Composition A.XXRaymond Duchamp-Villon's HorseEarly Modern PhotographySurrealismAmerican Regionalism - Grant Wood's American Gothic
  • American Abstraction-O'Keeffe's The Lawrence TreeAmerican Realism, Hopper's NighthawksFrida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego RiveraAbstract 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 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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