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- – 400 C.E.
Ancient Cultures- Paleolithic Origins
- The Neolithic Revolution
- Ancient Near East
- Seated Scribe
- Ancient Greece
- Etruscan Art
- Ancient Rome
- 400 – 1300
Medieval Era- The Image in Early Medieval Art
- Church Architecture: An Overview
- Early Christian Art - An Introduction
- Early Medieval Art
- Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
- Medieval Manuscripts
- Byzantine Art
Justinian and His Attendants - Ottonian
- Carolingian Art
- Romanesque
- Gothic
Jamb Figures at Chartres - Bodhisattva from China
- Overview of Islam
- Pre-Columbian
- 1300 – 1400
Proto-Renaissance - 1400 – 1500
Renaissance in Italy & the North- Flanders
- Florence
- Orsanmichele
- Representations of David in the Florentine Renaissance
- Linear Perspective: Filippo Brunelleschi's Experiment
- Donatello
David - Massacio
The Tribute Money - Fra Angelico's The Annunciation
- Fra Filippo Lippi
Madonna and Child with Angels - Piero della Francesca's Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino
- Veneziano's St. Lucy Altarpiece
- Botticelli, Primavera
- Martini's Architectural Veduta
- Venice
Bellini's St. Francis - Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
- 1500 – 1600
End of the Renaissance and the Reformation- High Renaissance
- Venetian Renaissance
Bellini & Titian, The Feast of the Gods - Mannerism
- Northern Renaissance
- Islamic Art: Late Period
- Japan, Muromachi to Momoyama period
Negoro ware ewer
- 1600 – 1700
The Baroque- France
Rigaud's Louis XIV - Italy
Bernini's Pluto and Proserpina - Holland
Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Pitcher - Flanders
Rubens's The Elevation of the Cross - Spain
Velázquez, Las Meninas
- France
- 1700 – 1800
Age of Enlightenment- Rococo
Fragonard's The Swing - Neo-Classicism
- Hogarth's A Rake's Progress
- Reynolds, Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons
- Rococo
- 1800-1848
Industrial Revolution I- Romanticism in France
Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People - Romanticism in Spain Goya's Third of May, 1808
- Romanticism in England Constable's The Hay Wain
- Friedrich's Monk by the Sea
- Romanticism in the United States, Cole's The Oxbow
- Social Realism in England
Redgrave's The Sempstress - American Regionalism
Erastus Salisbury Field, Portrait of a Young Woman
- Romanticism in France
- 1848 – 1907
Industrial Revolution II- Becoming Modern
- Julia Margaret Cameron's Mrs. Herbert Duckworth
- Rossetti, Ecce Ancilla Domini
- William Morris and Philip Webb, Red House
- Late Victorian
Alma Tadema, Listening to Homer - Realism
- Opera House
- Impressionism
- Post-Impressionism
Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884 - Gaudí, Sagrada Família
- Symbolism, Klimt's Death and Life
- Rodin's The Gates of Hell
- American Art after the Civil War
- America in the Gilded Age, Sargent's Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)
- 1907 – 1960
Age of Global Conflict- Fauvism
- Expressionism
Kirchner's Street, Dresden - Ashcan School
Bellow's Pennsylvania Station Excavation - Cubism
Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning - Dada
Duchamp and the Ready Mades - Futurism
- De Stijl
Mondrian's Composition No. II, with Red and Blue - School of Paris, Modigliani's Young Woman in a Shirt
- Neue Sachlichkeit
Otto Dix's Portrait of Sylvia von Harden - Moholy-Nagy's Composition A.XX
- Early Modern Photography
- Surrealism
Man Ray's The Gift - American Regionalism - Grant Wood's American Gothic
- American Abstraction-O'Keeffe's The Lawrence Tree
- American Realism, Hopper's Nighthawks
- Frida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego Rivera
- Abstract Expressionism
Pollock's One. Number 31 - NY School, Jasper Johns' Flag
- Sculpture
Brancusi's Bird in Space - Architecture
Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building
- 1960 –
Age of Post-Colonialism- Photography post 1960: Diane Arbus
- Francis Bacon, Triptych - August 1972
- Pop Art
Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe - Assemblage
Kienholz's Useful Art #5: The Western Hotel - Gerhard Richter, Uncle Rudi
- Minimalism
Judd's Untitled - Process Art
Eva Hesse's Untitled - Performance Art: An Introduction
- Conceptual Art
Acconci's Following Piece - Mary Kelly Postpartum Document
- Earth Art
Smithson's Spiral Jetty - Nauman's The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths
- Postmodernism
Colescott's Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder - Ai Weiwei's So Sorry and the Politics of Dissent
- – 400 C.E.
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- 1500-1600: End of the Renaissance & Reformation
- 1600-1700: The Baroque
- 1700-1800: Age of Enlightenment
- 1800-1848: Industrial Revolution I
- 1848-1907: Industrial Revolution II
- 1907-1960: Age of Global Conflict
- 1960 - Present: Age of Post-Colonialism
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- Introduction
- Syllabus: Art History Survey (Western Culture/15 weeks)
- Week 1: Introduction and Overview
- Week 2: Ancient Cultures 2,700 B.C.E. - 400 C.E.
- Week 3: Medieval Era 400 - 1300
- Week 4: Proto-Renaissance 1300-1400
- Week 5: Renaissance in Italy and the North 1400-1500
- Week 6: End of the Renaissance and the Reformation 1500-1600
- Week 7: Midterm Examination
- Week 8: The Baroque in Italy and Spain 1600-1700
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