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  • Archaic Greek Vase PaintingAncient EgyptAncient Near EastAncient Greece and RomeNeo-Assyrian Art: Human Headed Winged Lion and Bull (Lamassu)Classical Greek
  • Roman Architecture The PantheonAfter Praxiteles, Venus (Roman Copy)Mixing Vessel with Odysseus Escaping from the Cyclops's Cave

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  • 400-1300 Medieval EraByzantineOttonian GothicBerlinghieri

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  • 1300-1400 Proto-RenaissanceFlorence Giotto's LamentationGiotto's EpiphanyMadonna and ChildSienaNicola 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 NorthFlorenceFlandersDonatelloCampinFra Filippo Lippi's Madonna and ChildMasaccio
  • Van EyckBrunelleschiPetrus Christus's Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446MantegnaCrivelliVenice
  • Man and Woman at a CasementPiero della FrancescaFra Filippo LippiBrunelleschi & Ghiberti The Sacrifice of Isaacvan der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435 (Prado, Madrid)The Last Judgment, 1446-52
  • Saint SebastianBotticelli

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  • The PietàBronzinoMosesDavidHigh RenaissanceMichelangelo
  • Mona LisaVirgin of the RocksLeonardoMannerismDürerParmigianino
  • School of AthensSistine Chapel CeilingLast SupperNorthern RenaissanceRaphael: Alba MadonnaHolbein
  • CelliniDavidLast Judgment, Sistine ChapelParmigianino's Madonna of the Long NeckJapan, Muromachi to Momoyama period Negoro ware ewerPontormo's Entombment

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  • 1600-1700 The BaroqueBerniniItalyCaravaggioEcstasy of St. TheresaFlandersFrance
  • Calling of Saint MatthewRembrandtHolland and VermeerCrucifixion of St. PeterRembrandt, The Three Crosses, 1653
  • Spain Velázquez, Las MeninasNicolas PoussinRembrandt, Self-PortraitsAnnibale Carracci, Ceiling of the Farnese PalaceCarracci, Crucifixion & LamentationGuercino

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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, 1771-73

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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 IceSalisbury Field, Portrait of a Young WomanSocial Realism in England: Redgrave's The Sempstress

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  • 1848-1907 Industrial Revolution IISeuratGustave Courbet, The VioloncellestThe BatherCassatt, The Cup of TeaAcademic Art: GérômeThe Basket of Apples
  • Pre-Raphaelites Millais' Christ in the House of His ParentsMonet: Gare St. LazareRealism: Courbet's Bonjour Monsieur CourbetCourbet: The Artist's StudioDegas' Place de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters</em>Manet: Olympia
  • GauguinYoung Women from the VillageTurning Road at MontgeroultImpressionism: Cassatt's At the OperaStill-Life with Plaster CupidCézanne Still Life with Apples
  • Degas: The Dance ClassWoman Bathing in a Shallow TubRenoir: Two Young Girls at the PianoMoulin de la GaletteVan GoghPortrait of Roulin
  • The Pre-Raphaelites Millais' OpheliaBoatingThe RailwayPost-Impressionism Seurat's Sunday Afternoon...Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873Gauguin's The Red Cow
  • Cassat, Breakfast in BedSymbolism Khnopff's Jeanne Kéfer A Bar at the Folies-BergèreVincent Van Gogh, Potato Eaters, 1885

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  • 1907-1960 Age of Global ConflictFauvism & MatisseMarcel Duchamp's Boite-en-valiseExpressionismPicasso: Early WorkAshcan SchoolKandinsky, Composition VII
  • Umbo (Otto Umbehr), The Roving Reporter, 1926Dance IMatisse The Red StudioGertrude SteinCubismWillem de Kooning
  • Jean Arp, Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance)Les Demoiselles d'AvignonBarnett NewmanMark RothkoThe Piano LessonGiacometti
  • GuernicaDadaBraque: The PortugueseFuturismMagritte's The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), 1921Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51
  • Suprematism Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of GermanyMondrian, Broadway Boogie-WoogieRené Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933August Sander, PortraitsBunshaft's Lever House
  • Schwitters' Merzbild 32A, The Cherry PictureDe StijlCartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St. LazareNeue Sachlichkeit Otto Dix's Portrait of Sylvia Von HardenSurrealism
  • Abstract 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 ArbusBernd and Hilla BecherPop ArtClaes OldenburgCindy ShermanAssemblage Ed Keinholz and Nancy Reddin Keinholz, Useful Art #5: The Western Hotel, 1992
  • William EgglestonSherrie LevineJudy Chicago's Pasadena Lifesaver #4 & Lynda Benglis's Omega Colescott, Beauty is in the Eye of the BeholderRoy Lichtenstein: Girl with ballRichard Serra
  • Minimalism Judd's UntitledProcess Art Eva HesseEarth Art Smithson's Spiral Jetty

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