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  • Ancient Near EastClassical Greek Hellenistic GreekMixing Vessel with Odysseus Escaping from the Cyclops's CaveAfter Praxiteles, Venus (Roman Copy)Ancient Greece and Rome
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  • Santa Maria MaggioreEarly Christian Art & Architecture after ConstantineSarcophagus in the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua (Rome) BerlinghieriPre-Columbian Art

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  • 1300-1400 Proto-RenaissanceGiotto's EpiphanyFlorence Giotto's LamentationMadonna and ChildSienaPisa Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
  • Follower of Bernardo Daddi, The Aldobrandini TriptychAndrea Pisano's Reliefs on the Campanile in Florence

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  • Van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (closed)DonatelloApplications of Linear Perspective in the RenaissanceMantegnaCrivelliVenice
  • Man and Woman at a CasementVan Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (open)MasaccioBrunelleschi & Ghiberti The Sacrifice of IsaacPetrus Christus's Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446van der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435 (Prado, Madrid)
  • Fra Filippo LippiSaint SebastianThe Last Judgment, 1446-52Piero della FrancescaMasaccio's Holy TrinityBotticelli
  • The Unicorn in Captivity

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  • Last SupperCelliniHolbeinRaphael: Alba MadonnaVenetian RenaissanceMoses
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  • The Interaction of Artists and Scientists in the RenaissanceHolbein's Henry VIIICranach's Wittenberg AltarpieceSaint Peter's BasilicaPontormo's EntombmentGalileo and the Art of Renaissance Science

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  • 1600-1700 The BaroqueBerniniPluto and ProserpinaSan Carlo alle Quattro FontaneCaravaggio's paintings in the Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei FrancesiCaravaggioFrance
  • RembrandtCalling of Saint MatthewHolland and VermeerItalyFlandersNicolas Poussin
  • GuercinoSpain Velázquez, Las MeninasCrucifixion of St. PeterRembrandt, The Three Crosses, 1653Il Gesù, Rome
  • Bernini's Apollo and DaphneBernini's Saint Peter's SquareAndrea Pozzo, Saint Ignatius Chapel in the church Il Gesù, 1965, Rome Claude's The Judgment of ParisBust of MedusaNarcissus at the Source
  • Gentileschi's Self-portrait as the Allegory of PaintingEcstasy of St. TheresaRembrandt, Self-PortraitsBernini's Cathedra Petri (Chair of St. Peter)Carracci, Crucifixion & LamentationAnnibale Carracci, Ceiling of the Farnese Palace
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  • David's Oath of the HoratiiRococo Fragonard's The SwingDavid's Death of MaratNeo-ClassicismFragonard, The Meeting, 1771-73
  • Emperor Napoleon In His StudyJohn Singleton CopleyBoy with a SquirrelCopley's Watson and the SharkBoucher's Venus Consoling LoveThe Tiepolo Family

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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 IceAmerican Regionalism Erastus Salisbury Field, Portrait of a Young WomanSocial Realism in England: Redgrave's The SempstressPrincesse de Broglie

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  • 1848-1907 Industrial Revolution IISeuratHow the Impressionists Got Their NameAcademic Art Gérôme: Pygmalion and GalateaThe BatherThe Basket of Apples
  • Pre-Raphaelites Millais' Christ in the House of His ParentsThe RailwayRealismGustave Courbet's The VioloncellestThe Artist's StudioBonjour Monsieur Courbet
  • Still-Life with Plaster CupidTurning Road at MontgeroultGauguin's Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the AngelCézanne Still Life with ApplesDegas: The Dance ClassThe Pre-Raphaelites Millais' Ophelia
  • Young Women from the VillageManet: OlympiaBoatingDegas' Place de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters</em>Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub
  • Haussmann the DemolisherMoulin de la GaletteVan GoghPortrait of RoulinPlum BrandyGarnier, Paris Opera House
  • Post-Impressionism Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884Cassatt, At the OperaTissot's London Visitors, 1874The LogeMorisot: The Mother and Sister of the ArtistKhnopff: Jeanne Kéfer
  • Cassatt, Breakfast in BedGauguin's The Red CowCassatt, The Cup of TeaA Bar at the Folies-BergèreMonet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873Potato Eaters
  • Monet: Gare St. LazareEakins's The Gross ClinicEakins' The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt In A Single Scull)Sargent's Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)Sargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley BoitRobert Mills and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Washington Monument, completed 1884
  • Renoir: Two Young Girls at the PianoSymbolism Munch: The StormAmerica in the Gilded Age Sargent's El Jaleo

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  • 1907-1960 Age of Global ConflictFauvism & MatisseMarcel Duchamp's Boite-en-valiseExpressionismPicasso: Early WorkAshcan SchoolUmbo (Otto Umbehr), The Roving Reporter, 1926
  • Kandinsky's Composition VIIGertrude SteinCubismDance IMatisse The Red StudioWillem de Kooning
  • GiacomettiJean Arp, Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance)The Piano LessonBarnett NewmanMark RothkoLes Demoiselles d'Avignon
  • FuturismDadaBraque: The PortugueseMondrian, Broadway Boogie-WoogieRené Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51
  • August Sander, PortraitsMagritte's The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), 1921Bunshaft's Lever HouseSchwitters' Merzbild 32A, The Cherry PictureSuprematism Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
  • The Reservoir, Horta de EbroFeininger's CathedralDe StijlCartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St. LazareWright's Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumGuernica
  • Neue Sachlichkeit Otto Dix's Portrait of Sylvia von HardenSurrealismAbstract ExpressionismNY School Jasper Johns' FlagSculpture Brancusi's Bird in Space
  • Architecture Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building

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  • Assemblage Ed Keinholz and Nancy Reddin Keinholz, Useful Art #5: The Western Hotel, 1992 Sherrie LevineWilliam EgglestonBernd and Hilla BecherRoy Lichtenstein's Girl with ballJudy Chicago's Pasadena Lifesaver #4 & Lynda Benglis's Omega
  • Minimalism Judd's UntitledProcess Art Eva HesseEarth Art Smithson's Spiral JettyPostmodernism Colescott's Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

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