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  • Follower of Bernardo Daddi, The Aldobrandini TriptychAndrea Pisano's Reliefs on the Campanile in Florence

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  • Man and Woman at a CasementVan Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (open)MasaccioBrunelleschi & Ghiberti The Sacrifice of IsaacPetrus Christus, Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446van der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435 (Prado, Madrid)
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  • The Unicorn in Captivity

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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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  • Nicolas PoussinGuercinoSpain Velázquez, Las MeninasCrucifixion of St. PeterIl Gesù, Rome
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  • The 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 IceRaphael and the FornarinaAmerican Regionalism Erastus Salisbury Field, Portrait of a Young WomanSocial Realism in England: Redgrave's The SempstressPrincesse de Broglie

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  • The Basket of ApplesGustave Courbet's The VioloncellestRealismThe RailwayThe Artist's StudioBonjour Monsieur Courbet
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  • Haussmann the DemolisherVan GoghPortrait of RoulinGauguin's Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the AngelGarnier, Paris Opera HouseCassatt, At the Opera
  • Plum BrandyPost-Impressionism Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884Khnopff: Jeanne Kéfer Cassatt, The Cup of TeaMonet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873Tissot's London Visitors, 1874
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  • Monet: Gare St. LazareRobert Mills and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Washington Monument, completed 1884Eakins'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 Boit
  • 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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  • 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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