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ZeusDirectthumb — A new Smarthistory book — download, print, or order a bound copy.

Guide to Ancient Greek Art

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AP® Art History volume 2

A new Smarthistory book — download, print, or order a bound copy.

AP® Art History volume 1

Capitoline Brutus, 4th-3rd century B.C.E. bronze, 69 cm (Capitoline Museums, Rome) — […]

Guide to Ancient Etruscan and Roman art

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Guide to Ancient Aegean Art

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Guide to Ancient Egyptian Art

Winged human-headed bull (lamassu or shedu), Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Sargon II (721-705 B.C.E.) Khorsabad, ancient Dur Sharrukin, Assyria, Iraq, gypseous alabaster, 4.20 x 4.36 x 0.97 m, excavated by P.-E. Botta 1843-44 (Musée du Louvre) — […]

Guide to Ancient Near Eastern art

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Smarthistory’s impact

Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom, 1826, oil on canvas, 83.5 x 106 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art) — Living in peace—predator and prey, and Native Americans and settler colonists—but for how long?

Teaching guide: Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom

Wayne Thiebaud, Ponds and Streams, 2001, acrylic on canvas, 182.9 x 152.4 cm (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, ©Wayne Thiebaud) — A colorful perspective on agriculture, water, and pollution.

Teaching guide: Wayne Thiebaud, Ponds and Streams

Aaron Douglas, Aspiration, 1936, oil on canvas, 152.4 x 152.4 cm (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) — A hopeful image vying for a future free of racism.

Teaching guide: Aaron Douglas, Aspiration

Benny Andrews, Flag Day, 1966, oil on canvas, 53.3 x 40.6 cm ©The Benny Andrews Estate (The Art Institute of Chicago) (photo: Dr. Steven Zucker)

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Teaching guides: Politics and power

Titus Kaphar, The Cost of Removal — Kaphar’s painting uses defacement as a way of critiquing Andrew Jackson, and makes us consider the injustices of presidents past and present.

Teaching guide: Titus Kaphar, The Cost of ...

Horace Pippin, Mr. Prejudice, 1943. oil on canvas, 46 x 35.9 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art) — Pippin, like many other black Americans, fought bravely for democracy in World War I and yet there would be no real victory without winning the struggle for equality in the U.S.

Teaching guide: Horace Pippin, Mr. Prejudice

Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter, 1943, oil on canvas, 52 x 40 inches (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art) — Rockwell's Rosie captured the power felt by the unprecedented number of women in the workforce during World War II.

Teaching guide: Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter

Benny Andrews, Flag Day, 1966 — Does the figure emerge from the flag, or does it imprison him?

Teaching guide: Benny Andrews, Flag Day

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the sea of fog, c. 1817 (Hamburger Kunsthalle) — Who was Andy Warhol? What is Romanticism? Can abstract art mean something?

Modern Art in Europe and North America