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Guide to Byzantine art

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syllabus grid — Sample syllabi for inspiration

Sample syllabi

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borneo animal cave — These enigmatic artworks are among the world’s oldest examples of figurative depiction.

Figurative cave art in Borneo

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Attributed to Kashmir, detail of shawl of joined fragments, pashmina wool, late 18th century (The Met)

1500–1857

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Rajarajesvara temple (south), c. 1004–1010, Chola period, Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu (photo: Emanuel DYAN, CC BY 2.0)

600–1200 C.E.

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Xu Bing, Book from the Sky, c. 1987-91, hand-printed books and ceiling and wall scrolls printed from wood letterpress type; ink on paper, each book, open: 18 1/8 × 20 inches / 46 × 51 cm; each of three ceiling scrolls 38 inches × c. 114 feet 9-7/8 inches / 96.5 × 3500 cm; each wall scroll 9 feet 2-1/4 inches × 39-3/8 inches / 280 × 100 cm (installation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014), collection of the artist, © Xu Bing

Questions in art history

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Diego Rivera, Man Controller of the Universe (or Man in the Time Machine), 1934, fresco, 4.85 x 11.45 m in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City

Brief histories of art and culture

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Couple, Dogon people, 18th-19th century, wood, metal, Mali (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The language of art history

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Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, England, founded by Princess Æthelthryth (also Etheldreda) in 672

An introduction to art history

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Hindu art in India

Hinduism

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What was going on around the world during the time of archaic Greece?

Tiny timeline: Archaic Greece in a global ...

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Commons Landing

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The Kaaba, granite masonry, covered with silk curtain and calligraphy in gold and silver-wrapped thread, pre-Islamic monument, rededicated by Muhammad in 631-32 C.E.

Islam

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Christianity

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Where would we be without our cameras?

A history of photography

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AP Art History books for teachers and ...

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Is Smarthistory reliable?

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Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa, detail

Illness, plagues, and pandemics in art

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A team of Griffith University archaeologists has shared in the discovery of what may be the world’s oldest known cave painting, dating back to at least 45,500 years ago.

Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi, Indonesia

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Nine Bis Poles, from left to right: Jiem (artist), Otsjanep village, c. 1960; Jiem (artist), Otsjanep village, c. 1960; Terepos (artist), Omadesep village, c. 1960; Jewer (artist), Omadesep village, c. 1960; Fanipdas (artist), Omadesep village, c. 1960; artist unknown, probably Per village, c. 1960; artist unknown, Omadesep village, late 1950s; Ajowmien (artist), Omadesep village, c. 1960; Bifarq (artist), Otsjanep village, c. 1960, Asmat people, Faretsj River region, Papua Province, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, wood, paint, fiber (Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — “Art history is relevant” is not how the discipline of art history is typically framed in popular discourse.

Art history and world art history

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