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The Mass of St. Gregory, 1539, feathers on wood with touches of paint, 26 1/4 x 22 inches / 68 x 56 cm (Musee des Jacobins)

The art of the viceroyalty of New ...


Thomas Cole, The Oxbow

Art in American Colonies and the United ...


Garden-facing windows parallel mirrors in the Galerie des glaces (Hall of Mirrors), Palace of Versailles (image: Wikimedia Commons, Myrabella CC BY-SA 3.0)

Secular matters of the global baroque


Koetsu grid

The four seasons in the arts of ...



Artemisia Gentileschi, Conversion of the Magdalene, c.1616, oil on canvas, 146.5 × 108 cm (57 9/16 × 42 1/2 in), (Palazzo Pitti, Uffizi, Florence)

The sacred baroque in the Catholic world


Summer chaofu (formal court dress) for a top-rank prince, Qing dynasty, c. 1820-1875, silk gauze with embroidery in silk and metallic-wrapped threads, China, 141 x 170.2 cm (Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Gift of Shirley Z. Johnson, F2015.7)

Art of the Qing dynasty


Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps By Gayle Clemans Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps, 2005, oil paint on canvas, 274.3 x 274.3 cm (108 x 108 in) (Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York)

Responding to the early modern European tradition


Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (Winter), 1565, oil on wood, 162 x 117 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-SA-NC 2.0)

Printing and painting in Northern Renaissance art



Art in Sovereign States of the Italian ...


Masaccio, The Tribute Money- detail

Art in the Italian Renaissance Republics, c. ...


Art in Ming dynasty China


Cantino Planisphere, 1502, ink and pigment on vellum, 102 x 218 cm (Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena)

Portuguese contacts and exchanges, c. 1400–1800




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