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Becoming Modern, an introduction
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Romanticism in France, an introduction
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Raft of the Medusa
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J.M.W. Turner at Tate Britain
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A beginner's guide
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Impressionism, an introduction
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La Loge
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Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
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James Ensor, Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889
Fernand Khnopff
Jeanne Kéfer
I Lock my Door Upon Myself
Franz von Stuck, The Sin
Hector Guimard, Cité entrance, Métropolitain, Paris
Gustav Klimt
Beethoven Frieze
 The Kiss
Death and Life
Edvard Munch
The Storm
The Scream
Léon Bakst, "Costume design for the ballet The Firebird"
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Vase
Hair Ornament
Peredvizhniki
An Introduction to The Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers)
Ilya Repin, Krestny Khod (Religious Procession) in Kursk Gubernia

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