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Donatello, Madonna of the Clouds, c. 1425--35, marble, 33.1 x 32 cm / 13 1/16 x 12 5/8 inches (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

The Renaissance in Italy (1400s)

Raphael, Galatea, c. 1513, fresco, 3 x 2.2 m, Villa Farnesina, Rome

The Renaissance in Italy (1500s)

Giovanni Bellini, San Zaccaria Altarpiece, 1505, oil on wood transferred to canvas, 16 feet 5-1/2 inches x 7 feet 9 inches (San Zaccaria, Venice) (detail)

The Renaissance in Venice

Jan van Eyck, The Madonna in the Church, c. 1438, oil on oak panel, 31 x 14 cm (Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie)

The Northern Renaissance (1400s)

Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I, 1514, engraving, 24 x 18.5 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The Northern Renaissance (1500s)

Bronzino, Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo with her son Giovanni, 1544-45, oil on panel, 115.00 x 96.00 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi)

The Late (High) Renaissance + Mannerism

Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665, oil on canvas, 44.5 x 39″ (Mauritshuis, The Hague)

Baroque art

Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717, oil on canvas, 4'3" x 6' 4 1/2" (Louvre, Paris)

Rococo

Jacques-Louis David, The Intervention of the Sabine Women, 1799, Oil on canvas, 12 feet, 8 inches x 17 feet and 3/4 of an inch (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Neoclassicism

William Hogarth, Marriage a-la-Mode, c. 1743, series of six paintings, oil on canvas, 69.9 x 90.8 cm (The National Gallery, London)

British art in the 18th century

Caspar David Friedrich, Woman at a Window, 1822, oil on canvas, 44 x 73 cm (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin)

Romanticism in Europe

Julia Margaret Cameron, Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1867, albumen silver print from glass negative, 32.8 c 23.7 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Early photography

Detail, Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-52, oil on canvas, 762 x 1118 mm (Tate Britain, London)

Victorian art

Detail, Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans, begun late summer 1849, completed 1850, exhibited at the Salon of 1850-51, 124 x 260 inches, oil on canvas (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Realism in Europe

Charles Garnier, Paris Opéra (now Palais Garnier), 1860-75 under Napoleon III.

Art of the Second Empire (1852-1870)

Detail, Claude Monet, Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882, oil on canvas, 26-1/8 x 32-7/16 inches / 66.5 x 82.3 cm (Art Institute of Chicago)

Impressionism

Detail, Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889, oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.1 cm (The Museum of Modern Art)

Post-Impressionism

Detail, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Dance, 1865-69, marble, 420 x 298 cm. (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Nineteenth-Century French sculpture

Detail, Fernand Khnopff, I Lock the Door Upon Myself, 1891 (Neue Pinakothek, Munich)

Symbolism + Art Nouveau

Olmec mask, c. 1200 - 400 B.C.E., jadeite, 4 x 3-3/8 x 1-1/4 inches found in offering 20 buried c. 1470 C.E. at the Aztec Templo Mayor (Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City)

Art of North America before European colonization