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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna of the Meadow, c. 1500, oil and egg on synthetic panel, transferred from wood, 67.3 x 86.4 cm (The National Gallery) — […]

How to do visual (formal) analysis

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Introduction to the Inka

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Codex Féjervary-Mayer, 15th century, f. 1 (World Museum, Liverpool) — […]

Mesoamerica, an introduction

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Codex Borgia

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The Town Hall of Amsterdam

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Nazi looting: Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain — […]

Introduction to Dada

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Looting, collecting, and exhibiting: the Bubon bronzes

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Introduction to Fifteenth-century Flanders

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Miguel González, The Virgin of Guadalupe

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Tipu’s Tiger

Detail, Keru Vessel, Inka, lacquered wood, Colonial, Peru (Brooklyn Museum) Keru Cup. Inka. Colonial. Wood; lacquered, 7 3/8 x 6 15/16inches / 18.7 x 17.6cm (Brooklyn Museum) — […]

Keru Vessel

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Voyage to the moai of Rapa Nui ...

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The Case for Copying

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The Case for Ai Weiwei

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The Case for Andy Warhol

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The Case for Yoko Ono

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The Case for Minimalism

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The Case for Abstraction

Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory (detail) — […]

The Case for Surrealism

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Henry VII Chapel

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Wren, Saint Paul’s Cathedral

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Lincoln Cathedral

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Wells Cathedral

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Kente cloth

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Introduction to Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century

Euphronios, Sarpedon Krater — […]

Euphronios, Sarpedon Krater

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Sefer Musre Hafilosofim (Book of Morals of ...

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Monolith of Tlaltecuhtli (Earth Lord)

Durham Cathedral — […]

Durham Cathedral

Basilica of San Clemente, Rome, church rebuilt 1099-1119, mosaic 1130s — […]

The Basilica of San Clemente, Rome

Marcel Breuer, The Whitney Museum of American Art (now The Met Breuer), 1963-66, Madison Avenue at East 75th Street, NYC — […]

Breuer, The Whitney Museum of American Art ...

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Classicism and the Early Middle Ages

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Sainte-Chapelle, Paris

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The conservator’s eye: Marble statue of a ...

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The conservator’s eye: Taddeo Gaddi, Saint Julian

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Still Life with Chair Caning

Site of the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City since 1791 — […]

The Academy of San Carlos

Anonymous, Allegory of Independence, 1834 (Museo Histórico Curato de Dolores, Guanajato, INAH) — […]

Mexican Independence

Dover Castle, aerial view — […]

The Art of Conquest in England and ...

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Amiens Cathedral

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Morisot, The Cradle

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Reims Cathedral

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Caravaggio, The Conversion of St. Paul (or ...

Still Life with Peaches (left), two dates, a silver tray with prunes, dried figs and dates with a glass of red wine (center), and branch of Peaches, Fourth Style wall painting from Herculaneum, Italy, c. 62-69 C.E., fresco, 14 x 13 1/2 inches (Archaeological Museum, Naples) — […]

Still Life with Peaches

Carmelo Fernández, Province of Vélez, The Strait of Furatena in the Minero River, 1850-51, watercolor on paper (Colombian National Library) — […]

Carmelo Fernández, The Strait of Furatena in ...

Reconstruction of a part of the Forma Urbis Romae, the great ancient marble map of Rome from the time of Septimius Severus. — […]

Severan marble plan (Forma Urbis Romae)

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, folio 7 recto from the Vienna Genesis, early 6th century, tempera, gold and silver on purple vellum, 31.75 x 23.5 cm (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna) — […]

The Vienna Genesis

Altneushul synagogue, Prague, photo: Øyvind Holmstad, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prague_Praha_2014_Holmstad_Den_gammelnye_synagogen.JPG — […]

Altneushul, Prague

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Terracotta Krater

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Telephone Pictures

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Rothko, No. 210/No. 211 (Orange), 1960

Descent of the Ganges or Arjuna’s Penance, 7-8th C., Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, India — […]

The Great Relief at Mamallapuram

Navigation Chart, Marshall Islands

Detail, Judith Leyster, Man Offering Money to a Woman (The Proposition), 1631, oil on panel, 11-3/8 × 9-1/2 inches (Mauritshuis, The Hague) — […]

Judith Leyster, The Proposition

Giacomo Balla, Street Light (detail), c. 1910-11 (dated on painting 1909), oil on canvas, 174.7 x 114.7 cm (The Museum of Modern Art, New York) — […]

Giacomo Balla, Street Light

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Alfredo Jaar, A Logo for America

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Frans Hals, The Women Regents

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Illustration from the Akbarnama

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Baltasar de Echave Ibía, The Hermits

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New Spain

Keith Haring, Untitled Subway Drawing, 1982, caulk on paper @ Keith Haring Foundation — […]

Keith Haring, Subway Drawings

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Tlaloc vessel

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Calla Lilly Vendor (Vendedora de Alcatraces)

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Independence from Spanish rule in South America

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Master of the (Fishing) Nets Garden

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Girl at a Window, 1645, oil on canvas, 81.8 x 66.2 cm (Dulwich Picture Galley, London) — […]

Rembrandt, Girl at a Window

Mexico City side, Biombo with the Conquest of Mexico and View of Mexico City, New Spain, late 17th century (Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City) — […]

Biombo with the Conquest of Mexico and ...

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Gauguin, Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard ...

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Chakalte’, Relief with Enthroned Ruler

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Mirror-Bearer

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Vessel with a mythological scene

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How to recognize Italian Renaissance art

Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer (detail), 1914, oil on canvas, 173.4 x 105.1 cm (Alfred Stieglitz Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) — […]

Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer

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Introduction to the Spanish Viceroyalties in the ...

François Boucher, Family Taking Breakfast, 1739, 81 x 65 cm (Louvre) — […]

The Renaissance in Spain

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Santa Maria Antiqua

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Bahram Gur Fights the Karg (Horned Wolf), ...

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Necklace (Lei Niho Palaoa), Hawai’i

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Fly Whisk (Tahiri), Austral Islands

Thumb, Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), 1912, oil on canvas, 57 7/8 x 35 1/8 (151.8 x 93.3 cm) (Philadelphia Museum of Art) — […]

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No ...

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The Court of Gayumars

Chrysler Building at night, photo: Kim Carpenter, CC: BY 2.0 — […]

Van Alen, The Chrysler Building

Terracotta Fragment, Lapita people — […]

Terracotta fragments, Lapita people

Altar site of Monte d'Accoddi (photo: Gianf84, CC BY-SA 3.0) — […]

Nuragic architecture at Su Nuraxi Barumini, Sardinia

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Bis Poles at The Metropolitan Museum of ...

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Christian Ethiopian art

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) — […]

Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over ...

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African art and the effects of European ...

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The Reception of African Art in the ...

Juana Basilia Sitmelelene, Coin (Presentation) Basket, Chumash, Mission San Buenaventura, c. 1815-22, sumac, juncus textilis, mud dye, 9 x 48 cm (National Museum of the American Indian) — […]

Juana Basilia Sitmelelene, Presentation Basket (Chumash)

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Ere Ibeji Figures (Yoruba peoples)

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Akua’ba Female Figure (Akan peoples)

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Foreshortening explained

Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538, oil on canvas, 119.20 x 165.50 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) — […]

Chiaroscuro explained

Figure from a Reliquary Ensemble: Seated Female, 19th–early 20th century, Fang peoples, Okak group, Gabon or Equatorial Guinea, wood, metal, 64 x 20 x 16.5 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Western appreciation of African art

One figure from a Pair of Diviner's Figures, Côte d'Ivoire, central Côte d'Ivoire, Baule peoples, wood, pigment, beads and iron, 55.4 x 10.2 x 10.5 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Art and the individual

Headdress, 19th–20th century, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yaka peoples, wood, cane, raffia, pigment, 45.1 x 61 x 54.6 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Rites of passage