Prehistoric |
Paleolithic |
Venus of Willendorf (essay) |
Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux (essay) |
Apollo 11 Cave Stones (essay) |
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Neolithic |
Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine (essay) |
Running Horned Woman (essay) |
Nuragic architecture, Su Nuraxi Barumini (essay) |
Anthropomorphic stele (essay) |
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Ancient Mediterranean |
Ancient Near East |
White Temple and its ziggurat, Uruk (essay) |
Visiting Babylon (video) |
Apādana of Darius & Xerxes, Persepolis (essay) |
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Egypt |
King Menkaure and Queen (essay) |
Karnak (essay) |
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, Kneeling Statue (video) |
Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin, death mask (essay) |
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Aegean |
Frescoes from Akrotiri, Thera (video) |
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Greece |
Introduction to Ancient Greece (essay) |
Introduction to Ancient Greek Architecture (essay) |
Introduction to Ancient Greek Vase painting (essay) |
Eleusis Amphora (video) |
Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi (video) |
Temple of Athena Nike & Sandal Nike, Athens (essay) |
Siphnian Treasury, Delphi (video) |
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Etruria/Etruscan |
Apulu (Apollo of Veii) (video) |
Sarcophagus of the Spouses (video) |
Sarcophagus of the Spouses (essay) |
Bucchero (essay) |
Chimera of Arezzo (essay) |
Tomb of the Reliefs (Caere) (essay) |
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Rome |
Temple of Iuppiter Optimus Maximus (essay) |
Ancient Rome (video) |
Roman domestic architecture – domus (essay) |
Roman domestic architecture – insula (essay) |
Roman domestic architecture – villa (essay) |
The Amiternum and Haterii tombs (essay) |
Temple of Portunus (essay) |
Ara Pacis Augustae (essay) |
Maison Carrée, Nîmes (essay) |
Arch of Titus (essay) |
Column of Trajan (essay) |
Forum of Trajan and markets (essay) |
Capitoline Venus (video) |
Tomb of the Scipios (essay) |
Preparations for a Sacrifice (essay) |
Pantheon (essay) |
Portrait Bust of a Flavian Woman/Fonseca Bust (video) |
Arch of Constantine (video) |
Capitoline Wolf (essay) |
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Palmyra |
Temple of Bel (essay) |
Temple of Baalshamin (essay) |
Funerary Portraiture (essay) |
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Medieval/Byzantine Europe |
Architecture and liturgy in the Middle Ages (essay) |
Introduction to Byzantine art (essay) |
The Emperor Triumphant (Barberini Ivory) (video) |
Vienna Genesis (essay) |
Coronation Gospels (essay) |
Palatine Chapel (essay) |
Basilica of Santa Sabina, Rome (video) |
Bayeux Tapestry (essay) |
Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Saint Francis Altarpiece (video) |
Röttgen Pietà (video) |
Röttgen Pietà (essay) |
Throne of Wisdom Sculptures (essay) |
Cluny (essay) |
Golden Haggadah (essay) |
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Renaissance |
North |
Limbourg Brothers, Tres Riches Heures (essay) |
Workshop of Campin, Annunciation (Merode Altarpiece) (video) |
Rogier van der Weyden, Last Judgment (video) |
Hubert and Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece (essay) |
Hubert & Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece simulation (video) |
Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in his Shop (essay) |
Durer, Melancolia (essay) |
Aertsen, The Meat Stall (essay) |
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Italy |
Palazzo Ducale, Venice (essay) |
Ca d’Oro, Venice (essay) |
Alberti, Façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence (video) |
Andrea Mantegna, Saint Sebastian (video) |
Cassone with Conquest of Trebizond (essay) |
Perugino, Christ Delivering the Keys to St Peter (essay) |
Ghirlandaio, Tornabuoni Chapel, SM Novella (essay) |
Michelangelo, Medici Chapel, New Sacristy (video) |
Michelangelo, Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel (video) |
Michelangelo, Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel (essay) |
Giovanni Bellini and Titian, The Feast of the Gods (essay) |
Titian, Pastoral Symphony (essay) |
Sofonisha Anguissola, Self-Portrait (essay) |
Giambologna, Abduction of the Sabine Woman (essay) |
Palladio and Scamozzi, Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza (essay) |
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Spain |
El Greco, The Burial of Count Orgaz (essay) |
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Baroque |
Italy |
Bernini, Apollo and Daphne (video) |
Annibale Carracci, Christ appearing to St. Peter on the Appian Way (essay) |
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Low Countries |
Peter Paul Rubens, Venus, Mars and Cupid (essay) |
Rubens, Elevation of the Cross (essay) |
Anthony Van Dyck, Samson and Delilah (essay) |
Rembrandt, The Night Watch (video) |
Rembrandt, The Night Watch (essay) |
Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (video) |
Ruisdael, View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds (video) |
Willem Kalf, Still Life with a Silver Ewer (video) |
Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring (video) |
Gerrit Dou, Woman Playing a Clavichord (Dulwich) (essay) |
Steen, Feast of Saint Nicholas (essay) |
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France |
Perrault et al, East façade of the Louvre (essay) |
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Spain |
Zurburan, Saint Serapion (essay) |
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18th and 19th century, Europe and United States |
British Colonies/United States |
John Smibert, The Bermuda Group (essay) |
John Singleton Copley, Boy with a Squirrel (essay) |
John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere (essay) |
John Singleton Copley, The Copley Family (essay) |
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark (essay) |
Gilbert Stuart, The Skater (essay) |
Jefferson, University of Virginia (essay) |
John Trumbull, Signing of the Declaration of Independence (essay) |
Francis Guy, Winter Scene in Brooklyn (video) |
Charles WIllson Peale, An Artist in His Museum (essay) |
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (video) |
William Sidney Mount, Bargaining for a Horse (essay) |
Richard Caton Woodville, War News from Mexico (essay) |
Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, Central Park (essay) |
Herter Brothers, Mark Hopkins House Side Chair (video) |
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson (essay) |
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Angels Appearing before the Shepherds (essay) |
Louis Sullivan, Carson Pirie Scott (essay) |
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Britain |
John Constable, Wivenhoe Park, Essex (essay) |
Rossetti, Beata Beatrix (essay) |
Introduction to the Aesthetic Movement (essay) |
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France |
Greuze, Village Bride (essay) |
Vigée Le Brun, Self-Portrait (essay) |
David, Napoleon in his study (essay) |
Ingres, Portrait of Napoleon on the Imperial Throne (essay) |
Ingres, Grande Odalisque (essay) |
Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (essay) |
Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party (video) |
Monet, Rouen Cathedral series (video) |
Monet, Gare St Lazare, Arrival of Train (essay) |
Cézanne, Card Players (essay) |
Rodin, The Walking Man (essay) |
Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell (video) |
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Spain |
Goya, And There’s Nothing to Be Done, The Disasters of War (essay) |
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20th and 21st century (Europe, US, Middle East) |
Carrere & Hastings, New York Public Library (essay) |
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Otto Wagner, Postal Savings Bank (essay) |
George Bellows, Both Members of this Club (essay) |
Kandinsky, Improvisation 28, second version (video) |
Duchamp, The Large Glass (video) |
Duchamp, The Large Glass (essay) |
Brancusi, The Kiss (video) |
Peter Behrens, Turbine Factory (essay) |
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye (essay) |
Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (essay) |
Glass Chair at the 1939 New York World’s Fair (video) |
Introduction to Surrealism (essay) |
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series (short version) (video) |
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, (long version) (video) |
Mondrian, Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow (essay) |
Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter (video) |
Jean Dubuffet, City of Paris (essay) |
Jean Dubuffet, Childbirth (essay) |
Lee Krasner, Untitled (essay) |
Willem de Kooning, Woman, I (video) |
Frank Stella, The Marriage of Reason And Squalor (essay) |
Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway (essay) |
Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks (essay) |
Warhol, Marilyn Diptych (essay) |
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty (video) |
Robert Venturi, et.al., House, New Castle County (essay) |
Serra, Tilted Arc (essay) |
Sigmar Polke, Watchtower (essay) |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Horn Players (essay) |
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Androgyne III (essay) |
Jeff Koons, Pink Panther (essay) |
Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (essay) |
Cindy Sherman, Untitled (#228), History Portraits series (essay) |
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled—billboard of an empty bed (essay) |
Pepon Osorio, En la Barberia no se Llora (essay) |
Marlene Dumas, Models (essay) |
Bill Viola, The Crossing (essay) |
Shirin Neshat (and Cynthia Preston), Rebellious Silence (essay) |
James Turrell, Skyscape, The Way of Color (video) |
Walter de Maria, Lightning Field (essay) |
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Africa |
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Peoples and cultures (essay) |
Historical overview to 1500s (essay) |
Historical overview 1600 to present (essay) |
Aesthetics (essay) |
The human figure, animals and symbols (essay) |
Form and meaning (essay) |
Religion and the spiritual realm (essay) |
Art and politics (essay) |
Rites of passage (essay) |
Art and the individual (essay) |
African art and the effects of European contact and colonization (essay) |
The reception of African art in the West (essay) |
Western appreciation of African art (essay) |
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West |
Seated Figure (essay) |
Ci Wara (essay) |
Great Mosque of Djenne (essay) |
Sika dwa kofi (Golden Stool) (video) |
Olowe of Ise, Veranda Post (video) |
Olowe of Ise, doors, Shrine of the kings head, Ikere (essay) |
Bundu (Sowei) Helmet Mask (video) |
Female mask, Mende (essay) |
Ikenga (video) |
Dogon Couple (video) |
Dogon Mask, Kanaga (essay) |
Kòmò Helmet Mask (Kòmòkun) (essay) |
D’mba mask, Baga (essay) |
Male and Female figures, Baule (essay) |
El Anatsui, Untitled (video) |
Palm wine vessel (essay) |
Memorial Head (essay) |
Portrait mask (Mblo), Baule peoples (essay) |
Linguist staff (essay) |
Seydou Keïta, Untitled [Seated Woman with Chevron Print Dress] (essay) |
Uche Okeke: from Zaria to Nsukka (essay) |
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East and Horn of Africa |
Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania (video) |
Christian Ethiopian art (essay) |
Illuminated Gospel (essay) |
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Central |
Female (pwo) mask (video) |
Fang Reliquary Figure (video) |
Fang Reliquary Figure, bieri (essay) |
Elephant Mask, Kuosi Society, Bamileke Peoples, Cameroon (video) |
Ndop of the Kuba King Shyaam aMbul aNgoong (essay) |
Lukasa (memory board), Mbudye Society, Luba peoples (essay) |
Crucifix (essay) |
Double Prestige Panel (Kuba peoples) (essay) |
Figurative Harp (Domu) (Mangbetu peoples) (essay) |
Buli Master, Prestige Stool: Female Caryatid (Luba peoples) (essay) |
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Southern |
Married Woman’s Apron (Ndebele peoples) (essay) |
Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe (essay) |
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The Islamic World |
Bahram Gur in a Peasant’s House (essay) |
Mosque of Selim II, Edirne (essay) |
Iznik Ewer (essay) |
Dado panel (essay) |
Mamluk Quran (essay) |
Divination Bowl (essay) |
Khusraw Discovers Shirin Bathing (essay) |
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Indigenous Americas |
Introduction |
What do Pre-Columbian and Mesoamerica mean? (essay) |
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Nasca |
Nasca Geoglyphs (essay) |
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Cupisnique |
Feline-Head Bottle, Cupisnique (video) |
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Chavín |
Chavín de Huántar (essay) |
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Moche |
Introduction to the Moche (essay) |
Pair of Earflares, Winged Messengers (video) |
Portrait Head Bottle (video) |
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Inka |
Silver and gold maize cob sculpture (essay) |
All‐T’oqapu Tunic (essay) |
Qorikancha, Cusco (essay) |
Machu Picchu (essay) |
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Tairona |
Pendant in the form of a bat-faced man (essay) |
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Mundurukú |
Headdress: a glimpse of life in the Amazon rainforest (video) |
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Costa Rica/Nicaragua |
Doe Shaman, Painted ceramic vessel (essay) |
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Olmec |
Olmec mask (video) |
Kunz Axe (video) |
Offering 4, La Venta (essay) |
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Tlatilco |
Tlatilco figurines (video) |
Tlatilco female figurine (essay) |
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Teotihuacan |
Teotihuacan (video) |
Teotihuacan (essay) |
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Maya |
Introduction to the Maya (essay) |
Yaxchilán, Lintel 25 (essay) |
Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque (essay) |
Enthroned Maya Lord and Attendants, cylinder vase (essay) |
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Classic Veracruz |
The Mesoamerican Ballgame and a Classic Veracruz yoke (video) |
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Mexica (Aztec) |
Coyolxauhqui Monolith (video) |
Coatlicue (video) |
Coatlicue (essay) |
Feathered headdress (video) |
The Sun (Calendar) Stone (video) |
The Sun (Calendar) Stone (essay) |
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Native American/First Nations |
Contemporary Native American architecture (essay) |
Terms and Issues (essay) |
Geography and Chronology (essay) |
Mesa Verde cliff dwellings (essay) |
San Esteban del Rey, church and convento, Acoma Pueblo (essay) |
Juana Basilia Sitmelelene, Presentation Basket, Chumash (video) |
Bandolier bag, Lenape (essay) |
Feathered War Bonnet (essay) |
Transformation mask, Kwakiutl (essay) |
North Wind Mask, Alaska, Yupik (essay) |
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Latin American |
Introduction to Latin American Art (essay) |
The Convento of San Nicolás de Tolentino, Actopan, Hidalgo (essay) |
Florentine Codex (essay) |
Virgin of Guadalupe (video) |
Overview of featherworks, including Mass of St. Gregory (essay) |
San Pedro Apóstol de Andahuaylillas (video) |
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, New Chronicle Good Government (essay) |
Atrial Cross, convento San Agustín de Acolman (video) |
Atrial Cross, convento San Agustín de Acolman (essay) |
Jerónimo de Balbás, Altar of the Kings (video) |
Miguel Cabrera, Virgin of the Apocalypse (essay) |
José María Velasco, The Valley of Mexico (video) |
Diego Rivera, Man Controller of the Universe (video) |
Diego Rivera, Calla Lily Vendor (video) |
Lygia Clark, Bicho (essay) |
Joaquín Torres-García, América Invertida (essay) |
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Asia |
Introduction |
Hinduism and Buddhism, an introduction (essay) |
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China |
Oracle Bone (video) |
Da Ke Ding (video) |
Funeral banner of Lady Dai/Xin Zhui (essay) |
Longmen caves, Luoyang (essay) |
Zhou Fang (attr.), Court Ladies Wearing Flowered Headdresses (essay) |
Huang Gongwang, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (essay) |
Zheng Sixiao, Orchid (essay) |
Forbidden City (essay) |
Liu Chunhua, Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan (essay) |
Ai Weiwei, Kui Hua Zi/Sunflower Seeds (essay) |
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Korea |
Portrait of Sin Sukju (essay) |
Song Su-nam, Summer Trees (essay) |
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Japan |
Haniwa warrior in keiko armor (video) |
Haniwa warrior in keiko armor (essay) |
Todai-ji, Nara (essay) |
Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace (essay) |
Ryōanji/Peaceful Dragon Temple, Kyoto (video) |
Ryōanji/Peaceful Dragon Temple, Kyoto (essay) |
Ogata Korin, White and Red Plum Blossoms (essay) |
Yayoi Kusama, Narcissus Garden (essay) |
Mariko Mori, Pure Land (essay) |
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Cambodia |
Angkor Wat (essay) |
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India |
Aniconic depiction of Buddha reaching enlightenment (essay) |
Lakshmana Temple. Khajuraho (essay) |
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Tibet |
Jowo Rinpoche, Jokhang Temple, Lhasa (essay) |
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Afghanistan |
Bamiyan Buddhas, Gandharan (essay) |
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Oceania |
The Ambum Stone, Papua New Guinea (essay) |
Mask (Buk), Torres Strait, Mabuiag Island (video) |
Necklace (Lei Niho Palaoa), Hawai’i (video) |
Female deity, Nukuoro, Micronesia (essay) |
Bis Poles at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (video) |
Hiapo (tapa) (essay) |
Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II (essay) |
Gottfried Lindauer, Tamati Waka Nene (essay) |
Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afe/Corned Beef 2000 (essay) |
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Earth’s Creation (essay) |
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Methods and Miscellaneous |
Art historical analysis, inantroduction using Goya’s Third of May (video) |
How to recognize Baroque art (video) |
What is chiaroscuro? (video) |
What is foreshortening? (video) |
Smarthistory: join the conversation (video) |
Archaeological reconstructions (essay) |
Orientalism (essay) |
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