| 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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