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Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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Faculty and Student Resources | |
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Introduction | |
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The Power of Art and the Impact Of Context | |
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What is Art? | |
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Art and Aesthetics | |
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Illusionism and Meaning in Art | |
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Can a Mechanical Process be Art?: Photography | |
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Can Architecture Communicate Ideas? | |
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The Language of Art | |
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Experiencing Art | |
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The Ancient World | |
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Prehistoric Art | |
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Paleolithic Art | |
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Interpreting Prehistoric Painting | |
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Paleolithic Carving | |
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Neolithic Art | |
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Settled Societies and Neolithic Art | |
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Architecture: Tombs and Rituals | |
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Ancient Near Eastern Art | |
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Sumerian Art | |
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Temple Architecture: Linking Heaven and Earth | |
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Sculpture | |
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Visual Narratives | |
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Art Of Akkad | |
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Sculpture: Power | |
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Neo-Sumerian Revival | |
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Babylonian Art | |
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The Code of Hammurabi | |
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Assyrian Art | |
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Art of Empire: Expressing Royal Power | |
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Late Babylonian Art | |
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Iranian Art | |
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The Persian Empire: Cosmopolitan Heirs to the Mesopotamian Tradition | |
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Egyptian Art | |
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Predynastic and Early Dynastic Art | |
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The Palette of King Narmer | |
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The Old Kingdom: A Golden Age | |
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Old Kingdom Funerary Complexes | |
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The Pyramids at Giza: Reflecting a New Royal Role | |
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Representing the Human Figure | |
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The Middle Kingdom: Reasserting Tradition Through the Arts | |
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Royal Portraiture: Changing Expressions and Proportions | |
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The New Kingdom: Restored Glory | |
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Royal Burials in the Valley of the Kings | |
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Temples to the Gods | |
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Akhenaten and the Amarna Style | |
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The Amarna Style | |
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Tutankhamun and the Aftermath of Amarna | |
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Aegean Art | |
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Early Cycladic Art | |
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Minoan Art | |
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The Palace at Knossos | |
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Wall Paintings: Representing Rituals and Nature | |
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Minoan Pottery and Faience | |
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Late Minoan Art | |
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Mycenaean Art | |
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Architecture: Citadels | |
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Mycenaean Tombs and Their Contents | |
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Greek Art | |
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The Emergence of Greek Art: The Geometric Style | |
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Geometric Style Pottery | |
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The Orientalizing Style: Horizons Expand | |
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Archaic Art: Art of the City-State | |
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The Rise of Monumental Temple Architecture | |
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Temple Plans: Reading Architectural Drawings | |
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The Greek Gods and Goddesses | |
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Stone Sculpture | |
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Architectural Sculpture: The Building Comes Alive | |
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Greek Heroes and Civic Values | |
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Vase Painting: Art of the Symposium | |
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The Classical Age | |
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Classical Sculpture | |
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The Indirect Lost-Wax Process | |
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Architecture and Sculpture on the Athenian Akropolis | |
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The Late Classical Period | |
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Late Classical Architecture: Civic and Sacred | |
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Late Classical Sculpture | |
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The Age of Alexander and the Hellenistic Period | |
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Architecture: The Scholarly Tradition and Theatricality | |
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Hellenistic Sculpture: Expression and Movement | |
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Hellenistic Painting | |
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Etruscan Art | |
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Funerary Art | |
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Tombs and Their Contents | |
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Architecture | |
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Sculpture | |
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Dynamism in Terracotta and Bronze | |
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Roman Art | |
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Early Rome and the Republic | |
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Architecture: The Concrete Revolution | |
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Arches | |
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Sculpture | |
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Relief Sculpture | |
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Roman Values | |
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The Early Empire | |
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Portrait Sculpture | |
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Relief Sculpture | |
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Architecture | |
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Art and Architecture in the Provinces | |
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Domestic Art and Architecture | |
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Wall painting, mural, and fresco | |
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The Late Empire | |
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Portrait Sculpture | |
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Relief Sculpture | |
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Architecture | |
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Late Roman Architecture in the Provinces | |
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The Middle Ages | |
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Early Christian, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Art | |
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The Life of Jesus | |
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Early Christian Art | |
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Christian Art before Constantine | |
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Christian Art after the Official Recognition of Christianity | |
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The Liturgy of the Mass | |
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Versions of the Bible | |
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Byzantine Art | |
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Early Byzantine Art | |
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The Iconoclastic Controversy | |
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Middle Byzantine Art | |
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Late Byzantine Art | |
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Islamic Art | |
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Architecture | |
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Islam: Beliefs and Practices | |
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Early Medieval Art | |
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Anglo-Saxon Art | |
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The Animal Style | |
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Metalwork | |
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Hiberno-Saxon Art | |
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Manuscripts | |
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Carolingian Art | |
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Sculpture | |
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Illuminated Books | |
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Architecture | |
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Ottonian Art | |
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Architecture | |
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Metalwork | |
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Ivories and Manuscripts: Conveyors of Imperial Grandeur | |
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Sculpture | |
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The Development of Islamic Style | |
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Religious Architecture | |
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Luxury Arts | |
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Islamic Art and the Persian Inheritance | |
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Architecture | |
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Figural Art Forms in Iran | |
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Romanesque Art | |
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First Expressions of Romanesque Style | |
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Architecture | |
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Monumental Stone Sculpture | |
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Mature Romanesque | |
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Pilgrimage Churches and Their Art | |
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Cluniac Architecture and Sculpture | |
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Monasticism and Christian Monastic Orders | |
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Spanish Islamic Art and Europe in the Middle Ages | |
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Cistercian Architecture and Art | |
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Wall Painting | |
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Book Illustration | |
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Regional Variants of the Romanesque Style | |
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Western France: Poitou | |
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Southeastern France: Provence | |
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Tuscany | |
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Normandy and England | |
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Women Artists and Patrons: Hildegard of Bingen | |
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Gothic Art | |
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Early Gothic Art in France | |
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Saint-Denis: Suger and the Beginnings of Gothic Architecture | |
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Dionysian Theology and the Abbey of Saint-Denis | |
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Chartres Cathedral | |
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Laon Cathedral | |
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High Gothic Art in France | |
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The Rebuilding of Chartres Cathedral | |
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The Architect, the Master, and the Guild | |
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Stained Glass | |
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Reims Cathedral | |
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Rayonnant or Court Style | |
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Sainte-Chapelle | |
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Manuscript Illumination | |
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Late Gothic Art in France | |
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Mansucript Illumination | |
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Sculpture | |
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The Spread of Gothic Art | |
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England | |
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Germany | |
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The Renaissance through the Rococo: The Early Modern World | |
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Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy | |
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The Cities and the Mendicants | |
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Franciscan Churches and Altarpieces | |
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Urban Churches, Baptisteries, and Civic Buildings | |
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New Directions in Tuscan Painting | |
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Giotto and the New Florentine Painting | |
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Sienese Painting | |
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Late Fourteenth-Century Crises | |
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Upheaval and Plague | |
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Northern Italy: Milan | |
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Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe | |
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courtly Art: The International Gothic | |
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Artists at the French Courts | |
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Urban Centers and the New Art | |
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Hugo van der Goes in Ghent | |
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Hieronymus Bosch | |
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Regional Responses to the Early Netherlandish Style | |
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France | |
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Central Europe | |
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Painting and the Graphic Arts | |
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Early Printmaking | |
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The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy | |
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The Inspiration of Antiquity in Florence | |
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Brunelleschi and the Beginnings of Renaissance Architecture | |
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New Directions in Florentine Painting | |
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Italian Art During the Era of the Medici, 1434-1494 | |
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The Baptistery of Florence | |
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Florentine Churches and Convents at Mid-Century | |
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The Spread of Florentine Style | |
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The Renaissance Palace and its Furnishings, ca. 1440-1490 | |
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Patrician Palaces | |
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Images of Heroes for Florentine Collectors | |
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Ancient Battles in Prints | |
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Paintings for Palaces | |
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Portraiture | |
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The Renaissance Style Reverberates, 1450-1500 | |
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Piero della Francesca in Central Italy | |
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Alberti and Mantegna in Mantua | |
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Venice | |
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Rome and the Papal States | |
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Perspective | |
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The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520 | |
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Leonardo and the Florentine High Renaissance | |
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The High Renaissance in Rome | |
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Bramante in Rome | |
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Michelangelo in Rome and Florence | |
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Veniceand the High Renaissance | |
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Titian | |
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The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy | |
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Late Renaissance Florence | |
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Mannerism | |
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Michelangelo in Florence | |
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Painters and Sculptors in Ducal Florence | |
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Romereformed | |
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Michelangelo in Rome | |
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The Catholic Reformation and Il Gesù | |
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Cities and Courts in Northern Italy and Venice | |
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Mantua | |
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Parma | |
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Bologna | |
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Venice: The Serene Republic | |
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Renaissance and Reformation throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe | |
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Franceand Spain: Catholic Courts and Italian Influence | |
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Spain and Italianate Style | |
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The Protestant Reformation | |
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Central Europe: The Reformation and Art | |
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Catholic Patrons in Early Sixteenth-Century Germany | |
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Albrecht Dürer as Renaissance Artist | |
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Albrecht Dürer as Reformation Artist | |
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Protestant Courts and New Forms of Art | |
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Mythologies | |
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Landscape | |
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Reformation England: The Tudor Portrait | |
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The Netherlands: World Marketplace | |
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Bruges | |
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Antwerp | |
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Bruegel and the Everyday | |
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The Baroque in Italy and Spain | |
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The Counter-Reformation | |
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Painting in Italy | |
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Caravaggio and the New Style | |
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Artemisia Gentileschi | |
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Ceiling Painting and Annibale Carracci | |
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Architecture in Italy | |
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The Completion of Saint Peter's and Carlo Maderno | |
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Bernini and Saint Peter's | |
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A Baroque Alternative: Francesco Borromini | |
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Sculpture in Italy | |
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The Evolution of the Baroque: Bernini | |
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Painting in Spain | |
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Naples and the Impact of Caravaggio | |
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From Seville to Court Painter | |
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Monastic Orders and Zurbar��n | |
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Culmination in Devotion | |
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The Baroque in The Netherlands | |
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Flanders | |
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Peter Paul Rubens and Defining the Baroque | |
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History and Portraiture at the English Court | |
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Still-Life Painting | |
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The Dutch Republic | |
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The Caravaggisti in Holland | |
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The Haarlem Community and Frans Hals | |
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The Next Generation in Haarlem | |
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Rembrandt and the Art of Amsterdam | |
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The Market: Landscape, Still-Life, and Genre Painting | |
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Landscape Painting | |
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Still-Life Painting | |
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Flower Painting and Rachel Ruysch | |
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Genre Painting | |
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Intimate Genre Painting and Jan Vermeer | |
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The Baroque in France and England | |
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France: The Style of Louis XIV | |
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Painting in France | |
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French Classical Architecture | |
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Sculpture: The Impact of Bernini | |
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Baroque Architecture in England | |
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Inigo Jones and the Impact of Palladio | |
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The Rococo | |
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France: The Rise of the Rococo | |
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Painting: Poussinistes versus Rubénistes | |
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The French Rococo Interior | |
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England: Printmaking and Painting | |
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William Hogarth and the Narrative | |
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Thomas Gainsborough and the English Portrait | |
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The Rococo in Germany, Austria, and Central Europe | |
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Italy | |
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Illusionistic Ceiling | |
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Decoration | |
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Canaletto | |
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The Modern World | |
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Art in the Age of Enlightenment, 1750-1789 | |
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Rometoward 1760: The Font of Neoclassicism | |
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Artistic Foundations of Neoclassicism: Mengs and Hamilton | |
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Rometoward 1760: The Font of Romanticism | |
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Neoclassicism in Britain | |
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Painting: Historicism, Morality, and Antiquity | |
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The Birth of Contemporary History Painting | |
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Architecture and Interiors: The Palladian Revival | |
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Early Romanticism in Britain | |
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Architecture: Strawberry Hill and the Gothic Revival | |
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Painting: The Coexistence of Reason and Emotion | |
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Neoclassicism in France | |
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Architecture: Rational Classicism | |
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The Sublime in Neoclassical Architecture: The Austere and the Visionary | |
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Painting and Sculpture: Expressing Enlightenment Values | |
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The Climax of Neoclassicism: The Paintings of Jacques-Louis David | |
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Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789-1848 | |
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Painting | |
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Spain: Francisco Goya | |
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Britain: The Bond with Nature | |
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Germany: Friedrich's Pantheistic Landscape | |
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America: Landscape as Metaphor and the Popularity of Genre | |
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France: Neoclassical Painting in the Romantic Era | |
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France: Painterly Romanticism and Romantic Landscape | |
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Romantic Landscape Painting | |
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Sculpture | |
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Neoclassical Sculpture in the Romantic Era: Antonio Canova | |
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French Romantic Sculpture: Breaking from the Classical Model | |
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Romantic Revivals in Architecture | |
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The Gothic Revival: The Houses of Parliament 4 | |
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The Classical Revival 4 | |
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The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848-1885 | |
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Realism in France | |
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Realism in the 1840s and 1850s: Painting Contemporary Social Conditions | |
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The Realist Assault on Academic Values and Bourgeois Taste | |
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Impressionism: A Different Form of Realism | |
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British Realism | |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | |
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The Aesthetic Movement: Personal Psychology and Repressed Eroticism | |
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Realism in America | |
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Scientific Realism: Thomas Eakins | |
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Iconic Image: Winslow Homer | |
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Photography: A Mechanical Medium for Mass-Produced Art | |
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First Innovations | |
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Recording the World | |
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Reporting the News: Photojournalism | |
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Photography as Art: Pictorialism and Combination Printing | |
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Architecture and the Industrial Revolution | |
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Ferrovitreous Structures: Train Sheds and Exhibition Palaces | |
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Announcing the Future: The Eiffel Tower | |
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Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art | |
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Nouveau, 1880-1905 | |
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Post-Impressionism | |
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Toward Abstraction | |
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Seeking Social and Pictorial Harmony | |
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Vincent van Gogh: Expression through Color and Symbol | |
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The Flight from Modernity | |
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Symbolism | |
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The Nabis | |
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Other Symbolist Visions in France | |
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Symbolism Beyond France | |
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Symbolist Currents in American Art | |
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The Sculpture of Rodin | |
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Art Nouveau and the Search for Modern Design | |
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The Public and Private Spaces of Art Nouveau | |
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American Architecture: The Chicago School | |
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Louis Sullivan and Early Skyscrapers | |
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Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie House | |
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Photography | |
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Pictorialist Photography and the Photo Secession | |
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Toward Abstraction: The Modernist Revolution, 1904-1914 | |
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Fauvism | |
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Cubism | |
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Reflecting and Shattering Tradition: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | |
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Analytic Cubism: Picasso and Braque | |
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Synthetic Cubism: The Power of Collage | |
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The Impact of Fauvism and Cubism | |
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German Expressionism | |
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Austrian Expressionism | |
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Cubism in Paris after Picasso and Braque | |
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Italian Futurism: Activism and Art | |
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Cubo-Futurism and Suprematism in Russia | |
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Cubism and Fantasy: Giorgio de Chirico | |
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Modernist Sculpture: Constantin Brancusi | |
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American Art | |
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America's First Modernists: Arthur Dove and Abstraction | |
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Early Modern Architecture in Europe | |
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German Modernist Architecture | |
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German Expressionist Architecture | |
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Art Between the Wars | |
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Dada | |
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Zurich Dada | |
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New York Dada | |
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Berlin Dada | |
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Cologne Dada | |
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Paris Dada | |
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Surrealism | |
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Surrealism in Paris | |
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Representational Surrealism | |
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The Surrealist Object | |
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Organic Sculpture | |
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Alexander Calder in Paris | |
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Henry Moore in England | |
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Creating Utopias | |
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Russian Constructivism: Productivism and Utilitarianism | |
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De Stijl and Universal Order | |
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The Bauhaus: Creating the "New Man" | |
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The Machine Aesthetic | |
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Art in America: Modernity, Spirituality, and Regionalism | |
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The City and Industry | |
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Seeking the Spiritual | |
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Regionalism and National Identity | |
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The Harlem Renaissance | |
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Mexican Art: Seeking a National Identity | |
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The Eve of World War II | |
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America: The Failure of Modernity | |
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Europe and Fascism | |
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Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980 | |
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Existentialism in New York: Abstract Expressionism | |
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Abstract Expressionism: Action Painting | |
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Abstract Expressionism: Color-Field Painting | |
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Rejecting Abstract Expressionism: American Art of the 1950s and 1960S | |
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Re-Presenting Life and Dissecting Painting | |
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Environments and Performance Art | |
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Pop Art: Consumer Culture as Subject | |
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Formalist Abstraction of the 1950s and 1960S | |
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Formalist Painting and Sculpture | |
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Formalist Sculpture: Minimal Art | |
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The Pluralist 1970S: Post-Minimalism | |
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Post-Minimal Sculpture: Geometry and Emotion | |
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Earthworks and Site-Specific Art | |
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Conceptual Art: Art as Idea | |
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Television Art | |
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Art With a Social Agenda | |
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African-American Art: Ethnic Identity | |
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Feminist Art: Judy Chicago and Gender Identity | |
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Late Modernist Architecture | |
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Continuing the International Style | |
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Sculptural Architecture: Referential Mass | |
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The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980 | |
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Architecture | |
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Postmodern Architecture | |
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New Modernism: Hi-Tech Architecture | |
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Deconstructivism: Countering Modernist Authority | |
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Post-Minimalism and Pluralism: Limitless Possibilities | |
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The Return of Painting | |
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Sculpture | |
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Deconstructing Art: Context as Meaning | |
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The Power of Installation and Video Art | |
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Many Styles, One Artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres | |
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Preoccupation with the Body | |
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A World Art Cai Guo-Qiang | |
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Glossary | |
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Books for Further Reading | |
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Index | |
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List of Credits | |