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Title: Venus of Willendorf
Location: Willendorf, Austria
Date: ca. 28,000-25,000 B.C.
Period: Paleolithic
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Title: Hall of the Bulls
Location: Lascaux, Dordogne, France
Date: ca. 15,000-13,000 B.C.
Period: Paleolithic
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Title: Head of an Akkadian ruler
Location: Nineveh, Iraq
Date: ca. 2250-2200 B.C.
Period: Neo-Sumerian
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Title: Human Figure, Ain Ghazal
Location: Jordan
Date: ca. 6750-6250 B.C.
Period: Neolithic
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Title: Great Pyramids
Location: Gizeh, Egypt, Dynasty IV
Date: ca. 2490-2472 B.C.
Period: Old Kingdom
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Title: Tutankhamen Mask
Location: Egypt
Date: 1325 B.C.
Period: New Kingdom
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Title: Temple of Ramses II
Location: Abu Simbel, Egypt
Date: ca. 1290-1224 B.C.
Period: New Kingdom
Artist:
JEN FACT: This is the only place where you can find a fully human depiction of Anubis |
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Title: Akenaton
Location: Egypt
Date: ca. 1355-35 B.C.
Period: New Kingdom
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Title: Khafre
Location: Egypt
Date: 2575-2524 B.C.
Period: Old Kingdom
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Title: Spring Time Fresco
Location: Thera
Date: 1550 B.C.
Period: Minoan
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Title: Lion Gate
Location: Athens
Date: ca. 1300-1250 B.C.
Period: Mycenean
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Title: Dipylon Vase
Location: Athens
Date: 750 B.C.
Period: Geometric
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Title: Kouros from Attica
Location: Athens
Date: 600 B.C.
Period: Archaic
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Title: Basilica Maxentius & Constantine
Location: Rome
Date: Early 4th century
Period: Late Empire
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Title: Athena Battling Alcynoneus
Location: Pergamon
Date: 182-165 B.C.
Period: Hellenistic
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Title: Column of Trajan
Location: Rome
Date: 113
Period: Early Empire
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Title: Villa of the Mysteries Fresco
Location: Pompeii
Date: ca. 50 B.C.
Period: Roman Republic
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Title: Royal Pyramids
Location: Nubia, Africa
Date: 330 BC-330AD
Period: Meroe
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Title: Jemaa Head
Location: Nigeria
Date: 800BC-200 AD
Period: Nok Style
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Title: Temple of Hera
Location: Paestum, Italy
Date: ca. 550 B.C.
Period: Archaoc
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Title: Pamtheon
Location: Rome
Date: ca. 125-128
Period: Early Empire
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Title: Head of Constantine
Location: Rome
Date: ca. 315-330
Period: Late Empire
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Title: Husband/Wife sarcophogus
Location: Caere
Date: ca. 520 B.C.
Period: Etruscan
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Title: Parthenon
Location: Athens
Date: 448-437 B.C.
Period: Classical
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Title: Laocoon
Location: Rome
Date: ca. 50 B.C.
Period: Hellenistic
Artist: Athanodoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros |
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Title: Ajax and Achilles with Dice
Location: Athens
Date: ca. 540 B.C.
Period: Archaic
Artist: Exekias |
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Title: Aprhodite of Melos "Venus de Milo"
Location: Greece
Date: ca. 150 B.C.
Period: Hellenistic
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Title: Mummy Portrait
Location: Faiyum, Egypt
Date: ca. 160-170
Period: Early Empire
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Title: Augustus of Primaporta
Location: Rome
Date: ca. 20 B.C.
Period: Early Empire
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Title: Christ as the Good Shepard
Location: Italy
Date: ca. 425
Period: Late Antique
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JEN FACT: Either the Professor spelled shepherd wrong, or is making a Mass Effect reference. |
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Title: Hagia Sophia
Location: Istanbul
Date: 532-537
Period: Byzantine
Artist: Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus |
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Title: David Composing the Psalms
Location: Turkey
Date: ca. 960
Period: Byzantine
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Title: Pantocrator, Theotokos and Child
Location: Italy
Date: 1180-1190
Period: Byzantine
Artist: Monreale (Sicily) |
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Title: Virgin and Child (Vladimir)
Location: Moscow
Date: early 12th c.
Period: Byzantine
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Title: Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi
Location: China
Date: ca. 210 B.C.
Period: Qin Dynasty
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Title: Travelers among Mountains and Streams
Location: China
Date: 11th century
Period: Northern Song Dynasty
Artist: Fan Kuan |
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Title: 6th Chan Patriarch Chopping Bamboo
Location: China
Date: 13th century
Period: Southern Song Dynasty
Artist: Liang Kai |
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Title: Lady Feng and the Bear
Location: China
Date: late 4th c.
Period: Period of Disunity
Artist: Gu Kaizhi |
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Title: Foguang Si Pagoda
Location: China
Date: 1056
Period: Liao dynasty
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Title: Yakushi triad, Yakushiji, Nara Prefecture
Location: Japan
Date: early 8th c
Period: Nara period
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Title: Phoenix Hall, Byodoin, Uji
Location: Japan
Date: 1053
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Title: Priest Chunjobo Chogen
Location: Japan
Date: Early 13th c
Period: Kamakura period
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Title: Eastern Gateway, Great Stupa
Location: Sanchi, India
Date: 100 B.C.-100 A.D.
Period: Mauryan
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Title: Seated Buddha preaching first sermon
Location: India
Date: 5th c
Period: Gupta
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Title: Visvanatha Temple
Location: India
Date: ca. 1000
Period: Early Medieval
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Title: Shiva as Nataraja
Location: India
Date: ca. 1000
Period: Early Medieval
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Title: Stupa, Borobudur
Location: Java, India
Date: ca. 800
Period: Early Medieval
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Title: Dome of the Rock
Location: Jerusaalme
Date: 687-692
Period: Islamic
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Title: Great Mosque
Location: Damscus, Syria
Date: 706-715
Period: Islamic
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Title: Mihrab, Madrasa Imami
Location: Iran
Date: ca. 1354
Period: Islamic
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Title: Court of Gayumars
Location: Iran
Date: ca. 1525-1535
Period: Islamic
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Title: Temple of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan
Location: Mexico
Date: 3rd c B.C.
Period: Maya
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Title: Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde
Location: N. America
Date: ca. 1100
Period: Native American
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Title: Coatlicue
Location: Mexico
Date: 15th c.
Period: Aztec
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Title: Mission Church of San Esteva
Location: New Mexico
Date: 1629-42
Period: Colonial Spanish/American
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Title: Borgia Codex
Location: Mexico
Date: ca. 1400-1500
Period: Mesoamerican Mictlantecuhtli/Quetzalcoatl
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Title: John Ward House
Location: Massachusetts
Date: 1684
Period: Colonial
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Title: Machu Picchu
Location: Peru
Date: 15th c.
Period: Inca
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Title: Dilukai
Location: Palau
Date:
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Title: Row of moai
Location: Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Date: 10th-12th c.
Period: Oceanic
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Title: Kuka'ilimoku (war god)
Location: Hawaii
Date: Late 18th c.
Period: Polynesian
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Title: Dogon Couple
Location: Mali
Date: 19th c.
Period: African
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Title: King, fromIle-Ife
Location: Nigeria
Date: 11th-12th c.
Period: African
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Title: Great Mosque
Location: Mali
Date: 13th c.
Period: African
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Title: Queen Mother
Location: Nigeria
Date: ca. 1520
Period: Benin
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Title: St. Michael's Church
Location: Germany
Date: 1001-1031
Period: Ottonian
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Title: St. Matthew, Ebbo Gospels
Location: France
Date: ca. 816-35
Period: Carolingian
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Title: High Cross of Muiredach
Location: Ireland
Date: 923
Period: Hiberno Saxon
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Title: Virgin and Child (Morgan Madonna)
Location: France
Date: 12th c.
Period: Romanesque
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Title: San Miniato al Monte
Location: Florence, Italy
Date: 1062 & 12th c
Period: Romanesque
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Title: Norman Calvary Charging, Bayeux Tapestry
Location: France
Date: 1070-80
Period: Romanesque
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Title: Cathedral complex
Location: Pisa, Italy
Date: 11th-12th c.
Period: Romanesque
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Title: West Portal, Chartres Cathedral
Location: France
Date: 1145-1170
Period: Early Gothic
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Title: Rose Window, Notre Dame
Location: France
Date: ca. 1220
Period: High Gothic
Artist: Jean de Chelles |
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Title: West façade, Reims Cathedral
Location: France
Date: 1225-1290
Period: Gothic
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Title: Virgin with the Dead Christ (Rottgen Pieta)
Location: Germany
Date: 1300-1325
Period: Gothic
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Title: St. Francis Altarpiece
Location: Italy
Date: 1235
Period: Medieval
Artist: Berlinghieri |
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Title: Lamentation, Arena Chapel
Location: Padua, Italy
Date: 1305
Period: Early Renaissance
Artist: Giotto |
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Title: Madonna Enthroned
Location: Italy
Date: ca. 1280-1290
Period: Early Renaissance
Artist: Cimabue |
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Title: Florence Cathedral
Location: Italy
Date: begun 1296
Period: Early Renaissance
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Title: Holy Trinity
Location: Italy
Date: ca. 1428
Period: Early Renaissance
Artist: Masaccio |
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Title: Birth of Venus
Location: Italy
Date: ca. 1482
Period: Early Renaissance
Artist: Botticelli |
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Title: Last Supper
Location: Italy
Date: 1495-98
Period: High Renaissance
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci |
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Title: School of Athens
Location: Italy
Date: 1509-11
Period: High Renaissance
Artist: Raphael |
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Title: Ghent Altarpiece
Location: Flanders
Date: 1432
Period: Northern Renaissance
Artist: Jan van Eyck |
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Title: Deposition
Location: Flanders
Date: 1435
Period: Northern Renaissance
Artist: Rogier van der Weyden |
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Title: October, Les Tres Riches Heures
Location: Burgundy
Date: 1413-1416
Period: Northern Renaissance
Artist: Limbourg Brothers |
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Title: Gates of Paradise (east doors, baptistery)
Location: Italy
Date: 1425-1452
Period: Early Renaissance
Artist: Lorenzo Ghiberti |
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Title: David
Location: Italy
Date: 1440-1460
Period: Early Renaissance
Artist: Donatello |
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Title: West façade, Santa Maria Novella
Location: Italy
Date: 1456-1470
Period: Early Renaissance
Artist: Leon Battista Alberti |
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Title: Flagellation of Christ
Location: Italy
Date: 1455-1465
Period: Early Renaissance
Artist: Piero della Francesca |
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Title: Pieta
Location: Italy
Date: 1498-1500
Period: High Renaissance
Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti
JEN FACT: Very common trope that started in art, and moved to film, tv & lit. see http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PietaPlagiarism |
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Title: Venus of Urbino
Location: Italy
Date: 1538
Period: Venitian
Artist: Titian |
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Title: Last Supper
Location: Italy
Date: 1594
Period: Venetian
Artist: Tintoretto |
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Title: Fall of Man
Location: Germany
Date: 1504
Period: Northern Renaissance
Artist: Albrecht Durer |
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Title: Isenheim Altarpiece
Location: Germany
Date: ca. 1510-1515
Period: Northern Renaissance
Artist: Matthias Grunewald |
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Title: The French Ambassadors
Location: Germany
Date: 1533
Period: Northern Renaissance
Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger |
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Title: Garden of Earthly Delights
Location: Dutch
Date: 1505-1510
Period: Northern Renaissance
Artist: Hieronymus Bosch |
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Title: Hunters in the Snow
Location: Dutch
Date: 1565
Period: Northern Renaissance
Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder |
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Title: Burial of Count Orgaz
Location: Spain
Date: 1586
Period: Mannerist
Artist: El Greco |
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Title: Ecstasy of St. Teresa
Location: Italy
Date: 1645-1652
Period: Baroque
Artist: Gianlorenzo Bernini
JEN FACT: This statue was one of the clues for the main character in the book 'The Da Vinci Code', and represented the fire element. |
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Title: Conversion of St. Paul
Location: Italy
Date: 1601
Period: Baroque
Artist: Caravaggio |
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Title: Las Meninas
Location: Spain
Date: 1656
Period: Baroque
Artist: Diego Velazquez |
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Title: Allegory of the Art of Painting
Location: Dutch
Date: 1670-1675
Period: Baroque
Artist: Vermeer |
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Title: Elevation of the Cross
Location: Flanders
Date: 1610
Period: Baroque
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens |
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Title: Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq
Location: Dutch
Date: 1642
Period: Baroque
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn |
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Title: Feast of St. Nicholas
Location: Dutch
Date: 1660-1665
Period: Baroque
Artist: Jan Steen |
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Title: Et in Arcadia Ego
Location: France/Italy
Date: 1655
Period: Classical
Artist: Nicolas Poussin |
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Title: St. Paul's Cathedral
Location: England
Date: 1675-1710
Period: Palladian, French, Baroque
Artist: Chris Wren |
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Title: Taj Mahal
Location: India
Date: 1632-1647
Period:
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Title: Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings
Location: India
Date: 1615-1618
Period:
Artist: Bichitr |
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Title: Walking Buddha
Location: Thailand
Date: 14th c.
Period:
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Title: Temple Vase
Location: China
Date: 1351
Period: Yuan Dynasty
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Title: Forbidden City
Location: China
Date: 15th c.
Period: Ming Dynasty
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Title: Man in a House beneath a Cliff
Location: China
Date: Late 17th c.
Period: Qing Dynasty
Artist: Shitao |
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Title: Garden, Saihoji temple
Location: Japan
Date: 14th c.
Period:
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Title: Pine Forest
Location: Japan
Date: Late 16th c.
Period: Momoyama
Artist: Hasegawa Tohaku |
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Title: Tea ceremony water jar
Location: Japan
Date: late 16th c.
Period: Momoyama
Artist: Kogan |
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Title: Great Wave off Kanagawa
Location: Japan
Date: ca. 1826
Period: Edo Period
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai |
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Title: Return from Cythera
Location: France
Date: 1717-1719
Period: Rococo
Artist: Watteau |
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Title: The Swing
Location: France
Date: 1766
Period: Rococo
Artist: Jean Honore Fragonard |
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Title: Philospher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery
Location: England
Date: 1763-1765
Period: Enlightenment
Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby |
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Title: Breakfast Scene
Location: England
Date: 1745
Period: Enlightenment
Artist: William Hogarth |
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Title: Oath of the Horatii
Location: France
Date: 1784
Period: Neo-Classical
Artist: Jacques-Louis David |
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Title: Monticello
Location: US
Date: 1770-1806
Period: Neo-Classical
Artist: Thomas Jefferson |
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Title: African House Louisiana
Location: N. American
Date: 18th c.
Period: Colonial
Artist: Slave architecture |
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Title: Cornelia Presenting her Children as her Treasures England
Location:
Date: 1784
Period: Neo-Classical
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Title: The Greek Slave
Location: U.S.
Date: 1843
Period: Neo-Classical
Artist: Hiram Powers |
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Title: The Nightmare
Location: England
Date: 1781
Period: Romantic
Artist: Henry Fuseli |
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Title: Third of May 1808
Location: Spain
Date: 1814-1815
Period: Romantic
Artist: Francisco Goya |
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Title: Third of May 1808
Location: Spain
Date: 1814-1815
Period: Romantic
Artist: Francisco Goya |
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Title: Death of Sardanapalus
Location: France
Date: 1827
Period: Romantic
Artist: Eugene Delacroix |
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Title: The Oxbow (view from Mt. Holyoke)
Location: US
Date: 1836
Period: Romantic
Artist: Thomas Cole |
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Title: The Stone Breakers
Location: France
Date: 1849
Period: Realism
Artist: Gustave Courbet |
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Title: Olympia
Location: France
Date: 1863
Period: Realism
Artist: Edouard Manet |
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Title: Prisoners from the Front
Location: U.S.
Date: 1866
Period: Realism
Artist: Winslow Homer |
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Title: Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, July 1863
Location: England
Date: 1863
Period: Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Title: Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, July 1863
Location: US
Date: 1863
Period: Photo
Artist: Timothy O'Sullivan |
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Title: Impression: Sunrise
Location: France
Date: 1872
Period: Impressionism
Artist: Claude Monet |
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Title: Le Moulin de la Galette
Location: France
Date: 1876
Period: Impressionsim
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
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Title: Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Location: France
Date: 1882
Period: Impressionism
Artist: Eouard Manet |
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Title: The Night Cafe
Location: Dutch
Date: 1888
Period: Post-Impressionism
Artist: Vincent van Gogh |
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Title: Mont Sainte-Victoire
Location: France
Date: 1902-1904
Period: Post-Impressionism
Artist: Paul Cezanne |
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Title: The Kiss
Location: Austria
Date: 1907-08
Period: Symbolism
Artist: Gustav Klimt |
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Title: Burghers of Calais
Location: France
Date: 1884-1889
Period: Realism
Artist: Auguste Rodin |
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Title: Casa Mila
Location: Spain
Date: 1907
Period: Art Nouveau
Artist: Antonio Gaudi
JEN FACT: Art Nouveau makes wonderful coloring pages! |
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Title: Monument to the 3rd International
Location: Russia
Date: 1919-20
Period: Constructivist
Artist: Tatlin |
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Title: Notre Dame du Haut
Location: France
Date: 1950-55
Period: Modern Architecture
Artist: Le Corbusier |
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Title: Fountain
Location: France
Date: 1917
Period: Dada
Artist: Marcel Duchamp |
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Title: Flag
Location: US
Date: 1954-55
Period: Pop
Artist: Jasper Johns |
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Title: Pompidou Center of Art
Location: France
Date: 1977
Period: Post-Modern Architecture
Artist: Rogers and Piano |
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Title: Bisj Poles, Buepio Village
Location: Papua, New Guinea
Date: early 20th c.
Period: Elema
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Title: Beaded Throne
Location: Cameroon
Date: 19th c.
Period: Bamun Kingdom
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Title: Reliquary guardian figure
Location: Africa
Date: 20th century
Period: Kota
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Title: Nkisi n'kondi
Location: Africa
Date: ca. 1875-1900
Period: Congo
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Title: Kente Cloth
Location: Ghana
Date: 20th c.
Period: Akan textile
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Title: Satimbe Mask
Location: Africa
Date: mid 20th c.
Period: Dogon
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Title: Homage to Steve Biko
Location: Africa
Date: 1992
Period:
Artist: Willie Bester |
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Title: Red Room
Location: France
Date: 19080-09
Period: Fauvism
Artist: Henri Matisse |
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Title: Improvisation 28
Location: Germany
Date: 1912
Period: German Expressionism
Artist: Vassily Kandinsky |
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Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Location: Germany
Date: 1907
Period: Cubism
Artist: Pablo Picasso |
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Title: Guernica
Location: France
Date: 1937
Period: Cubism
Artist: Pablo Picasso |
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Title: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Location: Italy
Date: 1913
Period: Futurism
Artist: Umberto Boccioni |
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Title: The Steerage
Location: US
Date: 1907
Period: Photo
Artist: Alfred Stieglitz |
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Title: The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images
Location: Belgium
Date: 1928
Period: Surrealism
Artist: Rene Magritte |
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Title: Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
Location: Dutch
Date: 1930
Period: De Stijl
Artist: Piet Mondrian |
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Title: Bird in Space
Location: Romania
Date: 1924
Period: Abstract
Artist: Contantin Brancusi |
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Title: Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley
Location: US
Date: 1935
Period: Documentary Photo
Artist: Dorothea Lange |
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Title: Nighthawks
Location: US
Date: 1942
Period: Realism
Artist: Edward Hopper
JEN FACT: The lack of door to the outside war led to this being used as an allegory of isolationism. |
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Title: Shop Block, the Bauhaus
Location: Germany
Date: 1925-26
Period: De Stijl
Artist: Walter Gropius |
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Title: Carson Piries Scott Store
Location: US
Date: 1899-1904
Period: Modern Achitecture
Artist: Louis Sullivan |
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Title: Detroit Industry
Location: US
Date: 1932
Period: Social Realism/Public Art
Artist: Diego Rivera |
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Title: Kaufmann House
Location: US
Date: 1936-39
Period: Art Deco
Artist: Frank Lloyd Wright |
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Title: Man Pointing
Location: Swiss
Date: 1947
Period: Expressionism
Artist: Alberto Giacometi |
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Title: Number 1, 1950
Location: US
Date: 1950
Period: Abstract Expressionism
Artist: Jackson Pollock |
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Title: No. 14
Location: US
Date: 1960
Period: Abstract Expressionism
Artist: Mark Rothko |
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Title: Untitled
Location: US
Date: 1969
Period: Minimalist
Artist: Donald Judd |
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Title: Marilyn Diptych
Location: US
Date: 1962
Period: Pop
Artist: Andy Warhol |
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Title: Painting
Location: England
Date: 1946
Period: Expressionism
Artist: Francis Bacon |
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Title: Just What is it that makes today's homes
Location: England
Date: 1956
Period: Pop
Artist: Richard Hamilton |
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Title: Guggenheim Bilbao Museo
Location: Spain/US
Date: 1997
Period: Post-Modern Architecture
Artist: Frank Gehry |
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Title: The Dinner Party
Location: US
Date: 1979
Period: Modern
Artist: Judy Chicago |
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Title: Untitled Film Still #35
Location: US
Date: 1979
Period: Modern
Artist: Cindy Sherman |
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Title: Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima?
Location: US
Date: 1983
Period: Political Art
Artist: Faith Ringgold |
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Title: Stereo Styles
Location: US
Date: 1988
Period: Political Art
Artist: Lorna Simpson |
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Title: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Location: US
Date: 1981-83
Period: Modernism
Artist: Maya Ying Lin |
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Title: Spiral Jetty
Location: US
Date: 1970
Period: Environmental
Artist: Robert Smithson |
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Title: Tilted Arc
Location: US
Date: 1981
Period: Site-specific
Artist: Richard Serra |
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Title: How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
Location: German
Date: 1965
Period: Performance
Artist: Joseph Beuys
JEN FACT: JFC, this is something only a German would do. :/ |
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Title: One and Three Chairs
Location: US
Date: 1965
Period: Conceptual
Artist: Joseph Kosuth |
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Title: Hell is a Hell of a Place #2272
Location: US
Date: 1982
Period: Self-Taught
Artist: Howard Finster |
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Title: Untitled (selctions from Truisms, etc.)
Location: US
Date: 1989
Period: New Media
Artist: Jenny Holzer |
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Title: Charles the First
Location: US
Date: 1982
Period: Contemporary
Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat |
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Title: Cremaster 5
Location: US
Date: 1997
Period: Contemporary
Artist: Matthew Barney
JEN FACT: I think it's a poster or a still from the film, but I'm not entirely sure of anything at this point! |
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Title: The Holy Virgin Mary
Location: US
Date: 1996
Period: Contemporary
Artist: Chirs Ofili |
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Title: Artifact Piece
Location: US
Date: 1987
Period: Contemporary
Artist: Native American |
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Title: Throne of the Third Heaven of the nations
Location: US
Date: 1950-64
Period:
Artist: James Hampton |
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