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Period: 4000 BCE to 3100 BCE
Uruk Period, Mesopotamia
North and South Mesopotamia
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/02/wam.html -
Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Chalcolithic Period, Mesopotamia
5500-3000BCE https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/02/wam.html -
3600 BCE
Cylinder Seal (and its modern impression)
SUMERIAN
tomb of Queen Puabi, Ur (Muqaiyir, Iraq)
c. 3600-2500 BC
lapis lazuli
1 9/16" h (4cm)
This seal was found alongside the body of Queen Puabi, in her tomb (PG 800). The incised design shows two registers of a convivial banquet at which all the guests may be women.
Stok., p 35; Maranci lecture -
3400 BCE
Ruins and Plan of the Anu Ziggurat and White Temple
Uruk (Waka, Iraq), c. 3400-3200BCE
Stok., pg 29 -
3300 BCE
Head of a Woman
Uruk (Waka, Iraq)
c. 3300-3000 BC
Marble
apron 8"
Stok., p. 30 -
3300 BCE
Carved Vessel
SUMERIAN Uruk (Warka, Iraq)
c. 3300-3000 BCE
Alabaster
36" h.
three registers: the lowest shows the sources of life in the natural world; the middle depicts naked men carrying baskets of foodstuffs; and the upper depicts the goddess Inanna accepting an offering from two standing figures. The upper scene may represent a re-enactment of the ritual marriage between the goddess and her consort, Dumuzi. Found in the temple complex of Inanna
Stok., p. 31; Maranci lecture -
Period: 3200 BCE to 1050 BCE
Cycladic Culture (Cycladic Islands)
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Period: 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE
Early Bronze Age, Mesopotamia
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Period: 3000 BCE to 1100 BCE
Minoan Culture (Crete)
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2900 BCE
Twelve Votive Figures
SUMERIAN
From the Square Temple, Eshnunna (Tell Asmar, Iraq)
c. 2900-2600 BCE
Limestone, alabaster, and gypsum
largest aprox 30" h.
Votive figures of men and women from the Square Temple, in the guise of worshippers. They exhibit standard conventions of Sumerian art such as stylized faces and bodies, clothing that emphasizes pure cylindical shapes, a solemn stance, hands clasped, bold staring eyes. The arched brows were inlaid with dark shell or bitumen.
Stok., p. 31; Maranci lecture -
2600 BCE
The Great Lyre with Bull's Head
Royal Tomb, Ur (Muqaiyur, Iraq)
2600-2500BC
Wood with gold, silver, lapis lazuli, bitumen, and shell, reassembled in modern wood support
head 14" h.
front panel 13" h.
length of lyre 55.5"
upright arm 46.5"
Stok., p. 33 -
2600 BCE
Figure of a Woman
Cyclades, c. 2600-2400 BCE, 62.8cm h., marble; Aegean lecture -
2500 BCE
Head with Remains of Painted Decoration; Aegean lecture
Cyclades, c. 2500-2200 BCE, 24.6cm h., marble with red pigment -
Period: 2350 BCE to 2150 BCE
Akkadian Dynasty, Mesopotamia
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2300 BCE
Disk of Enheduanna
Ur (Muqaiyir, Iraq)
c. 2300-2275 BCE
Alabaster
d. 10"
Stok., p 35 -
2300 BCE
Head of a Man (Akkadian Ruler)
Nineveh (Ninua, Iraq)
c. 2300-2200 BCE
Copper alloy
14 3/8" h.
Stok., 36 -
2254 BCE
Stele of Naram-Sin (r. 2254-2218)
AKKADIAN
Sippar; found at Susa (present-day Shush, Iran)
Limestone, h. 6'6"
2254-2216BCE
The Akkadian ruler is depicted in hierarchic scale in a scene of military triumph over the Lullubi people from eastern Mesopotamia as solar deities watch from above. Claims divinity by wearing a horned helmet; speaks to his sacred and political authority as leader. Erected in the courtyard of the sun god temple Shamash. Transported to Susa by a conquering Elamite king.
Stok., pg 26; Maranci lecture -
2100 BCE
Nanna Ziggurat
SUMERIAN
Ur (Muqaiyir, Iraq)
c. 2100-2050 BCE
The ziggurat, dedicated to the moon god Nanna, is located on the site of an earlier temple. Its base is a rectangle with three sets of stairs converging at an entrance gate atop the first of three platforms; the platforms' walls slope outward, probably to prevent rainwater from eroding the mud-brick pavement below.
Measurements: Base 205' x 141'
Stok., p. 37; Maranci lecture -
2090 BCE
Votive Statue of Gudea
Girsu (Telloh, Iraq)
c. 2090 BCE
Diorite
29" h.
Stok., p. 38 -
2000 BCE
Kamares War Jug
Minoan – Old Palace period, Phaistos, Crete, c. 2000-1900 BCE, 27cm h., ceramic; Aegean lecture -
Period: 2000 BCE to 1600 BCE
Middle Bronze Age, Mesopotamia
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Period: 2000 BCE to 1600 BCE
Old Babylonian Period, Mesopotamia
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Period: 2000 BCE to 1600 BCE
Old Assyrian Period, Mesopotamia
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1792 BCE
Stele of Hammurabi
Sippar; found at Susa (Shush, Iran)
c. 1792-1750 BCE
Basalt
approx. 7'4" h
relief: 28" h
Hammurabi standing in an attitude of prayer before Shamash, the sun god and god of justice, who gives the law to the king. The text below contains a prologue listing the temples Hammurabi has restored, and an epilogue glorifying him as a peacemaker; most of the stele "publishes" the laws themselves, guaranteeing uniform treatment of people throughout the kingdom.
Stok., p. 39; Maranci lecture -
1630 BCE
Girl Gathering Flowers
Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers, Room 3 of House Xeste 3, Akrotiri, Thera, Before 1630 BCE; Aegean lecture -
Period: 1600 BCE to 1200 BCE
Late Bronze Age, Mesopotamia
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Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE
Mycenaean Culture (Late Helladic period)
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1400 BCE
Lion Gate
Hattusha (Boghazkoy, Turkey)
c. 1400 BCE
Limestone
Stok., p. 40 -
Period: 1400 BCE to 1100 BCE
Middle Babylonian Period
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Period: 1350 BCE to 1100 BCE
Middle Assyrian Period, Mesopotamia
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1200 BCE
Colossal Head, San Lorenzo
12-4
San Lorenzo, Mexico
c. 1200-900 BCE
Basalt
2.26m h. -
Period: 1200 BCE to 1000 BCE
Iron Age, Mesopotamia
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/03/wam.html from 1200 "on" - unclear when it ends -
Period: 1200 BCE to 900 BCE
San Lorenzo, Olmec
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900 BCE
Great Pyramid and Plaza, La Venta
12-3
La Venta, Mexico
c. 900-400 BCE
30m h. -
900 BCE
Offering 4, La Venta
12-1
c. 900-400 BCE
Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City
Jade, greenstone, granite, and sandstone
16-18 cm h. -
Period: 900 BCE to 700 BCE
Geometric Period (Ancient GR. Art)
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Period: 900 BCE to 400 BCE
La Venta, Olmec
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875 BCE
Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions
Late Assyrian/Assyro-Babylonian
palace complex of Assurnasirpal II, Kalhu (Nimrud, Iraq)
c. 875-860 BCE
Alabaster
39" h.
Probably a ceremonial hunt, in which the king, protected by men with swords and shields, rode back and forth killing animals as they were released one by one into an enclosed area. The immediacy of the scene marks a shift in Mespotamian art away from timeless solemnity toward more dramatic, emotional involvement with the event.
Stok., p. 41; Maranci lecture -
875 BCE
Enemies Crossing the Euphrates to Escape Assyrian Archers
palace complex of Assurnasirpal II, Kalhu (Nimrud, Iraq)
c. 875-860 BCE
Alabaster
39" h.
Stok., p. 42 -
721 BCE
Reconstruction Drawing of the Citadel and Palace Complex of Sargon II
Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad, Iraq)
c. 721-706 BCE
Stok., c. 41 -
721 BCE
Guardian Figures at Gate A of the Citadel of Sargon II (1840s)
Assyro-Babylonain
Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad, Iraq)
c. 721-70c BCE
Once visitors were granted access to the throne room in Sargon II's palace complex, they would have passed through a stone gate flanked, like other gates of the citadel and palace, by guardian figures. These lamassus combine the bearded head of a man, the body of a lion or bull, the wings of an eagle, and the horned headdress of a god.
Stok., p. 43; Maranci lecture -
721 BCE
Guardian Figure (Doorway of the Winged Androcephalic Bull).
Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad, Iraq)
c. 721-706 BCE
Alabaster (gypsum)
H. 4,20 m; L. 4,36 m
Once visitors were granted access to the throne room in Sargon II's palace complex, they would have passed through a stone gate flanked, like other gates of the citadel and palace, by guardian figures. These lamassus combine the bearded head of a man, the body of a lion or bull, the wings of an eagle, and the horned headdress of a god
Maranci lecture -
Period: 700 BCE to 480 BCE
Archaic Period (Ancient GR Art)
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647 BCE
Assurbanipal and His Queen in the Garden
From the palace at Nineveh (Ninua, Iraq)
c. 647 BCE
Alabaster
21" h.
Stok., p. 43 -
586 BCE
Babylonians conquer Jerusalem, sack Solomon's Temple
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575 BCE
Ishtar Gate and Throne Room Wall
Assyro-Babylonian
Reconstruction
Babylon (Babil, Iraq)
c. 575 BCE
Glazed brick
original dimensions: 40' h. wall; 100' towers
Ceremonial entrance to the city. Its crenellated towers symbolized Babylonian power. The walls beyond the gate, like the gate itself, were faced with dark blue glazed bricks and specially molded turquoise, blue, and gold-colored bricks that formed images of lions, bulls, and dragons.
Stok., p. 45; Maranci lecture -
550 BCE
Reconstruction Drawing of Babylon in the 6th Century BCE
palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, w/ Hanging Gardens to the west of the Processional Way
Marduk Ziggurat in the distance
Stok., p. 44 -
539 BCE
Cyrus the Great of Persia conquers Babylonia
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518 BCE
Ceremonial Complex, Persepolis
Iran
518-460BCE
Stok., p. 46 -
518 BCE
Apadana (Audience Hall) of Darius and Xerxes
Ceremonial Complex, Persepolis, Iran
518-c. 460 BCE -
491 BCE
Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute
Detail of relief from stairway leading to the Apadana, Persepolis, Iran
491-486BCE
Limestone
8'4" h.
Stok., p. 47 -
Period: 480 BCE to 323 BCE
Classical Period (Ancient GR Art)
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450 BCE
Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)
Polyclitus, active 5th century B.C.
Greece
Marble (after bronze orig.)
Original: c. 450-440 BCE
Man in contropposto, with a tree trunk supporting his right leg, Polykleitos developed a set of rules for constructing what he considered the ideal human figure which he set down in a treatise called "The Canon." His arm is bent, which suggests that he once held something like a spear. The tree trunk and brace strut are Roman additions. Roman copy after the original bronze.
Maranci lecture -
447 BCE
Parthenon, Greece
Acropolis, Athens, Greece.
447-432 BCE.
Classical Period
This sacred building was originally dedicated to the goddess Athena, but was also used as Athens' treasury The peripteral octastyle temple is constructed using a post and lintel system. Although today the exterior sculpture has been either destroyed or removed, the western and eastern façades would have boasted high-relief, vibrantly painted sculpture that celebrated the life of Athena.
Maranci lecture -
Period: 440 BCE to 429 BCE
Age of Perikles
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Period: 359 BCE to 323 BCE
Rise of Macedonia
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Period: 350 BCE to 750
Tikal, Mayan
height btwn 200-900 CE; death when? -
Period: 332 BCE to 30 BCE
Macedonian and Ptolemaic periods, Egypt
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Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE
Hellenistic Period (Ancient GR Art)
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Period: 146 BCE to 330
Roman Rule, Greek Mainland
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125 BCE
Plan of a Temple, Perhaps Dedicated to Portunus.
Forum Boarium (Cattle Market), Rome, Italy.
Late 2nd century BCE.
This Roman temple, built beside the Tiber River, was probably dedicated to Portunus, the god of harbors and ports. It is an early example of a small rectangular temple standing on a platform, or podium. The temple uses the Etruscan system of rectangular cella and a front porch at one end, a broad flight of steps, and a continuous frieze in the entablature.
Maranci lecture -
125 BCE
Exterior view of a Temple, Perhaps Dedicated to Portunus.
Forum Boarium (Cattle Market), Rome, Italy.
This Roman temple, built beside the Tiber River, was probably dedicated to Portunus, the god of harbors and ports. It is an early example of a small rectangular temple standing on a platform, or podium. The temple uses the Etruscan system of rectangular cella and a front porch at one end, a broad flight of steps, and a continuous frieze in the entablature.
Maranci Lecture -
80 BCE
Founding of city of Florence
Founded by Roman General Sulla - destruction of Etruscan Fiesole (200BC-80BC) -
75 BCE
Augustus of Primaporta
Early 1st century BCE.
Livia's Villa, Primaporta, Italy
2.03 m tall
marble
This sculpture of Augustus depicts him as he wanted to be seen and remembered, with his arm raised, gesturing which suggests his role as leader, in the pose of a Roman orator. The Cupid at his feet riding on a dolphin refers to the emperor's lineage from the goddess Venus. His breast plate shows many scenes that depict his military and political power.
Maranci lecture -
Period: 30 BCE to 330
Roman Rule, Egypt
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25 BCE
Pont du Gard
Nimes, France
Late 1st century BCE
49m tall, 6m wide
This Roman bridge using rounded arches is part of an aqueduct located near Nimes, France. The aqueduct, built with arcades (linear series of arches), brought water from springs 30 miles north of the city using simple gravity flow.
Maranci lecture -
13 BCE
Ara Pacis Augustae
Rome, Italy
13-9 BCE
Marble
10.5x11.6m
This monument was begun when the emperor Augustus was 50. This general view from the front shows the walled rectangular enclosure surrounding an open-air altar, emulating Greek custom. Marble panels are carved with elaborate sculpture presenting powerful propaganda, uniting portraiture and allegory, religion and politics, the private and public. -
13 BCE
Ara Pacis Augustae, Detail of Procession.
Marble
Rome, Italy
13-9 BCE
10.5x11.6m
This monument was begun when the emperor Augustus was 50. This general view from the front shows the walled rectangular enclosure surrounding an open-air altar, emulating Greek custom. Marble panels are carved with elaborate sculpture presenting powerful propaganda, uniting portraiture and allegory, religion and politics, the private and public.
Maranci lecture -
13 BCE
Imperial Procession on the Ara Pacis
Rome, Italy
13-9 BC
This is a detail of a relief on the south side of the Ara Pacis. The figures in this frieze represent members of Augustus' extended family as well as scholars. The depiction of children and real women in an official relief was new to the Augustinian period and reflects Augustus' desire to promote private family life and to emphasize his potential heirs and thus the continuity of his dynasty
Maranci lecture -
100
Ceremonial Center of the City of Teotihuacan
12-5
Mexico
c. 100-650 CE -
200
Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent
12-7
Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent
The Ciudadela, Teotihuacan, Mexico
c. 200 CE -
Period: 200 to 650
Teotihuacan
Valley of Mexico, Mexico -
Period: 330 to 1453
Byzantine Empire
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Period: 330 to 641
Byzantine Rule, Egypt
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400
Base of North Acropolis (left) and Temple I, Tikal
12-9
Tikal, Guatemala
Plaster-surfaced stone, built and rebuilt on stone platforms
4th century BCE-5th century CE (this site is specifically 734 CE) -
Period: 409 to 711
Visigothic Kingdom, Spain
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Period: 431 to 750
Palenque, Mayan
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500
Bloodletting Ritual
12-8
Teotihuacan, Mexico
c. 500-650 CE
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Pigment on lime plaster (fresco)
82 x 116.1 cm -
550
Gummersmark Brooch
Denmark
6th c.
silver gilt
5 3/4" h.
Stok., p. 433 -
580
Jewelry of Queen Arnegunde
Excavated in her tomb, Abbey of Saint-Denis, Paris
Burial c. 580-590
Gold, silver, garnets, glass beads
length of pin: 10 3/8"
Stok., p. 432 -
625
Hinged clasp, Sutton Hoo Burial Ship
Suffolk, England
1st 1/2 of the 7th c.
gold plaques w/ granulation and inlays of garnet and checked millefiori glass
5" l.
Stok., p. 434 -
675
Symbol of the Evangelist Matthew, Gospel Book of Durrow
Page from the Gospel of Matthew
Probably Iona, Scotland or n. England
2nd half of the 7th c.
ink and tempera on parchment
9 5/8" x 6 1/8"
Stok., p. 435 -
700
Ezra Restoring the Sacred Scriptures, in the Bible Known as the Codex Amiatinus
Wearmouth-Jarrow
c. 700-715
Ink and tempera on vellum
20" x 13 1/2"
Stok., p. 437 -
715
Page w/ the Beginning of the Text of Matthew's Gospel, Lindisfarne Gospel Book
Lindisfarne (England)
c. 715-720
Ink and tempera on vellum
13 3/8" x 9 7/16"
Stok., p. 436 -
715
Matthew Writing HIs Gospel, Lindisfarne Gospel
Lindisfarne (island off of England)
c. 715-720
Ink and tempera on vellum
13 3/8" x 9 7/16"
Stok., p. 437 -
750
South Cross, Ahenny
County Tipperary, Ireland
8th century
Sandstone -
792
Palace Chapel of Charlemagne
Aachen, Germany
792-805 -
800
Chi Rho Iota Page, Book of Kells
Probably Iona, Scotland
Late 8th or e. 9th century
Oxgall inks and pigments on vellum
12 3/4" x 9 1/2"
Stok., p. 429 -
815
Gripping Beasts, Detail of Oseberg Ship
c. 815-820
Wood
Vikingskiphuset, Universitets Oldsaksamlig, Oslo, Norway
Stok., p. 441 -
817
Saint Gall Plan
c. 817
Original in red ink on parchment
28" x 44 1/8"
Stok., 447 -
850
Equestrian Portrait of Charles the Bald (?)
9th century
Bronze
9 1/2" h.
Stok., p. 444 -
875
Westwork, Abbey Church of Corvey
Westphalia, Germany
Late 9th c.
upper stories mid 12th c. -
940
Woman Clothed with the Sun, the Morgan Beatus
Monastery of San Salvador at Tabara, Leon, Spain
940-945
Tempera on vellum
15 1/8" x 22 1/6" -
975
Battle of the Bird and the Serpent
Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus and Commentary on Daniel by Jerome
Emeterius and Ende, with the scribe Senior
Made for Abbot Dominicus, probably at the monastery of San Salvador at Tabara, Leon, Spain
Completed July 6, 975
Tempera on parchment
Stok., p. 440 -
983
Royal Rune Stones, King Harald Bluetooth
Right-Hand Stone Ordered by King Harald Bluetooth
Jelling, Denmark
983-985
Granite
3-sided
c. 8' h. -
1125
Exterior of Stave Church, Borgund, Norway
c. 1125-1150
cutaway drawing
Stok., p. 443 -
Period: 1266 to 1337
Giotto
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Period: 1354 to
Ottoman Empire
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Period: 1392 to 1573
Muromachi Period
aka Ashikaga era
Ashikaga clan overthrew the Minamoto shogunal family;
ascendance of Zen Buddhism
Zen ink painting -
Period: 1445 to 1510
Botticelli
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Period: 1471 to 1528
Durer
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Period: 1475 to 1564
Michelangelo
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Period: 1483 to 1520
Raphael
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Period: 1488 to 1576
Titian
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Period: 1571 to
Caravaggio
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Period: 1573 to
Momoyama Period
Oda Nobunaga > Toyotomi Hideyoshi > Tokugawa Ieyasu
luxurious art and craft versus rustic ceramics -
Period: 1577 to
Rubens
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Period: to
Velazquez
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Period: to
Rembrandt
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Period: to
Edo Period
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Period: to
Vermeer
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Period: to
Goya
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Period: to
American Revolution
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Period: to
French Revolution
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Period: to
Delacroix
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Period: to
Manet
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Period: to
Cezanne
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Period: to
Monet
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Period: to
Van Gogh
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Period: to
American Civil War
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Period: to
Klimt
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Period: to
Matisse
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Period: to
Dali
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Period: to
WWI
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Period: to
Great Depression
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Period: to
WWII
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Period: to
Vietnam War
