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1323 BCE
Tutankhamen's Mask
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450 BCE
Doryphoros (spear-bearer) - Polykleitos
This is an example of the "idealized Body", it is in the balanced pose, has restrained emotions, and is youthful and athletic -
447 BCE
The Parthenon
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79
Herculaneum Papyri
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190
Unswept Floor After Feast - Sosus of Pergamon
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220
Wood Block Printing
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Period: 990 to 1051
Movable type
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1100
Codex Gigas
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1285
Madonna Ruccelai - Duccio de Buoninsegna
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1327
Ognissanti Madonna - Giotto
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1339
The Allegory of Good and Bad Government - Lorenzetti
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1377
Jikji Korean Movable metal type
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Period: 1377 to 1446
Discovery of Linear Perspective - Brunelleschi
Brunelleschi draw a building, drilled a hole into the center of the work, and looked through the hole into a mirror to check the lines and make the perspective more accurate -
1400
Tacuinum Sanitatis
A book about how to achieve good health -
1425
Holy Trinity - Masaccio
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1427
Bidding Farewell at Tiger Hill - Shen Zhou
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1434
Arnolfini Wedding - Jan Van Eyck
This piece, oil paint on oak, showed great skills in Naturalism. It is one of the first paintings with a successfully painted mirror -
1434
Emerald Buddha
This Buddha statue from Thailand was actually made of jade or jasper. Because this particular pose of the Buddha was not popular in Thailand it was believed to have come from South India. This Buddha had different extravagant outfits for each season and used to be paraded around for religious reasons but is now stationary. -
1436
Lucca Madonna - Jan Van Eyck
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1470
Nativity - Piero Della Francesca
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1480
Madonna and Child - Carlo Crivelli
This painting nods towards surrealism because of the large size of the fruit and the fly. "I have never seen a pickle the size of a woman's head" - Lydia Rosenberg -
1490
Dance of Death
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1504
David - Michelango
FUN FACT!! The head of David is not in proportion to the body, it is larger, so that when it is viewed from the bottom the head does not seem too small. -
1509
School of Athens - Raphael
First successful piece with perspective -
1509
Madonna of Loreto - Raphael
Raphael painted a bunch of Madonna throughout his life as an artist. This particular piece is interesting because through X-ray technology, it was discovered that Joseph was not included in the original work. Also, some interpret this piece as Joseph being a psychic-type figure, and he looks somber because he knows Jesus' future. -
1526
Pesaro Madonna - Titian
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1526
adam and eve - lucas cranach the elder
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1538
adam and eve - lucas cranach the elder
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1562
The Triumph of Death - Pieter Bruesel
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1563
Vegetables in a Bowl - Giuseppe Arcimbolda
This is a comical work of art and kind of crazy for the time period that it was made in. -
1567
The Peasant Wedding - Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Interesting because it focused on the lives of everyday people, compared to many works of art that only focused on royalty. -
Pietá - Michelangelo
This sculpture is interesting for many reasons. Firstly, Mary's lower half of her body is very disproportionate so that Jesus's body rests in it. Also, Mary appears to be very young, despite the fact that she would be in her late 40s at this time. Lastly, Jesus looks very serene and there is not a lot of evidence of the crucifixion in this piece. -
Palace of Versailles
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Vanitas - Pieter Claesz
This still life represents that Pieter understands his own mortality and that it shown by the unkempt subject matter as well as the skull. -
Vanitas with Violin and Glass Ball - Pieter Claesz
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Venus and Adonis - Peter Paul Rubens
This piece differs from others of this time because it portrays the woman as sexual rather than simply a mother. The story in this piece is that baby Cupid (Venus's son) pricks his mother with his bow and she falls in love with Adonis. -
Rembrandt Von Rijn Self portraits
In the 1659 self-portrait Rembrandt he portrays himself as a serious thinker. -
Rembrandt Von Rijn Self Portrait 1660
In this version of himself Rembrandt depicts himself as almost worried and a little more aged. -
Rembrandt Von Rijn Self Portrait 1661
In this iteration Rembrandt portrays himself as a little more relaxed and uses a little more light to help this come across. He also holds his palette to show his devotion to his career possibly and to paint him in an astute light. -
Isaac Newton's color wheel
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Palace of Versailles
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Period: to
Étienne-Louis Boullée
an architect of "architecture that speaks". His designs return to clean lines, geometry, vanishing points, but also grand greek architecture. The creator of the BEAUTIFUL Newton Cenotaph building (which was unfortunately never created, like many of his buildings) -
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews - Thomas Gainsborogh
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Ancient Rome - Giovanni Paolo Panini
This piece was created in a period of time that had intensely fetishized the past (especially Ancient Greece) -
La Lecon De Piano (The Piano Lesson)- Marguerite Gerard
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Period: to
Michel Eugene Chevreul Color Dome
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Period: to
Henry Fox Talbot
Developed photo sensitive paper and the translucent negative, called his images "Talbotypes". The images are reversed so that they are no longer flipped -
Grande Odalisque - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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The Gleaners - John Constable
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The First Known Photograph
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The Sea Near Brighton - John Constable
The sky becomes the subject of the painting, which is a significant shift in styles of painting. We feel the power of nature being so much more than our individual lives. -
Desolation - Thomas Cole
The comeback of nature once the humans are gone -
Destruction - Thomas Cole
Humans are at war with one another and ruining the land -
the consummation of empire - thomas cole
A second view at the same piece of land, but as it is being developed and "taken over" by humans -
The Savage State - Thomas Cole
painted by the founder of the Hudson River School. He was acknowledged because he was young and depicted a wild nature that existed outside of human experience -
Boulevarde de Temple - Louis Daguerre
First known photograph of a person. "I have seized the light - I have arrested its flight!" -
Arc de Triomphe - Jean Chanfrein, Louis-étienne Hericart de Thury
This began in 1806 and was finished 30 years later. This is a commission of Napoleon and it honors the dead and all those who fought and gave their lives in the French Revolution. -
Snow Storm - Turner
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Norham Castle, Sunrise - Joseph Mallord Willies Turner
a haze of color and force, this piece is an example of a lead into impressionism. It is very representative of being blinded by a sunrise -
Roger Fenton's photo of The Valley of the Shadow of Death
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Olympia - Edouard Manet
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Period: to
Albert Henry Munsell Color Tree
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Salon des Refusés
A "exhibition of rejects". This show was comprised of works the were rejected from Paris Salon, so there were many works differing from the norm of the time. It included a lot of impressionism. -
The Artist in His Studio -James Abbot McNeil Whistler
This piece Idealized the artist lifestyle by portraying a lavish lifestyle inside his studio. This Intrigued me because the modern day artist is portrayed as someone starving for money and trying to break through. Maybe that is what he was trying to say was that he has broken through. -
Woman with Parrot - Gustave Courbet
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Camille Pissaro Entree Du Village De Voisins
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The guitar Player-Giovanni Boldini
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l'inconnue de la seine
A girl supposedly found drowned in a river was used to make a death mold because of the artist was "taken with her beauty". Her face was then used to create a CPR doll used for training. -
Woman with Parrot - Gustave Courbet
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Kodak creates first mobile camera
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Portrait of Dr. Gachet - Vincent Van Gogh
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Cluade Monet Romen Cathedral
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The Banjo Lesson - Henry Ossawa Tanner
One of the first African American artist who saw success/became notorious. He took classical approaches to painting but used it with black subjects -
Antonio Stradivari at work in his studio -Edgar Bundy
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The Three Stages of Woman - Edward Much
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Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat - Lumiére Brothers
One of the first films! Rumored that audience members jumped back from fright because they were worried the train would hit them -
A Trip to the Moon - Georges Méliès
First film made in studio!! Shows people going to the moon (quite comical) -
Tot Mutter - Egon Schiele
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0.10 Exhibition
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Marcel Duchamp Fountain
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Monument to the Third International - Vladimir Tatlin
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Evening Attire - James Van Der Zee
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Ingres's Violin - Man Ray
Man Ray played around with double exposure, which is kinda crazy considering the time period. -
Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein
An odd propaganda film (many people running down the steps....has the sad scene with the baby carriage rolling down steps) -
The Treachery of Images - Rene Magritte
"this is not a pipe" (it is an image of a pipe) -
Zeppenfield - Albert Speer
The site of the 1936 olympics. Created by a Nazi Architect, who is referred to as "the Nazi who apologized" because he claimed to not know about the holocaust. Jesse Owens won at these olympics which "really chapped Hilter's ass" -
Migrant Mother with Three Children - Dorothea Lange
a very famous photo during the Great Depression, it shows raw suffering. -
Olympia - Leni Riefenstahl
This is an odd nazi documentary. It has a very long and dream like intro, (which is weird for a documentary) where it shows a bunch of Classical Greek statues. This slowly transforms into the statues preforming the track and field activities where it then leads to the Olympics. The artist claims she had no knowledge of the Holocaust, she was just hired to film a move -
Self-Portrait with Monkey - Frida Kahlo
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Anthropometry of the Blue Period - Yves Klein
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Twelve Electric Chairs
part of a disaster series acrylic and silk-screen ink on canvas 92x88 and 1/3 inches -
The Beatles, Revolver - Klaus Voorman
This work was created by a friend of the band, who drew the musicians from memory and also used a photo collage. Voormann thought of this album as very avant-garde, so he wanted to create artwork that had the same new risks. Up until now, many album covers were photographs -
John Lennon, Manlove Ave - Andy Warhol
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On Kawara Today
Each painting is just that day's date, on the back he keeps important headlines or magazine clippings from where he was on the day. This project allows him to keep track of what has happened in his lifetime. -
Seated Woman and Child - Joan Miro
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The Velvet Underground & Nico - Andy Warhol
This is a very famous Warhol work and also iconic of the band. There was a lot of news about this banana because some court cases occurred between the band and the Warhol foundation over who owned this image and had rights to it. -
The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Peter Blake
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Pink Floyd, Tree of Half Life - Storm Thorgerson
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Beegees, Idea - Klaus Voormann
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The Door (Admissions Office) - David Hammons
exploring social norms, black identity, inclusion and social norms. -
Santana, Abraxas - Mati Klarwein
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Weasels Ripped My Flesh - Neon Park
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Miles Davis, Bitches Brew - Mati Klarwein
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Ways of Seeing - John Berger
"One of the most amazing things to happen on TV ever" - Lydia Rosenberg -
the Holy Mountain
A movie about the increase of mass production of Idols -
Sun Tunnels - Nancy Holt
uses the art to draw attention to nature. The viewer's experience with the piece changes depending on what is happening in nature. -
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon - Storm Thorgerson
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The Running Fence - Christo and Jeanne-Claude
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The Lightning Field - Walter de Maria
400 poles set 220 feet apart in a grid. Placement varies based on land, the primary function is to attract lightning. Obviously it is really cool during the storms, but it is still intriguing other times because of the composition of the poles. -
The Rolling Stones, Love You Live - Andy Warhol
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News of the World - Frank Kelly Freas
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Quilting Time - Romare Bearden
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Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures - Peter Saville
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Untitled (Fallen Angel) - Jean-MIchel Basquiat
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Vietnam War Memorial - Maya Lin
Lin is an interesting artist to me because she had the courage and drive to enter a prestigious competition even though she is young, asian, and a woman.Lin was forced to make last minute changes, so she did not attend the groundbreaking. -
Billy Squier, Emotions in Motion - Andy Warhol
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Querelle - Andy Warhol
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New Order, Power Corruption, & Lies - Peter Saville
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Do They Know It's Christmas? - Peter Blake
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Fanny (Fingerpainting) - Chuck Close
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Island Life - Jean-Paul Goude
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Wham!, Battlestations - Peter Saville
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Portrait (futago) - Yasamasa Morimura
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Bismullah by Rasheed Araeen
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Just Seeds
A network of 30 artists who are committed to social, environmental, and political engagement -
Ignorance = Fear / Silence = Death - Keith Haring
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Guarded Conditions - Lorna Simpson
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Buddha Statue of Hyderabad
This statue ended up killing ten people on accident during its construction in India. They eventually saved the statue two years later. -
Orlan's Plastic Surgery Journey
Over the course of 5 years, she underwent 9 plastic surgeries to transform her face to a collage of famous pieces of art. One operation altered her mouth to imitate that of François Boucher's Europa, another changed her forehead to mimic the protruding brow of Leonardo's Mona Lisa, while yet another altered her chin to look like that of Botticelli's Venus. -
The Kitchen Table Series - Carrie Mae Weems
these photos show intimate moments of everyday life -
Mining the Museum - Fred Wilson
Fred is making new information by composing the objects together -
Four Untitled Etchings - Glenn Ligon
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Spider - Louise Bourgeois
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New Mothers Series - Rineke Dijkstra
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Leigh under the Skylight - Luscian Freud
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Wigs - Lorna Simpson
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Electronic Super Highway Continental U.S. Alaska Hawaii
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The Wave Field - Maya Lin
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Pink Floyd, Pulse - Storm Thorgerson
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Rick Wright, Broken China - Storm Thorgerson
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Mr. and Mrs. Andrews Without their Heads - YInka Shonibare
a play off a classical painting using more exotic materials -
The Cranberries, Bury the Hatchet - Storm Thorgerson
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Dolorosa - Bill Viola
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Condition Report - Glenn Ligon
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Self Portrait Nursing - Catherine Opie
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe -Peter Eisenman
(he also is the architect of the DAAP building) -
Love - Maren Hassinger
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Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp - Kara Walker
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Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps - Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley creates portraits of people with beautiful patterns in the background. -
Nite Versions - Trevor Jackson
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The Wonder Gaze - Ken Gonzalez-Day
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Comme Portrait Series - Latoya Ruby Frazier
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Untitled - Rodney McMillian
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Blind Pig #3 - Edgar Arceneaux
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My Beautiful Dark Fantasy - George Condo
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A Place for Nature - Maren Hassinger
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Speak Louder - Nick Cave
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Installation view of Double Cross - Theater Gates
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Soundsuit - Nick Cave
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