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Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine

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Prehistory Tequixquiac, Mexico 14,000-7,000 BCE Prehistoric Americas bone National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico

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Anthropomorphic stele

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Prehistory fourth millennium BCE sandstone Pergamon Museum, Berlin

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Jade cong

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Prehistory Liangzhu, China 3,300-2,200 BCE jade Zhejiang Institute of Arc

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The Ambum Stone

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Prehistory 1500 BCE greywacke National Gallery of Australia, Canberra from Papua New Guinea

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Tlatilco Female Figures

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Prehistory Tlatilco, Mexico 1200-900 BCE ceramic Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

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Terra-cotta fragment

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Prehistory Lapita Solomon Islands 1000 BCE University of Aukland, New Zealand

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Apollo 11 stones

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(African) Prehistory Windhoek, Namibia 25,500-25,300 BCE charcoal on stone State Museum of Namibia

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Lascaux Caves

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Prehistory (Paleolithic Europe) 15,000-13,000 BCE pigment on rock Dordogne, France

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Running Horned Woman

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Prehistory 6,000-4,000 BCE rock painting Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria

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Beaker with ibex motifs

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(West Asian) Prehistory 4,200-3,500 BCE terra-cotta Louvre, Paris

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Stonehenge

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(Neolithic Europe) Prehistory 2500-1600 BCE sandstone Wiltshire, England

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White Temple and its ziggurat

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Sumerian 3500-3000 BCE mud brick Uruk, Iraq

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Statues of votive figures

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Sumerian Square Temple at Eshunna 2700 BCE gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone Iraq Museum, Baghdad; University of Chicago, Illinois

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Standard of Ur

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Sumerian 2600-2400 BCE wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and limestone British Museum, London

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Stele of Hammurabi

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Babylonian 1792-1750 BCE basalt Louvre,Paris

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Lamassu

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Assyrian from Citadel of Sargon II 720-705 BCE alabaster Louvre, Paris

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Persepolis

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Persian 520-465 BCE limestone Iran

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Narmer Palette

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Egyptian 3000-2920 BCE slate Egyptian Museum, Cairo

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Seated scribe

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Egyptian 2620-2500 BCE painted limestone Louvre, Paris

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Great Pyramids (Including Pyramid of Khufu; Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx; Pyramid of Menkaura)

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Egyptian 2550-2490 BCE (2500 BCE Sphinx) limestone Giza, Egypt

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Menkaura and His Queen

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Egyptian 2490-2472 BCE greywacke Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

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Egyptian 1550-1250 BCE sandstone and mud brick near Luxor, Egypt

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Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut (with Queen Hatshepsut with Offering Jars)

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Egyptian 1473-1458 BCE sandstone (red granite statue, in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) near Luxor, Egypt

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Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters

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Egyptian (Armana Period) 1353-1335 BCE limestone Egyptian Museum, Berlin

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Innermost Coffin of King Tutankhamun

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Egyptian 1323 BCE gold, enamel, semiprecious stones Egyptian Museum, Cairo

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Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer (from the Book of the Dead)

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Egyptian 1275 BCE painted papyrus scroll British Museum, London

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Anavysos Kouros

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Archaic Greek 530 BCE marble and paint National Archaeological Museum, Athens

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Peplos Kore

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Archaic Greek 530 BCE marble and paint Acropolis Museum, Athens

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Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)

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Polykleitos Classical Greek 450-440 BCE marble copy from a bronze original National Archaeological Museum, Naples

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Acropolis (The Parthenon: Helios, Horses, and Dionysos; Plaque of the Ergastines; Temple of Athena Nike: Victory Adjusting Her Sandal)

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Classical Greek (Parthenon - Iktinos and Kallikrates 447-438 BCE Athens, Greece) (Details: 438-432 BCE) (410 - Victory, from Temple of Athena Nike) marble British Museum, London; Louvre, Paris; Acropolis Museum, Athens

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Grave Stele of Hegeso

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Kallimachos Classical Greek 410 BCE painted marble National Archaeological Museum, Athens

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Nike of Samothrace

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Hellenistic Greek 190 BCE marble Lourve Paris

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Athena

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Hellenistic Greek from the Pergamon Altar 175 BCE marble State Museum, Berlin

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Seated Boxer

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Hellenistic Greek 100 BCE bronze National Roman Museum, Rome

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Athenian Agora

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Classical Greek 600-150 BCE Athens, Greece

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Temple of Athena Nike

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Kallikrates Classical Greek 425 BCE Athens, Greece

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Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon

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Classical Greek 175 BCE marble State Museum, Berlin

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Niobides Krater

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Niobid Painter Classical Greek 460-450 BCE clay Louvre, Paris

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Alexander Mosaic

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Hellenistic Greek from the House of Faun 320 BCE Roman copy of 100 BCE mosaic National Archaeological Museum, Naples

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Temple of Minerva

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Etruscan 510-500 BCE mud brick or tufa and wood Veii, Italy

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Tomb of the Triclinium

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Etruscan 480-470 BCE tufa and fresco Tarquinia, Italy

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Sarcophagus of the Spouses

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Etruscan Cerveteri 520 BCE terra-cotta Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome

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Apollo from Veii

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Etruscan 510 BCE terra-cotta Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome

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House of the Vettii

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Roman second century BCE-first century CE, rebuilt 67-79 CE stone and fresco Pompeii, Italy

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The Colosseum

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Imperial Roman 72-80 CE stone and concrete Rome

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Treasury, Monastery and Great Temple of Petra

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Roman 400 BCE-100 CE cut rock Jordan

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Forum of Trajan (Basilica of Ulpia, Market of Trajan)

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Apollodorus of Damascus Roman 106-112 CE (Basilica - 112) Rome, Italy

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Pantheon

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Roman 118-125 CE concrete with stone facing Rome

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Pentheus Room

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Roman 62-79 CE fresco Pompeii, Italy

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Head of a Roman Patrician

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Republican Roman 75-50 BCE marble Museo Torlonia, Rome

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Augustus of Prima Porta

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Imperial Roman 20 CE copy of a bronze original Vatican Museums, Rome

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Column of Trajan

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Roman 112 CE marble Rome

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Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

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Roman 250-260 CE marble National Roman Museum, Rome

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Catacomb of Priscilla

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Early Christian 200-400 tufa and fresco Rome, Italy

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Santa Sabina

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Early Christian 422-432 brick, stone, and wooden roof Rome, Italy

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Hagia Sophia (including Theotokos and Deësis mosaics)

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Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus Byzantine 532-537 brick, ceramic, stone, mosaic Istanbul

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San Vitale (including Justinian and Attendants; Theodora and Attendants)

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Byzantine mosaics - 547 brick, marble, stone Ravenna, Italy

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Vienna Genesis (including Jacob Wrestling an Angel; Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

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Byzantine early sixth century illuminated manuscript pigment on vellum Austrian National Library, Vienna

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Theotokos and Child between Saints Theodore and George

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Byzantine sixth-early seventh centuries encaustic on wood Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt

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Pyxis of al-Mughira

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Islamic 968 ivory Louvre, Paris

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Folio from the Qur'an

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Islamic eighth-ninth century ink and gold on parchment

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Basin (Baptistere de St. Louis)

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Muhammad ibn al-Zain Islamic 1320-1340 brass inlaid with gold and silver Louvre, Paris

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The Ardabil Carpet

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Maqsud of Kashan Islamic 1539-1540 silk on wool Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Bahram Gur Fights the Karg

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Islamic (Persian) 1310-1340 ink and watercolor, gold, silver on paper Harvard University Art Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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The Court of Gayumars

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Sultan Muhammad Islamic (Persian) folio from the Shah Tashmasp 1522-1525 ink, opaque watercolor, gold on paper Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada

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The Kaaba

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Islamic 631-632 granite masonry, covered with silk curtain, gold and silver thread Mecca, Saudi Arabia

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Dome of the Rock

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Islamic 691-692 stone masonry and wood roof decorated with glazed ceramic tile, mosaics, and gilt aluminum and bronze dome Jerusalem

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Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh)

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Islamic 700 and following, mostly eleventh-seventeenth centuries brick, wood, plaster, ceramic tile Isfahan, Iran

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Great Mosque at Córdoba

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Islamic eighth-tenth centuries stone Córdoba, Spain

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Alhambra (including Court of the Lions; Hall of the Sisters)

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Islamic 1354-1391 whitewashed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gilding Granada, Spain

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Mosque of Selim II

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Sinan Islamic 1568-1575 brick and stone Edirne, Turkey

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Taj Mahal

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Islamic 1632-1648 stone, marble, precious and semi-precious stones Agra, India

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Looped Fibulae

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Merovingian (Medieval) mid-sixth century silver gilt with semiprecious stones, inlays of garnets and other stones Cabinet des Médailles, Paris

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Lindisfarne Gospels (cross-carpet page of St. Matthew)

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Hiberno-Saxon (Medieval) 700 illuminated manuscript, ink, pigments, and gold on vellum British Library, London

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Church of Sainte-Foy (including reliquary; Last Judgment)

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Romanesque 1050-1130 (Last Judgment - 1107-1125 painted stone) (Reliquary - ninth century gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood) stone Conques, France

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Bayeux Tapestry

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Romanesque 1066-1080 embroidery on linen Bayeux Tapestry Museum, Bayeux, France

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Chartres Cathedral (including Royal Portals; Notre Dame la Belle Verriere, Our Lady of the Beautiful Window)

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Gothic 1145-1155 (stained glass - 1170) later additions, limestone and stained glass Chartres, France

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Röttgen Pietá

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Gothic 1300-1325 painted wood Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany

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Blanche of Castile and Louis IX (dedication page and Scenes from the Apocalypse)

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Gothic 1226-1234 illuminated manuscript, ink, tempera and gold leaf on vellum (Apocalypse - Catheral, Toledo) Morgan Library, New York

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Golden Haggadah (The Plagues of Egypt, Scenes of Liberation and Preparation for Passover)

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(Jewish) Gothic 1320 illuminated manuscript, pigment on vellum British Library, London

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Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel (including Last Judgment; Lamentation)

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(Italian) Gothic 1303 (frescoes - 1305-1306) brick and fresco Padua, Italy

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The Annunciation Triptych (The Merode Altarpiece)

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Robert Campin (? or workshop) Northern European Renaissance 1425-1428 oil on wood Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Arnolfini Portrait

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Jan van Eyck Northern European Renaissance 1434 oil on wood National Gallery, London

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Adam and Eve

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Albrecht Dürer Northern European Renaissance 1504 engraving Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Isenheim Altarpiece

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Matthias Grünewald Northern European Renaissance 1512-1516 oil on panel Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar

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Allegory of Law and Grace

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Lucas Cranach the Elder Northern European Renaissance 1530 woodcut

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Return of the Hunters

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Pieter Bruegel Northern European Renaissance 1565 oil on wood panel Art History Museum, Vienna

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Pazzi Chapel

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Filippo Brunelleschi Early Renaissance designed 1423, built 1429-1461 masonry Florence, Italy

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Palazzo Rucellai

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Leon Battista Alberti Early Renaissance 1450 stone, masonry Florence, Italy

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Madonna and Child with Two Angels

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Fra Filippo Lippi Italian Renaissance 1465 tempera on wood Uffizi, Florence

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Birth of Venus

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Sandro Botticelli Italian Renaissance 1484-1486 tempera on canvas Uffizi, Florence

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David

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Donatello Italian Renaissance 1440-1460 bronze National Museum, Bargello, Florence

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The Last Supper

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Leonardo da Vinci Italian High Renaissance 1494-1498 tempera and oil Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

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Sistine Chapel Ceiling (Delphic Sybil, The Flood, Last Judgment)

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Michelangelo Italian High Renaissance 1508-1512 fresco Vatican City, Italy

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School of Athens

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Raphael Italian High Renaissance 1509-1511 fresco Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, Italy

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Venus of Urbino

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Titian Italian High Renaissance 1538 oil on canvas Uffizi, Florence

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Entombment of Christ

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Jacopo da Pontormo Italian High Renaissance 1525-1528 oil on wood Santa Felicitá, Florence

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Il Gesú (including façade; Triumph of the Name of Jesus)

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Giacomo della Porta Italian High Renaissance 1575-1584 brick and marble (Triumph - Giovanni Battista Gaulli Italian Baroque 1676-1679) Rome

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Saint Charles of the Four Fountains (San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane)

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Francesco Borromini Baroque 1638-1646 stone and stucco Rome

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The Palace at Versailles

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Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart Baroque 1669 masonry, stone, wood, iron, and gold leaf gardens, Versailles, France

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Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini Italian Baroque 1647-1652 marble, stucco and gilt bronze Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome (by Carlo Maderno in 1605-1620)

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Calling of Saint Matthew

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Caravaggio Italian Baroque 1597-1601 oil on canvas San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome

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Las Meninas

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Diego Valázquez Spanish Baroque 1656 oil on canvas Prado, Madrid

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Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de'Medici (from the Marie de' Medici Cycle)

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Peter Paul Rubens Flemish Baroque 1621-1625 oil on canvas Louvre, Paris

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Self-Portrait with Saskia

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Rembrandt Dutch Baroque 1636 etching Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Woman Holding a Balance

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Johannes Vermeer Dutch Baroque 1664 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Fruits and Insects

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Rachel Ruysch Dutch Baroque 1711 oil on wood Uffizi, Florence

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Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza

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New Spain 1542 pigment on paper Bodleian Library, Oxford University

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Angel with Arquebus (Asiel Timor Dei)

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Master of Calamarca New Spain 1680 oil on canvas National Art Museum, La Paz, Bolivia

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Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and Hunting Scenes

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Circle of the Gonzales Family New Spain 1697-1701 tempera and resin on wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl Brooklyn Museum, New York

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Virgin of Guadelupe

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Miguel Gonzáles New Spain 1698 oil on canvas on wood with mother-of-pearl Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

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Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo

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Attributed to Juan Rodriguez New Spain 1715 oil on canvas Private Collection, London

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Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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Miguel Cabrera New Spain 1750 oil on canvas

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The Swing

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard Rococo 1767 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London

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Self-Portrait (of Le Brun)

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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Rococo 1790 oil on canvas Uffizi, Florence

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The Tête á Tête from Marriage á la Mode

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William Hogarth Eighteenth-Century English 1743 oil on canvas National Gallery, London

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A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

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Joseph Wright of Derby Eighteenth-Century English 1763-1765 oil on canvas Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, U.K.

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Monticello

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Thomas Jefferson Neoclassical 1768-1806 brick, glass, stone, and wood Charlottesville, Virginia

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The Oath of the Horatii

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Jacques-Louis David Neoclassical 1784 oil on canvas Louvre, Paris

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George Washington

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Jean-Antoine Houdon Neoclassical 1788-1792 marble State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia

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Westminster (Palace: The Houses of Parliament; Hall; Central Lobb)

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Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin Romantic 1840-1870 limestone, masonry, and glass (Halls - Gothic 1097-1099, ceiling 1390s stone and wood London, England) London

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And There's Nothing to Be Done (Y no hai remedio) from the Disasters of War

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Francisco de Goya Romantic 1810-1823 drypoint etching

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La Grand Odalisque (The Grand Odalisque)

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Jean-Auguste Ingres Romantic 1814 oil on canvas Louvre, Paris

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Liberty Leading the People

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Eugéne Delacroix Romantic 1830 oil on canvas Louvre, Paris

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Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)

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Joseph Turner Romantic 1840 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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The Oxbow

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Thomas Cole Romantic 1836 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Still Life in Studio

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Louis Daguerre Romantic 1837 daguerreotype French Photographic Society, Paris

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The Stone Breakers

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Gustave Courbet Realism 1849 oil on canvas formerly in Gemäldgalerie, Dresden, destroyed in World War II

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Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art

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Honoré Daumier Realism 1862 lithograph Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

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Olympia

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Édouard Manet Realism 1863 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel

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José Maria Velasco Realism 1882 oil on canvas National Art Museum

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The Horse in Motion

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Eadweard Muybridge Realism 1878 photograph

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The Saint-Lazare Station

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Claude Monet Impressionism 1877 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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The Coiffure

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Mary Cassatt Impressionism 1890-1891 drypoint and aquatint National Gallery of Art, Washington

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The Starry Night

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Vincent van Gogh Post-Impressionism 1889 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

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Paul Gaugin Post-Realism 1897-1898 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Mont Saint-Victoire

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Paul Cézanne Post-Impressionism 1902-1904 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

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The Scream

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Edvard Munch Symbolism 1893 tempera and pastel on cardboard National Gallery, Osio

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The Kiss

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Gustav Klimt Art Nouveau 1907-1908 oil on canvas Austrian Gallery, Vienna

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Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building

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Louis Sullivan Late Nineteenth-Century 1899-1904 iron, steel, glass, terra-cotta Chicago

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The Burghers of Calais

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Auguste Rodin Late Nineteenth-Century 1884-1895 bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Goldfish

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Fauvism Henri Matisse 1912 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Pertersburg, Russia

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Improvisation 28 (second version)

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Expressionism Vassily Kandinsky 1912 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York

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Self-Portrait as a Soldier

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Expressionism Ernst Kirchner 1915 oil on canvas Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

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Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht

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Expressionism Käthe Kollwitz 1919-1920 woodcut Private Collection

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

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Cubism Pablo Picasso 1907 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York

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The Portuguese

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Cubism Georges Braque 1911 oil on canvas Art Museum, Basel, Switzerland

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The Kiss

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Cubism Cónstantin Brancusi 1907-1908 limestone Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

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The Steerage

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Photo-Secession Alfred Stieglitz 1907 photograph Private Collection

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Fountain

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Dada Marcel Duchamp original 1917, this version 1950 china with black paint Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania

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Object

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Surrealism Meret Oppenheim 1936 fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon Museum of Modern Art, New York

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The Two Fridas

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Surrealism Frida Kahlo 1939 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City

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The Jungle

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Surrealism Wifredo Lam 1943 gouache on paper mounted on canvas The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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(Illustration from) The Results of the First Five-Year Plan

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Constructivism Varvara Stepanova 1932 photomontage Museum of the Revolution, Moscow, Russia

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Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

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DeStijl Piet Mondrian 1930 oil on canvas Private Collection

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Kaufmann House "Fallingwater"

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Prairie Style Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright 1936-1939 reinforced concrete, sandstone, steel, and glass Bear Run, Pennsylvania

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Villa Savoye

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International Style Architecture Le Corbusier 1929 steel and reinforced concrete Poissy-sur-Seine, France

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Seagram Building

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International Style Architecture Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson 1954-1958 steel frame with glass curtain wall and bronze New York

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The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49

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Harlem Renaissance Jacob Lawrence 1940-1941 tempera on hardboard Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park

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Mexican Muralists Diego Rivera 1947-1948 fresco Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City

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Woman, I

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Abstract Expressionism Willen de Kooning 1950-1952 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art

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The Bay

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Color Field Painting Helen Frankenthaler 1963 acrylic on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

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Marilyn Diptych

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Pop Art Andy Warhol 1962 oil, acrylic, silkscreen enamel on canvas Tate Gallery, London

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Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks

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Pop Art Claes Oldenburg 1969-1974 cor-ten steel, aluminum, and cast resin, painted with polyurethane enamel Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Narcissus Garden

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Happenings Yayoi Kusama first seen in 1966 installation of mirrored balls Venice

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Spiral Jetty

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Site Art Robert Smithson 1970 mud, salt crystals, rocks, water coil Great Salt Lake, Utah

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House in New Castle County

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Postmodern Architecture Robert Venturi, John Rauch, and Denise Scott Brown 1978-1983 wood frame and stucco Delaware

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Buddha from Bamiyan

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Buddhist 400-800, destroyed 2001 cut rock with plaster and polychrome paint Afghanistan

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Jowo Rinpoche from the Jokhang Temple

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Buddhist 641 gilt metal with semiprecious stones and paint Lhasa, Tibet

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Great Stupa at Sanchi

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Buddhist third century BCE - first century CE stone masonry, sandstone on dome Sanchi, Madhya Preadesh, India

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Borobudur

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Buddhist 750-842 volcanic stone masonry Java, Indonesia

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Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja) with a nimbus

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Hindu eleventh century CE cast bronze Musée Guimet Paris

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Lakshmana Temple

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Hindu 930-950 sandstone Khajuraho, India

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Angkor, Angkor Wat, and the city of Angkor Thom

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Hindu 800-1400 stone masonry, sandstone Cambodia

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Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings

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Hindu Bichitr 1620 watercolor, gold, and ink on paper Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

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Forbidden City

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Chinese fifteenth century, Ming Dynasty stone masonry, marble, brick, wood, ceramic tile Beijing, China

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Funeral Banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui)

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Chinese 180 BCE painted silk Human Provincial Museum, Changsha

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Travelers among Mountains and Streams

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Chinese Fan Kuan 1000 ink on silk National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

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Portrait of Sin Sukju

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Korean 1417-1475 ink and color on silk

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Chairman Mao En Route to Anyuan

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Chinese 1969 color lithograph based on an oil painting by Liu Chunhua Private Collection

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Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi

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Chinese 221-209 BCE, Qin Dynasty painted terra-cotta Lintong, China

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Longmen Caves

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Chinese 493-1127, Tang Dynasty limestone Luoyang, China

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Gold and jade crown

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Korean fifth-sixth century metalwork National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

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The David Vases

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Chinese 1351 white porcelain with cobalt blue underglaze British Museum, London

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Todai-ji (and its Great Buddha, Nio Guardian Figures, and Great South Gate

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Japanese 743, rebuilt 1700 wood with ceramic tile roofing (Buddha - base eighth century, upper portion including head twelveth century, copper) (Nio Guardian Figures - Unkei, Tankei, and Jokahu; 1203, wood) (Gate - 1181-1203, wood with ceramic tile roofing) Nara, Japan

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Ryoan-ji

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Japanese 1480, current design eigthteenth century rock garden Kyoto, Japan

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Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace

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Japanese 1250-1300 Handscroll (ink and color on paper) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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White and Red Plum Blossoms

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Japanese Ogata Korin 1710-1716 watercolor on paper MOA Museum of Art Atami, Japan

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Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), called "The Great Wave," from "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji"

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Japanese Hokusai 1830-1833 polychrome woodblock print, ink and color on paper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Chavín de Huántar (Plan, Lanzón Stone, Relief Sculpture, Nose Ornament)

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Chavín 900-200 BCE granite (stone and sculpture), gold alloy (ornament) Peru

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Yaxchilán (Structure 40, Lintel 25 of Structure 23, Structure 33)

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Mayan 725 limestone Chiapas, Mexico

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Mesa Verde cliff dwellings

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Anasazi 450-1300 sandstone Montezuma County, Colorado

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Great Serpent Mound

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Mississippian (Eastern Woodlands) 1070 earthwork Adams County, southern Ohio

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Templo Mayor (Main Temple) (including Coyolxauhqui "She of the Golden Bells" and Calendar Stone and Olmec-style mask)

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Aztec 1375-1520 volcanic stone from 1469 (Coyolxauhqui) stone (Calendar Stone is basalt, Mask is jadeite) Tenochtitlán Mexico City, Mexico

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Ruler's feather headdress (probably of Motecuhzoma II)

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Aztec 1428-1520 feathers (quetzal and blue cotinga) and gold Museum of Ethnology, Vienna

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Maize cobs

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Inkan 1400-1533 sheet metal/repoussé, gold and silver alloys Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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City of Cusco plan (including Qorikancha: main temple, church, and convent of Santo Comingo and Walls at Saqsa Waman (Sacsayhuaman))

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Inkan 1440 sandstone Peru

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City of Machu Picchu (including Obervatory and Intihuatana Stone)

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Inkan 1450-1540 granite Peru

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All-T'oqapu tunic

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Inkan 1450-1540 camelid fiber and cotton Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.

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Bandolier bag

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North American Indian Art Lenape (eastern Delaware) tribe 1850 beadwork on leather Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana

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Transformation Mask

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North American Indian Art Kwakiutl, Northwest coast of Canada late nineteenth century wood, paint, and string Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana

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Hide Painting of a Sun Dance

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North American Indian Art Attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody) 1890-1900 painted elk hide found at Easter Shoshone, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming Cowan's Auctions, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

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black-on-black ceramic vessel

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North American Indian Art Maria Martínez and Julian Martínez mid-twentieth century Tewa, Puebloa, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery

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Great Zimbabwe

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African 1000-1400 granite Zimbabwe

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Great Mosque of Djenné

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African 1200, rebuilt 1906-1907 adobe Djenné, Mali

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Wall plaque from Oba's palace

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(Benin) African sixteenth century brass Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Golden Stool (Skia dwa kofi)

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(Ashanti) African 1700 gold over wood location unknown

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Ndop (portrait figure) of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul

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(Kuba) African 1760-1780 wood Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

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Power figure (Nkisi n'kondi)

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(Kongo) African late nineteenth century wood and metal

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Portrait mask (Mblo)

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(Baule) African late nineteenth to early twentieth century wood and pigment

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Female (Pwo) mask

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(Chokwe) African late nineteenth to early twentieth century wood, fiber, pigment, and metal National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.

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Bundu mask

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(Mende) African Sande Society nineteenth to early twentieth century wood, cloth, and fiber Private Collection

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Ikenga (shrine figure)

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(Igbo) African nineteenth to twentieth century wood Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New Yotk

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Memory Board (Lukasa)

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(Luba) African Mbudye Society nineteenth to twentieth century wood, beads, and metal Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

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Aka elephant mask

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(Bamileke) African nineteenth to twentieth century wood, woven raffia, cloth, and beads

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Reliquary guardian figure (nlo bieri)

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(Fang) African 19th to 20th century wood Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

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Vernanda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga)

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(Yoruba) African Olowe of Ise 1910-1914 wood and pigment Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

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Nan Madol

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Micronesia 700-1600 basalt boulders and prismatic columns Pohnpei, Micronesia

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Female deity

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Micronesia eighteenth to nineteenth century wood Nukuoro, Micronesia

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Navigation chart

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Micronesia nineteenth to early twentieth century wood and fiber Marshall Islands

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'Ahu'ula (feather cape)

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Hawaii late eighteenth century feathers and fiber Museum of the Americas, Madrid

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Staff god

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Cook Islands (Rarotonga) late eighteenth to early nineteenth century wood, tapa, fiber, and feathers British Museum, London

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Hiapo (tapa) from Niue

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Polynesia 1850-1900 tapa or bark cloth freehand painting Aukland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand

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Tamati Waka Nene

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New Zealand Gottfried Lindauer 1890 oil on canvas Aukland Art Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand

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Malagan mask

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Papua New Guinea twentieth century wood, pigment, fiber, and shell Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

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Buk (mask)

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Papua New Guinea Torres Strait mid-to-late nineteenth century turtle shell, wood, fiber, feathers, and shell Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II during the 1953-1954 royal tour

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Fiji 1953 multimedia performance photographic documentation

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Moai on platform (ahu)

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Easter Island (Rapa Nui) 1100-1600 volcanic tuff figures on basalt base

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Guggenheim Bilboa Museo

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Frank Gehry Modern Architecture 1997 titanium, glass, and limestone Bilboa, Spain

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MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts

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Zaha Hadid Modern Architecture 2009 glass, steel, and cement Rome, Italy

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The Gates

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Christo and Jean-Claude Modern Art 1979-2005 mixed media installation New York City

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Maya Lin Modern Art 1982 black granite Washinton, D.C.

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Horn Players

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Jean-Michel Basquiat Modern Art 1983 acrylic and oil paintstick on canvas panels Broad Art Foundations, Santa Monica, California

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Summer Trees

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Song Su-nam Modern Art 1983 ink on paper British Museum, London

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Androgyn III

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Magdalena Abakanowicz Modern Art 1985 burlap, resin, wood, nails, and string Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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A Book from the Sky

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Xu Bing Modern Art 1987-1991 100 boxed sets of 4-volume woodblock printed books, variable numbers of scrolls hanging from the ceiling, and variable number of wall panels installation Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

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Pink Panther

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Jeff Koons Modern Art 1988 glazed porcelain Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Untitled #228 (from the History Portraits series)

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Cindy Sherman Modern Art 1990 photograph Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, California

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Dancing at the Louvre (from the series The French Collection, Part I; #1)

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Faith Ringgold Modern Art 1991 acrylic on canvas, with fabric borders Private Collection

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Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)

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Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith Modern Art 1992 oil and mixed media Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk

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Earth's Creation

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Emily Kame Kngwarreye Modern Art 1994 synthetic polymer, paint on canvas Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, Australia

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Rebellious Silence (from the Women of Allah series)

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Shirin Neshat, photo by Cynthia Preston Modern Art 1994 ink on photograph Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

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En la Barberia no se Llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop)

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Pepón Osorio Modern Art 1994 mixed media installation

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Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000)

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Michel Tuffery Modern Art 1994 mixed media Collection of the Artist

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Electronic Superhighway

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Naum June Paik Modern Art 1995 mixed media (49-channel closed-circuit video installation, neon, steel, and electronic components) Smithsonian American Art Museum

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The Crossing

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Bill Viola Modern Art 1996 video and sound installation, room dimensions: 16 x 27.5 x 57 ft, performer: Phil Esposito, photo: Kira Perov

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Pure Land

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Mariko Mori Modern Art 1998 color photograph on glass Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

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Lying with the Wolf

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Kiki Smith Modern Art 2001 ink and pencil on paper

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Darkytown Rebellion

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Kara Walker Modern Art 2001 cut paper and projection on wall Collection Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

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The Swing (after Fragonard)

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Yinka Shonibare Modern Art 2001 mixed media installation Tate, London

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Old Man's Cloth

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El Anatsui Modern Art 2003 aluminum liquor bottle caps and copper wire

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Stadia II

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Julie Mehretu Modern Art 2004 ink and acrylic on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

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Preying Mantra

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Wangechi Mutu Modern Art 2006 mixed media on mylar Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

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Shibboleth

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Doris Salcedo Modern Art 2007-2008 installation Tate Modern, London

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Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)

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Ai Weiwei Modern Art 2010-2011 sculpted and painted porcelain Tate Modern, London

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