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What is art history and where is it going?
Introduction to art historical analysis
Why Art Matters
Questions to ask about works of art
Introduction to Late Gothic Art
Nicola Pisano
Florence in the Late Gothic Period
Cimabue, Virgin and Child Enthroned, and Prophets (Santa Trinità Maestà)
Fresco Technique, Giotto Scrovegni Chapel
Siena in the Late Gothic
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Palazzo Pubblico frescos: Allegory and effect of good and bad government
Master of the Triumph of Death
The Black Death
Giotto's Madonna Enthroned (Ognissanti Madonna)
Duccio, Maesta
Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, Annunciation
Introduction to 15th Century Flanders
Introduction to Burgundy in the 15th Century
Northern Renaissance Art Under Burgundian Rule
The role of the workshop in late medieval and early modern northern Europe
Sluter, Well of Moses
Limbourg Brothers, Très Riches Heures
Disguised Symbolism and Campin's Mérode Altarpiece
Jan Van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece
Jan Van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait
Petrus Christus, Goldsmith in Shop
Rogier Van der Weyden's Deposition
Hugo van der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece
Hans Memling, Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove
Germany and the Rise of Printmaking
Illuminated Manuscripts
Art in the Italian Renaissance Republics
Humanism in Renaissance Italy and Florence in the Early Renaissance
Florence in the Early Renaissance
Lorenzo Ghilberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, and the Competition Panels
Donatello, St. Mark
Donatello, St. George
Donatello, David
Linear perspective, Brunelleschi's experiment
Lorenzo Ghiberti, Gates of Paradise
Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome of the Florence Cathedral
Gentile Adoration of the magi
Masaccio Holy Trinity
Masaccio Tribute Money and Expulsion
Benozzo Gozzoli, Medici chapel frescoes
Fra Angelico, Annunciation
Piero della Francesca, Resurrection
Ghirlandaio, Life of the Virgin
Sandro Botticelli, Primavera
Antonio Pollaiuolo, Battle of Ten Nudes
The study of anatomy
Perugino, Christ Giving the Keys of the Kingdom to St. Peter
Andrea Mantegna, Camera Picta
Toward the High Renaissance, an introduction
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo and his drawings
Leonardo’s Last Supper
Leonardo, Mona Lisa
Who was Michelangelo?
Michelangelo, David
Michelangelo, Pietà
Michelangelo, Moses
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo, Creation of Adam
Raphael and Madonna of the Meadow
Raphael, Madonna of the Meadow
Raphael, School of Athens
Raphael, Pope Leo X
Donato Bramante, Tempietto
Venetian art, an introduction
Giorgione, The Tempest
Bellini and the San Giobbe Altarpiece
Giovanni Bellini and Titian,The Feast of the Gods
Titian, Pastoral Concert
Titian, Assumption of the Virgin
Titian, Madonna of the Pesaro Family
Palladio, La Rotunda
Mannerism, an Introduction
Pontormo and Parmigianino
Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel
Giambologna, Abduction of a Sabine Woman
Sofonisba Anguissola
Tintoretto and Veronese
Transcript of the trial of Veronese
The Reformation
Introduction to the Protestant Reformation: The Counter-Reformation
Iconoclasm in the Netherlands in the Sixteenth Century
Spotlight — Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights
Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Law and Gospel (Law and Grace)
Cranach Passion
Who was Albrecht Dürer?
Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait
Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve
Pieter Bruegel, Netherlandish Proverbs
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (Winter)
Pieter Aertsen, Meat Stall
Hans Holbein, Henry VIII
Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors
Portraits of Elizabeth I: Fashioning the Virgin Queen
El Greco, Burial of the Count Orgaz
El Greco, View of Toledo
Mesoamerica, an introduction
Mesoamerican art in context: an excerpt from an origin story (Popol Vuh)
The Aztecs
Pyramid of the Moon and Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan
The Sun Stone (or The Calendar Stone) (Aztec)
Introduction to the Inka
Machu Picchu
Llama, found near Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, Inca, 15th centur
New Spain, an introduction
The Spanish Viceroyalty
Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
The Aftermath of the Spanish Conquest
Virgin of Guadalupe
The Child Mary Spinning
Baroque art, an introduction
Bernini, David
Architecture in Rome
Bernini, Cornaro Chapel with St. Teresa
**Bernini, Piazza
*Borromini, San Carlo
Annibale Carracci, Christ Appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way
Annibale Carracci’s Farnese Gallery Ceiling Frescoes
Guido Reni, Aurora
Caravaggio and Caravaggisti in 17th-century Europe
Caravaggio, Deposition (or Entombment)
Caravaggio Calling of St. Matthew
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes
Andrea Pozzo, Sant’Ignazio
Introduction to Spanish Painting
Jusepe de Ribera, Martyrdom of St. Philip
Francisco Zurbaran, St. Serapion
Diego Velázquez, The Waterseller of Seville
Diego Velázquez, The Surrender of Breda
Las Meninas, Simon Schama
Murillo, The Immaculate Conception
Introduction to Flanders
Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of the Cross
Peter Paul Rubens, The Presentation of the Portrait of Marie de’ Medici
Peter Paul Rubens, The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de’ Médici
Anthony Van Dyck, Charles I at the Hunt
Introduction to the Dutch Republic
**Dutch art - moralizing or merely descriptive?
Hendrick ter Brugghen and Gerard van Honthorst
Frans Hals
Judith Leyster, The Proposition
Rembrandt, Self-Portraits
Rembrandt, The Return of the Prodigal Son
Rembrandt, The Night Watch
Rembrandt, Christ Preaching (Hundred Guilder Print)
Vermeer, View of Delft and Woman with a Balance
Jacob van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem
Pieter Claesz, Vanitas Still Life
Rachel Ruysch, Flower Still-Life
Jan Steen, Feast of St. Nicholas
Introduction to Art in France
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV
Louis le Vau, André le Nôtre, and Charles le Brun, Château de Versailles
The Formation of a French School: the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
French Painting
Introduction to Rococo
Jean-Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera
Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing
The Age of Enlightenment, an introduction
Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery
“Natural Art” in France
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Self-Portrait
“Natural Art” in England and America
1. **Joshua Reynolds
Neoclassicism, an introduction
The Grand Tour and Beginnings of Neoclassicism
Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures
Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat
Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Thomas Jefferson and Neoclassical Architecture
Imperial China
Yuan Dynasty
Literati Painting
Ming Dynasty and the Forbidden City
Qing Dynasty
India (1300-1900)
Mughal Art and Architecture
Architecture
Introduction to Romanticism
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon on His Imperial Throne
Antoine-Jean Gros, Pesthouse at Jaffa
Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa
Gericault, portraits of the insane
Eugene Delacroix, an Introduction
Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
Orientalism
Delacroix, Women of Algiers
CONDENSE François Rude, La Marseillaise
Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808
Goya, Saturn Devouring His Children
John Constable, The Hay Wain
J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship
Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea and Abby in an Oak Forest
Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow
Early Photography
Louis Daguerre, Paris Boulevard or View of the Boulevard du Temple
A beginner’s guide to Realism
Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreakers
Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners
Rosa Bonheur, Horse Fair
Honoré Daumier
Édouard Manet, Music in the Tuileries Gardens
Édouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass
Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Introduction to Japanese colored woodblock prints
Japonisme
Utagawa Kunisada I, Visiting Komachi, from the series Modern Beauties as the Seven Komachi
Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)
Impressionism, an introduction
Claude Monet - Painting Impressions of Light and Color
Monet, Wheatstack series
Pierre Auguste Renoir Moulin de la Galette
Edgar Degas, The Rehearsal
Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt
Introduction to Post-Impressionism
Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
An introduction to the painting of Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne, The Basket of Apples
Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh, Night Café
Paul Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon
Paul Gauguin, Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Introduction to Symbolism
James Ensor, Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889
Edvard Munch, The Scream
Gustav Klimt, The Kiss
Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais
Auguste Rodin, Gates of Hell
Camille Claudel, The Waltz
African Art Historical Overview
The Myth of “Primitive" Art
Form and meaning
Power Figures
Introduction to Modern Art – Europe and America in the Early Twentieth Century
Fauvism, an introduction
Andre Derain, Fauve Landscapes and City Views
Henri Matisse, Open Window, Collioure
Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red (The Red Room)
German Expressionism, an introduction
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Berlin
Kandinsky, Apocalypse, Abstraction
Vasily Kandinsky, Improvisation 28
Franz Marc and the animalization of art
Inventing Cubism
Cubism and multiple perspectives
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Synthetic Cubism, Part I
Synthetic Cubism
Pablo Picasso, Guernica
Sonia Delaunay
Italian Futurism: An Introduction
Giacomo Balla, Street Light
Umberto Boccioni, Unique forms of continuity in space
Introduction to Dada, Hugo Ball and "Karawane"
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
Meret Oppenheim, Object (Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon)
Suprematism
Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow
Introduction to Surrealism and Sigmund Freud
Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas
Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space: Manufactured metal or a work of art?
Salvador Dali
Joan Miró
René Magritte
The Bauhaus
Peter Behrens, Turbine Factory
The Ashcan School, an introduction
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks
Degenerate Art
The History of Mexico: Diego Rivera’s Murals at the National Palace
Harlem Renaissance
Alexander Calder, Lobster Trap and Fish Tail
Georgia O’Keeffe, White Iris
Grant Wood, American Gothic
Early 20th century Architecture - Sullivan
Wright, Le Corbusier Mies van der Rohe
Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore
The Impact of Abstract Expressionism
Judy Chicago, Dinner Party
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your gaze hits the side of my face)
Finding meaning in abstraction
Guerrilla Girls
Lee Krasner, Untitled
The Painting Techniques of Jackson Pollock
Jenny Holzer
An introduction to Minimalism
Helen Frankenthaler, The Bay
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates
Need brief description of Pollock One: Number 31
Henry Hobson Richardson and Louis Sullivan
Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe
The Aftermath of World War II
Alberto Giacometti, The Walking Man I
Action Painting - Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning
Frank Stella
Color field painting - Mark Rothko
David Smith, Tony Smith, and Donald Judd
Introduction to Pop Art
The World Goes Pop
Richard Hamilton, Just What it is That Makes Today’s Homes so Different, so Appealing?
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe Diptych
Andy Warhol, Soup Cans
Roy Lichtenstein, Hopeless
Claes Oldenburg
Chuck Close and Duane Hanson
Joseph Kosuth and Sol LeWitt
Introduction to Land Art and Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Introduction to Contemporary Art
Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao
Richard Prince
Sherrie Levine
Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog
Tara Donovan
Shirin Neshat
Betye Saar, Liberation of Aunt Jemima
El Anatsui, Old Man’s Cloth
Damien Hirst
Bill Viola
Yayoi Kusama
Bill Viola, The Crossing
Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii
Banksy
Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate (The Bean)
Dan Flavin, Untitled
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Postmodernist Architecture
Charles Moore, Piazza d’Italia
Robert Venturi, The Venturi House
Michael Graves, Portland Building
Zaha Hadid, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
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