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| Why Do We Study the History of Art? | |
| The Artistic Impulse | |
| Chronology | |
| Why Do We Value Art? | |
| Material Value | |
| Intrinsic Value | |
| Brancusi’s Bird: Manufactured Metal or a Work of Art? | |
| Religious Value | |
| Nationalistic Value | |
| Psychological Value | |
| Art and Illusion | |
| Images and Words | |
| Traditions Equating Artists with Gods | |
| Art and Identification | |
| Reflections and Shadows: Legends of How Art Began | |
| Image Magic | |
| Architecture | |
| Archaeology and Art History | |
| Methodologies of Art History | |
| Formalism | |
| Iconography and Iconology | |
| Marxism | |
| Feminism | |
| Biography and Autobiography | |
| Semiology | |
| Deconstruction | |
| Psychoanalysis | |
| The Language of Art | |
| Composition | |
| Plane | |
| Balance | |
| Line | |
| Expressive Qualities of Line | |
| Lines Used for Modeling | |
| Depth | |
| The Illusion of Depth | |
| Perspective | |
| Space | |
| Shape | |
| Types of Shapes | |
| Expressive Qualities of Shape | |
| Light and Color | |
| Physical Properties of Color | |
| Expressive Qualities of Color | |
| Texture | |
| Stylistic Terminology | |
| Prehistoric Western Europe | |
| The Stone Age | |
| Paleolithic | |
| MAP: Prehistoric Site in Europe | |
| Sculpture | |
| Technique: Carving | |
| Technique: Modeling | |
| Technique: Categories of Sculpture | |
| Painting | |
| Media: Pigment | |
| Beyond the West: Rock Paintings of Australia | |
| Mesolithic | |
| Neolithic | |
| Menhirs | |
| Dolmens | |
| Cromlechs | |
| Architecture: Post-and-Lintel Construction | |
| The Ancient Near East | |
| The Neolithic Era | |
| MAP: The Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East | |
| Jericho | |
| Çatal Hüyük | |
| Mesopotamia | |
| Primary Source: Inanna | |
| The Uruk Period | |
| Ziggurats | |
| Religion: Mesopotamian Gods | |
| Cylinder Seals | |
| From Pictures to Words | |
| Literature: Gilgamesh | |
| Sumer: Early Dynastic Period | |
| Akkad | |
| Society and Culture: Sargon of Akkad | |
| Neo-Sumerian | |
| The Ziggurat of Ur | |
| Babylon | |
| Society and Culture: The Law Code of Hammurabi | |
| Anatolia: The Hittites | |
| Assyria | |
| Technique: Glazing | |
| The Neo-Babylonian Empire | |
| Architecture: Round Arches | |
| Iran | |
| Society and Culture: Destroying the Archaeological Record | |
| The Scythians | |
| Achaemenid Persia | |
| Architecture: Columns | |
| Ancient Egypt | |
| The Gift of the Nile | |
| The Pharaohs | |
| The Egyptian Concept of Kingship | |
| Chronology: Egyptian Kings | |
| MAP: Ancient Egypt and Nubia | |
| The Palette of Narmer | |
| Religion: Egyptian Gods | |
| The Old Kingdom | |
| Pyramids | |
| Mummification | |
| Sculpture | |
| Technique: The Egyptian Canon of Proportion | |
| The Middle Kingdom | |
| The New Kingdom | |
| Temples | |
| Painting | |
| The Amarna Period | |
| Tutankhamon’s Tomb | |
| Egypt and Nubia | |
| The Rock-Cut Temple of Ramses II | |
| Meroë | |
| The Aegean | |
| Cycladic Civilization | |
| MAP: The Ancient Aegean World | |
| Minoan Civilization | |
| The Palace at Knossos | |
| Media and Technique: Minoan Fresco | |
| Religion | |
| Pottery | |
| Society and Culture: Minoan Scripts | |
| Discoveries at Thera | |
| The Frescoes | |
| Mycenaean Civilization | |
| Myth: The Legend of Agamemnon | |
| The Art of Ancient Greece | |
| MAP: Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean | |
| Cultural Identity | |
| Government and Philosophy | |
| Philosophy: Plato on Artists | |
| Society and Culture: Women in Ancient Greece | |
| Literature and Drama | |
| “Man Is the Measure of All Things” | |
| Religion: Greek Gods and Their Roman Counterparts | |
| Painting and Pottery | |
| Geometric Style | |
| Orientalizing Style | |
| Archaic Style | |
| Media and Technique: Greek Vases | |
| Late Archaic to Classical Style | |
| Classical to Hellenistic Style | |
| Sculpture | |
| Archaic Style | |
| Early Classical Style | |
| Media and Technique: The Lost-Wax Process | |
| Classical Style | |
| Classical Architecture: The Athenian Acropolis | |
| The Parthenon | |
| Architecture: Plan of the Parthenon | |
| Architecture: The Greek Orders | |
| Myth: Medusa | |
| The Temple of Athena Nike | |
| The Erechtheum | |
| Late Classical Style | |
| The Greek Theater | |
| Architecture: Greek Theater | |
| Sculpture | |
| Style: The “Hermes of Praxiteles” | |
| Hellenistic Period | |
| Sculpture | |
| Myth: The Trojan Horse | |
| The Art of the Etruscans | |
| MAP: Etruscan and Roman Italy | |
| Architecture | |
| Pottery and Sculpture | |
| Women in Etruscan Art | |
| Funerary Art | |
| Cinerary Containers | |
| Sarcophagi | |
| Tomb Paintings | |
| Ancient Rome | |
| MAP: The Roman Empire, A.D. 14-282 | |
| Primary Source: Virgil’s Aeneid | |
| Chronology: Roman Periods | |
| Architecture: Arches, Domes, and Vaults | |
| Architectural Types | |
| Domestic Architecture | |
| Public Buildings | |
| History: Julius Caesar | |
| Media: Roman Building Materials | |
| Religious Architecture | |
| Commemorative Architecture | |
| Primary Source: Josephus and the Jewish Wars | |
| Sculptural Types | |
| The Sarcophagus | |
| Media: Color Symbolism in Roman Marble | |
| Portraits | |
| History: Marcus Aurelius: Emperor and Philosopher | |
| Pictorial Style | |
| Painting and Mosaic | |
| Early Christian and Byzantine Art | |
| A New Religion | |
| Constantine and Christianity | |
| The Divergence of East and West | |
| Religion: Christianity and the Scriptures | |
| Early Christian Art | |
| Sarcophagi | |
| Religion: Christian Symbolism | |
| History: The Catacombs | |
| Basilicas | |
| Religion: Saint Peter | |
| Centrally Planned Churches | |
| Justinian and the Byzantine Style | |
| San Vitale | |
| Media and Technique: Mosaics | |
| MAP: The Byzantine Empire under Justinian I, A.D. 565 | |
| Hagia Sophia | |
| The Codex | |
| The Vienna Genesis | |
| Media: Parchment | |
| Later Byzantine Developments | |
| The Early Middle Ages | |
| Islamic Art | |
| Religion: Islam | |
| The Great Mosque, Córdoba | |
| Northern European Art | |
| Anglo-Saxon Metalwork | |
| Primary Source: Beowulf | |
| Hiberno-Saxon Art | |
| Media and Technique: Manuscript Illumination | |
| The Carolingian Period | |
| MAP: The Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne, 814 | |
| Manuscripts | |
| Religion: Revelation and the Four Symbols of the Evangelists | |
| Monasteries | |
| Ottonian Period | |
| Romanesque Art | |
| Economic and Political Developments | |
| Society and Culture: Feudalism | |
| Pilgrimage Roads | |
| MAP: Pilgrimage Roads to Santiago de Compostela, Spain | |
| Architecture | |
| Sainte-Foy at Conques | |
| Developments at Autun | |
| The Stavelot Reliquary Triptych | |
| Manuscripts | |
| Mural Painting | |
| The “Bayeux Tapestry” | |
| Gothic Art | |
| Origins of the Gothic Style in France | |
| Early Gothic Architecture: Saint-Denis | |
| Religion: The Life of Saint Denis | |
| Elements of Gothic Architecture | |
| Rib Vaults | |
| Piers | |
| Flying Buttresses | |
| Pointed Arches | |
| The Skeleton | |
| Stained-Glass Windows | |
| Society and Culture: Guilds | |
| Romanesque Precursors of Gothic | |
| The Age of Cathedrals | |
| Chartres | |
| Exterior Architecture of Chartres | |
| Exterior Sculpture of Chartres | |
| Interior of Chartres | |
| Later Developments of the French Gothic Style | |
| Reims | |
| Paris: Reliquary Chapel of Sainte-Chapelle | |
| The Saint Louis Psalter | |
| English Gothic | |
| Salisbury Cathedral | |
| German Gothic | |
| Cologne Cathedral | |
| Precursors of the Renaissance | |
| Thirteenth-Century Italy | |
| Nicola Pisano | |
| Cimabue | |
| MAP: Leading Art Centers in Renaissance Italy | |
| Fourteenth-Century Italy | |
| Giotto | |
| Literature: Dante: Poet of Heaven and Hell | |
| Media and Technique: Tempera | |
| Media and Technique: Altarpieces | |
| The Arena Chapel | |
| Media and Technique: Fresco | |
| Painting in Siena | |
| Duccio’s Rucellai Madonna | |
| The Maestà | |
| The Kiss of Judas | |
| Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Effects of Good Government | |
| The International Gothic Style | |
| Claus Sluter | |
| The Limbourg Brothers | |
| The Early Renaissance | |
| Italy in the Fifteenth Century | |
| Renaissance Humanism | |
| Society and Culture: The Humanist Movement | |
| Society and Culture: Soldiers of Fortune | |
| The Competition for the Florence Baptistery Doors | |
| Brunelleschi’s Architecture | |
| History: Vasari’s Lives | |
| Linear Perspective | |
| Ghiberti’s East Baptistery Doors | |
| The Early Fifteenth-Century Painting | |
| Masaccio | |
| International Style in Italy: Gentile da Fabriano | |
| Technique: Aerial Perspective | |
| Early Fifteenth-Century Sculpture: Donatello’s David | |
| Second-Generation Developments | |
| Leon Battista Alberti | |
| The Theme of David and Goliath | |
| The Equestrian Portrait | |
| State Portraits | |
| Media: Oil Painting | |
| Monumentality versus Spirituality in Fifteenth-Century Painting | |
| Filippo Lippi | |
| Andrea Mantegna’s Illusionism | |
| History: Isabella d’Este | |
| Botticelli’s Mythological Subject Matter | |
| Philosophy: The Platonic Academy | |
| Fifteenth-Century Painting in the Netherlands | |
| MAP: Northern and Central Europe in the Renaissance | |
| Campin’s Mérode Altarpiece | |
| Jan van Eyck | |
| Rogier van der Weyden | |
| Later Developments | |
| The High Renaissance in Italy | |
| Architecture | |
| The Ideal of the Circle and Centrally Planned Churches | |
| St. Peter’s and the Central Plan | |
| History: Julius II | |
| Painting and Sculpture | |
| Leonardo da Vinci | |
| Technique: Sfumato | |
| Michelangelo Buonarroti | |
| Raphael | |
| Developments in Venice | |
| Gentile Bellini | |
| Giovanni Bellini and the Sacra Conversazione | |
| Theory: Pietro Aretino on Color versus Drawing | |
| Giorgione | |
| Titian | |
| Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy | |
| Politics and Religion | |
| History: The Reformation | |
| Mannerism | |
| Mannerist Painting | |
| Society and Culture: Vasari on Women Artists | |
| Mannerist Sculpture | |
| History: The Counter-Reformation | |
| Counter-Reformation Painting | |
| Tintoretto | |
| History: The Painter’s Daughter | |
| El Greco | |
| Architecture: Andrea Palladio | |
| Theory: The Four Books of Architecture | |
| Sixteenth-Century Painting and Printmaking in Northern Europe | |
| Humanism in the North | |
| MAP: Northern and Central Europe in the Renaissance | |
| The Netherlands | |
| Hieronymus Bosch | |
| History: Martin Luther | |
| Caterina van Hemessen | |
| Pieter Bruegel the Elder | |
| Literature: W.H. Auden’s Icarus | |
| Germany | |
| Albrecht Dürer | |
| Media and Technique: Printmaking | |
| Society and Culture: The Myth of the Mad Artist | |
| History: Erasmus | |
| Matthias Grünewald | |
| Lucas Cranach | |
| Hans Holbein the Younger | |
| The Baroque Style in Western Europe | |
| Religion, Politics, and Science | |
| Baroque Style | |
| MAP: Europe during the Baroque Style | |
| Architecture | |
| Italy | |
| France | |
| Society and Culture: The French Academy | |
| England | |
| Sculpture: Gianlorenzo Bernini | |
| Italian Baroque Painting | |
| Caravaggio | |
| Artemisia Gentileschi | |
| Society and Culture: Women as Artists from Antiquity to the 17th Century | |
| Giovanni Battista Gaulli | |
| Baroque Painting in Northern Europe | |
| Flanders: Peter Paul Rubens | |
| Holland: Rembrandt van Rijn | |
| Technique: Etching | |
| Beyond the West: Mughal Art and the Baroque | |
| Frans Hals | |
| Judith Leyster | |
| Jan Vermeer | |
| Jacob van Ruisdael | |
| Maria van Oosterwyck | |
| Spanish Baroque Painting | |
| Juan Sánchez Cotán | |
| Francesco de Zurburán | |
| Diego Velázquez | |
| French Baroque Painting: Nicolas Poussin | |
| Rococo, the Eighteenth Century, and Revival Styles | |
| Cultural Developments | |
| Society and Culture: Salons and Salonnières | |
| The Age of Enlightenment | |
| Painting in France | |
| Antoine Watteau | |
| Jean-Honoré Fragonard | |
| Adélaide Labille-Guiard | |
| Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | |
| History: Prelude to the French Revolution | |
| Bourgeois Realism: Jean-Baptiste Chardin | |
| Painting in England | |
| Thomas Gainsborough | |
| William Hogarth | |
| Rococo Architecture in Germany | |
| Balthasar Neumann | |
| Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann | |
| Dominikus Zimmermann | |
| Architectural Revivals in England | |
| Classicism: Lord Burlington and Robert Adam | |
| Gothic Revival: Horace Walpole | |
| Neoclassicism: Angelica Kauffmann | |
| American Painting | |
| John Singleton Copley | |
| Benjamin West | |
| Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries | |
| The Neoclassical Style in France | |
| Jacques-Louis David | |
| Chronology: The French Revolution and the Reign of Napoleon | |
| Napoleon and the Arts | |
| Antonio Canova | |
| Marie-Guillemine Benoist | |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | |
| MAP: The Napoleonic Empire, 1812 | |
| Developments in America | |
| The American Revolution | |
| Chronology: The American Campaign for Independence | |
| The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson | |
| MAP: The United States, showing states and territories during Jefferson’s presidency, c. 1803 | |
| John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence | |
| Greenough’s George Washington | |
| Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries | |
| The Romantic Movement | |
| Architecture | |
| Music and Poetry: Romanticism in Music and Poetry | |
| Sculpture | |
| Painting in Europe | |
| William Blake | |
| Media and Technique: Watercolor | |
| Théodore Géricault | |
| Society and Culture: The Salon | |
| Eugène Delacroix | |
| Francisco de Goya y Lucientes | |
| Media and Technique: Aquatint | |
| Germany: Caspar David Friedrich | |
| Theory: The Aesthetic of the Sublime | |
| England: John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner | |
| Painting in the United States | |
| Thomas Cole | |
| Literature: American Romantic Writers | |
| Folk Art: Edward Hicks | |
| Albert Bierstadt | |
| Nineteenth-Century Realism | |
| Cultural and Political Context | |
| Philosophy: The Communist Manifesto | |
| Literature: Realism | |
| French Realism | |
| Jean-François Millet | |
| Rosa Bonheur | |
| Gustave Courbet | |
| Honoré Daumier | |
| Media and Technique: Lithography | |
| Society and Culture: Daumier and Satire | |
| Photography | |
| France: Nadar | |
| England: Julia Margaret Cameron | |
| America: Mathew Brady | |
| American Realist Painting | |
| Thomas Eakins’s Gross Clinic | |
| Henry Ossawa Tanner | |
| French Realism in the 1860s | |
| Édouard Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’Herbe | |
| Manet’s Olympia | |
| Architecture | |
| Joseph Paxton: The Crystal Palace | |
| Bridges: The Roeblings | |
| The Eiffel Tower | |
| Origins of the Skyscraper: Louis Sullivan | |
| Nineteenth-Century Impressionism | |
| Context and Style | |
| Society and Culture: Urban Renewal during the Second Empire | |
| Painting in France | |
| Édouard Manet: 1880s | |
| Pierre-Auguste Renoir | |
| Edgar Degas | |
| Mary Cassatt | |
| Berthe Morisot | |
| Claude Monet | |
| Views of Paris: Renoir and Pissarro | |
| Beyond the West: Japanese Woodblock Prints | |
| French Sculpture: Auguste Rodin | |
| American Painting at the Turn of the Century | |
| Winslow Homer | |
| John Singer Sargent | |
| “Art for Art’s Sake” | |
| Whistler vs. Ruskin | |
| Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century | |
| Post-Impressionist Painting | |
| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | |
| Paul Cézanne | |
| An Apple a Day… | |
| Georges Seurat | |
| Vincent van Gogh | |
| “Dear Theo”-The Letters of Vincent van Gogh | |
| Paul Gauguin | |
| Beyond the West: Gauguin and Oceania | |
| Symbolism | |
| Society and Culture: The Symbolist Movement | |
| Gustave Moreau | |
| Edvard Munch | |
| Naïve Painting: Henri Rousseau | |
| History: Freud on the Mechanisms of Dreaming | |
| The Early Twentieth Century: Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse | |
| Culture and Context | |
| Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse | |
| Symbolism: Picasso’s Blue Period | |
| Literature: Wallace Stevens: “The Man with the Blue Guitar” | |
| Beyond the West: African Art and the European Avant-Garde | |
| Fauvism: Matisse in 1905-1906 | |
| Expressionism | |
| The Bridge (Die Brücke) | |
| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | |
| Emil Nolde | |
| The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) | |
| Vassily Kandinsky | |
| Franz Marc | |
| Käthe Kollwitz | |
| Matisse after Fauvism | |
| Harmony in Red | |
| Dance 1 | |
| Icarus | |
| Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Styles | |
| Cubism | |
| Precursors | |
| History: Gertrude Stein | |
| Analytic Cubism: Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque | |
| Collage | |
| Media and Technique: Collage and Assemblage | |
| Synthetic Cubism | |
| Picasso’s Surrealism | |
| Picasso’s Guernica | |
| Other Early Twentieth-Century Developments | |
| Futurism | |
| Fernand Léger’s The City | |
| Piet Mondrian | |
| The Armory Show | |
| Stuart Davis | |
| Aaron Douglas and the Harlem Renaissance | |
| Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism | |
| Postscript | |
| Architecture | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie Style | |
| Architecture: Cantilever | |
| The International Style | |
| Holland: De Stijl | |
| Germany: The Bauhaus | |
| France: Le Corbusier | |
| The United States | |
| Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Regionalism, and Abstraction | |
| Dada | |
| Marcel Duchamp | |
| Jean (Hans) Arp | |
| Surrealism | |
| Man Ray | |
| Paul Klee | |
| Salvador Dalí | |
| Joan Miró | |
| René Magritte | |
| Sculpture Derived from Surrealism | |
| Max Ernst | |
| Alberto Giacometti | |
| Henry Moore | |
| Alexander Calder | |
| The United States: Regionalism and Social Realism | |
| Grant Wood | |
| Jacob Lawrence | |
| Edward Hopper | |
| James VanDerZee | |
| Dorothea Lange | |
| Mexico | |
| Diego Rivera | |
| Frida Kahlo | |
| Toward American Abstraction | |
| Alfred Stieglitz | |
| Georgia O’Keeffe | |
| Transcendental Painting | |
| Society and Culture: American Self-Taught Painters | |
| Mid-Century American Abstraction | |
| The Teachers: Hans Hofmann and Josef Albers | |
| Abstract Expressionism | |
| The New York School | |
| Arshile Gorky | |
| Theory: The Avant-Garde | |
| Action Painting | |
| Jackson Pollock | |
| Media and Technique: Navajo Sand Painting | |
| Franz Kline | |
| Willem de Kooning | |
| Mark Rothko | |
| Color Field Painting | |
| Helen Frankenthaler | |
| Media and Technique: Acrylic | |
| Frank Stella | |
| Ellsworth Kelly | |
| West Coast Abstraction: Richard Diebenkorn | |
| Sculpture | |
| Isamu Noguchi | |
| David Smith | |
| Louise Nevelson | |
| Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism | |
| Pop Art in England: Richard Hamilton | |
| Pop Art in the United States | |
| Jasper Johns | |
| Robert Rauschenberg | |
| Andy Warhol | |
| Roy Lichtenstein | |
| Tom Wesselmann | |
| Wayne Thiebaud | |
| Sculpture | |
| Op Art | |
| Minimalism | |
| Donald Judd | |
| Dan Flavin | |
| Agnes Martin | |
| Eva Hesse | |
| Conceptualism: | |
| Joseph Kosuth | |
| Sol Lewitt | |
| Action Sculpture: Joseph Beuys | |
| Continuity, Innovation, and Globalization | |
| Return to Realism | |
| Chuck Close | |
| Richard Estes | |
| Duane Hanson | |
| Ron Mueck and Constantin Brancusi | |
| Performance | |
| Gilbert and George | |
| Laurie Anderson | |
| Architecture | |
| The Geodesic Dome: R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Post-Modern Architecture | |
| Environmental Art | |
| Robert Smithson | |
| Andy Goldsworthy | |
| Christo and Jeanne-Claude | |
| Urban Environment | |
| Society and Culture: Government Funding and Censorship | |
| Installations | |
| Feminist Art | |
| Judy Chicago | |
| Kiki Smith | |
| Elizabeth Murray | |
| Race and Gender | |
| Bob Thompson | |
| Romare Bearden | |
| Kara Walker | |
| Yasumasa Morimura | |
| Plus ça change… | |
| Susan Rothenberg | |
| Anselm Kiefer | |
| Maya Ying Lin | |
| Nancy Graves | |
| Bruce Nauman and Marcel Duchamp | |
| Cindy Sherman | |
| Video Art | |
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