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"Altamira Bison" Discovered in Spain in 1879. Painted on the roof of a cavern in Altair. This marked the beginning of a new awareness regarding Ice Age Europe.

 

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"The Venus of Willendorf". Noteworthy for its depiction of fertility and prosperity.
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"Palace of Sargon II" at Khosabad
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"Palace of Percepolis" in Persia (Iran)
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"Cycladic vase in the shape of a bear holding a bowl" 2500 BC.
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Kamares style jug with a beak for a spout at Phaistos from aproximately 1800 BC. Bronze Age
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"Slate Palette of King Narmer" 3100 BC. Part of the Old Egyptian Kingdom. One of the oldest artifacts from the kingdom.
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"Wood Portrait panel of Hesy-Ra" from Saqqara. 2650 BC
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"Mycernius and his queen" Giza 2500 BC
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"Prince Rahotep and his wife Nofret" Limestone 2610 BC
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"Daughters of Akhenaten" mural from Tel el'Amarna. Akhenaten style.
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"Female Head from Uruk" 3000 to 3500 BC
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"Snake Godess" Part of Minoan civilization but not Minoan. Imported. 1600 BC
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"Palace of Minos" Knossos (labyrinth like remains contributed to the Greek legend of the Minotaur)
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Architectural orders
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"Herakles strangling the Nemean Lion"
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"Dionysus in a boat" 540 BC
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(Thermae) Baths of Caracalla in Rome.
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Temple of Minerva
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Column of Marcus Aurelius from 2nd century. Expressionistic Roman style
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column of Trajan 2nd century
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Barberini ivory piece
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Northumbrian monastery in North Britain. Important during the Byzantine art period.
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Page from one of the Coronation Gospels
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Saint Matthew from the Ebbo Gospels
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Marienburg castle 1274-1280
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Adam and Eve vanished from Paradise by English artist William de Brailes 13th century. Illuminated Manuscript.
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Portrait of Matthew Paris, an English monk responsible for keeping an illustrated chronicle of the history of England.
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Maesta. a two sided panel in Siena Cathedral 1308-1311. One of the largest paintings ever made in Italy. Artist: Duccio Di Buoninsegna
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Adoration of the Magi, 1423, Gentile da Fabriano
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The life of Saint Francis by Giotto di Bondone
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"The Arnolfini marriage" by Jan Van Eyck, inventor of modern oil painting in 1420 (Netherlandish art)
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The Deposition, Rogier Van Der Weyden.
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Garden of Earthly delights by Jerome Bosch. 1505- 1510
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Sacrifice of Isaac by Lorenzo Ghiberti
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the gates of paradise by Lorenzo Ghiberti
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David by Donatello
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Holy Trinity by Masaccio
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Tribute Money by Masaccio
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Federigo and his wife by Pierro della Francesca
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The Birth of Venus by Sandro Boticelli
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Camera Degli Spossi 1474 by Andrea Mantegna
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Sistine Chapel Frescoes by Michelangelo
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Mellancholia by Albrecht Durer
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David with the head of Goliath by Caravaggio. Chiaroscuro technique. Barroque period. 17th century.
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Doric temple at Hagley Park, Worcesteshire, England. 1759 by James Stuart. Part of the Classic Revival era after Barroque and Roccoco art. (Neoclassicism)
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Leonidas at Thermopylae by Jacques-Lous David.
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Lithograph by Honore' Daumier
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Albrecht Durer
John White
Thomas Girtin
William Blake
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Water color painters
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French painter who identified with the Impressionist movement of 19th century.Painted "Luncheon at the Boating Party" in 1881.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Unequivocal master and promoter of the impressionist movement.
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Claude Monet
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American painter who sketched the life of soldiers during the Civil War.
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Winslow Homer
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Cezanne
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Post-impressionist artists
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Yelow Christ by Paul Gauguin
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Crows flying over a Cornfield by Vincent Van Gogh
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Henry Matisse
Albert Marquet
Raoul Dufy
Othon Friesz
Andre Derain
Vlaminck
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Artists who were part of the Expressionist style of painting.
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Pablo Picasso
Georges Braque
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Artists of the Cubist period
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Also known as nonrepresentational or nonobjective art. Lack of specific references to natural objects and situations.
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Abstract art
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Style of nonrepresentational painting that combines expressionist emotional value and abstract form. Jackson Pollock practiced this form of art.
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Abstract Expressionism
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Merzbau by Kurt Schwiters. Dada Art.
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Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
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Example of Psychedelic Art. It is done under the influence of drugs or inspired by the colors and shapes a person under the influence might see.
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Blue Flowers by Georgia O'Keeffe. She was known for making paintings of flowers, which were erotic, symbolical, and psychological.
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American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright is considered one of the greatest American architects of all time.
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Term used to describe art that is relatively primitive in appearance or that has been executed with obvious cues of naivety.
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Modern primitives/Popular Masters
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The earliest period in African Art, which mostly represented hunting.Marked by engravings of animals.
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Babalus Period
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Nok Terracotta African sculpture Aprox 4500 BC
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Buddha at Anuradhapura, 6 or 7th century AD
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First Dynasty in China
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Shang Dynasty
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