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Artist
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Date
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Location
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Culture / Style
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Material
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Artwork
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Bichitr
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1632 - 1653
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India
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Mughal Empire
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Watercolor, gold, and ink on paper
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Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
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––
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c. 400 - 800
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Bamyan, Afghanistan
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Bamiyan
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Cut rock with plaster, pigment
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Buddha Bamiyan
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Wilfredo Lam
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1943
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Cuba
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Surrealism
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Gouache on paper mounted on canvas
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The Jungle
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––
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c. 600 - 650
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Jokhang Temple, Lhasa, Tibet
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Tibetan
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Gilt metals with semiprecious stones, pearls, and paint and various offerings
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Jowo Rinpoche
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Iktinos and Kallikrates
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c. 447 - 410 BCE
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Athens, Greece
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Classical Greek
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Marble
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Acropolis
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––
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c. 700
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Holy Island (Lindisfarne), England
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Hiberno-Saxon; Early medieval Europe
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Illuminated manuscript (ink, pigments, and gold on vellum)
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Lindisfarne Gospels
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––
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c. 1440
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Cusco, Peru
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Inca
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Stone; mud bricks, mortar; thatch, wood
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City of Cusco, including Qorikancha
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––
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c. 800 - 1400
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Angkor Thom, Cambodia
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Angkor Dynasty (Hindu)
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Stone masonry, sandstone
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Angkor Wat
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Vincent van Gogh
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1889
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Arles, France
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Post-Impressionism
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Oil on canvas
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The Starry Night
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––
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c. 1050
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Tamil Nadu, India
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Chola Dynasty (Hindu)
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Cast bronze
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Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)
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––
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c. 1353 - 1335 BCE
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––
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New Kigndom (Amarna) Egyptian
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Limestone
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Akhenton, Nefertiti, and three daughters
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Gottfried Lindauer
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1890
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New Zealand
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Bohemia, Austrian Empire (artist); Maori (subject and patrons)
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Oil on canvas
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Tamati Waka Nene
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––
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c. 530 BCE
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Acropolis, Athens, Greece
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Archaic Greek
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Marble, painted details
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Peplos Kore
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––
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c. 1200; rebuilt 1907-1907
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Djenné, Mali
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Malian; Sudano-Sahelian architecture
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Adobe
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Great Mosque of Djenné
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Giacomo da Vignola (plan), Giacomo della Porta (architect), Giovanni Vattista Gaulli
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Facade 1568 - 1584; fresco and stucco figures 1676 - 1679
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Rome, Italy
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High Mannerism and Baroque
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Brick, marble, fresco, and stucco
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Il Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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1636
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Baroque
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Etching
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Self-Portrait with Saskia
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––
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c. 500
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Byzantine
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Early Byzantine
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Illuminated manuscript (tempara, gold, and silver on purple vellum)
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Vienna Genesis
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Eadweard Muybridge
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1878
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California, US
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Realism
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Albumen print
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The Horse in Motion
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Robert Venturi, John Rauch, and Denise Scott Brown
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1978 - 1983
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Delaware, US
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Post-Modernism
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Wood frame and stucco
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House in New Castle Country
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Robert Smithson
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1970
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Great Salt Lake, Utah, US
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Site Art
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Earthwork (mud, precipitated salt crystals, rocks, and water coil)
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Spiral Jetty
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––
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c. 526 - 547
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Ravenna, Italy
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Early Byzantine
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Brick, marble, and stone veneer; mosaic
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San Vitale
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––
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c. 1792 - 1750 BCE
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Susian, Iran
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Babylon
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Basalt
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The Code of Hammurabi
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Vassily Kandinsky
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1912
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Berlin, Germany
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German Expressionism
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Oil on canvas
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Improvisation 28 (second version)
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––
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c. 1875
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Northwest coast of Canada
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Kwakwaka'wakw
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Wood, paint, and string
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Transformation mask
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––
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c. 1969
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China
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Chinese Communist Party
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Color lithograph
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Chairman Mao en route to Anyuan
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Sandro Botticelli
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c. 1484 - 1486
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Florence, Italy
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Renaissance
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Tempera on canvas
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Birth of Venus
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Fan Kuan
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c. 1000
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Japan
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Heian period
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Ink and colors on silk
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Travelers among Mountains and Streams
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––
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c. 550
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France
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Merovingian; Early medieval Europe
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Silver gilt worked in filigree, with inlays of garnets and other stones
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Merovingian looped fibulae
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––
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c. 2620 - 2500 BCE
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Saqqara, Egypt
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Fourth Dynasty Egyptian
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Painted limestone
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Seated scribe
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Apollodorus of Damascus
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106 - 113
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Rome, Italy
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Roman
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Brick and concrete; marble column
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Forum of Trajan
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