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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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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson
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1954 - 1958
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New York, New York, US
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International Style
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Steel frame with glass curtain wall and bronze
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Seagram Building
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Owie Kimou
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c. 1875 - 1925
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Ivory Coast
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Baule
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Wood, fiber, pigment, and metal
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Portrait Mask (Mblo)
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––
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c. 1000 - 1400
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Southeastern Zimbabwe
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Shona
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Coursed granite blocks
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Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe
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––
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c. 2550 - 1600 BCE
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England
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Neolithic
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Sandstone
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Stonehenge
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––
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600 BCE - 150 CE
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Athens, Greece
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Greek
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Plan
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Athenian agora
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––
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c. 480 - 470 BCE
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Tarquinia, Italy
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Etruscan
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Tufa and fresco
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Tomb of the Triclinium
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––
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1539 - 1540
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Ardabil, Iran
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Safavid (Islamic)
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Wool, silk, dye
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Ardabil carpet
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Pablo Picasso
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1907
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Paris, France
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Cubism
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Oil on canvas
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
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––
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c. 700
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Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt
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Early Byzantine
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Encaustic on wood
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Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Thedore and George
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––
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c. 1620
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Kyoto, Japan
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Mughal Empire
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Rock garden
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Ryoan-ji
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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
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1790
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Rome, Italy
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Rococo
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Oil on canvas
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Self-Portrait
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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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––
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c. 725
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Chiapas, Mexico
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Mayan
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Limestone
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Yaxchilàn
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––
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c. 1825 - 1975
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Deomcratic Republic of the Congo
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Mbudye Society of the Luba peoples
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Woods, beads, and metal
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Lukasa (memory board)
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––
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c. 1825 - 1975
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Southern Cameroon
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Fang
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Wood
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Reliquary figure (byeri)
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––
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1354 - 1391
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Granada, Spain
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Nasrid-Moorish (Islamic)
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Whitewashed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gilding
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Alhambra
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––
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c. 968
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Near Córdoba, Spain
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Umayyad (Islamic)
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Ivory
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Pyxis of al-Mughira
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Ustad Ahmad Lahori
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1632 - 1653
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Agra, India
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Mughal Empire
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Stone masonry and marble with inlay of precious and semiprecious stones; gardens
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Taj Mahal
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––
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c. 1775
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Hawaii
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Hawaiian
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Feathers and fiber
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Ahu 'ula (feather cape)
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––
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c. 1550
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Benin
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Edo
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Cast brass
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Wall plaque, from Oba's palace
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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1429 - 1461
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Florence, Italy
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Renaissance
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Masonry
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Pazzi Chapel
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
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1840
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London, England
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Romanticism
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Oil on canvas
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Slave Ship
|
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––
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c. 1300 - 1325
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Bonn, Germany
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Gothic
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Painted wood
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Röttgen Pietà
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––
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c. 1500 BCE
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Papua New Guinea
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Neolithic
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Greywacke Stone
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The Ambum Stone
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Miguel González
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c. 1698
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Viceroyalty of New Spain
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Baroque
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Oil on canvas on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl
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The Virgin of Guadalupe
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Leon Battista Alberti
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c. 1450
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Florence, Italy
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Renaissance
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Stone, masonry
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Palazzo Rucellai
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––
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c. 1725 - 1875
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Nukuoru
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Micronesian
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Wood
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Female Deity
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––
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300 BCE - 100 CE
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Sanchi, India
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Late Sunga and Mauyra Dynasty (Buddhist)
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Stone masonry, sandstone on dome
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Great Stupa at Sanchi
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Édouard Manet
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1863
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Paris, France
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Realism
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Oil on canvas
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Olympia
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Raphael
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1509 - 1511
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Vatican City, Italy
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High Renaissance
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Fresco
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School of Athens
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