Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
Unknown
Early Christian/Byzantine
504 AD
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Colosseum
Unknown
Roman
c. 80 AD
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Back
Ambulatory
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Back
Apoyomenos (The Scraper)
Lysippos
Classical Style (Greek)
c. 330 BC
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Venus of Willendorf
Unknown
Prehistoric
c. 25000-20000 BC
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Doric Order
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Clerestory
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High windows above eye level, intended to illumination and ventilation
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Statue of Augustus
Unknown
Roman
c. 20 BC
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Parthenon
Iktinos and Kallikrates (Pericles)
Classical Style (Greek)
447-438 BC
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Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
Unknown
Near East
c. 2250 BC
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Catacomb
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Human-made subterranean passageways which serve various religious purposes, mainly burial.
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Apse
Front
A semicircular recess covered by a hemispherical dome; In Christian architecture, refers the circular termination of the main building at the east side.
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Hagia Sophia (interior)
Anthemius and Isidorus
Byzantine
532-537 AD
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Corbeled Arch
Front
Courses of stone or brick in which each course projects beyond the wall beneath. Two such walls, meeting at the topmost course, create a corbeled arch.
Back
Transept
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Transverse section of building or structure, often present as the horizontal bar of the Christian cross in religious structures.
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Barrel and Groin Vaults
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Peplos Kore
Unknown
Archaic Style (Greek)
c. 600 BC
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Dying Lioness
Unknown
Near East
c. 650 BC
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Assyrian Lamassu
Unknown
Near East
c. 720 BC
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Stepped Pyramid of Djoser
Imhotep
Egyptian
c. 2600 BC
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Caryatid
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Hagia Sophia (exterior)
Anthemius and Isidorus
Byzantine
532-537 AD
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Bust of Nefertiti
Unknown
Amarna Style (Egyptian)
c. 1360 BC
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Apulu (Apollo) Statue
Unknown
Etruscan
c. 500 BC
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Kritios Boy
Unknown
Classical Style (Greek)
c. 480 BC
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Pantheon (Rome)
Unknown
Roman
118-125 AD
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Trajan's Collumn
Unknown
Roman
112 AD
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Riace Warriors
Unknown
Classical Style (Greek)
c. 460 BC
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Seated Scribe
Unknown
Egyptian
c. 2400 BC
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New York Kouros
Unknown
Archaic Style (Greek)
c. 600 BC
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Barberini Ivory
Unknown
Byzantine
c. 550 AD
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Doryphoros
Polykleitos
Classical Style (Greek)
c. 450 BC
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Bull-leaping Fresco
Unknown
Minoan (Crete)
c. 1400 BC
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Battle of Issus (Alexander Mosaic)
Philoxenos
Classical Style (Greek)
c. 310 BC
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Arch of Titus
Unknown
Roman
81 AD
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Seated Boxer
Unknown
Hellenistic
c. 100-50 BC
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Standard of Ur
Unknown
Near East
c. 2600 BC
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Acchilles and Ajax Playing Dice Game
Exekias
Black Figure Vase (Archaic Greek)
c. 540 BC
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Old Saint Peter's Basilica
Unknown
Early Christian
c. 320 AD
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Aqueduct
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Back
Portraits of the Tetrarchs
Unknown
Roman
305 AD
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Capitoline Wolf
Unknown (addition by Pallaiuolo)
Etruscan
c. 500-480 BC
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Stone Henge
Unknown
Prehistoric
c. 2550-1600 BC
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Ancient Near East Timeline
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Sumerian Art c. 3500-2332 BCE
Akkadian Art c. 2332-2150
Neo-Sumerian and Babylonian Art c. 2150-1600 BCE
Assyrian Art c. 900-612 BCE
Neo-Babylonian and Persian Art c. 612-300 BCE
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Laocoon
Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros
Hellenistic
c. 310 BC
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Portrait of Constantine
Unknown
Roman
315-330 AD
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Oculus
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Back
Ionic Order
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Lion's Gate
Unknown
Mycenaean
c. 1300 BC
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Palette of Narmer
Unknown
Egyptian
c. 3100 BC
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Section 2
(50 cards)
Sistine Chapel (ceiling)
Michelangelo
High Renaissance
1508-1512
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Last Judgement
Michelangelo
High Renaissance
1534-1541
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Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride
Jan Van Eyck
Flemish
1434
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Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
Unknown
Islamic
687-692 AD
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Ribbed Vault
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Back
Annunciation
Fra Angelico
Early/Mid Renaissance
1440-1445
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Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne
Titian
Venetian Renaissance
1522-1523
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David
Michelangelo
High Renaissance
1501-1504
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Taj Majal, Agra
Unknown (Sha Jahan)
Islamic
1632-1647
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Tempietto
Bramante
High Renaissance
1502
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Saint-Etienne Cathedral, Caen
Unknown
Romanesque
c. 1115-1120
Nude Descending a Staircase #2
Marcel Duchamp
Cubism/Futurism
1912
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The Thinker (from "Gates of Hell" project)
Rodin
Modern Sculture
1902
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Count Ugolino and His Sons
Carpeaux
Modern Sculpture
1865-1867
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Vision After the Sermon
Gauguin
Post-Impressionism
1888
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Street, Dresden
Ernst Kirchner
Die Brucke
1908
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The Thankful Poor
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Realism
1894
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Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Balla
Futurism
1912
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Boccioni
Futurism
1913
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3rd Class Carriage
Honore Daumier
Realism
1862
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The Kiss
Gustave Klimt
Art Nouveau
1907-1908
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The Scream
Edvard Munch
Symbolism/Modern
1893
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Rouen Cathedral
Monet
Impressionism
1894
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Back
Great Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushuka Hokusai
Japanese Woodcut
1826-1833
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Worker and the Collective Farm Worker
Vera Mukhina
Constructivism
1937
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Back
A Sunday on la Grande Jatte
Seurat
Post-Impressionism (Pointilism)
1884-1886
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Back
The Gross Clinic
Thomas Eakins
Realism
1875
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Back
Ophelia
Millais
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
1852
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Back
Olympia
Manet
Realism
1863
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Back
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur
Realism
1853-1855
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Back
Burial at Ornans
Gustave Courbet
Realism
1849
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Back
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Cezanne
Post-Impressionism
1902-1904
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Back
Guernica
Picasso
1937
Cubism
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Back
Paris: A Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebotte
Impressionism
1877
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Royal Pavilion
John Nash
Islamic/Gothic Birtish Architecture
1815-1818
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Three Musicians
Picasso
Synthetic Cubism
1921
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Blessed art thou among women
Gertrude Kasebier
Photography
1899
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Sleeping Gypsy
Henry Rousseau
Symbolism
1897
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Fountain
Marcel Duchamp
Ready-made/Dada
1950
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Rue Transnonain
Honore Daumier
Realism
1834
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The Portugeuse
Georges Braque
Analytic Cubism
1911
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Nocturne in Black and Gold (Falling Rocket)
Whistler
Post-Impressionism
1875
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Woman with the Hat
Matisse
Fauvism
1905
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Night
Max Backmann
New Objectivity
1918-1919
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Section 5
(42 cards)
Lavender Mist
Pollack
Abstract Expressionism
1950
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Bayside
Helen Frankenthaler
Post-Painterly Abstraction
1967
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The Migration of the Negro
Jacob Lawrence
Cubism?
1940-1
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Chrysler Building (NY City)
William van Allen
Art Deco
1928-1930
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Back
War Monument
Ernst Barlach
Postwar/Dada?
1927
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Back
Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemina?
Faith Ringgold
Feminism
1983
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Man Pointing
Alberto Giacometti
Existentialism
1947
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Double Flute Player from Tomb of Leopards
Unknown
Etruscan
480-470 BCE
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Back
Arrival of Marie de' Medici
Rubens
Flemish Baroque
1622-5
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Migrant Mother
Dorothea Lange
Photograph
1935
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Flag
Jasper Johns
Pop Art
1954-5
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Back
The Steerage
Alfred Stieglitz
Photograph
1907
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Back
Christ as Pantokrator from Dome of Church of Dormitian, Greece
Unknown
Byzantine
1090-1110 CE
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Back
Just what is it that makes today's homes...
Richard Hamilton
Pop Art
1956
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Falling Water
Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic Architecture?
1936-9
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Back
Vietnam Veterans' Memorial
Maya Ying Lin
Minimalism
1981-3
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Improvisation 28
Vassily Kandinsky
Blue Rider 1912
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Back
Marilyn Diptych
Andy Warhol
Pop Art
1962
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Back
Seagram Building
Mies vander Rohe and Phillip Johnson
1956-8
Modernism
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Back
Marilyn
Audrey Flack
Superrealism
1977
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Back
The Perfidy of Images
Rene Magritte
Surrealism
1928-9
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Back
American Gothic
Grant Wood
Regionalism
1930
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Back
Ara Pacis
Unknown
Rome
13-9 BCE
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...
Back
Abstract
Front
Simplified or distorted from reality
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The Persistence of Memory
Salvidor Dali
Surrealism
1931
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Back
Canyon
Robert Rauschenberg
Assemblage/Pop Art
1959
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Back
Merode Altarpiece
Robert Champin (Master of Flemalle)
N. Renaissance
1425-8
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Back
Nighthawks
Edward Hopper
Modern
1942
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Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow
Piet Mondrian
De Stijl
1930
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Robie House
Frank Lloyd Wright
Prarie Style
1907-1909
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Back
Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)
Frank Gehry
Postmodernism
1997
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Bird in Space
Brancusi
Organic Sculpture
1928
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Back
Woman I
Kooning
Chromatic Expressionism
1950-2
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Piers and Spandrals
Front
Roman Architecture
Reinforces walls, structures, strengthens
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cubiculum
Front
A small cubicle or bedroom that opened onto the atrium of a Roman house. Also, a chamber in an Early Christian catacomb that served as a mortuary chapel
Bedroom
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Untitled
Donald Judd
Minimalism
1969
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Back
Arrangement in Gray and Black #1
(aka "Whistler's Mother")
Whistler
Modern
1872
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Back
The Dinner Party
Judy Chicago
Feminism
1979
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Vir Heroicus Sublimus
Barnett Newman
Chromatic Expressionism
1950-1
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Back
Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson
Environmental Art
1970
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The Song of Love
Girogio de Cirico
Surrealism
1914
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Fresco
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a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster