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    409 Individual Titles
    • Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting
    • Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m.
    • Albrecht Altdorfer, The Battle of Issus
    • Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait
    • Albrecht Durer, The Four Apostles
    • Albrecht Durer, The Large Piece of Turf
    • Alexander Sarcophagus, The
    • Alexandre Hogue, Crucified Land
    • Alexej von Jawlensky, Young Girl in a Flowered Hat
    • Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage
    • Altar of Augustan Peace
    • Ambrogio Lorenzetti, The Allegory of Good and Bad Government
    • Amy Sherald, Precious Jewels by the Sea
    • Ancient Greek Temples at Paestum
    • Andrea Pozzo, Glorification of Saint Ignatius
    • Andy Warhol, Cambell’s Soup Cans: Why is this Art?
    • Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe
    • Annibale Carracci, Crucifixion and Lamentation
    • Anthony Van Dyck, Charles I at the Hunt
    • Antoni Gaudi, Church of the Sagrada Familia
    • Arch of Constantine
    • Armando Garcia Menocal, Campesino y Soldado Espanol (Peasant and Spanish Soldier)
    • Arpilleristas
    • Art & Context
    • Art Historical Analysis: A Basic Introduction Using Goya’s Third of May, 1808
    • Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Holofernes (Judith Slaying Holofernes)
    • Artemision Zeus or Poseidon
    • Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits
    • Athenian Agora and the Experiment in Democracy, The
    • Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell
    • Augustus of Primaporta
    • Aztec Feathered Headdress
    • Aztec Sun Stone (Calendar Stone)
    • Barnett Newman, Onement I
    • Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis
    • Basilica of Constantine, Rome
    • Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna
    • Beauford Delaney, Marian Anderson
    • Ben Shahn, Contemporary American Sculpture
    • Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast Peoples
    • Benvenuto Cellini, Perseus with the Head of Medusa
    • Berthe Morisot, The Mother and Sister of the Artist
    • Black Obelisk, The
    • Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Saint Francis Altarpiece
    • Book of Kells, The
    • Brief History of the Representation of the Body in Western Painting, A
    • Brief History of the Representation of the Body in Western Sculpture, A
    • Bronze Casting
    • Bronzino & the Mannerist Portrait
    • Brummett Echohawk, An Island of Redbuds on the Cimarron
    • Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi Fo)
    • Burnham & Root, Monadnock Building
    • Caryatid & Ionic Column, Erechtheion
    • Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey Among Oak Trees
    • Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea
    • Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres (Part 1)
    • Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres (Part 2)
    • Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres (Part 3)
    • Celebrity & Art: Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
    • Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin, Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)
    • Charles Garnier, Paris Opera House
    • Charles Sebree, The Mystic
    • Charles Willson Peale, Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale)
    • Chief Johnson Totem Pole, The
    • Childe Hassam, Allies Day, May 1917
    • Childe Hassam, Horticulture Building, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago
    • Church of Il Gesu, Rome, and Triumph in the Name of Jesus
    • Cimabue, Santa Trinita Madonna, and Giotto, Ognissanti Madonna
    • Classical Orders, The
    • Claude Monet, Cliff Walk at Pourville
    • Claude Monet, Gare St. Lazare
    • Claude Monet, Poplars
    • Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series
    • Claude Monet, The Argenteuil Bridge
    • Claude Monet, The Water Lilies
    • Cleopatra’s Needle, New York City
    • Coatlicue
    • Codex Canadensis
    • Colosseum, The
    • Colossus of Constantine
    • Column of Trajan, Rome
    • Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space
    • Court of Kayumars, The: Part 1
    • Court of Kayumars, The: Part 2
    • Damascus Room
    • Damien Hirst’s Shark: Interpreting Contemporary Art
    • Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas
    • Diego Velazquez, The Drunks (Los Borrachos)
    • Diego Velazquez, Vulcan’s Forge
    • Digging Through Time
    • Donald Judd, Untitled
    • Donatello, David
    • Eastman Johnson, A Ride for Liberty - The Fugitive Slaves
    • Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Useful Art #5: The Western Hotel
    • Edgar Degas, At the Races in the Countryside
    • Edgar Degas, The Bellelli Family
    • Edgar Degas, The Dance Class
    • Edgar Degas, Visit to a Museum
    • Edgar Degas, Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub
    • Edmonia Lewis, The Old Arrow Maker
    • Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
    • Edouard Manet, Corner of a Cafe-Concert
    • Edouard Manet, Emile Zola
    • Edouard Manet, In the Conservatory
    • Edouard Manet, The Balcony
    • Edouard Manet, The Railway
    • Edvard Munch, The Storm
    • Edward Hopper, Nighthawks
    • El Greco, Adoration of the Shepherds
    • Eldzier Cortor, Southern Landscape
    • Elsie Driggs, Blast Furnaces
    • Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware
    • Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius
    • Erechtheion, The
    • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden
    • Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
    • Eugene Delacroix, Scene of the Massacre at Chios
    • Eugene Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus
    • Eva Hesse, Untitled (1966)
    • Eva Hesse, Untitled (1970)
    • Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (L.A.)
    • Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome of the Cathedral of Florence
    • Fra Angelico, The Annunciation
    • Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with Two Angels
    • Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV
    • Francisco Oller, President William McKinley
    • Francisco Oller, Still Life with Plantains & Bananas and Still Life with Coconuts
    • Francois Boucher, Madame de Pompadour
    • Frank Lloyd Wright, Bachman-Wilson House
    • Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
    • Frederic Church, The Natural Bridge, Virginia
    • Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi
    • Frida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego Rivera
    • Futurism
    • George Bellows, Pennsylvania Station
    • George Bellows, Pennsylvania Station Excavation
    • George Bellows, Return of the Useless
    • George Benjamin Luks, Street Scene (Hester Street)
    • George Inness, The Lackawanna Valley
    • George Tooker, Highway
    • Georges Braque, The Viaduct at L’Estaque
    • Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte
    • Georges Seurat, Bathers at Asnieres
    • Georgia O’Keeffe, Radiator Building - Night, New York
    • Georgia O’Keeffe, The Lawrence Tree
    • Gerardus Duyckinck I, Six Portraits of the Levy-Franks Family
    • Gerhard Richter, Betty
    • Giorgio Morandi, Still Life
    • Giorgione, The Tempest
    • Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, (Part 1)
    • Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, (Part 2)
    • Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, (Part 3)
    • Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, (Part 4)
    • Giovanni Bernini, Bust of Medusa
    • Giovanni Bernini, David
    • Giovanni Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Teresa
    • Giovanni Bernini, Sant’Andrea al Quirinale
    • Golden Stool (Sika Dwa Kofi)
    • Gothic Architecture Explained
    • Grant Wood, American Gothic
    • Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze
    • Gustav Klimt, Death and Life
    • Gustav Klimt, The Kiss
    • Hagia Sophia as a Mosque
    • Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
    • Haida Totem Pole, 19th Century, Old Kasaan, Alaska
    • Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife
    • Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Henry VIII
    • Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors
    • Harry Fonseca, Two Coyotes with Flags
    • Head of Augustus
    • Hector Guimard, City Entrance, Paris Metropolitain
    • Hedda Sterne, Number 3-1957
    • Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris
    • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
    • Henri Matisse, Luxe, Calme et Volupte
    • Henri Matisse, The Piano Lesson
    • Henri Matisse, The Red Studio
    • Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Good Shepherd
    • Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Thankful Poor
    • Horace Pippin, Holy Mountain, I
    • House Altar Depicting Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Three Daughters
    • How One-Point Linear Perspective Works
    • Icon with the Virgin and Child, Saints, Angels, and the Hand of God
    • Images and Power: Francisco Goya’s Third of May, 1808
    • Institutional Critique: Hans Haacke’s Seurat’s Les Poseuses (Small Version), 1884-1975
    • Introduction to Medieval Scripts, An
    • Introduction to the Protestant Reformation, Part 1: Setting the Stage
    • Introduction to the Protestant Reformation, Part 2: Martin Luther
    • Introduction to the Protestant Reformation, Part 3: Varieties of Protestantism
    • Introduction to the Protestant Reformation, Part 4: The Counter-Reformation
    • Jackie Winsor, #1 Rope
    • Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950
    • Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series
    • Jacopo Tintoretto, The Last Supper
    • Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat
    • Jacques-Louis David, The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
    • Jacques-Louis David, The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
    • Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii
    • James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket
    • Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece
    • Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife
    • Jan van Eyck, The Madonna in the Church
    • Jasper Francis Cropsey, Mount Jefferson, Pinkham Notch, White Mountains
    • Jasper Johns, Flag
    • Jean (Hans) Arp, Untitled
    • Jean Courbet, A Burial at Ornans
    • Jean Courbet, The Artist’s Studio
    • Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington
    • Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners
    • Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Progress of Love: The Meeting
    • Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing
    • Joan Mitchell, City Landscape
    • Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring
    • Johannes Vermeer, The Art of Painting
    • Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
    • John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
    • John Constable, The Hay Wain
    • John Everett Millais, Christ in the House of His Parents
    • John Everett Millais, Ophelia
    • John James Audubon, The Wild Turkey
    • John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
    • John Singleton Copley, A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham)
    • John Wesley Jarvis, Black Hawk and His Son Whirling Thunder
    • Jonas Lie, The Conquerors (Culebra Cut, Panama Canal)
    • Jose Maria Velasco, The Valley of Mexico from the Santa Isabel Mountain Range
    • Joseph Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed: The Great Western Railway
    • Joseph Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)
    • Joshua Reynolds, Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons
    • Judgement in the Presence of Osiris, Book of the Dead
    • Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait
    • Kayapo Headdress
    • Kunz Axe
    • Kurt Schwitters, Merzbild 32A, The Cherry Picture
    • Language of Representation, The: Pablo Picasso’s Guitar
    • Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Climbing the Mast
    • Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Composition A.XX
    • Lateran Obelisk, Rome
    • Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi
    • Leonardo da Vinci’s Letter to the Duke of Milan
    • Leonardo da Vinci, Adoration of the Magi
    • Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper
    • Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin of the Rocks
    • Lilly Martin Spencer, The Home of the Red, White, and Blue
    • Linear Perspective: Filippo Brunelleschi’s Experiement
    • Louis Sullivan, Bayard-Condict Building
    • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson, Seagram Building, New York City
    • Luis Alfonso Jimenez, Eagle
    • Lyonel Feininger, Cathedral for Program of the State Bauhaus in Weimar
    • Manuel Cuyas Agullo, El Desembarque de Los Americanos en Ponce (Americans Disembarking in Ponce)
    • Marcel Duchamp’s Shovel: Art as Concept
    • Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
    • Marcel Duchamp, The Red Box (Boite-en-Valise), Series F
    • Marilyn Spoon, Bandolier Bag
    • Mark Rothko, No. 3/No. 13
    • Mary Cassatt, In the Loge
    • Mary Cassatt, The Child’s Bath
    • Mary Cassatt, The Loge
    • Mary Cassatt, Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge
    • Masaccio, Holy Trinity
    • Mask of Agamemnon, Mycenae
    • Maya Lin, Ghost Forest
    • Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
    • Medieval Textbook, A
    • Michelangelo Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew
    • Michelangelo Caravaggio, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
    • Michelangelo Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus
    • Michelangelo’s Early Work
    • Michelangelo, David
    • Michelangelo, Last Judgment
    • Michelangelo, Laurentian Library
    • Michelangelo, Pieta
    • Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling
    • Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York City
    • Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and Large Kneeling Statue, New Kingdom, Egypt
    • Myron of Eleutherae, Discobolus (Discus Thrower)
    • National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, Alabama
    • Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with St. John and Rape of the Sabines
    • Nike Adjusting Her Sandal
    • Norman Lewis, Untitled
    • Norman Lewis, Untitled (Subway Station)
    • Ogata Korin, Red and White Plum Blossoms
    • Oil Paint in Venice
    • Otto Dix, Portrait of Sylvia von Harden
    • Oyster Man Totem Pole
    • Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
    • Pablo Picasso, Still-Life with Chair Caning
    • Palace and Grave, Mycenae
    • Pantheon, The
    • Paukeigope (Kiowa), Cradleboard
    • Paul Cezanne, Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses)
    • Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Apples
    • Paul Cezanne, The Large Bathers
    • Paul Cezanne, The Red Rock
    • Paul Gauguin, The Red Cow
    • Paul Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon, or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
    • Paul Klee, Twittering Machine
    • Paul Troost, House of (German) Art
    • Pazzi Chapel, Florence
    • Pepon Osorio, En La Barberia No Se Llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop)
    • Peter Frederick Rothermel, De Soto Raising the Cross on the Banks of the Mississippi
    • Peter Paul Rubens, Arrival (or Disembarkation) of Marie de Medici at Marseilles
    • Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of the Cross
    • Peter Paul Rubens, The Consequences of War
    • Peter Paul Rubens, The Presentation of the Portrait of Marie de Medici
    • Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Loge
    • Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Moulin de la Galette
    • Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Great Boulevards
    • Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Large Bathers
    • Piet Mondrian, Composition No. II, with Red and Blue
    • Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (Winter)
    • Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peasant Wedding
    • Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel
    • Pietro Cavallini, The Last Judgement
    • Pyramid of the Moon and Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan
    • Quarrying and Carving Marble
    • Rachel Ruysch, Fruit and Insects
    • Rafael Tufino, Goyita
    • Rafael Tufino, La Plena
    • Ramesses II, Egypt
    • Raphael, Alba Madonna
    • Raphael, Galatea
    • Raphael, Portrait of Pope Julius II
    • Raphael, The School of Athens and the Disputa
    • Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Horse
    • Relief from the Arch of Titus
    • Rembrandt Peale, Rubens Peale with a Geranium
    • Rembrandt, Self-Portraits
    • Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
    • Rembrandt, The Night Watch
    • Rene Magritte, The Treachery of Images (Ceci N’est Pas une Pipe)
    • Representation & Abstraction: Looking at Millais and Newman
    • Richard Redgrave, The Sempstress
    • Richard Zane Smith, Wyandotte Feast Pot
    • Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 57
    • Robert Rauschenberg, Bed
    • Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
    • Rogier van der Weyden, The Last Judgment
    • Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians
    • Rosa Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais
    • Rosa Bonheur, Sheep in the Highlands
    • Rosa Rolanda, Self-Portrait
    • Rosetta Stone
    • Roy Lichtenstein, Rouen Cathedral Set V
    • Rufino Tamayo, Perro Aullando a La Luna (Dog Howling at the Moon)
    • Saint Mark’s Basilica, Venice
    • Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City
    • Salvador Dali, Metamorphosis of Narcissus
    • Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory
    • Samuel Colman, Jr., Ships Unloading, New York
    • San Vitale Basilica, Ravenna
    • Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera (Allegory of Spring)
    • Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus
    • Sienese Art: Duccio, Simone Martini and Ambrogio Lorenzetti
    • Sir Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Syacust Ukah
    • Skill of Describing, The
    • Spatula, Taino Culture
    • Standard of Ur
    • Stefanie Jackson, Bluest Eye
    • Stephen Mopope, Game of Skill
    • Stories Totem Poles Tell, The
    • Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
    • Tempera Paint
    • Temple of Portunus, Rome
    • Theodore Gericault, Raft of the Medusa
    • Thomas Birch, Fairmount Water Works
    • Thomas Birch, Perry’s Victory on Lake Erie
    • Thomas Cole, The Oxbow
    • Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life
    • Thomas Couture, Romans of the Decadence
    • Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
    • Thutmose, Bust of Nefertiti
    • Tintoretto, The Finding of the Body of Saint Mark
    • Tintoretto, The Miracle of the Slave
    • Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne
    • Titian, Madonna of the Pesaro Family
    • Titian, Pieta
    • Tlingit Mortuary and Memorial Poles: An Introduction
    • Toshiko Takaezu, Crater Moon
    • Tour of Hadrian’s Villa, A
    • Tour Through Ancient Rome in 320 C.E., A
    • Trajan’s Forum
    • Umbo (Otto Umbehr), The Roving Reporter
    • Unicorn in Captivity, The
    • Vasily Kandinsky, Improvisation 28 (Second Version)
    • Velino Shije Herrera (Ma Pe Wi), Design, Tree and Birds
    • Vertis Hayes, Juke Joint
    • Vessel with Parrots and an Effigy Vessel from Paquime, Mexico
    • Vincent van Gogh, Irises
    • Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Joseph Roulin
    • Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin
    • Vincent van Gogh, The Bedroom
    • Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night
    • Walter Ufer, Hunger
    • Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII
    • Why Is that Important?: Looking at Jackson Pollock
    • Why Look at Art?
    • Willard Metcalf, Havana Harbor
    • William Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent
    • William F. Cogswell, Queen Lili’uokalani, and Maria Kealaulaokalani Lane Ena, ’Ahu ’ula (The Kalakaua Cape)
    • William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode
    • William Holman Hunt, Our English Coasts (Strayed Sheep)
    • William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience
    • Winslow Homer, Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba
    • Winslow Homer, Taking Sunflower to Teacher
    • Winslow Homer, The Fog Warning (Halibut Fishing)
    • Winslow Homer, The Life Line
    • Woodcuts and Etchings
    • Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Little Joe with Cow