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Unit: Early Europe and Colonial Americas: 200-1750 C.E.

Medieval art in Europe

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Introduction to the middle ages
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Christianity, an introduction for the study of art history
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Architecture and liturgy
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The life of Christ in medieval and Renaissance art
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A New Pictorial Language: The Image in Early Medieval Art
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Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome
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Basilica of Santa Sabina, Rome
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Santa Sabina
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Jacob wrestling the angel, Vienna Genesis
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Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, Vienna Genesis
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A beginner's guide to Byzantine Art
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San Vitale, Ravenna
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Justinian Mosaic, San Vitale
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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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Theotokos mosaic, apse, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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Hagia Sophia as a mosque
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Fibulae
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Deësis mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
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The Lindisfarne Gospels
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The Lindisfarne Gospels
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The Bayeux Tapestry
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The Bayeux Tapestry - Seven Ages of Britain - BBC One
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Church and Reliquary of Sainte‐Foy, France
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Chartres Cathedral
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Bible moralisée (moralized bibles)
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Saint Louis Bible (moralized bible)
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The Golden Haggadah
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Röttgen Pietà
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Röttgen Pietà
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Giotto, Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel (part 1)
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Giotto, Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel (part 2)
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Giotto, Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel (part 3)
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Giotto, Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel (part 4)
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Art of the Islamic world in the medieval era

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The Great Mosque of Córdoba
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Pyxis of al-Mughira
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The Alhambra
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Mimar Sinan, Mosque of Selim II, Edirne
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Renaissance Art in Europe

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Workshop of Campin, Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
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Brunelleschi, Pazzi Chapel
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Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait
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Donatello, David
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Donatello, David
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Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai
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Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai
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Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with two Angels
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A celebration of beauty and love: Botticelli's Birth of Venus
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The Last Supper
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The Last Supper
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Dürer, Adam and Eve
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Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)
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Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)
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Last Judgment (altar wall, Sistine Chapel)
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Raphael, School of Athens
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Raphael, School of Athens
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Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece
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Pontormo, The Entombment of Christ
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Cranach, Law and Gospel (Law and Grace)
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Titian, Venus of Urbino
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Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation

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Cranach, Law and Gospel (Law and Grace)
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Il Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco
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Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow (Winter)
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (Winter)
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Caravaggio, Calling of Saint Matthew and Inspiration of St. Matthew
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Rubens, The Presentation of the Portrait of Marie de' Medici
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Rubens, The Presentation of the Portrait of Marie de' Medici
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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait with Saskia
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Geometry and motion in Borromini's San Carlo
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Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
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Velázquez, Las Meninas
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Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance
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Château de Versailles
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Rachel Ruysch, Fruit and Insects
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William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode (including Tête à Tête)
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Colonial Americas

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Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
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Master of Calamarca, Angel with Arquebus
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Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and Hunting Scene (Brooklyn Biombo)
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Miguel González, The Virgin of Guadalupe
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Virgin of Guadalupe
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Virgin of Guadalupe
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Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo, attributed to Juan Rodriguez
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About this unit

Investigate how styles, tools, and technology used in art and architecture continued to evolve throughout the Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation periods in Europe, and delve into ways that religious themes and depictions of everyday life were conveyed through the art of these times.

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Unit: Early Europe and Colonial Americas: 200-1750 C.E.

Unit: Early Europe and Colonial Americas: 200-1750 C.E.

Medieval art in Europe

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Art of the Islamic world in the medieval era

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Renaissance Art in Europe

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Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation

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Colonial Americas

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