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• Drawing in the Middle Ages
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• Gerard David (born about 1455, died 1523)
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• Birds of the Andes
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• Dualism in Andean Art
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• Furnishings during the Reign of Louis XIV (1654–1715)
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• The Lansdowne Dining Room, London
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• The Kirtlington Park Room, Oxfordshire
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• The Croome Court Tapestry Room, Worcestershire
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• Food and Drink in European Painting, 1400–1800
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• Gustave Courbet (1819–1877)
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• Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907)
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• Jean de Berry (1340–1416), Patron of Art
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• George Washington: Man, Myth, Monument
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• Alice Cordelia Morse (1863–1961)
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• Internationalism in the Tang Dynasty (618–906)
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• The Vibrant Role of Mingqi in Early Chinese Burials
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• The Byzantine State under Justinian I (Justinian the Great)
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• The Aesthetic of the Sketch in Nineteenth-Century France
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• Jacopo dal Ponte, called Bassano (ca. 1510–1592)
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• Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300–1500
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• The Origins of Writing
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• Mesopotamian Deities
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• The Gods and Goddesses of Canaan
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• Epic of Creation (Mesopotamia)
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• Gilgamesh
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• Flood Stories
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• Japanese Incense
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• Japanese Weddings in the Edo Period (1615–1868)
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• Early Netherlandish Painting
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• Kongo Ivories
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• Seventeenth-Century European Watches
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• Viennese Pianos
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• Musical Instruments of the Indian Subcontinent
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• Luxury Arts of Rome
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• Roman Housing
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• Roman Inscriptions
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• The Byzantine City of Amorium
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• Juan de Flandes (active by 1496, died 1519)
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• Harry Burton (1879–1940): The Pharaoh's Photographer
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• Northwest Coast Indians Musical Instruments
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• Noh Costume
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• Paintings of Love and Marriage in the Italian Renaissance
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• Weddings in the Italian Renaissance
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• Nuptial Furnishings in the Italian Renaissance
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• Birth and Family in the Italian Renaissance
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• Courtship and Betrothal in the Italian Renaissance
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• Art and Love in the Italian Renaissance
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• Profane Love and Erotic Art in the Italian Renaissance
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• James Cox (ca. 1723–1800): Goldsmith and Entrepreneur
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• Carolingian Art
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• Petrus Christus (active by 1444, died 1475/76)
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