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Subject Index (E)

• Earrings, See Personal Ornament, Earrings
• Earthenware, See Ceramic
• East Asia, See Asia, China; Asia, Japan; Asia, Korea
• Eastern Africa, See Africa, Eastern Africa
• Eastern Europe, See Europe, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia
• Eastern Mediterranean, See West Asia, Eastern Mediterranean
• Ecuador, See Americas, Andes
• Egypt, See Africa, Egypt
• Egyptian Art
• 1st Intermediate Period
• Dynasty 11
• Dynasties 15–17
• 3rd Intermediate Period
• Dynasties 21–24
• Dynasty 25
• Amarna Art
• Early Dynastic Period
• Dynasties 1–2
• Hellenistic Period
• Late Dynasty XIX–3rd Intermediate Period
• Late Period
• Dynasty 25
• Dynasty 26
• Dynasty 27
• Dynasty 30
• Meroitic Art
• Middle Kingdom
• Dynasty 11
• Dynasty 12
• New Kingdom
• Dynasty 18
• Dynasty 19
• Dynasty 20
• Old Kingdom
• Dynasty 4
• Dynasties 5–6
• Pre–Dynastic Period
• Late Naqada I to Early Naqada II
• Ptolemaic Period
• Roman Period
• El Salvador, See Americas, Maya Area; Americas, Mexico
• Electrum, See Metalwork, Electrum
• Elephant, See Animal, Elephant
• Eligius, See Figure, Saint, Eligius
• Embroidery
• Central and North Asia
• East Asia
• Europe
• North America
• South and Southeast Asia
• West Asia
• Emperor, See Figure, Ruler; Rulers, Lists
• Enamel, See Also Painting, Enamel
• Encaustic, See Painting, Encaustic
• England, See Europe, British Isles
• Engraving, See Print, Engraving
• Ensign, See Arms and Armor, Ensign
• Eritrea, See Africa, Eastern Africa
• Eros, See Figure, Deity, Greek and Roman, Eros/Cupid
• Estonia, See Europe, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia
• Etching, See Print, Etching
• Ethiopia, See Africa, Eastern Africa
• Europe
• organized by geography
• Balkan Peninsula (including Greece)
• Byzantium
• Central Europe
• Eastern Europe and Scandinavia
• France
• Great Britain and Ireland
• Iberian Peninsula
• Italian Peninsula
• Central Italy (and Florence)
• Northern Italy (and Venice)
• Southern Italy (and Rome)
• Low Countries
• organized by period
• Medieval Art
• Renaissance Art
• Seventeenth– and Eighteenth–Century Art
• Nineteenth–Century Art
• Twentieth–Century Art
• European Art in the Nineteenth Century
• Academic Painting
• Aestheticism
• Arts and Crafts Movement , See European Art in the Twentieth Century, Arts and Crafts Movement
• Barbizon School
• Biedermeier
• Chinoiserie, See European Art in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Chinoiserie
• Decadent Movement
• Die Brucke, See European Art in the Twentieth Century, Die Brucke
• Egyptian Revival
• Empire Style
• Gothic Revivalism
• Impressionism
• Intimisme
• Japonisme
• Les Nabis
• Nazarenes
• Neo–Impressionism
• Neoclassicism, See European Art in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Neoclassicism
• Orientalism
• Peredvizhniki
• Pointillism
• Post–Impressionism, See European Art in the Twentieth Century, Post–Impressionism
• Pre–Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Primitivism, See European Art in the Twentieth Century, Primitivism
• Realism
• Romanticism
• Symbolism
• Victorian
• Vienna Secession, See European Art in the Twentieth Century, Vienna Secession
• European Art in the Renaissance
• Danube School
• Dutch and Flemish Renaissance Painting
• Early Netherlandish Style
• Florentine School
• High Renaissance
• Mannerism
• Northern Renaissance
• Palladianism
• Proto–Renaissance
• Quattrocento
• School of Fontainebleau
• Sienese School
• Venetian School
• European Art in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Baroque
• British Naturalism
• Chinoiserie
• Dutch Golden Age Painting
• Delft School
• Grand Manner
• Neoclassicism
• Palladianism
• Queen Anne Style
• Rococo
• Venetian School, See European Art in the Renaissance, Venetian School
• William and Mary Style
• European Art in the Twentieth Century
• Allianz
• Arbeitsrat fur Kunst
• Art Brut
• Art Deco
• Art Nouveau/Jugendstil
• Arts and Crafts Movement
• Avant–Garde
• Bauhaus
• Biomorphism
• Body Art
• Constructivism
• Cubism
• Dada
• De Stijl
• Der Blaue Reiter
• Deutscher Werkbund
• Die Brucke
• Edwardian Style
• Expressionism
• Fauvism
• Functionalism
• Futurism
• International Style
• Metaphysical Painting
• Nouveau Realisme
• Orientalism
• Performance Art
• Photojournalism
• Pictorialism, See American Art, Twentieth Century, Pictorialism
• Post–Impressionism
• Primitivism
• Process Art
• Purism
• Russian Avant–Garde
• School of Paris
• Soviet Art
• Surrealism
• Tachism/Art Informel/Lyrical Abstraction
• Vienna Secession
• Exoticism
• Expressionism, See European Art in the Twentieth Century, Expressionism; Modern and Contemporary Art, Expressionism