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Timelines (14) Southern Europe, 8000–2000 B.C. Southern Europe, 2000–1000 B.C. Italian Peninsula, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D. Italian Peninsula, 1–500 A.D. Italian Peninsula, 500–1000 A.D. Italian Peninsula, 1000–1400 A.D. Florence and Central Italy, 1400–1600 A.D. Rome and Southern Italy, 1400–1600 A.D. Venice and Northern Italy, 1400–1600 A.D. Florence and Central Italy, 1600–1800 A.D. Rome and Southern Italy, 1600–1800 A.D. Venice and Northern Italy, 1600–1800 A.D. Southern Europe, 1800–1900 A.D. Italian Peninsula, 1900 A.D.–present

Thematic Essays (119) American Neoclassical Sculptors Abroad Anatomy in the Renaissance Ancient Greek Colonization and Trade and their Influence on Greek Art Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) The Antonine Dynasty (138–193) Architecture in Renaissance Italy Art of the Hellenistic Age and the Hellenistic Tradition Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in Naples Augustan Rule (27 B.C.–14 A.D.) The Augustan Villa at Boscotrecase The Ballet Baroque Rome Boscoreale: Frescoes from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (1571–1610) and his Followers The Chiton, Peplos, and Himation in Modern Dress The Chopine Commercial Exchange, Diplomacy, and Religious Difference between Venice and the Islamic world Death in the Middle Ages The Decoration of Arms and Armor Direct versus Indirect Casting of Small Bronzes in the Italian Renaissance Domestic Art in Renaissance Italy Donatello (ca. 1386–1466) Dutch and Flemish Artists in Rome, 1500–1600 Eastern Religions in the Roman World Eighteenth-Century Silhouette and Support El Greco (Domenico Theotocopulos) (1541–1614) Etruscan Art European Revivalism The Face in Medieval Sculpture Famous Makers and European Centers of Arms and Armor Production Fashion in European Armor, 1000–1300 Fashion in European Armor, 1300–1400 Fashion in European Armor, 1400–1500 Fashion in European Armor, 1500–1600 Fashion in European Armor, 1600–1700 Filippino Lippi (1456/47–1504) Fire Gilding of Arms and Armor The Flavian Dynasty (69–96) Fra Angelico (1395/1400–1455) François Boucher (1703–1770) Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) and the Spanish Enlightenment The French Academy in Rome From Italy to France: Gardens in the Court of Louis XIV and After Gardens of Western Europe, 1600–1800 Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) The Golden Harpsichord of Michele Todini (1616–1690) The Grand Tour The Greek Key and Divine Attributes in Modern Dress The Guitar Haute Couture Hellenistic Jewelry Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) The Idea and Invention of the Villa Intellectual Pursuits of the Hellenistic Age Islamic Art and Culture: the Venetian Perspective Italian Painting of the Later Middle Ages Italian Painting of the Later Middle Ages: Fresco Italian Painting of the Later Middle Ages: Panel Painting Italian Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century The Julio-Claudian Dynasty (27 B.C.–68 A.D.) Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) List of Rulers: Europe Made in Italy: Italian Fashion from 1950 to Now Maiolica in the Renaissance Mannerism: Bronzino (1503–1572) and his Contemporaries Manuscript Illumination in Italy, 1400–1600 Medicine in Classical Antiquity The Neoclassical Temple Neoclassicism Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) Northern Italian Renaissance Painting Northern Mannerism in the Early Sixteenth Century The Nude in Baroque and Later Art The Nude in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance The Nude in Western Art and its Beginnings in Antiquity The Opera Painted Funerary Monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria Painting in Oil in the Low Countries and Its Spread to Southern Europe The Papacy and the Vatican Palace The Papacy during the Renaissance The Piano: The Pianofortes of Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) Polychromy of Roman Marble Sculpture The Praenestine Cistae The Rediscovery of Classical Antiquity Renaissance Drawings: Material and Function Retrospective Styles in Greek and Roman Sculpture Roman Cameo Glass Roman Copies of Greek Statues The Roman Empire (27 B.C.–393 A.D.) Roman Painting Roman Portrait Sculpture: Republican through Constantinian Roman Portrait Sculpture: The Stylistic Cycle The Roman Republic Roman Sarcophagi School of Paris The Seleucid Empire (323–64 B.C.) The Severan Dynasty (193–235) Sienese Painting Sixteenth-Century Painting in Emilia-Romagna Sixteenth-Century Painting in Lombardy Sixteenth-Century Painting in Venice and the Veneto Southern Italian Vase Painting Textile Production in Europe: Lace, 1600–1800 Textile Production in Europe: Silk, 1600–1800 Theater and Amphitheater in the Roman World Titian (ca. 1488–1576) Velázquez (1599–1660) Venetian Color and Florentine Design Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797 Venice in the Eighteenth Century Venice's Principal Muslim Trading Partners: the Mamluks, the Ottomans, and the Safavids Violin Makers: Nicol˜ Amati (1596–1684) and Antonio Stradivari (ca. 1644–1737) Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: Florence in the 1490s Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: The First Illustrated Books Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: Venice in the 1490s Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: Venice in the Sixteenth Century The Year One