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• The Aesthetic of the Sketch in Nineteenth-Century France
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• African Influences in Modern Art
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• Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)
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• American Neoclassical Sculptors Abroad
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• Anatomy in the Renaissance
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• Annibale Carracci (1560–1609)
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• Anselm Kiefer (born 1945)
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• Antonello da Messina (ca. 1430–1479)
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• Architecture in Renaissance Italy
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• Arms and Armor in Renaissance Europe
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• Arms and Armor—Common Misconceptions and Frequently Asked Questions
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• Art and Death in Medieval Byzantium
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• Art and Love in the Italian Renaissance
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• Art and Photography: 1990s–Present
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• Art and Photography: The 1980s
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• Art Nouveau
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• Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in Naples
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• The Art, Form, and Function of Gilt Bronze in the French Interior
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• Arts of the Mission Schools in Mexico
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• Arts of the Spanish Americas, 1550–1850
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• Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
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• Auguste Rodin (1840–1917)
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• The Ballet
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• The Barbizon School: French Painters of Nature
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• Baroque Rome
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• The Bauhaus, 1919–1933
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• The Bikini
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• Birth and Family in the Italian Renaissance
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• The Birth and Infancy of Christ in Italian Painting
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• Botanical Imagery in European Painting
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• Bronze Sculpture in the Renaissance
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• Burgundian Netherlands: Court Life and Patronage
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• Burgundian Netherlands: Private Life
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• The Byzantine City of Amorium
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• Cameo Appearances
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• Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (1571–1610) and his Followers
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• Carolingian Art
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• Ceramics in the French Renaissance
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• Charles Frederick Worth (1825–1895) and The House of Worth
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• The Chiton, Peplos, and Himation in Modern Dress
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• The Chopine
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• Christian Dior (1905–1957)
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• Christopher Dresser (1834–1904)
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• Classical Art and Modern Dress
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• Classicism in Modern Dress
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• Claude Monet (1840–1926)
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• Collecting for the Kunstkammer
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• Colonial Kero Cups
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• Commedia dell'arte
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• Commercial Exchange, Diplomacy, and Religious Difference between Venice and the Islamic World
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• Contemporary Deconstructions of Classical Dress
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• Contexts for the Display of Statues in Classical Antiquity
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• Costume in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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• The Countess da Castiglione
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• Couples in Art
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• Courtship and Betrothal in the Italian Renaissance
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• Cristobal Balenciaga (1895–1972)
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• The Croome Court Tapestry Room, Worcestershire
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• The Crucifixion and Passion of Christ in Italian Painting
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• Cubism
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• Daguerre (1787–1851) and the Invention of Photography
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• The Daguerreian Age in France: 1839–1855
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• David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) and Robert Adamson (1821–1848) (1840s)
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• The Decoration of Arms and Armor
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• The Decoration of European Armor
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• Design Reform
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• Design, 1900–25
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• Design, 1925–50
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• Design, 1950–75
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• Design, 1975–present
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• The Development of the Recorder
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• Direct versus Indirect Casting of Small Bronzes in the Italian Renaissance
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• Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (1581–1641)
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• Domestic Art in Renaissance Italy
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• Donatello (ca. 1386–1466)
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• Drawing in the Middle Ages
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• Dress Rehearsal: The Origins of the Costume Institute
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• Dressing for the Cocktail Hour
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• Dutch and Flemish Artists in Rome, 1500–1600
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• Édouard Baldus (1813–1889)
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• Édouard Manet (1832–1883)
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• Early Netherlandish Painting
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• East and West: Chinese Export Porcelain
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• Edgar Degas (1834–1917): Bronze Sculpture
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• Edgar Degas (1834–1917): Painting and Drawing
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• Edward Steichen (1879–1973): The Photo-Secession Years
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• The Eighteenth Century: From Geometric to Informal Gardens
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• Eighteenth-Century European Dress
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• The Eighteenth-Century Pastel Portrait
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• Eighteenth-Century Silhouette and Support
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• Eighteenth-Century Women Painters in France
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• El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (1541–1614)
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• Elizabethan England
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• Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973)
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• Empire Style, 1800–1815
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• English Embroidery of the Late Tudor and Stuart Eras
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• English Silver, 1600–1800
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• Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) and Art
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• Eugène Atget (1857–1927)
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• Europe and the Age of Exploration
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• Europe and the Islamic World, 1600–1800
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• European Clocks in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
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• European Exploration of the Pacific, 1600–1800
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• European Revivalism
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• European Tapestry Production and Patronage, 1400–1600
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• European Tapestry Production and Patronage, 1600–1800
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• Exoticism in the Decorative Arts
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• Famous Makers and European Centers of Arms and Armor Production
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• Fashion in European Armor
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• Fashion in European Armor, 1400–1500
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• Fashion in European Armor, 1500–1600
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• Fashion in European Armor, 1600–1700
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• Fauvism
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• Filippino Lippi (1456/47–1504)
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• Fire Gilding of Arms and Armor
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• Fontainebleau
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• Food and Drink in European Painting, 1400–1800
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• Fra Angelico (1395/1400–1455)
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• François Boucher (1703–1770)
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• Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) and the Spanish Enlightenment
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• Frans Hals (1582/83–1666)
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• The French Academy in Rome
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• French Art Deco
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• French Decorative Arts during the Reign of Louis XIV (1654–1715)
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• French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century: Case Furniture
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• French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century: Seat Furniture
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• French Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century
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• French Silver in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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• From Italy to France: Gardens in the Court of Louis XIV and After
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• The Function of Armor in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
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• Funerary Vases in Southern Italy and Sicily
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• Furnishings during the Reign of Louis XIV (1654–1715)
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• Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883–1971) and the House of Chanel
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• Gardens in the French Renaissance
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• Gardens of Western Europe, 1600–1800
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• Genre Painting in Northern Europe
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• Geometric Abstraction
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• Georges Seurat (1859–1891) and Neo-Impressionism
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• Gerard David (born about 1455, died 1523)
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• German and Austrian Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century
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• The Ghent Altarpiece
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• Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680)
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• Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778)
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• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770)
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• The Golden Age of French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
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• The Golden Harpsichord of Michele Todini (1616–1690)
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• The Grand Tour
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• The Greek Key and Divine Attributes in Modern Dress
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• The Guitar
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• Gustave Courbet (1819–1877)
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• Gustave Le Gray (1820–1884)
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• Haute Couture
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• Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617)
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• Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004)
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• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)
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• Henri Matisse (1869–1954)
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• Heroes in Italian Mythological Prints
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• The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburgs, 1400–1600
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• Horse Armor in Europe
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• How Medieval and Renaissance Tapestries Were Made
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• The Idea and Invention of the Villa
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• Images of Antiquity in Limoges Enamels in the French Renaissance
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• Impressionism: Art and Modernity
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• The Industrialization of French Photography after 1860
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• Intentional Alterations of Early Netherlandish Painting
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• Interior Design in England, 1600–1800
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• International Pictorialism
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• Islamic Art and Culture: the Venetian Perspective
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• Islamic Carpets in European Paintings
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• Italian Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century
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• Italian Renaissance Frames
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• Ivory and Boxwood Carvings, 1450–1800
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• Ivory Carving in the Gothic Era, 13th–15th centuries
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• Jacopo dal Ponte, called Bassano (ca. 1510–1592)
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• James Cox (ca. 1723–1800): Goldsmith and Entrepreneur
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• Jan Gossart (ca. 1478–1532) and His Circle
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• Jan van Eyck (ca. 1380/90–1441)
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• Japonisme
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• Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721)
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• Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828)
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• Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875)
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• Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806)
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• Joachim Tielke (1641–1719)
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• Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675)
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• Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) and The Milkmaid
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• John Constable (1776–1837)
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• John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
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• Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
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• Juan de Flandes (active by 1496, died 1519)
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• Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879)
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• The Kilt
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• The Kirtlington Park Room, Oxfordshire
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• The Lansdowne Dining Room, London
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• The Later Ottomans and the Impact of Europe
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• Le Colis de Trianon-Versailles and Paris Openings
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• The Legacy of Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825)
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• Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
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• Life of Jesus of Nazareth
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• List of Rulers of Europe
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• Lithography in the Nineteenth Century
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• Louis-Rémy Robert (1810–1882)
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• Lovers in Italian Mythological Prints
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• The Lure of Montmartre, 1880–1900
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• The Lute
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• Luxury Arts of Rome
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• Made in Italy: Italian Fashion from 1950 to Now
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• Maiolica in the Renaissance
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• The Manila Galleon Trade (1565–1815)
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• Mannerism: Bronzino (1503–1572) and his Contemporaries
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• Manuscript Illumination in Italy, 1400–1600
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• Manuscript Illumination in Northern Europe
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• Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)
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• Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844–1926)
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• The Master of Monte Oliveto (active about 1305–35)
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• The Materials and Techniques of English Embroidery of the Late Tudor and Stuart Eras
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• Medieval Aquamanilia
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• Military Music in American and European Traditions
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• Mission Héliographique, 1851
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• Modern Materials: Plastics
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• Music in the Renaissance
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• Musical Terms for the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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• The Nabis and Decorative Painting
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• Nadar (1820–1910)
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• The Neoclassical Temple
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• Neoclassicism
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• The New Vision of Photography
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• Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665)
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• Nineteenth-Century Classical Music
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• Nineteenth-Century English Silver
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• Nineteenth-Century European Textile Production
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• Nineteenth-Century French Realism
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• Nineteenth-Century Silhouette and Support
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• Northern Italian Renaissance Painting
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• Northern Mannerism in the Early Sixteenth Century
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• Northwest Coast Indians Musical Instruments
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• The Nude in Baroque and Later Art
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• The Nude in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
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• The Nude in Western Art and its Beginnings in Antiquity
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• Nudity and Classical Themes in Byzantine Art
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• Nuptial Furnishings in the Italian Renaissance
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• The Opera
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• Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century Art
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• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress
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• Ottonian Art
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• Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
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• Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300–1500
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• Painting in Oil in the Low Countries and Its Spread to Southern Europe
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• Painting the Life of Christ in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
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• Paintings of Love and Marriage in the Italian Renaissance
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• Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (1528–1588)
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• The Papacy and the Vatican Palace
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• The Papacy during the Renaissance
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• Pastoral Charms in the French Renaissance
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• Patronage at the Later Valois Courts (1461–1589)
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• Patronage of Jean de Berry (1340–1416)
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• Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)
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• Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)
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• Paul Klee (1879–1940)
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• Paul Poiret (1879–1944)
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• Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) and Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641): Paintings
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• Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) and Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641): Works on Paper
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• Petrus Christus (active by 1444, died 1475/76)
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• Photographers in Egypt
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• Photography and Surrealism
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• Photography at the Bauhaus
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• Photography in Düsseldorf
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• Photography in Europe, 1945–60
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• Photography in the Expanded Field: Painting, Performance, and the Neo-Avant-Garde
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• Photojournalism and the Picture Press in Germany
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• The Piano: The Pianofortes of Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731)
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• The Piano: Viennese Instruments
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• Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947): The Late Interiors
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• Pierre Didot The Elder (1761–1853)
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• Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525/30–1569)
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• Pilgrimage in Medieval Europe
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• Poets in Italian Mythological Prints
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• Poets, Lovers, and Heroes in Italian Mythological Prints
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• Polychrome Sculpture in Spanish America
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• Portrait Painting in England, 1600–1800
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• Portraiture in Renaissance and Baroque Europe
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• Post-Impressionism
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• Prague during the Rule of Rudolph II (1583–1612)
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• The Pre-Raphaelites
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• The Print in the Nineteenth Century
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• The Printed Image in the West: Aquatint
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• The Printed Image in the West: Drypoint
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• The Printed Image in the West: Engraving
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• The Printed Image in the West: Etching
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• The Printed Image in the West: History and Techniques
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• The Printed Image in the West: Mezzotint
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• The Printed Image in the West: Woodcut
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• Profane Love and Erotic Art in the Italian Renaissance
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• The Rediscovery of Classical Antiquity
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• The Reformation
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• Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669): Paintings
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• Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669): Prints
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• Renaissance Drawings: Material and Function
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• Renaissance Keyboards
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• Renaissance Organs
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• Renaissance Velvet Textiles
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• Renaissance Violins
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• The Rise of Paper Photography in 1850s France
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• Roger Fenton (1819–1869)
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• Roman Games: Playing with Animals
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• Roman Housing
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• Roman Inscriptions
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• Roman Stuccowork
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• Romanticism
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• Saint Petersburg
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• The Salon and The Royal Academy
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• School of Paris
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• Sèvres Porcelain in the Nineteenth Century
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• Seventeenth-Century European Watches
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• Shoes in The Costume Institute
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• Sienese Painting
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• Sixteenth-Century Painting in Emilia-Romagna
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• Sixteenth-Century Painting in Lombardy
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• Sixteenth-Century Painting in Venice and the Veneto
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• Still-Life Painting in Northern Europe, 1600–1800
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• Still-Life Painting in Southern Europe, 1600–1800
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• Surrealism
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• Symbolism
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• Talavera de Puebla
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• Techniques of Decoration on Arms and Armor
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• Textile Production in Europe: Embroidery, 1600–1800
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• Textile Production in Europe: Lace, 1600–1800
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• Textile Production in Europe: Printed, 1600–1800
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• Textile Production in Europe: Silk, 1600–1800
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• Titian (ca. 1488–1576)
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• Trade Relations among European and African Nations
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• The Transformation of Landscape Painting in France
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• Twentieth-Century Silhouette and Support
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• Velázquez (1599–1660)
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• Venetian Color and Florentine Design
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• Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797
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• Venice in the Eighteenth Century
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• Venice's Principal Muslim Trading Partners: the Mamluks, the Ottomans, and the Safavids
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• Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
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• Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890): The Drawings
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• Violin Makers: Nicolò Amati (1596–1684) and Antonio Stradivari (ca. 1644–1737)
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• Vivienne Westwood (born 1941) and the Postmodern Legacy of Punk Style
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• Watercolor Painting in Britain, 1750–1850
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• Weddings in the Italian Renaissance
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• William Blake (1757–1827)
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• William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography
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• William Merritt Chase (1849–1916)
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• Wisteria Dining Room, Paris
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• Women Artists in Nineteenth-Century France
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• Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: Florence in the 1490s
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• Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: The First Illustrated Books
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• Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: Venice in the 1490s
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• Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: Venice in the Sixteenth Century
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