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1. Chapter 1 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. What is Art? Form and Content
4. The Skill of Describing
5. Art as Concept
6. Art & Context
7. Representation & Abstraction
8. Why Is That Important?
9. Why Is This Art?
10. Interpreting Contemporary Art
11. Iconographic Analysis: Understanding Iconography
12. Formal Analysis: Understanding Visual Form
13. Art History Terms
14. External Resources
15. Chapter 2 Overview
16. Key Learning Items
17. Cimabue
18. Giotto's Arena Chapel
19. Ognissanti Madonna
20. Duccio, Maesta
21. Lorenzetti's Palazzo Pubblico Frescos
22. Simone Martini's Annunciation
23. External Resources
24. Chapter 3 Overview
25. Key Learning Items
26. Introduction to the Renaissance in Italy and the North
27. Sluter's Well of Moses
28. Holy Thorn Reliquary
29. Introduction to Flanders
30. Campin's Merode Altarpiece
31. Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece
32. Arnolfini Portrait
33. Hugo van der Goes
34. Van der Weyden's Deposition
35. The Unicorn in Captivity
36. External Resources
37. Chapter 4 Overview
38. Key Learning Items
39. Florence in the Early Renaissance
40. Orsanmichele
41. Bruelleschi & Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac
42. Linear Perspective
43. Early Applications of Linear Perspective
44. Donatello's Works
45. Contrapposto
46. Masaccio's Tribute Money
47. Masaccio's Holy Trinity
48. Fra Angelico's The Annunciation
49. Fra Filippo Lippi
50. Piero della Francesca's Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino
51. Botticelli's Birth of Venus
52. Alberti
53. Introduction to Venice
54. Bellini's St. Francis
55. Mantegna's Works
56. External Resources
57. Chapter 5 Overview
58. Key Learning Items
59. Art and Science in the Renaissance
60. Toward the High Renaissance
61. Leonardo da Vinci Introduced
62. Virgin of the Rocks
63. The Last Supper
64. Mona Lisa
65. Michelangelo Introduced
66. Pietà
67. David
68. Moses
69. Sistine Chapel Ceiling
70. Sistine Chapel: Last Judgment
71. Marriage of the Virgin
72. Madonna of the Goldfinch
73. School of Athens
74. Alba Madonna
75. Tempietto
76. Saint Peter's Basilica
77. Introduction to Venetian Painting
78. Giorgione, The Tempest
79. Bellini & Titian, Feast of the Gods
80. Titian, Bacchus & Ariadne
81. Titian, Madonna of the Pesaro Family
82. Titian, Venus of Urbino
83. Veronese, Feast in the House of Levi
84. Tintoretto, The Origin of the Milky Way
85. Introduction to Mannerism
86. Parmigianino's Madonna of the Long Neck
87. Bronzino and the Mannerist Portrait
88. El Greco's Adoration of the Shepherds
89. External Resources
90. Chapter 6 Overview
91. Key Learning Items
92. Introduction to the Protestant Reformation
93. Dürer's Four Apostles
94. Self-Portrait 1498
95. Self-Portrait 1500
96. What Is a Print?
97. Dürer's Prints
98. Bosch's Last Judgment
99. Altdorfer's Battle of Issus
100. Cranach's Adam and Eve
101.