PART ONE
(From Prehistoric to Romanesque Art Map) PREHISTORIC
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ANCIENT ART
From the Paleolithic Age to the Pre-Classical Civilizations
Prehistoric Art
The Art of the Ancient Kingdoms
The Art of the Ancient East
Ancient Aegean Art
Hellenic and Italic CivilizationsThe Art of the Greeks
Italic Art
SPOT ON LITERATURE: The Foundations of Western Literature
see also: Greek and Roman Myths in Art
see also: Homer "Odyssey" illustrations by John Flaxman
see also EXPLORATION (in Russian): Homer "Iliad "and "Odyssey"
see also: Apuleius "The Golden Asse" illustrations by Jean de Bosschere, Martin Van Maele
see also: Longus "Daphnis and Chloe" illustrations by Marc Chagall
BIBLE (Old Testament and New Testament)
see also: The Bible illustrations by Julius von Carolsfeld, Gustave Dore, William Blake
see also: David Roberts "A Journey in the Holy Land"________________________________________________________________
THE ANCIENT WORLD FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO THE FOURTH CRUSADE
An Art for Europe, Asia and Africa
Art of the Roman Empire
From Late Antiquity to the Romanesque
The Early Christians and their Art
Barbarian Art
Byzantine Art
Collection: Russian Architecture and Russian Icons
From Carolingian to Romanesque Art
The Artistic Cultures of Asia and Africa
Persian and Islamic Art
The Indian Region and the Far East
Classical Art of sub-Saharan Africa
SPOT ON LITERATURE: Classical Literature
see also: Ovid "Metamorphoses", "The Art of Love" ill. by F. Chauveau, Le Mire, S. Dali________________________________________________________________
FROM THE GREAT CITIES OF EUROPE TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD
The Triumph of the City
(Gothic Art Map)
Gothic Art
EXPLORATION: Revelations (Art of the Apocalypse by Nancy Grubb)
EXPLORATION: Gothic Era ("Painting of the Gothic Era" by R. Suckale, M. Weniger)
EXPLORATION: Albrecht Durer ("Durer" by Wolfram Prinz)
Collection: The Bayeux Tapestry "Propaganda on cloth"
Collection: Illuminated Manuscripts
Collection: Limbourg brothers ("Tres Riches Heures...")
Collection: Masters of the Gothic Art________________________________________________________________
FROM THE GREAT CITIES OF EUROPE TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD
(Renaissance Art Map)
The Early Renaissance
EXPLORATION: Sandro Botticelli "Visual Poetry"
see also: Venus - The Evening Star
The High Renaissance and Mannerism
EXPLORATION: Leonardo da Vinci ("The Genius of the Renaissance" by J. Gilbert)
see also: Monalisamania
see also: Leda and the Swan - myth in art
Collection: Michelangelo
EXPLORATION: Hieronymus Bosch ("Between Heaven and Hell" by W. Bosing;
"The Life and works of H. Bosch" by Trewin Copplestone)
EXPLORATION: Pieter Bruegel the Elder ("Peasants, Fools and Demons" by R-M. and R.Hagen)
see also: Netherlandish Proverbs (by Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
EXPLORATION: Arcimboldo ("Giuseppe Arcimboldo" by Werner Kriegeskorte)
Giorgio Vasari "Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects"
see also: Theodore De Bry Indians of North America
School of Fontainebleau
SPOT ON LITERATURE: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
see also: "Arturian Legend" (Pre-Raphaelite's and Beardsley's Vision)
see also: Dante "The Divine Comedy" (Illustrations by G. Dore, W. Blake, S. Dali)
see also: Botticelli (Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy)
see also: Boccaccio "The Decameron" (Illustrations by Salvador Dali)
see also: Ariosto "Orlando Fuioso" (Illustrations by G. Dore)
see also: Rabelais "Gargantua and Pantagruel" (Illustrations by Gustave Dore)
see also: W. Shakespeare "Hamlet" (illustration from Eugene Delacroix)
see also: Netherlandish Proverbs (by Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
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FROM THE GREAT CITIES OF EUROPE TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD
The City and the Court
(Baroque and Rococo Art Map)
Baroque and Rococo
The 17th Century: the Age of Spectacle
EXPLORATION: Rembrandt ("The Mustery of the Revealed Form" by M. Bockemuhl)
EXPLORATION: Vermeer ("Veiled Emotions" by Norbert Schneider)
EXPLORATION: Velazquez ("The Face of Spain" by Norbert Wolf)
EXPLORATION: The Art of the Portrait ("Masterpieces of European Portrait " by N. Schneider)
Collection: Jacques Callot "Miseries of War"
Collection: William Hogarth "A Harlot's Progress"The Splendours of the 18th Century
SPOT ON LITERATURE: The 17-18th century
see also EXPLORATIONS (in Russian): Josif Brodsky "Elegy to John Donne"
see also: John Milton "Paradise Lost" (Illustrations by G. Dore, J. Martin, H.Fuseli)
see also: Cervantes "Don Quixote" (Illustrations by G. Dore)
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FROM THE GREAT CITIES OF EUROPE TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD
Artistic Cultures of Asia and the Americas
The Art of Asia
EXPLORATION: Indian Court Painting ("Indian Court Painting by S.Kossak)
EXPLORATION: Japanese Ukiyo-e (Japanese Ukiyo-e Origins and History;
"Japanese Prints. Ukiyo-e" by M. Sato)
EXPLORATION: "East and West" ("Cherry-Wood-Blossom" by T. Zacharias)
Collection: Japanese Prints
Collection: Hiroshige's "Tokaido"
Collection: Hokusai's "Views of Mt. Fuji" and "Panoramic View of Sumidagawa River"
Collection: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi "Tsuki hyakushi" - 100 Aspects of the Moon
Collection: Sesshu's Long Scrolll (commentary by Reiko Chiba)
Pre-Columbian Art________________________________________________________________
ART, COMMERCE & INDUSTRY
The 18th and 19th Centuries
(Neoclassicism, Romanticism Art Map)
Neoclassicism and Romanticism
Collection: Between Two Revolutions (From David to Delacroix)
Collection: Thomas Rowlandson (comic images of familiar social types)
EXPLORATION: Francisco de Goya ("Life and Work" by E. L. Buchholz)
Orientalism
Collection: David Roberts "A Journey in the Holy Land" (Commentary by E. Nistri)
A Return to the Past
Nazarenes
Pre-Raphaelites
EXPLORATION: Romantic Era ("Painting of the Romantic Era" by Norbert Wolf)
Official Art (Academic Art)
Art Styles in the Industrial 19th Century
The Creation of the Metropolis
Art, Technology and Industry
Collection: Dore (Bible, Dante, Ariosto, Rabelais, Milton, Cervantes, Tennyson, Poe)
Furnishings and Fashions
The European Influence
SPOT ON LITERATURE: The 18-19th century
see also: Pre-Raphaelite Illustrations for Moxon's Tennyson
see also: Alfred Tennyson "Idylls of the King" (illustrations by G. Dore)
see also: John Tenniel Ill. from Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
see also: Oscar Wilde "Salome" (Illustrations by Beardsley)
see also: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust" (Ill. by Eugene Delacroix and Harry Clarke)
see also: Edgar Allain Poe (illustrations by Gustave Dore and Harry Clarke)
see also EXPLORATIONS (in Russian): Aleksandr Pushkin "Yevgeny Onegin"
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A CRISIS OF TRADITION & THE BIRTH OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Developments in the 19th Century
(Art Styles in 19th century Art Map)
Realism
Barbizon School
The Impressionism
New Trends in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Post-Impressionism
Pointillism
EXPLORATION: Vincent van Gogh ("Fields and Flowers" by Debra N. Mancoff)
EXPLORATION: The Chronicle of Impressionism (by Bernard Denvir)
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A CRISIS OF TRADITION & THE BIRTH OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Symbolism
EXPLORATION: Henri Rousseau (by Cornelia Stabenow)
Nabis
EXPLORATION: Matisse ("Cut-Outs" by Gilles Neret)
Fauvism
Collection: Odilon Redon "The Unconscious"
Collection: Aubrey Beardsley (Beardsley's Vision)
EXPLORATION: Gustav Klimt (by Gilles Neret)
EXPLORATION: Alphonse Mucha ("Master of Art Nouveau" by Renate Ulmer)
Collection: Cards and Posters (G. Barbier, R. Cramer, J. Harbour, R. Kirchner, C. Zander, d'Erte)
The Modern Style
Art Nouveau
Collection: Blaine Mahlon "Nova Venus"
The Art of Africa and Oceania
Artistic Cultures of sub-Saharan Africa
Artistic Cultures of the Pacific
PART TWO
ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY
A Revolution in the Art
(Art of the 20th century Art Map1900-1916)
INTRODUCTION (STYLES, MOVEMENTS & GROUP)
Folk Art, Naive Art
EXPLORATION: Naive Art (by Nathalia Brodskaia and Viorel Rau)
EXPLORATION: Grandma Moses (by Jane Kallir)
Year by Year - 1900 -1916
Russian Silver Age
World of Art (Mir iskusstva) - 1898
Blue Rose - 1904
Expressionism - 1905
Die Brucke - 1905
EXPLORATION: Edvard Munch (by Jean Selz)
EXPLORATION: Amedeo Modigliani ("The Poetry of Seeing" by Doris Krystof)
Collection: "The Second Temple of Beauty"
EXPLORATION: Francis Bacon "The Theater of the Body" (by Jose Maria Faerna)
The Great Avant-garde Movements
Cubism - 1907
EXPLORATION: Pablo Picasso (by Carsten-Peter Warncke)
The Eight. The Ashcan school - 1908
Futurism - 1909
Jack of Diamonds - 1910
Union of Youth - 1910
Der Blaue Reiter - 1911
The Camden Town Group of Painters - 1911
Section d'Or (Golden Section) - 1912
Orphism - 1912
Rayonism - 1912
Constructivism - 1913
Vorticism - 1914
Suprematism - 1915________________________________________________________________
ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Year by Year - 1916 -1924
(Art of the 20th century Art Map1916-1924)
Dadaism - 1916
De Stijl - 1917
Pittura Metafisica (Metaphysical Art) - 1917
Purism - 1918
Neo-plasticism - 1919
The Bauhaus school - 1919
Art Deco - 1920
Precisionism - 1920
The Mexican Muralists - 1921
EXPLORATION: Diego Rivera ("A Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art" by A.Kettenmann)
New Objectivity - 1924
Novecento group - 1924
EXPLORATION: Marc Chagall ("Painting as Poetry" by Ingo F.Walther, Rainer Metzger)
(Marc Chagall "Tapestries" by Jacob Baal-Teshuna)________________________________________________________________
ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Year by Year - 1924 -1929
(Art of the 20th century Art Map1924-1929)
Surrealism - 1924
EXPLORATION: Surrealist Art (by Sarane Alexandrian)
EXPLORATION: Salvador Dali (by Robert Descharnes & Gilles Neret)Max Ernst "A Week of Kindness" (A surrealistic novel in collage)
EXPLORATION: Rene Magritte "Thought rendered visible" (by Marcel Paquet)
EXPLORATION: Surrealism "The Dream of Revolution" (by Richard Leslie)
Collection: Frida Kahlo "Frida - The Life in Self-Portraits"
ADDITION:
From Surrealism to Fantastic Art
(Dream art, Visionary art, Neo-surrealism, Magic realism, Psychedelic art, Visual art, Fantastic realism)
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ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Year by Year - 1930 -1999
(Art of the 20th century Art Map1930-1999)
The New Architecture
The Harlem Renaissance
American Scene Painting
Art and Politics
Socialist Realism - 1932
Postwar Developments and Contemporary ArtArt in the Postwar Period
Abstract Expressionism - 1943
Art brut - 1945
COBRA - 1948
Art Informel -1948
Tachism - 1954
The New Avant-garde and Postmodernism
Soviet Nonconformist Art
Neo-figurative art
