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Thomas Cole regarded the US landscape as being what he called the undefiled work of Gods.

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Otto Dix and his generation had borne witness to the horrors of World War I.

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Edouard Manet created a masterpiece famed as a masterclass in visual subversion.

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Despite his interest in portraiture, Catlin he said the Native Americans must perish.

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Artemisia rebels against any notion that women shouldn't speak until spoken to.

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In Rome, Caravaggio breaks the social and aesthetic rules of his generation.

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The Renaissance creates a contrast between ars and invenio.

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Athenian vase painters recorded and then re-enforced ideas of what wives were meant to do.

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A Syrian museum curator sacrificed his life trying to save artifacts in Palmrya.

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Cave paintings in Castillo Spain represent some of the first paintings made by humans.

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This 25,000 year-old sculpture found in France represents the dawn of the idea of beauty.

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The cognitive revolution stirred early humanity from its creative slumber.