Annie Montgomery Labatt is an associate professor of visual studies and the director of galleries and museums at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. She received her doctorate from Yale University. She was the recipient of a two-year Rome Prize and has been a junior fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and a Chester Dale fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is the author of Art History 101 without the Exams: Looking Closely at Objects from the History of Art, from Trinity University Press, and Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome: A Laboratory of Images in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries
Introduction 1. Altamira (13,000 BCE)
Prehistoric Art 2. Assurnasirpal II Killing the Lions (883-859 BCE)
Assyrian Art 3. The Euphronios Krater (c. 515 BCE)
Greek Art 4. Nike of Samothrace (Second century BCE)
Greek Art 5. Villa at Boscotrecase (Last decade of first century BCE)
Roman Art 6. San Vitale, Ravenna (c. 547)
Early Byzantine Art 7. Sant Climent de Taüll (1123)
Romanesque Art 8. Incense Burner of Amir Saif al-Dunya wäl-Din ibn Muhammad al-Mawardi (1181-82)
Islamic Art 9. Sainte-Chapelle (1239-1248)
Gothic Art 10. The Chora Church (1316-1321)
Late Byzantine Art 11. Jan van Eyck, The Annunciation (1434-1436)
Northern Renaissance Art 12. Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (1483-1485)
Italian Renaissance Art 13. Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters (1565)
Netherlandish Art 14. Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599-1600)
Italian Baroque Art 15. Rembrandt, The Night Watch (1642)
Dutch Baroque Art 16. Velázquez, Las Hilanderas (1655-60)
Spanish Baroque Art 17. Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819)
Romantic Art 18. Monet, Impression Sunrise (1872)
Impressionism 19. Sargent, El Jaleo (1882)
American Art 20. Picasso, Les Demoiselles d
Avignon (1907)
Modern Art
