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Great Mosque of Cordoba (Spain) - ISLAMIC Once one of the biggest mosques in the World, it’s now a Catholic Cathedral since the Spanish Inquisition.

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Page 1: Great Mosque of Cordoba (Spain) - ISLAMIC Once one of the biggest mosques in the World, it’s now a Catholic Cathedral since the Spanish Inquisition.

Great Mosque of Cordoba (Spain) - ISLAMICOnce one of the biggest mosques in the World, it’s now a Catholic Cathedral since the Spanish Inquisition.

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“Shiva Nataraja (The Dancing Shiva)”. Bronze sculpture, ca 1400. HINDU

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Japanese Torii

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Andrea Mantegna, Lamentation Over Dead Christ, c1490EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

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Simone Martini, Annunciation, 1333.LATE GOTHIC / PROTO-RENAISSANCE

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Hagia Sophia (Istanbul 532-537)BYZANTINE

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Mihrab in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.

ISLAMIC ART

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Dying Gaul Pergamon, Turkey ca. 230-220 BC

HELLENISTIC PERIOD

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Albrecht DurerAdam And Eve, Engraving, 1504.

HIGH GERMAN RENAISSANCE

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Pieter Bruegel the ElderThe Hunters In the Snow. 1565. Oil on panel

HIGH NETHERLANDISH RENAISSANCE

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St. Chapelle1220-1236FRENCH RAYONNANT GOTHIC

Housed holy relics of the Passion of Christ collected by Louis IX

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Mihrab(Islamic niche on qibla wall) ISLAMIC

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Gerrit Rietveld, Schroder House, 1923-24. DE STIJL

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The Dome of the Rock, 691 CE(Oldest existing Islamic building in the World) ISLAMIC

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The Taj Mahal, Agra, India. ISLAMIC ART

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Ganeshathe Elephant-headed

God

HINDU

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The Great Stupa, 3rd Century BCE, Sanchi, India. BUDDHISM

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Japanese PAGODA

BUDDHISM

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Vishnu the Preserver

Hindu

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Hindu Temple

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Vedas, or Vedic HinduText pages

HINDU

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Augustus of Primaporta,Early 1st Century BCE

REPUBLIC ROME

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Umberto BoccioniUnique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913.FUTURISM

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Georgia O’KeeffeRed Canna, 1923.REGIONALISM

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Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1905-06. FAUVISM

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Salvador Dali, The Persistence Of Memory, 1931. SURREALISM