Subject Headings for Art History

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Ancient Art Books Subject Headings (By Country, Region or Era)

• Pottery -- Egypt -- History.
• ​Art, Ancient -- Egypt -- Exhibitions.
• Art, Egyptian.
• Pyramids -- Egypt.
• Pyramids -- Design and construction.
• Mummies -- Egypt.
• Egypt -- History -- Old Kingdom, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C.
• Egypt -- Kings and rulers -- Tombs.
• Painting, Egyptian.
• Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian.
• Mural painting and decoration, Ancient -- Egypt.
• Sculpture, Egyptian -- Exhibitions.
• Bronze sculpture, Ancient -- Egypt.
• Furniture, Ancient -- Egypt.
• Tombs -- Egypt -- Thebes (Extinct city)
• Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient -- Egypt.
• Tombs -- Social aspects -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500.
• Egypt -- Antiquities.
• Architecture, Egyptian.

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s:assyro-babylonian s:art

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Ancient Art Books Subject Headings (By Country, Region or Era)

• Art -- Mesopotamia.
• Art, Ancient -- Middle East.
• Art, Assyro-Babylonian
• Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian.
• Relief (Sculpture), Assyro-Babylonian -- Catalogs.
• Bas-relief.
• Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.
• Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634.
• Art, Sumerian -- History.
• Sculpture, Sumerian.
• Temples -- Iraq -- Sumer.
• Art, Ancient -- Palestine.
• Architecture, Ancient -- Palestine.
• Palestine -- Antiquities.

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Ancient Art Books Subject Headings (By Country, Region or Era)​

• Art, Classical.
• Art, Ancient -- Greece.
• Marble sculpture, Ancient -- Greece.
• Art, Cretan.
• Art, Minoan.
• Art, Mycenaean.
• Parthenon (Athens, Greece)
• Temple of Zeus (Olympia, Greece)
• Rome -- Antiquities.
• Relief (Sculpture), Ancient -- Italy -- Rome.
• Architecture, Roman.
• Monuments -- Rome.
• Architecture, Domestic -- Rome -- History.
• Mural painting and decoration, Roman -- Themes, motives.
• Relief (Sculpture), Ancient -- Italy -- Rome.
• Portrait sculpture, Roman -- Italy -- Rome.
• Column of Marcus Aurelius (Rome, Italy) -- History.
• Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Monuments.
• Architecture and state -- Rome.
• Civilization, Classical.

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Ancient Art Books Subject Headings (By Country, Region or Era)

• Art, Byzantine.
• Art, Byzantine -- History.
• Art, Byzantine -- Themes, motives.
• Art and state -- Byzantine Empire.
• Architecture, Byzantine -- Turkey.
• Iconoclasm -- Byzantine Empire.
• Painting, Byzantine.
• Pottery, Byzantine.
• Architecture, Byzantine.
• Sculpture, Byzantine.
• Mosaics, Byzantine.
• Portraits, Byzantine -- Catalogs.
• Glassware, Byzantine -- Congresses.
• Glass manufacture -- Byzantine Empire -- History -- Congresses.
• Christianity and art -- Orthodox Eastern Church -- Byzantine Empire.
• Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval, 500-1500 -- Byzantine Empire

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Ancient Art Books Subject Headings (By Country, Region or Era)

• Archaeology, Medieval.
• Art, Medieval.
• Sculpture, Medieval.
• Sculpture, Medieval -- England.
• Painting, Medieval -- Italy.
• Architecture, Medieval.
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
• Miniature painting, Medieval -- France.
• Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval, 500-1500.
• Art, Carolingian.
• Architecture, Carolingian.
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Carolingian.
• Art, Romanesque.
• Architecture, Romanesque.
• Sculpture, Romanesque.
• Doorways, Romanesque -- Europe.
• Art objects, Romanesque.
• Art, Romanesque -- Europe.
• Art, Gothic.
• Gothic revival (Art)
• Painting, Gothic
• Sculpture, Gothic.
• Architecture, Gothic.
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic -- France -- Exhibitions.