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	Music	Visual Art	Theatre	Architecture	Film	Dance
Pre-Classical		Cave Paintings at Lascaux	The Eleusinian Mysteries	Palace of Minos		Minoan Bull Dancing
Classical	Plato on Music	Sleeping Satyr ("Barbieri Faun")	Sophocles, Antigone	Temple of Athena Nike
Early Medieval	Geogorian Chant, *Gradual: Haec dies	Baptistry of the Arians	Hrotsvitha, Dulcitius	Santa Costanza
Late Medieval	Landini, *Amor c'al tuo suggetto	Hildegarde of Bingen, The Cosmic Egg	Noah and His Sons	Notre-Dame Cathedral
Renaissance	Gesualdo, *Io pur respiro in cosi gran dolore	Michelangelo, The Sistine Chapel	Shakespeare, The Tempest	Ca' d'Oro, Venice		Sarabande
Baroque	Bach, *Mass in B minor	Bernini, David	Moliere, Tartuffe	Poppelman, Zwinger Palace, Dresden		Minuet
Neo-Classical	Mozart,  *The Magic Flute	Falconet, La Baigneuse	Racine, Phaedra	Temple of Love, Palace Gardens of Versailles		Early Ballet
Romantic	Beethoven,  *Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"	Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party	Schiller, Mary Stewart	Phillip Webb, The Red House		Modern Ballet, Ballanchine
Post-Romantic	Wagner, *The Ring of the Nibelung	van Gogh, Self-Portrait	Chekhov, Uncle Vanya	Gaudi, Sagrada Familia	Epstein, The Fall of the House of Usher	Isadora Duncan, My Life
Modern	Stravinsky, *The Rite of Spring	Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon	Wilde,  Salome	Paxton, The Chrystal Palace	Eisenstein, Battleship Potempkin	Martha Graham
Post-Modern	Cage, *Imaginary Landscape	Duchamp, With Hidden Noise	Kushner, Angels in America	Wright, Guggenheim Museum	Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors	Deborah Hay

 
+ These examples are works which have characteristics placing them in an era later than the era normally associated with the time in which they were created.
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	Music	Visual Arts	Literature	Theatre	Architecture	Film	Dance
Magical	Baka Yelli Music	African Masks	Celtic Poem, Song of Amergin	Noh Theatre	Lakota Sweat Lodge	Maya Deren, The Divine Horsemen	Native American traditional dance
Mythical	Balinese Monkey Chant	Tibetan Thankas	Hopi, The Four Worlds	Kalidasa, Shakuntala	Tlingit Partition Cell	Early African American Spiritual Films	Katakali
Rational	Drupada Music	Alhambra: Mexuar (Council Chamber)	Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea	Arthol, Fugard, "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys	Taj Mahal	Kurosawa, Kagamusha	Pow Wow Dancing
Integral	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Charlene Teters, It Was Only an Indian	Louise Erdrich, Tracks	Robert Mirabal	Tadao Ando, Rokko Housing One	Marquez/Cruz, Erendira	Butoh Dance