In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette (1886), Edvard Munch’s By the Deathbed (1893) and Hugo Simberg’s The Garden ...

Medieval Japan saw warfare and chaos. The growth of the warrior class and the influence of Buddhism ... Rather than focusing on one particular art form, this lesson uses a variety of images from ...