Global Prehistory
30,000-500B.C.E.
1. Apollo 11
2. Great Hall of Bulls
3. Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine
4. Running horned woman
5. Bushel with ibex motifs
6. Anthropomorphic stele
7. Jade cong
8. Stonehenge
9. Ambum Stone
10. Tlatilco female figurine
11. Terra cotta fragment
Africa
1100-1980 C.E.
175. Bundu mask
173. Female (Pwo) Mask
178. Aka elephant mask
174. Portrait mask (Mblo)
169. Wall plaque, from Oba's palace
171. Ndop (portrait figure) of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul
180. Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga)
170. Sika dwa kofi (Golden Stool)
177. Lukasa (memory board)
172. Nkisi n’kondi
179. Reliquary figure (byeri)
176. Ikenga (shrine figure)
167. Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe
Indigenous Americas
1000 B.C.E.-1980 C.E.
153. Chavín de Huántar
155. Yaxchilán lintel 25, structure 23
* Teotihaucan - City of Teotihaucan
- Pyramid of the Sun
- Pyramid of the Moon
- Temple of the Feathered Serpent
157. Templo Mayor, Main Aztec temple
* The Coyolxauhqui Stone
* Calendar stone
* Olmec-style mask
158. Ruler's feather headdress (Moctezuma II)
159. City of Cusco
160. Maize cob
161. City of Machu Picchu
162. All-T'oqapu Tunic
154. Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings
166. Black-on-black ceramic vessel, Maria Martínez and Julian Martínez
156. Great Serpent Mound
163. Bandolier Bag
165. Painted elk hide, attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody)
164. Transformation mask
Sumerian Art
12. White Temple and its ziggurat
14. Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna
16. Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur
* Ziggurat of Ur
Later Mesopotamian Art
19. The Code Stele of Hammurabi
25. Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Iraq)
30. Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xeres
* Victory Stele of Naram sin
Egyptian Art
13. Palette of King Narmer
15. Seated Scribe
17. Great Pyramids of Giza
18. King Menkaura and Queen
20. Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall
21. Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
22. Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters
23. Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin
24. Last judgment of Hu-Nefer, (Book of the Dead)
* Seated Statue of Khafre
* Temple of Ramses II
* Statue of Akenaton
Greek Art
27. Anavysos Kouros
28. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis
* Dying Warrior East Pediment Aphaia
* Dying Warrior East Pediment Aphaia (archaic)
* Kritios Boy
​​* Delphi Charioteer
26. Athenian Agora
33. Niobides Krater
34. Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
36. Grave Stele of Hegeso
35. Acropolis
* Parthenon
* Helios, horses, Dionysus (Heracles?), East Pediment
* Frieze Plaque of the Ergastines
* Victory adjusting her sandal, Temple of Athena Nike
* Aphprodite of Knidos
* Hermes and Infant Dionysos
37. Winged Victory of Samothrace
38. Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
41. Seated Boxer
* Laocoon and His Sons
Etruscan Art
29. Sarcophagus of the Spouses
31. Temple of Minerva (Veii near Rome, Italy), sculpture of Apollo
32. Tomb of the Triclinium
* Capitoline Wolf
* The Orator
Roman Art + Architecture
42. Head of a Roman Patrician
* Roman Bearing the Busts of his Ancestors
* Pont du Gard, Nimes
* Maison Carree, Nimes
40. Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii
39. House of the Vettii
43. Augustus of Prima Porta
* Ara Pacis
44. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
45. Forum of Trajan
46. Pantheon
* Marcus Aurelius Equestrian statue
​* Arch of Constantine
47. Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
181. Petra, Jordan: Treasury and Great Temple
183. The Kaaba
185. Dome of the Rock
186. Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh), Isfahan
56. Great Mosque, Córdoba, Spain
84. Mosque of Selim II
168. Great Mosque of Djenne, with markets, Mali
65. Alhambra
209. Taj Mahal
57. Pyxis of al-Mughira
188. Basin (Baptistère de Saint Louis), Mohammed ibn al-Zain
191. The Ardabil Carpet
187. Folio from a Qur'an
189. Bahram Gur Fights the Karg, folio from the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama
190. The Court of Gayumars, folio from Shah Tahmasp's Shahnama
208. Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, Bichitr
Early Christian Art/Medieval Art
48. Catacomb of Priscilla (Greek Chapel, Orant, Good Shepherd frescos)
49. Santa Sabina
* Old St. Peter’s
* Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
Byzantine
52. Hagia Sophia
51. San Vitale (including Justinian and Theodora panels)
54. Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
50. Vienna Genesis (Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well and Jacob)
Migratory Art + Early Northern Medieval Art
53. Merovingian looped fibulae
55. Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Matthew, cross-carpet page; St. Luke incipit page
Romanesque Art – 1000-1150 CE
58. Church of Sainte-Foy and Reliquary
59. Bayeux Tapestry
Gothic Art + Architecture + Sculpture
60. Chartres Cathedral
* West, North, South Portals
* Notre Dame de la Bella Verriere
* Rheim Cathedral – Visitation/jamb statues
* Strasbourg Cathedral – Death of the Virgin tympanum
* Naumburg Cathedral – Ekkehard and Uta
61. Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France
62. Röttgen Pietà
* Visitation, jamb statues, Reim Cathedral
* The Virgin of Paris
* The Virgin of Jeanne d’Evreaux reliquary
Late Medieval Painting
63. Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, including Lamentation
64. Golden Haggadah
* Madonna Enthroned, Cimabue
* Madonna Enthroned, Giotto
* The Annuncination, Simone Martini
Northern Renaissance Art
66. Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
68. The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck
77. Isenheim Altarpiece, Matthias Grünewald
74. Adam and Eve, Albrecht Dürer
79. Allegory of Law and Grace, Lucas Cranach the Elder
83. Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
* Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch
Florentine Renaissance Art
* Brancacci Chapel – Masaccio’s Holy Trinity/Tribute Money
71. Madonna and Child with Two Angels, Fra Filippo Lippi
72. Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli
* Christ Delivering the Keys to the Kingdom, Perugino
* Florence Cathedral, Baptistry Doors, Ghiberti
69. David, Donatello and St. Mark
67. Pazzi Chapel, Filipo Brunellschi
70. Palazzo Rucellai, Leon Battista Alberti
High Renaissance Art
73. Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci
* Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci
76. School of Athens, Raphael
75. Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar wall frescos, Michelangelo
* Michelangelo: David, Pieta, Moses, Bound Slaves
* Bramante: tempieto, Plan for St. Peter’s
* Raphael’s cycle of paintings Stanza della Segnatura
Mannerism + Late Renaissance
78. Entombment of Christ, Jacobo da Pontormo
* Burial of Count Orgaz, El Greco
80. Venus of Urbino, Titian
* Villa Rotunda, Palladio
* Last Supper, Tintoretto
* Feast in the House of Levi, Veronese
Southern Baroque Art
85. Calling of Saint Matthew, Caravaggio
* Conversion of St. Paul, Death of the Virgin, Entombment, Caravaggio
82. Il Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco
88. San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Francesco Borromini
89. Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Gian Lorenzo Bernini
* Blessed Ludovica, Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Southern + Northern Aristocratic + Spanish Baroque Art
86. Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de'Medici, Peter Paul Rubens
93. The Palace at Versailles
* Hall of Mirrors
* The Gardens of Versailles
91. Las Meninas, Diego Velazquez
* Water Carrier
Northern Bourgeois Baroque Art
87. Self-Portrait with Saskia, Rembrandt van Rijn
* Dr. Tulp’s Anatomy Lesson
* Night Watch
92. Woman Holding a Balance, Johannes Vermeer
* The Allegory of the Art of Painting, Vermeer
96. Fruit and Insects, Rachel Ruysch
18th Century Art + NeoClassicism
101. The Swing, Jean-Honoré Fragonard
98. The Tête à Tête, from Marriage a la Mode, William Hogarth
100. A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery, Joseph Wright of Derby
103. The Oath of the Horatii, Jacques-Louis David
105. Self-Portrait, Elisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun
107. La Grande Odalisque, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
102. Monticello, Thomas Jefferson
104. George Washington, Jean-Antoine Houdon
Romanticism
108. Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix
106. Y no hai remedio (And There's Nothing to Be Done), from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), plate 15, Francesco de Goya
* Third of May, 1808, Goya
* Raft of the Medusa, Gericault
111. Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying,Typhoon Coming On), Joseph Mallord William Turner
* The Haywain, Constable
109. View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, Thomas Cole
* Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, Bierstadt
* Twilight in the Wilderness, Church
112. Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament), Charles Barry, A.W.N. Pugin
Cross Cultural Connections in the New World
81. Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
90. Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Dei, Master of Calamarca
94. Screen with Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene
95. The Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe), Miguel González
97. Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo, attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez
99. Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Miguel Cabrera
118. The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel, José María Velasco
220. Tamati waka Nene, Gottfried Lindaur
188. Basin (Baptistère de Saint Louis), Mohammed ibn al-Zain
163. Bandolier Bag
165. Painted elk hide, attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody)
166. Black-on-black ceramic vessel, Maria Martínez and Julian Martínez
212. Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan
192. Great Stupa at Sanchi
198. Borobudur
182. Buddha, Bamiyan
184. Jowo Rinpoche, enshrined in the Jokhang Temple
195. Longmen caves
Indian Hindu Art
200. Lakshmana Temple
202. Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)
199. Angkor, the temple of Angkor Wat, the city of Angkor Thom, Cambodia
* Churning of the Ocean Milk Relief
* Jayavarman VII as Buddha
China
193. Terracotta warriors from mausoleum of the first Qin emperor of China
194. Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui)
195. Longmen caves
206. Forbidden City
201. Travelers among Mountains and Streams, Fan Kuan
204. The David Vases
196. Gold and jade crown
205. Portrait of Sin Sukju
Japan
197. Todai-ji
* Great Buddha
* Gate and Nio guardian statues
203. Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace
207. Ryoan-ji
210. White and Red Plum Blossoms, Ogata Korin
211. Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Katsushika Hokusai
Realism/Photography/19th Century Architecture
113. The Stonebreakers, Gustave Courbet
* The Gleaners, Millet
115. Olympia, Édouard Manet
* The Gross Clinic, Eakins
* The Thankful Poor, The Banjo Lesson, Tanner
119. The Burghers of Calais, Auguste Rodin
* Age of Bronze, Gates of Hell
114. Nadar Elevating Photography to Art, Honoré Daumier
110. Still Life in Studio, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
117. The Horse in Motion, Eadweard Muybridge
127. The Steerage, Alfred Stieglitz
124. Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, Louis Sullivan
* Bibliotheque Nationale, Labrouste
* Crystal Palace, Paxton
* Eiffel Tower, Eiffel
* Marshall Field Building, Richardson
Impressionism
116. The Saint-Lazare Station, Claude Monet
* Impression, Sunrise, Water Lilies series (Hay Stacks)
* Degas – ballerinas/bathers
* Renoir – Le Moulin de la Galette, Luncheon of the Boating Party
121. The Coiffure, Mary Cassatt
Post Impressionism (Modernism)
120. The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh
123. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, Paul Gauguin
125. Mont Sainte-Victoire, Paul Cézanne
Modernism
126. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso
130. The Portuguese, Georges Braque
131. The Goldfish, Henri Matisse
122. The Scream, Edvard Munch
128. The Kiss, Gustav Klimt
129. The Kiss, Constantin Brancusi
Expressionism
128. The Kiss, Gustav Klimt
131. The Goldfish, Henri Matisse
133. Self-Portrait as a Soldier, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
132. Improvisation 28 (second version), Vasily Kandinsky
134. Memorial Sheet of Karl Liebknecht, Käthe Kollwitz
Cubism
126. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso
130. The Portuguese, Georges Braque
* Leger, Delauney, Davis
Dada
144. Fountain, Marcel Duchamp
De Stijl
136. Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, Piet Mondrian
Surrealism
138. Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), Meret Oppenheim
140. The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo
Modern Intersections
140. The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo
141. The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49, Jacob Lawrence
142. The Jungle, Wilfredo Lam
143. Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park, Diego Rivera
Modern Architecture
124. Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, Louis Sullivan
135. Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier
139. Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright
146. Seagram Building, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson
American Post WWII Modern Art Movements
Abstract Expressionism
149. The Bay, Helen Frankenthaler
145. Woman I, Willem de Kooning
* Jackson Pollock
Pop Art
147. Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol
150. Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, Claes Oldenburg
Earth Art
151. Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson
137. Illustration from The Results of the First Five-Year Plan, Varvara Stepanova
Installation Art
224. The Gates, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
148. Narcissus garden, Yayoi Kusama
The Oceanic (Pacific)
700-1980 C.E.
221. Navigation chart
219. Hiapo (tapa)
220. Tamati waka Nene, Gottfried Lindaur
215. 'Ahu 'ula (feather cape)
223. Presentation of Fijian mats and tapas cloths to Queen Elizabeth II
216. Staff god
217. Female deity from Nukuoro
218. Buk mask
222. Malagan display and mask
213. Nan Madol
214. Moai on platform (ahu)
Global Contemporary/Post Modernism
Installation
224. The Gates, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
225. Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin
248. Shibboleth, Doris Salcedo
238. Electronic Superhighway, Nam June Paik
Identity
242. Lying with the Wolf, Kiki Smith
243. Darkytown Rebellion, Kara Walker
236. En la Barberia no se Llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop), Pepon Osorio
231. Untitled (#228), from the History Portraits series, Cindy Sherman
232. Dancing at the Louvre, from the series, The French Collection, part 1; #1, Faith Ringgold
Culture
235. Rebellious Silence, from the Women of Allah series, Shirin Neshat (artist); photo by Cynthia Preston
237. Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000), Michel Tuffery
244. The Swing (After Fragonard), Yinka Shonibare
245. Old Man’s Cloth, El Anatsui
233. Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People), Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
234. Earth’s Creation, Emily Kame Kngwarreye
229. A Book from the Sky, Xu Bing
250. Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds), Ai Weiwei
228. Androgyne III, Magdalena Abakanowicz
226. Horn Players, Jean-Michel Basquiat
230. Pink Panther, Jeff Koons
247. Preying Mantra, Wangechi Mutu
246. Stadia II, Julie Mehretu
227. Summer Trees, Song Su-nam
241. Pure Land, Mariko Mori
239. The Crossing, Bill Viola
Architecture
152. House in New Castle County, Robert Ventura, John Rausch and Denise Scott Brown
240. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry
249. MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Zaha Hadid