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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 

 

Ancient Mediterranean

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 

 

Islamic Art

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 

 

Buddhist Art

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 

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