-
25,500 BCE
Global Prehistory
Apollo 11 Stones
Namibia
c. 25,500 - 25,300 B.C.E.
Charcoal on stone -
15,000 BCE
Global Prehistory
Great Hall of the Bulls Cave paintings
Lascaux, France. 15,000-13,000 B.C.E. Rock painting -
14,000 BCE
Global Prehistory
Camelid sacrum
Tequixquiac, Mexico, 14,000–7000 B.C.E., Bone
Subtractive sculpture -
6000 BCE
Global Prehistory
Running Horned Woman
Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria
6000 - 4000 B.C.E
Pigment on rock
Hierarchy of scale -
4200 BCE
Global Prehistory
Beaker with ibex motif
Susa, Iran
4200--3500 B.C.E.
Painted terra-cotta -
4000 BCE
Global Prehistory
Anthropomorphic stele
Arabian Peninsula
4th millennium B.C.E
Sandstone
Stele - Upright stone
Low relief structure -
3500 BCE
Ancient Near Eastern Art
White Temple and its ziggurat
Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq)
Sumerian
c.3500-3000 B.C.E.
Mud brick -
3300 BCE
Global Prehistory
Jade Cong
Liangzhu, China, 3300-2200 B.C.E., Carved jade -
3000 BCE
Egyptian Art
Palette of Narmer
Predynastic Egypt
c.3000-2920 B.C.E.
Greywacke -
2700 BCE
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Statues of votive figures
From the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)
Sumerian
c.2700 B.C.E.
Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone -
2620 BCE
Egyptian Art
Seated scribe
Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty
c.2620-2500 B.C.E.
Painted limestone -
2600 BCE
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur
Modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq
Sumerian
c.2600-2400 B.C.E.
Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone -
2550 BCE
Egyptian Art
Great Pyramids and the Great Sphinx
Giza, Egypt
Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty
c.2550-2490 B.C.E.
Cut limestone -
2500 BCE
Global Prehistory
Stonehenge
Wiltshire, UK
Neolithic Europe
c.2500-1600 B.C.E
Sandstone -
2490 BCE
Egyptian Art
King Menkaura and queen
Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty
c.2490-2472 B.C.E.
Greywacke -
1792 BCE
Ancient Near Eastern Art
The Code of Hammurabi
Babylon (Modern Iran)
Susian
c.1792-1750 B.C.E.
Basalt -
1550 BCE
Egyptian Art
Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall
New Kingdom, 18th & 19th Dynasties
Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt
Temple: c.1550 B.C.E.
Hall: c.1250 B.C.E.
Cut sandstone and mud brick -
1500 BCE
Global Prehistory
Ambum Stone
Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
1500 B.C.E
Greywacke -
1473 BCE
Egyptian Art
Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
And kneeling sculpture
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
Near Luxor, Egypt
c.1473-1458 B.C.E.
Sandstone, partially covered into a rock cliff, and red granite -
1458 BCE
Egyptian Art
Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
And kneeling sculpture
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
Near Luxor, Egypt
c.1473-1458 B.C.E.
Sandstone, partially covered into a rock cliff, and red granite -
1353 BCE
Egyptian Art
Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters
New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty
c.1353-1335 B.C.E.
Limestone -
1323 BCE
Egyptian Art
Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
c.1323 B.C.E.
Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones -
1275 BCE
Egyptian Art
Last judgment of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty
c.1275 B.C.E.
Painted papyrus scroll -
1200 BCE
Global Prehistory
Tlatilco female figurine
Central Mexico
1200 - 900 B.C.E
Ceramic
Incised Lines -
1000 BCE
Global Prehistory
Terra cotta fragment
Solomon Islands, Reef Islands
1000 B.C.E
Terra cotta -
720 BCE
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II
Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq)
Neo-Assyrian c.720-705 B.C.E.
Alabaster -
600 BCE
Ancient Greece
Athenian Agora
Archaic through Hellenistic Greek
600 B.C.E. - 150 C.E.
Plan -
530 BCE
Ancient Greece
Peplos Kore from the Acropolis
Archaic Greek
c.530 B.C.E.
Marble, painted details -
530 BCE
Ancient Greece
Anavysos Kouros
Archaic Greek
c.530 B.C.E.
Marble with remnants of paint -
520 BCE
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes
Persepolis, Iran
Persian
c.520-465 B.C.E.
Limestone -
520 BCE
Etruscan Art
Sarcophagus of the Spouses
Etruscan. c.520 B.C.E.
Terracotta -
510 BCE
Etruscan Art
Temple of Minerva (Veii, near Rome, Italy)
Etruscan. c.510-500 B.C.E.
Original temple of wood, mud brick, or tufa (volcanic rock) -
510 BCE
Etruscan Art
Sculpture of Apollo, Veii
Master sculptor Vulca
Etruscan. c.510-500 B.C.E.
Terracotta -
500 BCE
Ancient Greece
Helios, horses, and Dionysus (Heracles?)
East Pediment Sculpture, Parthenon (Phidias?)
5th Century B.C.E.
Marble -
500 BCE
Ancient Greece
Plaque of the Ergastines
Parthenon (Phidias)
5th Century B.C.E.
Marble -
480 BCE
Etruscan Art
Tomb of the Triclinium
Tarquinia, Italy. Etruscan.
c.480-470 B.C.E. Tufa and fresco -
460 BCE
Ancient Greece
Niobides Krater
Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter.
c.460-450 B.C.E.
Clay, red figure technique -
450 BCE
Ancient Greece
Doryphoros (Spear bearer)
Polykleitos
Original 450-440 B.C.E.
Roman copy (marble) of the Greek original (bronze) -
447 BCE
Ancient Greece
Acropolis
Iktinos and Kallikrates
c.447-410 B.C.E.
Marble -
447 BCE
Ancient Greece
Parthenon
Iktinos and Kallikrates
c.447-410 B.C.E.
Marble -
427 BCE
Ancient Greece
Temple of Athena Nike
Kallikrates
c.427-424 B.C.E.
Marble -
427 BCE
Ancient Greece
Victory (Nike) adjusting her sandal
Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis)
c.427-424 B.C.E.
Marble -
410 BCE
Ancient Greece
Grave Stele of Hegeso
Attributed to Kallimachos
c.410 B.C.E.
Marble and paint -
400 BCE
Roman Art & Architecture
Petra, Jordan: Treasury and Great Temple
Nabataean Ptolemaic and Roman
c. 400 B.C.E - 100 C.E.
Cut rock -
300 BCE
Buddhist Art
Great Stupa at Sanchi
Madhya Pradesh, India
Buddhist; Maurya, late Sunga Dynasty
c. 300 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Stone masonry, sandstone on dome -
221 BCE
Asian Art
Terra cotta warriors from mausoleum of the first Qin emperor of China
Qin Dynasty.
c. 221-209 B.C.E.
Painted terra cotta -
200 BCE
Roman Art & Architecture
House of the Vettii
Pompeii, Italy
Imperial Roman
c. 2nd Century B.C.E.
Cut stone and fresco -
190 BCE
Ancient Greece
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Hellenistic Greek
c.190 B.C.E.
Marble -
180 BCE
Asian Art
Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui)
Han Dynasty, China
c. 180 B.C.E.
Painted silk -
175 BCE
Ancient Greece
Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). Hellenistic Greek.
c.175 B.C.E.
Marble -
175 BCE
Ancient Greece
Frieze of Athena from the Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). Hellenistic Greek.
c.175 B.C.E.
Marble -
100 BCE
Roman Art & Architecture
Alexander mosaic from the House of Faun, Pompeii
Republican Roman c.100 B.C.E.
Mosaic -
100 BCE
Ancient Greece
Seated Boxer
Hellenistic Greek
C.100 B.C.E.
Bronze -
100 BCE
Roman Art & Architecture
Augustus of Prima Porta
Imperial Roman
Early 1st Century C.E.
Marble -
75 BCE
Roman Art & Architecture
Head of a Roman patrician
Republican Roman
c.75-50 B.C.E.
Marble -
70
Roman Art & Architecture
Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
Rome, Italy. Imperial Roman.
70-80 C.E.Stone and concrete. -
106
Roman Art & Architecture
Forum of Trajan
Rome, Italy. Apollodorus of Damascus. Forum and markets.
c.106-112 C.E.
Brick and concrete. -
113
Roman Art & Architecture
Column of Trajan
Completed 113 C.E.
Marble -
118
Roman Art & Architecture
Pantheon
Imperial Roman. 118-125 C.E.
Concrete with stone facing. -
250
Roman Art & Architecture
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
Late Imperial Roman. c.250 C.E.
Marble. -
400
Buddhist Art
Buddha
Bamiyan, Afghanistan
Gandharan
c. 400-800 C.E.
(destroyed in 2001)
Cut rock with plaster and polychrome paint -
400
Asian Art
Gold and jade crown
Three Kingdoms Period
Silla Kingdom, Korea
Fifth to sixth century C.E.
Metalwork -
493
Buddhist Art
Longmen caves
Luoyang, China. Tang Dynasty.
493-1127 C.E.
Limestone -
631
Islamic Art
The Kaaba
Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Islamic. Pre-Islamic monument
Rededicated by Muhammad in 631-632 C.E. Multiple renovations
Granite masonry, covered with silk curtain and calligraphy in gold and silver-wrapped thread -
641
Buddhist Art
Jowo Rinpoche, enshrined in the Jokhang Temple
Lhasa, Tibet. Yarlung Dynasty.
Believed to have been brought to Tibet in 641 C.E.
Gilt metals with semiprecious stones, pearls, and paint; various offerings -
691
Islamic Art
Dome of the Rock
Jerusalem. Islamic. Umayyad.
691-692 C.E., with multiple renovations
Stone masonry and wooden roof decorated with glazed ceramic tile, mosaics, and gilt aluminum and bronze dome. -
700
African/Pacific Art
Nan Madol
Pohnpei, Micronesia
Saudeleur Dynasty
c. 700-1600 C.E.
Basalt boulders and prismatic columns -
743
Asian Art
Todai-ji
Nara, Japan
743 C.E.; rebuilt c. 1700
Wood with ceramic-tile roofing -
749
Asian Art
Great Buddha (Daibutsu) from Todai-ji
Bronze -
750
Buddhist Art
Borobudur Temple
Central Java, Indonesia
Sailendra Dynasty
c. 750-842 C.E.
Volcanic-stone masonry -
785
Islamic Art
Great Mosque
Córdoba, Spain. Umayyad
c. 785-786 C.E.
Stone masonry -
800
Hindu Art
Churning of the Ocean of Milk
Angkor Wat
Hindu, Angkor Dynasty
c. 800-1400 C.E.
Sandstone -
800
Hindu Art
Jayavarman VII as Buddha
Angkor Thom
Hindu, Angkor Dynasty
c. 800-1400 C.E. Stone masonry, sandstone -
800
Islamic Art
Folio from a Qur’an
Arab, North Africa or Near East
Abbasid. c. eighth to ninth century C.E.
Ink, color, and gold on parchment -
930
Hindu Art
Lakshmana Temple
Khajuraho, India. Hindu, Chandella Dynasty
c. 930-950 C.E. Sandstone -
1000
African/Pacific Art
Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe
Southeastern Zimbabwe
Shona peoples
c. 1000-1400 C.E.
Coursed granite blocks -
1000
Asian Art
Travelers among Mountains and Streams
Fan Kuan
c. 1000 C.E.
Ink and colors on silk -
1066
African/Pacific Art
Power figure (Nkisi n’kondi)
Kongo peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
c. late 19th century C.E.
1066 - 1067 CE
Wood and metal -
1100
Hindu Art
Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)
Hindu
India (Tamil Nadu)
Chola Dynasty
c. 11th century C.E.
Cast bronze -
1100
African/Pacific Art
Moai on platform (ahu)
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
c. 1100-1600 C.E.
Volcanic tuff figures on basalt base -
1200
Islamic Art
Great Mosque of Djenné
Mali
Founded c. 1200 C.E.; rebuilt 1906-1907
Adobe -
1200
Asian Art
Nio guardian statues
from Todai-ji
Various artists including sculptors Unkei and Keikei, as well as the Kei School
c. 1200 C.E.
Wood -
1250
Asian Art
Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace
Kamakura Period, Japan
c. 1250-1300 C.E.
Handscroll (ink and color on paper) -
1320
Islamic Art
Basin (Baptistère de St. Louis)
Muhammad ibn al-Zain
c. 1320-1340 C.E.
Brass inlaid with gold and silver -
1330
Islamic Art
Bahram Gur Fights the Karg, folio from the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama
Islamic
Persian, Il-Khanid
c. 1330-1340 C.E.
Ink and opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper -
1351
Asian Art
The David Vases
Yuan Dynasty, China
1351 C.E.
White porcelain with cobalt-blue underglaze -
1354
Islamic Art
Alhambra
Granada, Spain. Nasrid Dynasty
1354-1391 C.E.
Whitewashed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gilding -
1400
Asian Art
Forbidden City
Beijing, China. Ming Dynasty.
15th century C.E. and later
Stone masonry, marble, brick, wood, and ceramic tile -
1417
Asian Art
Portrait of Sin Sukju (1417-1475)
Imperial Bureau of Painting
c. 15th century C.E.
Hanging scroll (ink and color on silk) -
1427
Northern Renaissance Art
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Workshop of Robert Campin
1427-1432 C.E. Oil on wood -
1427
Florentine Renaissance Art
Tribute Money from the Brancacci Chapel
Masaccio.
Florence, Italy.
1427 C.E. Fresco -
1427
Florentine Renaissance Art
Holy Trinity
Masaccio
c. 1427 C.E.
Fresco -
1434
Northern Renaissance Art
The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck
c. 1434 C.E.
Oil on wood -
1450
Florentine Renaissance Art
Palazzo Rucellai
Florence, Italy
Leon Battista Alberti (architect)
c. 1450 C.E.
Stone, masonry -
1452
Florentine Renaissance Art
“Gates of Paradise”
East doors for the Baptistery
Santa Maria del Fiore (Florence Cathedral)
Lorenzo Ghiberti
1425-1452 C.E.
Bronze -
1460
Florentine Renaissance Art
David
Donatello
c. 1440-1460 C.E.
Bronze -
1461
Florentine Renaissance Art
Pazzi Chapel
Basilica di Santa Croce
Florence, Italy
Filippo Brunelleschi (architect)
c. 1429-1461 C.E.
Masonry -
1465
Florentine Renaissance Art
Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi
c. 1465 C.E.
Tempera on wood -
1480
Asian Art
Ryoan-ji
Kyoto, Japan
Muromachi Period, Japan
c. 1480 C.E.; current design most likely dates to the 18th century
Rock garden -
1486
Florentine Renaissance Art
Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli
c. 1484-1486 C.E. Tempera on canvas -
1498
High Renaissance
Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci
c. 1494-1498 C.E. Oil and tempera -
1500
African/Pacific Art
Wall plaque, from Oba’s palace
Edo peoples, Benin (Nigeria)
16th century C.E.
Cast brass -
1504
Northern Renaissance Art
Adam and Eve
Albrecht Dürer
1504 C.E.
Engraving -
1508
High Renaissance
Sistine Chapel ceiling
Vatican City, Italy
Michelangelo
Ceiling frescoes: c. 1508-1512 C.E.
Altar frescoes: c. 1536-1541 C.E.
Fresco -
1511
High Renaissance
School of Athens
Raphael
c. 1509-1511 C.E. Fresco -
1512
Northern Renaissance Art
Isenheim altarpiece
Matthias Grünewald
c. 1512-1516 C.E.
Oil on wood -
1512
High Renaissance
The Flood (The Deluge)
Sistine Chapel Michelangelo
c. 1508-1512 C.E. Fresco -
1512
High Renaissance
The Delphic Sibyl
Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo
c. 1508-1512 C.E.
Fresco -
1522
Islamic Art
The Court of Gayumars, folio from Shah Tahmasp’s Shahnama
Sultan Muhammad
c. 1522-1525 C.E.
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper -
1528
Late Renaissance
Entombment of Christ
Jacopo da Pontormo
1525-1528 C.E.
Oil on wood -
1530
Northern Renaissance Art
Allegory of Law and Grace
Lucas Cranach the Elder
c. 1530 C.E.
Woodcut and letterpress -
1538
Late Renaissance
Venus of Urbino
Titian
c. 1538 C.E. Oil on canvas -
1539
Islamic Art
The Ardabil Carpet
Maqsud of Kashan
1539-1540 C.E.
Silk and wool -
1541
Late Renaissance
The Last Judgment
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel, 1536-1541 C.E.
Fresco -
1542
Cross Cultural Art
Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
Viceroyalty of New Spain
c. 1541-1542 C.E.
Ink and color on paper -
1565
Northern Renaissance Art
Hunters in the Snow
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1565 C.E. Oil on wood -
1568
Islamic Art
Mosque of Selim II
Edirne, Turkey
Sinan (architect)
1568-1575 C.E.
Brick and stone -
Southern Baroque Art
Il Gesù, Rome, Italy; Giacomo da Vignola (architect); Giacomo della Porta, facade (architect); Church: 16th Century C.E.; Facade: 1568-1584 C.E.
Brick, marble, stucco -
Southern Baroque Art
Il Gesù
Interior -
Southern Baroque Art
Calling of Saint Matthew
Caravaggio
c. 1597-1601 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Islamic Art
Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
Bichitr
c. 1620 C.E.
Watercolor, gold, and ink on paper -
Aristocratic Baroque Art
Henry IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de’ Medici, from the Marie de’ Medici Cycle
Peter Paul Rubens
1621-1625 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Islamic Art
Taj Mahal
Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
Masons, marble workers, mosaicists, and decorators working under the supervision of Ustad Ahmad Lahori, architect of the emperor. 1632-1653 C.E.
Stone masonry and marble with inlay of precious and semiprecious stones; gardens -
Bourgeois Baroque Art
Self-Portrait with Saskia
Rembrandt van Rijn
1636 C.E.
Etching -
Southern Baroque Art
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Rome, Italy
Francesco Borromini (architect)
1638-1646 C.E.
Stone and stucco -
Southern Baroque Art
Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria
Rome, Italy
c. 1647-1652 C.E.
Stucco -
Southern Baroque Art
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
c. 1647-1652 C.E.
Marble -
Southern Baroque Art
Cornaro Chapel
Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
c. 1647-1652 C.E.
Gilt bronze -
Aristocratic Baroque Art
Las Meninas
Diego Velázquez
c. 1656 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Bourgeois Baroque Art
Woman Holding a Balance
Johannes Vermeer
c. 1664 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Aristocratic Baroque Art
The Palace at Versailles
Versailles, France
Louis Le Vau & Jules Hardouin-Mansart (architects)
Begun 1669 C.E.
Masonry, stone, wood, iron, and gold leaf (architecture)
Marble and bronze (sculpture) -
Southern Baroque Art
Triumph of the Name of Jesus
Il Gesù
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Ceiling fresco and stucco figures
c. 1676-1679 C.E.
Fresco and stucco -
Cross Cultural Art
The Virgin of Guadalupe
(Virgen de Guadalupe)
Miguel González
c. 1698 C.E.
Based on original Virgin of Guadalupe Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico City
16th Century C.E.
Oil on canvas on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl -
African/Pacific Art
Sika dwa kofi (Golden Stool)
Ashanti peoples (south central Ghana)
c. 1700 C.E.
Gold over wood and cast-gold attachments -
African/Pacific Art
‘Ahu ‘ula (feather cape)
Hawaiian
Late 18th century C.E.
Feathers and fiber -
African/Pacific Art
Staff god
Rarotonga, Cook Islands, central Polynesia
Late 18th to early 19th century C.E.
Wood, tapa, fiber, and feathers -
African/Pacific Art
Female deity
Nukuoro, Micronesia
c. 18th to 19th century C.E.
Wood -
Cross Cultural Art
Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Dei
Master of Calamarca (La Paz School)
c. 17th Century C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Cross Cultural Art
Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene
Circle of the González Family c. 1697-1701 C.E.
Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay -
Asian Art
White and Red Plum Blossoms
Ogata Korin
c. 1710-1716 C.E.
Ink, watercolor, and gold leaf on paper -
Bourgeois Baroque Art
Fruit and Insects
Rachel Ruysch
1711 C.E. Oil on wood -
Cross Cultural Art
Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo
Attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez c. 1715 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Rococo Art
The Tête a Tête, from Marriage à la Mode
William Hogarth
c. 1743 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Cross Cultural Art
Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Miguel Cabrera
c. 1750 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
African/Pacific Art
Ndop (portrait figure) of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul
Kuba peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
c. 1760-1780 C.E.
Wood -
Rococo Art
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery
Joseph Wright of Derby
c. 1763-1765 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Rococo Art
The Swing
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
1767 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Rococo Art
The Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David
1784 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Rococo Art
Self-Portrait
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
1790 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Rococo Art
George Washington
Jean-Antoine Houdon
1788-1792 C.E.
Marble -
African/Pacific Art
Bundu mask
Sande Society, Mende peoples (West African forests of Sierra Leone and Liberia)
19th to 20th century C.E.
Wood, cloth, and fiber -
African/Pacific Art
Aka elephant mask
Bamileke (Cameroon, western grassfields region)
c. 19th to 20th century C.E.
Wood, woven raffia, cloth, and beads -
African/Pacific Art
Lukasa (memory board)
Mbudye Society, Luba peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
c. 19th to 20th century C.E.
Wood, beads, and metal -
African/Pacific Art
Ikenga (shrine figure)
Igbo peoples (Nigeria)
c. 19th to 20th century C.E.
Wood -
African/Pacific Art
Reliquary figure (byeri)
Fang peoples (southern Cameroon)
c. 19th to 20th century C.E.
Wood -
African/Pacific Art
Navigation chart
Marshall Islands, Micronesia
19th to early 20th century C.E.
Wood and fiber -
African/Pacific Art
Buk (mask)
Mid to late 19th Century
Torres Strait (islander People)
Maubiag Island
25 in
Turtle shell, wood, fiber, feathers, and shell -
Rococo Art
Monticello
Virginia, U.S.
Thomas Jefferson (architect), 1768-1809 C.E.
Brick, glass, stone and wood -
Rococo Art
La Grande Odalisque
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
1814 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Romanticism Art
Y no hai remedio (And There’s Nothing to be Done), from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), plate 15
Francisco de Goya
1810-1823 C.E. (published 1863)
Etching, drypoint, burin, and burnishing -
Asian Art
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
1830-1833 C.E.
Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper -
Romanticism Art
Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
1830 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Romanticism Art
The Oxbow
(View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm)
Thomas Cole
1836 C.E. Oil on canvas -
Realism/Photography Art
Still Life in Studio
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
1837 C.E.
Daguerreotype -
Romanticism Art
Slave Ship
(Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)
Joseph Mallord William Turner
1840 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Realism/Photography Art
The Stone Breakers
Gustave Courbet
1849 C.E. (destroyed in 1945)
Oil on canvas -
African/Pacific Art
Hiapo (tapa)
Niue
c. 1850-1900 C.E.
Tapa or bark cloth, freehand painting -
Realism/Photography Art
Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art
Honoré Daumier
1862 C.E.
Lithograph -
Realism/Photography Art
Olympia
Édouard Manet
1863 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
Romanticism Art
Palace of Westminster (House of Parliament)
London, England. Charles Barry and Augustus W.N. Pugin (architects)
1840-1870 C.E.
Limestone masonry and glass -
Realism/Photography Art
The Horse in Motion
Eadweard Muybridge
1878 C.E.
Albumen print -
Cross Cultural Art
The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel
(El Valle de México desde el Cerro de Santa Isabel)
Jose María Velasco 1882 C.E.
Oil on canvas -
African/Pacific Art
Female (Pwo) mask
Chokwe peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Late 19th to 20th century C.E.
Wood, fiber, pigment, and metal -
African/Pacific Art
Tamati Waka Nene
Gottfried Lindauer
Maori (Nga-ti-toa tribe)
Auckland National Art Gallery
1890 C.E.
Oil on canvas
40.1’’ x 33.1’’ -
Realism/Photography Art
The Burghers of Calais
Auguste Rodin
1884-1895 C.E.
Bronze -
African/Pacific Art
Portrait mask (Mblo)
Baule peoples (Côte d’Ivoire)
Early 20th century C.E.
Wood and pigment -
African/Pacific Art
Malagan display and mask
New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
c. 20th century C.E.
Wood, pigment, fiber, and shell -
Realism/Photography Art
The Steerage
Alfred Stieglitz
1907 C.E.
Photogravure -
African/Pacific Art
Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga)
Olowe of Ise (Yoruba peoples)
c. 1910-1914 C.E.
Wood and pigment -
African/Pacific Art
Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II
Fiji, Polynesia. 1953 C.E.
Multimedia performance (costume; cosmetics, including scent; chant; movement; and pandanus fiber/hibiscus fiber mats), photographic documentation -
Cross Cultural Art
Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan
Artist unknown
Based on an oil painting by Liu Chunhua
c. 1969 C.E.
Color lithograph
