Art History Project

By Art History Project
  • 20,000 BCE

    Venus of Willendorf

    Venus of Willendorf
  • 11,000 BCE

    Bison with Turned Head,

    Bison with Turned Head,
  • 1600 BCE

    Snake Goddess

    Snake Goddess
    Knossos
  • 600 BCE

    Dong Son Drum

    Dong Son Drum
  • 510 BCE

    Women at the Fountain House

  • 500 BCE

    The Goddess Hathor and the Overseer of Sealers, Psamtik.

    The Goddess Hathor and the Overseer of Sealers, Psamtik.
    Saqqara, Egypt
  • 250 BCE

    Lion Capital of column

    Ashoka at Sarnath, India,
  • Period: 206 BCE to 1644 BCE

    Great Wall of China

  • 50 BCE

    Initiation Rites of Dionysos, Villa of Mysteries,

  • 81

    Arch of Titus

    Arch of Titus
    Rome, Italy
  • 150

    Pyramid of the Sun

    Pyramid of the Sun
    Teotihuacán, Mexico
  • 500

    Seated Buddha.

    Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • 514

    Palace at Palenque,

    Palace at Palenque,
    Chiapas, Mexico
  • 637

    Potala Palace

    Potala Palace
    founded by Songtsän Gampo
  • 692

    Dome of the Rock

    Dome of the Rock
    Jerusalem
  • 700

    Ceiling of Cave 26

  • 750

    Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc

    Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc
    Yaxchilan, Chiapas, Mexico
  • 786

    Great Mosque of Cordoba

  • 1000

    Relief Carving from the Kandarya Mahadeva Temple,

    Relief Carving from the Kandarya Mahadeva Temple,
  • 1000

    Shiva as Nataraja, or Lord of the Dance

    Shiva as Nataraja, or Lord of the Dance
    Naltunai Isvaram Temple, Punjai, India
  • 1100

    The Water and Moon Guanyin Bodhisattva

    The Water and Moon Guanyin Bodhisattva
    China, Song Dynasty, c
  • 1113

    Angkor Wat

  • Period: 1192 to 1333

    Zen Stone Garden

    Kamakura Period
  • 1200

    lotus Flowers and ducks

  • 1200

    Mother and Nursing Child

    Mother and Nursing Child
    Cahokia,Illinois
  • 1200

    Burning of the Sanjo Palace, from the Heiji Monogatari, hand scroll

    Burning of the Sanjo Palace, from the Heiji Monogatari, hand scroll
    Japan, Kamakura period
  • 1402

    Sacrificeof Isaac

    Sacrificeof Isaac
    LorenzoGhiberti
  • 1427

    . The Expulsion from Paradise,

    . The Expulsion from Paradise,
    Masaccio
  • 1433

    Virgin and Child in a Niche

    Virgin and Child in a Niche
    Rogier van der Weyden
  • 1434

    Wedding Portrait

    Wedding Portrait
    Jan van Eyck
  • 1440

    Tlaloc vessel

    Tlaloc vessel
  • 1482

    The birth of Venus

    by Botticelli
  • 1498

    Last Supper

    Last Supper
    Da Vinci
  • 1500

    Saltcellar

    Saltcellar
  • 1506

    Madonna of the Meadow.

    Madonna of the Meadow.
    Raphael.
  • 1512

    Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

    Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
    Michelangelo
  • 1515

    The Isenheim Altarpiece

    The Isenheim Altarpiece
    Matthias Grünewald.

  • Yama

    Yama
    from Tibet

  • Gopura, Sri Meenakshi Amman Temple

  • Period: to

    Baroque

    ornate style

  • A Table of Desserts

    A Table of Desserts
    Jan Davidsz. de Heem

  • The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq

    The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq
    by Rembrandt

  • Badshahi Mosque

  • Hall of Mirrors

    Hall of Mirrors
    Jules Hardouin Mansart and Charles le Brun.

  • Gheordez Prayer Rug

  • Cathedral of Dubrovnik: Nave Groin Vault

    Andrea Buffalini

  • Mr. and Mrs. Andrews

    Thomas Gainsborough
  • Period: to

    Neoclassical

    Greco-Roman revival
  • Period: to

    Romanticism

    revolt against the Neoclassicism

  • A Pair of Lovers

    A Pair of Lovers
    Kitagawa Utamaro

  • Cerimonial mask/Mboom/Bwoom

    19th-20th Century

  • Decorated façade of Toba Batak House,

    Decorated façade of Toba Batak House,

  • God Te Rongo and His Three Sons

  • Standing Female Figure,

    Standing Female Figure,

  • Dogon Primordial Couple.

    Dogon Primordial Couple.

  • Grande Odalisque,

    Grande Odalisque,
    Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.

  • The Executions of May 3,1808

    The Executions of May 3,1808
    FranciscoGoya.

  • The Raft of the Medusa,

    Théodore Géricault

  • Figure of a Deity: A’a Rurutu

  • Shoki the Demon Queller

    Utagawa Kunisad

  • Ophelia

    Ophelia
    John Everett Millais

  • Olympia,

    Olympia,
    Edward Manet

  • Dead Confederate Soldier with Gun

    Dead Confederate Soldier with Gun
    Mathew B. Brady
  • Period: to

    Impressionism

    Capturing effects of natural light
  • Period: to

    Post-Impressionism

    revolt against Impressionism

  • Woman in a coffeehouse,

    Paul Gauguin.

  • Portrait of Mme

    van Gogh

  • Basket

    Basket

  • Mother and Child

    Mary Cassatt.

  • Royal Linguist’s Staff.

  • Landscape at Aix, Mount Sainte-Victoire,

    Paul Cezanne.
  • Period: to

    Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism

    Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new
    forms to express modern life

  • Grand Mosque

  • Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

    Picasso

  • Las bravisimas calaveras guatemaltecas de Mora y de Morales,

    JosÉ Guadalupe Posada.

  • Interior House Post

    Interior House Post
    Arthur Shaughnessy

  • Wassily Kandinsky.

    Jüngster Tag (Last Judgment)

  • The Morning Anxiety

    Giorgio de Chirico

  • Nude Descending a Staircase

    Marcel Duchamp

  • They’re Biting

    Paul Klee

  • Grey Line with Lavender and Yellow,

    Grey Line with Lavender and Yellow,
    Georgia O’Keeffe

  • Día de Los Muertos,

    Diego Rivera

  • torso of a young man

    torso of a young man
    Brancusi

  • The Battleship Potemkin, film

    The Battleship Potemkin, film
    Sergei M. Eisenstein

  • Yellow Calla

    Yellow Calla
    by Georgia O'Keeffe

  • Artichoke, Halved

    Artichoke, Halved
    edward weston

  • Triumph of the Will

    Leni Riefenstahl

  • object

    Meret Oppenheim.

  • Guernica

    Guernica
    Pablo Picasso

  • Fallingwater

    Fallingwater
    Frank Lloyd Wright

  • Self-Portrait with Monkey

    Self-Portrait with Monkey
    Frida Kahlo
  • Period: to

    Abstract Expressionism

    Post–World War II: pure abstraction and expression
    without form;

  • The beautiful bird revealing the unknown to a pair of lovers

    The beautiful bird revealing the unknown to a pair of lovers
    by Joan Miro

  • Nighthawks

    Nighthawks
    by Edward Hopper

  • Ahola Kachina

    Ahola Kachina
    Jimmie Kewanwytewa.

  • Notre Dame du Haut,

    Notre Dame du Haut,
    Le Corbusier.

  • Blue Veil

    Blue Veil
    by Morris Louis

  • Father Hidalgo

    Father Hidalgo
    by Jose Clemente Orozco
  • Period: to

    pop art

    popular art absorbs consumerism

  • Pie Counter

    Pie Counter
    Wayne Thiebaud

  • Habitat

    Habitat
    Moshe Safdie

  • U.S. Pavilion. Geodesic dome

    U.S. Pavilion. Geodesic dome
    R. Buckminster Fuller

  • Mirror Image

    Louise Nevelson

  • Bent Propeller

    Bent Propeller
    byAlexander Calder

  • Coca Pod Coffin

    Coca Pod Coffin
    Kane Kwel.
  • Period: to

    Postmodernism and Deconstructivism

    Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles

  • Cube and Four

    Ronald W. Davis

  • Las Tres Marias

    Judith Baca

  • October 18, 1977

    October 18, 1977
    by Gerhard Richter

  • The Dinner Party

    The Dinner Party
    Judy Chicago.

  • Self-Portrait with Model,

    Self-Portrait with Model,
    Duane Hanson

  • Witchetty Grub Dreaming

    Witchetty Grub Dreaming

  • Piazza d’Italia

    Piazza d’Italia
    Charles Moore with U.I.G. and Perez Associates.

  • Sun Mad

    Sun Mad
    Ester Hernandez

  • Human/Need/Desire,

    Bruce Nauman

  • Draped Reclining Mother and Baby,

    Draped Reclining Mother and Baby,
    henry moore

  • The Binocular Entrance to the Chiat Building

    Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, and Frank O

  • Offering with Cili-Shaped Crown

    Offering with Cili-Shaped Crown
    Bali

  • Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?

    Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?
    Guerrilla Girls

  • There Is No Escape

    There Is No Escape

  • The Aboriginal Memorial

    The Aboriginal Memorial
    Paddy Dhatangu, David Malangi, George Milpurrurru, Jimmy Wululu, and Other Artists from Ramingining.

  • Buddha Duchamp Beuys.

    Buddha Duchamp Beuys.
    Nam June Paik

  • Trauma

    Trauma
    Hung Liu

  • Genesis

    Jaune Quick-to-see Smith

  • Justin Bond

    Justin Bond
    Catherine Opie

  • Untitled

    Robert Gober

  • Speechless

    Speechless
    by Shirin Neshat

  • That Profile,

    Martin Puryear

  • Power Figure (Nkisi n’kondi),

    Power Figure (Nkisi n’kondi),
    Kongo, Zaire

  • Bat ProjectI (Shenzhen)

    Huang Yong Ping

  • Bear

    Tim Hawkinson.

  • Black Rainbow

    Cai Guo-Qiang

  • HalibutFeastDish

    Stan Wamiss

  • The New York Waterfalls

    The New York Waterfalls
    byOlafur Eliasson