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Period: 40,000 BCE to
Timespan
40,000 BCE - 1,700 CE -
24,000 BCE
Woman of Willendorf | Upper Paleolithic | 24,000 - 22,000 BCE
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16,000 BCE
Hall of Bulls, Lascaux | Upper Paleolithic | 16,000 - 14,000 BCE
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3500 BCE
Warka Vase | Late Uruk Period | 3500 - 3000 BCE
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2580 BCE
Pyramid of Khufu | Pharaoh Khufu | Fourth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt | 2551- 2528 BCE
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2550 BCE
Stonehenge | Neolithic | 2,550 - 1,600 BCE
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1792 BCE
Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi | Middle Chronology Period of Near Eastern Bronze and Early Iron Age | 1792 - 1750 BCE
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1323 BCE
Tutankhamun’s coffin and death mask | New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty | 1323 BCE
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559 BCE
The Cyrus Cylinder | Achaemenid Empire | 559 - 530 BCE
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500 BCE
Capitoline She-wolf | Etruscan Period or Middle Ages | Antonio Pollaiolo (Twins) | 5th century BCE
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460 BCE
Artemision Zeus or Poseidon | Early Classical Period | 460 BCE
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447 BCE
Parthenon | Ictinus Callicrates & Phidias | Classic Period | 447 – 432 BCE
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200 BCE
Laocoön and his Sons | Rhodian sculptors Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus | Hellenistic Period | 200 BCE - 70 CE
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196 BCE
Rosetta Stone | Ptolemaic Period | 196 BCE
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62 BCE
House of the Vettii | Imperial Roman Period | 62 AD
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70
Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater) | Titus Flavius Vespasianus | Imperial Rome | 70 - 80 AD
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526
Basilica of San Vitale | Bishop Ecclesius | Early Byzantine | 526 - 527 CE
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532
Hagia Sophia | Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles | Early Byzantine | 532 - 537 CE
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1089
Gloucester Cathedral | Norman | 1089–1499 CE
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1099
The Basilica of San Clemente | Middle Ages | 1099 - 1119 CE
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1130
Last Judgment, Tympanum, Cathedral of St. Lazare | Giselbertus of Autun | Middle Ages | 1130 - 1146 CE
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1200
Ife Brass Masks | Ancient Yoruba | 1200 - 1400 CE
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1200
Great Mosque of Djenné | Sudano-Sahelian | 1200 - 1330 CE
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1220
Salisbury Cathedral | Richard Poore; Elias of Dereham | Early English Gothic | 1220 - 1258 CE
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1232
The Alhambra | Mohammed ben Al-Ahmar | Nasrid Dynasty | 1232 - 1492 CE
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1235
Saint Francis Altarpiece | Bonaventura Berlinghieri | 1235
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1242
Sainte-Chapelle | Rayonnant French Gothic | 1242 - 1248
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1490
The Vitruvian Man | Leonardo da Vinci | Italien Renaissance | 1490 CE
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1513
Dying and Rebellious Slaves | Michelangelo | Renaissance | 1513 CE
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1520
Tughra of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent | Ottoman Empire | 1520 - 1566 CE
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1550
Queen Mother Pendant Mask (Iyoba) | Edo peoples of the Benin Empire | 1550 CE
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View of Toledo | El Greco | Spanish Counter Reformation | 1596 - 1600 CE
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Apollo and Daphne | Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Italian Baroque | 1622 - 1625 CE
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The Taj Mahal | Ustad Ahmad Lahauri | Mughal Empire | 1632 - 1653 CE
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Consequences of War | Peter Paul Rubens | Flemish Baroque | 1638 - 1639 CE
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Girl with a Pearl Earring | Johannes Vermeer | Dutch Baroque | 1665 CE