AP Art History Timeline project

Apollo 11 Stones

25,500 BCE

Namibia
c. 25,500 - 25,300 B.C.E.
Charcoal on stone

Great Hall of the Bulls Cave paintings

15,000 BCE

Lascaux, France. 15,000-13,000 B.C.E. Rock painting

Camelid sacrum

14,000 BCE

Tequixquiac, Mexico, 14,000–7000 B.C.E., Bone

Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)

11,000 BCE

Hindu
India (Tamil Nadu)
Chola Dynasty
c. 11th century C.E.
Cast bronze

Running Horned Woman

6000 BCE

Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria
6000 - 4000 B.C.E
Pigment on rock

Helios, horses, and Dionysus (Heracles?)

5000 BCE

East Pediment Sculpture, Parthenon (Phidias?)
5th Century B.C.E.
Marble

Plaque of the Ergastines

5000 BCE

Parthenon (Phidias)
5th Century B.C.E.
Marble

Beaker with ibex motif

4200 BCE

Susa, Iran
4200--3500 B.C.E.
Painted terra-cotta

Anthropomorphic stele

4000 BCE

Arabian Peninsula
4th millennium B.C.E
Sandstone

White Temple and its ziggurat

3500 BCE

Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq)
Sumerian
c.3500-3000 B.C.E.
Mud brick

Jade Cong

3300 BCE

Liangzhu, China, 3300-2200 B.C.E., Carved jade

Palette of Narmer

3000 BCE

Predynastic Egypt
c.3000-2920 B.C.E.
Greywacke

Statues of votive figures

2700 BCE

From the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)
Sumerian
c.2700 B.C.E.
Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

Seated scribe

2620 BCE

Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty
c.2620-2500 B.C.E.
Painted limestone

Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur

2600 BCE

Modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq
Sumerian
c.2600-2400 B.C.E.
Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

Great Pyramids and the Great Sphinx

2550 BCE

Giza, Egypt
Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty
c.2550-2490 B.C.E.
Cut limestone

Stonehenge

2500 BCE

Wiltshire, UK
Neolithic Europe
c.2500-1600 B.C.E
Sandstone

King Menkaura and queen

2490 BCE

Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty
c.2490-2472 B.C.E.
Greywacke

House of the Vettii

2000 BCE

Pompeii, Italy
Imperial Roman
c. 2nd Century B.C.E.
Cut stone and fresco

Portrait mask (Mblo)

2000 BCE

Baule peoples (Côte d’Ivoire)
Early 20th century C.E.
Wood and pigment

Malagan display and mask

2000 BCE

New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
c. 20th century C.E.
Wood, pigment, fiber, and shell

Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan

1969 BCE

Artist unknown
Based on an oil painting by Liu Chunhua
c. 1969 C.E.
Color lithograph

Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II

1953 BCE

Fiji, Polynesia. 1953 C.E.
Multimedia performance (costume; cosmetics, including scent; chant; movement; and pandanus fiber/hibiscus fiber mats), photographic documentation

Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga)

1910 BCE

Olowe of Ise (Yoruba peoples)
c. 1910-1914 C.E.
Wood and pigment

Bundu mask

1900 BCE

Sande Society, Mende peoples (West African forests of Sierra Leone and Liberia)
19th to 20th century C.E.
Wood, cloth, and fiber

Female (Pwo) mask

1900 BCE

Chokwe peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Late 19th to 20th century C.E.
Wood, fiber, pigment, and metal

Aka elephant mask

1900 BCE

Bamileke (Cameroon, western grassfields region)
c. 19th to 20th century C.E.
Wood, woven raffia, cloth, and beads

Lukasa (memory board)

1900 BCE

Mbudye Society, Luba peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
c. 19th to 20th century C.E.
Wood, beads, and metal

Ikenga (shrine figure)

1900 BCE

Igbo peoples (Nigeria)
c. 19th to 20th century C.E.
Wood

Reliquary figure (byeri)

1900 BCE

Fang peoples (southern Cameroon)
c. 19th to 20th century C.E.
Wood

Navigation chart

1900 BCE

Marshall Islands, Micronesia
19th to early 20th century C.E.
Wood and fiber

Buk (mask)

1900 BCE

Mid to late 19th Century
Torres Strait (islander People)
Maubiag Island
25 in
Turtle shell, wood, fiber, feathers, and shell

The Burghers of Calais

1895 BCE

Auguste Rodin
1884-1895 C.E.
Bronze

Tamati Waka Nene

1890 BCE

Gottfried Lindauer
Maori (Nga-ti-toa tribe)
Auckland National Art Gallery
1890 C.E.
Oil on canvas
40.1’’ x 33.1’’

The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel (El Valle de México desde el Cerro de Santa Isabel)

1882 BCE

Jose María Velasco 1882 C.E.
Oil on canvas

The Horse in Motion

1878 BCE

Eadweard Muybridge
1878 C.E.
Albumen print

Hiapo (tapa)

1850 BCE

Niue
c. 1850-1900 C.E.
Tapa or bark cloth, freehand painting

Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)

1840 BCE

Joseph Mallord William Turner
1840 C.E.
Oil on canvas

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

1830 BCE

Katsushika Hokusai
1830-1833 C.E.
Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Monticello

1809 BCE

Virginia, U.S.
Thomas Jefferson (architect), 1768-1809 C.E.
Brick, glass, stone and wood

‘Ahu ‘ula (feather cape)

1800 BCE

Hawaiian
Late 18th century C.E.
Feathers and fiber

Female deity

1800 BCE

Nukuoro, Micronesia
c. 18th to 19th century C.E.
Wood

Staff god

1800 BCE

Rarotonga, Cook Islands, central Polynesia
Late 18th to early 19th century C.E.
Wood, tapa, fiber, and feathers

The Code of Hammurabi

1792 BCE

Babylon (Modern Iran)
Susian
c.1792-1750 B.C.E.
Basalt

The Swing

1767 BCE

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
1767 C.E.
Oil on canvas

A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

1763 BCE

Joseph Wright of Derby
c. 1763-1765 C.E.
Oil on canvas

Ndop (portrait figure) of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul

1760 BCE

Kuba peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
c. 1760-1780 C.E.
Wood

Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

1750 BCE

Miguel Cabrera
c. 1750 C.E.
Oil on canvas

Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo

1715 BCE

Attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez c. 1715 C.E.
Oil on canvas

White and Red Plum Blossoms

1710 BCE

Ogata Korin
c. 1710-1716 C.E.
Ink, watercolor, and gold leaf on paper

Sika dwa kofi (Golden Stool)

1700 BCE

Ashanti peoples (south central Ghana)
c. 1700 C.E.
Gold over wood and cast-gold attachments

The Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe)

1698 BCE

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

Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene

1697 BCE

Circle of the González Family c. 1697-1701 C.E.
Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay

The Palace at Versailles

1669 BCE

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)

Woman Holding a Balance

1664 BCE

Johannes Vermeer
c. 1664 C.E.
Oil on canvas

Taj Mahal

1632 BCE

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

Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings Bichitr

1620 BCE

c. 1620 C.E.
Watercolor, gold, and ink on paper

Wall plaque, from Oba’s palace

1600 BCE

Edo peoples, Benin (Nigeria)
16th century C.E.
Cast brass

Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Dei

1600 BCE

Master of Calamarca (La Paz School)
c. 17th Century C.E.
Oil on canvas

Calling of Saint Matthew

1597 BCE

Caravaggio
c. 1597-1601 C.E.
Oil on canvas

Mosque of Selim II

1568 BCE

Edirne, Turkey
Sinan (architect)
1568-1575 C.E.
Brick and stone

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

1550 BCE

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

Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza

1541 BCE

Viceroyalty of New Spain
c. 1541-1542 C.E.
Ink and color on paper

The Ardabil Carpet

1539 BCE

Maqsud of Kashan
1539-1540 C.E.
Silk and wool

The Last Judgment

1536 BCE

Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel, 1536-1541 C.E.
Fresco

Entombment of Christ

1525 BCE

Jacopo da Pontormo
1525-1528 C.E.
Oil on wood

The Court of Gayumars, folio from Shah Tahmasp’s Shahnama

1522 BCE

Sultan Muhammad
c. 1522-1525 C.E.
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Ambum Stone

1500 BCE

Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
1500 B.C.E
Greywacke

Forbidden City

1500 BCE

Beijing, China. Ming Dynasty.
15th century C.E. and later
Stone masonry, marble, brick, wood, and ceramic tile

Last Supper

1494 BCE

Leonardo da Vinci
c. 1494-1498 C.E. Oil and tempera

Ryoan-ji

1480 BCE

Kyoto, Japan
Muromachi Period, Japan
c. 1480 C.E.; current design most likely dates to the 18th century
Rock garden

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut And kneeling sculpture

1473 BCE

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
Near Luxor, Egypt
c.1473-1458 B.C.E.
Sandstone, partially covered into a rock cliff, and red granite

David

1440 BCE

Donatello
c. 1440-1460 C.E.
Bronze

The Arnolfini Portrait

1434 BCE

Jan van Eyck
c. 1434 C.E.
Oil on wood

Portrait of Sin Sukju (1417-1475)

1417 BCE

Imperial Bureau of Painting
c. 15th century C.E.
Hanging scroll (ink and color on silk)

Alhambra

1354 BCE

Granada, Spain. Nasrid Dynasty
1354-1391 C.E.
Whitewashed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gilding

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

1353 BCE

New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty
c.1353-1335 B.C.E.
Limestone

The David Vases

1351 BCE

Yuan Dynasty, China
1351 C.E.
White porcelain with cobalt-blue underglaze

Bahram Gur Fights the Karg, folio from the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama

1330 BCE

Islamic
Persian, Il-Khanid
c. 1330-1340 C.E.
Ink and opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper

Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin

1323 BCE

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
c.1323 B.C.E.
Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones

Basin (Baptistère de St. Louis)

1320 BCE

Muhammad ibn al-Zain
c. 1320-1340 C.E.
Brass inlaid with gold and silver

Last judgment of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb

1275 BCE

New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty
c.1275 B.C.E.
Painted papyrus scroll

Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace

1250 BCE

Kamakura Period, Japan
c. 1250-1300 C.E.
Handscroll (ink and color on paper)

Tlatilco female figurine

1200 BCE

Central Mexico
1200 - 900 B.C.E
Ceramic

Great Mosque of Djenné

1200 BCE

Mali
Founded c. 1200 C.E.; rebuilt 1906-1907
Adobe

Nio guardian statues

1200 BCE

from Todai-ji
Various artists including sculptors Unkei and Keikei, as well as the Kei School
c. 1200 C.E.
Wood

Moai on platform (ahu)

1100 BCE

Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
c. 1100-1600 C.E.
Volcanic tuff figures on basalt base

Power figure (Nkisi n’kondi)

1066 BCE

Kongo peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
c. late 19th century C.E.
1066 - 1067 CE
Wood and metal

Terra cotta fragment

1000 BCE

Solomon Islands, Reef Islands
1000 B.C.E
Terra cotta

Augustus of Prima Porta

1000 BCE

Imperial Roman
Early 1st Century C.E.
Marble

Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe

1000 BCE

Southeastern Zimbabwe
Shona peoples
c. 1000-1400 C.E.
Coursed granite blocks

Travelers among Mountains and Streams

1000 BCE

Fan Kuan
c. 1000 C.E.
Ink and colors on silk

Pyxis of al-Mughira

968 BCE

Umayyad
c. 968 C.E.
Ivory

Lakshmana Temple

930 BCE

Khajuraho, India. Hindu, Chandella Dynasty
c. 930-950 C.E. Sandstone

Angkor, the temple of Angkor Wat, and the city of Angkor Thom, Cambodia

800 BCE

Hindu, Angkor Dynasty
c. 800-1400 C.E. Stone masonry, sandstone

Churning of the Ocean of Milk

800 BCE

Angkor Wat
Hindu, Angkor Dynasty
c. 800-1400 C.E.
Sandstone

Jayavarman VII as Buddha

800 BCE

Angkor Thom
Hindu, Angkor Dynasty
c. 800-1400 C.E. Stone masonry, sandstone

Folio from a Qur’an

800 BCE

Arab, North Africa or Near East
Abbasid. c. eighth to ninth century C.E.
Ink, color, and gold on parchment

Great Mosque

785 BCE

Córdoba, Spain. Umayyad
c. 785-786 C.E.
Stone masonry

Great Mosque

785 BCE

Córdoba, Spain. Umayyad
c. 785-786 C.E.
Stone masonry

Borobudur Temple

750 BCE

Central Java, Indonesia
Sailendra Dynasty
c. 750-842 C.E.
Volcanic-stone masonry

Todai-ji

743 BCE

Nara, Japan
743 C.E.; rebuilt c. 1700
Wood with ceramic-tile roofing

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II

720 BCE

Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq)
Neo-Assyrian c.720-705 B.C.E.
Alabaster

Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh)

700 BCE

Isfahan, Iran. Islamic, Persian: Seljuk, Il-Khanid, Timurid and Safavid Dynasties
c. 700 C.E.; additions and restorations in the 14th, 18th & 20th centuries C.E.
Stone, brick, wood, plaster, and glazed ceramic tile

Nan Madol

700 BCE

Pohnpei, Micronesia
Saudeleur Dynasty
c. 700-1600 C.E.
Basalt boulders and prismatic columns

Dome of the Rock

691 BCE

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.

Jowo Rinpoche, enshrined in the Jokhang Temple

641 BCE

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

The Kaaba

631 BCE

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

Athenian Agora

600 BCE

Archaic through Hellenistic Greek
600 B.C.E. - 150 C.E.
Plan

Peplos Kore from the Acropolis

530 BCE

Archaic Greek
c.530 B.C.E.
Marble, painted details

Anavysos Kouros

530 BCE

Archaic Greek
c.530 B.C.E.
Marble with remnants of paint

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

520 BCE

Persepolis, Iran
Persian
c.520-465 B.C.E.
Limestone

Sarcophagus of the Spouses

520 BCE

Etruscan. c.520 B.C.E.
Terracotta

Temple of Minerva (Veii, near Rome, Italy)

510 BCE

Etruscan. c.510-500 B.C.E.
Original temple of wood, mud brick, or tufa (volcanic rock)

Sculpture of Apollo, Veii

510 BCE

Master sculptor Vulca
Etruscan. c.510-500 B.C.E.
Terracotta

Gold and jade crown

500 BCE

Three Kingdoms Period
Silla Kingdom, Korea
Fifth to sixth century C.E.
Metalwork

Longmen caves

493 BCE

Luoyang, China. Tang Dynasty.
493-1127 C.E.
Limestone

Tomb of the Triclinium

480 BCE

Tarquinia, Italy. Etruscan.
c.480-470 B.C.E. Tufa and fresco

Niobides Krater

460 BCE

Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter.
c.460-450 B.C.E.
Clay, red figure technique

Doryphoros (Spear bearer)

450 BCE

Polykleitos
Original 450-440 B.C.E.
Roman copy (marble) of the Greek original (bronze)

Acropolis

447 BCE

Iktinos and Kallikrates
c.447-410 B.C.E.
Marble

Parthenon

447 BCE

Iktinos and Kallikrates
c.447-410 B.C.E.
Marble

Victory (Nike) adjusting her sandal

427 BCE

Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis)
c.427-424 B.C.E.
Marble

Temple of Athena Nike

427 BCE

Kallikrates
c.427-424 B.C.E.
Marble

Grave Stele of Hegeso

410 BCE

Attributed to Kallimachos
c.410 B.C.E.
Marble and paint

Petra, Jordan: Treasury and Great Temple

400 BCE

Nabataean Ptolemaic and Roman
c. 400 B.C.E - 100 C.E.
Cut rock

Buddha

400 BCE

Bamiyan, Afghanistan
Gandharan
c. 400-800 C.E.
(destroyed in 2001)
Cut rock with plaster and polychrome paint

Great Stupa at Sanchi

300 BCE

Madhya Pradesh, India
Buddhist; Maurya, late Sunga Dynasty
c. 300 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Stone masonry, sandstone on dome

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

250 BCE

Late Imperial Roman. c.250 C.E.
Marble.

Terra cotta warriors from mausoleum of the first Qin emperor of China

221 BCE

Qin Dynasty.
c. 221-209 B.C.E.
Painted terra cotta

Winged Victory of Samothrace

190 BCE

Hellenistic Greek
c.190 B.C.E.
Marble

Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui)

180 BCE

Han Dynasty, China
c. 180 B.C.E.
Painted silk

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon

175 BCE

Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). Hellenistic Greek.
c.175 B.C.E.
Marble

Frieze of Athena from the Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon

175 BCE

Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). Hellenistic Greek.
c.175 B.C.E.
Marble

Pantheon

118 BCE

Imperial Roman. 118-125 C.E.
Concrete with stone facing.

Column of Trajan

113 BCE

Completed 113 C.E.
Marble

Forum of Trajan

106 BCE

Rome, Italy. Apollodorus of Damascus. Forum and markets.
c.106-112 C.E.
Brick and concrete.

Alexander mosaic from the House of Faun, Pompeii

100 BCE

Republican Roman c.100 B.C.E.
Mosaic

Seated Boxer

100 BCE

Hellenistic Greek
C.100 B.C.E.
Bronze

Head of a Roman patrician

75 BCE

Republican Roman
c.75-50 B.C.E.
Marble

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)

70 BCE

Rome, Italy. Imperial Roman.
70-80 C.E.Stone and concrete.