Art History

Female Head, from Uruk, Iraq.

32,000 BCE

Sumerian ca, 32,000-3000 BCE. Limestone, height 8" (20.3cm). Iraq Museum, Baghdad

Bear, Recess of the Bears, Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'-Arc, Ardeche Gorge, France.

30,000 BCE

Paleolithic ca. 30,000-28,000 BCE

Women of Willendorf. Limestone, height 4 3/8" (11.1) Naturhistorisches MUSEUM, Viennnaca

28,000 BCE

Paleolithic ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE.

Wounded Bison, Altamira, Spain.

15,000 BCE

Paleolithic 15,000-10,000 BCE

Chinese Horse, Lascaux Cave, Dordogogne, France.

15,000 BCE

Paleolithic ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE

Plastered skull from Jericho, Jordan. Archaeological Museum, Amman

7000 BCE

Neolithic ca. 7000 BCE.

Human figures, from Ain Ghazal, Jordan.

6750 BCE

Neolithic ca. 6750-6250 BCE
Height of a larger figure 33" (84 cm). Department of Antiquities, Amman

Female and male figures, from Cernavoda, Romania.

3500 BCE

Neolithic .ca. 3500 BCE. Ceramic, height 4 1/2" (11.5 cm). National Museum of Antiquities, Bucharest

Prince Rahotep and His Wife, Nofret. Egyptian Museum, Cairo

2580 BCE

Egyptian: Old Kingdom ca. 2580 BCE. Painted limestone, height 47 1/4" (120 cm). Egyptian Museum, Cairo

The Great Sphinx, Giza.

2570 BCE

Egyptian: Old Kingdom ca. 2570-2544 BCE. Sandstone, height 65' (19.8 m)

White Marble Cycladic figurines

2500 BCE

Cycladic ca. 2500 BCE

Stele of Naram-Sin

2254 BCE

Sumerian r. 2254-2218 BCE. Height 6'6" (2 m). Mus'ee du Louvre, Paris

Stonehenge, Salisburg Plain, Wiltshire, England.

2100 BCE

Neolithic ca. 2100 BCE. Diameter of circle 97' (29.6 m)

Law Code of Hammurabi. Mus'ee du Louvre, Paris

1760 BCE

Babylonian ca. 1760 BCE. Diorite, height of stele approx. 7' (2.1 m); height of relief 28" (71 cm).

Minoans, Second "Palace" at Knossos

1700 BCE

Minoan ca. 1700-1300 BCE

Mycenaean death masks of hammered gold

1600 BCE

Mycenaean ca. 1600-1500 BCE

Octopus Vase

1500 BCE

Minoan "marine style" pottery ca. 1500 BCE

Senenmut with Nefrua, from Thebes.

1470 BCE

Egyptian: New Kingdom ca. 1470-1460 BCE. Granite, height approx. 3 1/2" (107 cm). Agyptisches Museum, Berlin

Gate of the citadel of Sargon ||, Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad), Iraq

742 BCE

Assyrian 742-706 BCE

Ishtar Gate, from Babylon, Iraq.

575 BCE

Babylonian ca. 575 BCE. Glazed brick originally 40' high. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Vorderasiatisches Museum

The Temple of Hera | ("Basilica")

550 BCE

Greek: Archaic ca. 550 BCE

Empress Theodora and Her Attendants, San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy.

547 BCE

Byzantine ca. 547 CE. Mosiac

Emperor Justinian and His Attendants

547 BCE

Byzantine ca. 547 CE

Kritios Boy.

480 BCE

Greek: Classical ca. 480 BCE. Akropolis Museum, Athens

Aplu (Apollo) of Veii

400 BCE

Etruscan ca. 400 BCE

Catacomb of Santissimi Pietro e Marcellino, Rome, Italy.

400 BCE

Early Christian 4th Century CE

Arch of Constantine, Rome.

312 BCE

Roman 312-15 CE

Portrait Head, from Delos

80 BCE

Greek: Hellenistic ca. 80 BCE

Construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem

Jan 6, 690

Islamic ca. 690

Burial ship from Oseberg, Norway.

Jan 16, 834

Anglo-Saxon/Hiberno-Saxon/Viking ca. 834

Front cover of binding, Lindau Gospels.

May 15, 870

Carolingian ca. 870.

Islamic tombs built in Bukhara for Persian dynasty

Jan 1, 900

Islamic Early 900s

Nunnery Church of St. Cyriakus, Gernrode

Sep 4, 961

Ottonian 961

Gero Crucifix

Sep 7, 970

Ottonian ca. 970.

Bayeux Tapestry

Apr 8, 1066

Romanesque 1066-83

Abbey church at Fontenay

May 8, 1139

Romanesque 1139-47

Sainte-Chapelle in Paris

Apr 12, 1241

Gothic 1241-48

Nicola, Pisano. Pulpit.

May 15, 1259

13th-/14th-Century Italy 1259-60

Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Begun

Feb 12, 1298

13th-/14th-Century Italy ca. 1298

Giovannino dei Grassi, Hours of Giangaleazzo Visconti

Apr 15, 1395

13th-/14th-Century Italy ca. 1395

Chapel of Henry V||, Westminster Abbey in London

Apr 15, 1503

Gothic 1503-19