Artist: n/a Title: Hall of Bulls Medium: Paint on limestone Size: length of the largest auroch (bull) 18' (5.50 m) Date: c. 15,000 BCE Source/Museum: Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France
Artist: n/a Title: People and Animals Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 4000–2000 BCE Source/Museum: Detail of rock-shelter painting, Cogul, Lérida, Spain
Artist: n/a Title: Face of a woman, (Warka Head) Medium: Marble Size: height approx. 8" (20.3 cm) Date: c. 3300–3000 BCE Source/Museum: Uruk (present-day Warka, Iraq) / Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered in 2003)
Artist: n/a Title: Votive Figures Medium: Limestone, alabaster, and gypsum Size: height of largest figure approx. 30" ( 76.3 cm) Date: c. 2900–2600 BCE Source/Museum: The Square Temple, Eshnunna (present-day Tell Asmar, Iraq). The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Artist: n/a Title: Nanna Ziggurat, Ur Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 2100–2050 BCE Source/Museum: Present-day Muqaiyir, Iraq
Artist: n/a Title: Stele of Naram-Sin Medium: Limestone Size: height 6'6" (1.98 m) Date: c. 2220–2184 BCE Source/Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris
Winged Figure (Lamassu)
Artist: n/a Title: Ishtar Gate and throne room wall Medium: Glazed brick Size: height of gate originally 40 feet (12.2 m) with towers rising 100 feet (30.5 m) Date: c. 575 BCE Source/Museum: Reconstructed in a Berlin museum, originally from Babylon (Present-day Iraq) Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Artist: n/a Title: Apadana (audience hall) of Darius and Xerxes Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: 518–c. 460 BCE Source/Museum: Ceremonial Complex, Persepolis Iran
Artist: n/a Title: The Narmer Palette Medium: Green schist Size: height 25" (64 cm) Date: Early Dynastic period, c. 2950–2775 BCE Source/Museum: Hierakonpolis / Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Artist: n/a Title: Great Pyramids, Giza Medium: Granite and limestone Size: height of pyramid of Khufu, 450' (137 m) Date: Fourth Dynasty, c. 2575–2450 BCE Source/Museum: Erected by (from the left) Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu
Artist: n/a Title: Menkaure and a Queen (perhaps his wife Khamerernebty) Medium: Graywacke with traces of red and black paint Size: height 54½" (142.3 cm) Date: Fourth Dynasty (ruled 2490–2472 BCE) Source/Museum: from Giza / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Harvard University–MFA Expedition
Artist: n/a Title: Seated Scribe Medium: Painted limestone with inlaid eyes of rock crystal calcite and magnesite mounted in copper Size: height 21" (53 cm) Date: Fifth Dynasty, c. 2450–2325 BCE Source/Museum: found near the tomb of Kai, Saqqara. Musée du Louvre, Paris
Artist: n/a Title: Akhenaten and His Family Medium: Painted limestone relief Size: 12¼ X 15¼" (31.1 X 38.7 cm) Date: Eighteenth Dynasty, c. 1353–1336 BCE Source/Museum: Akhetaten (present-day Tell el-Amarna) / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Ägyptisches Museum
Artist: n/a Title: Funerary mask of Tutankhamun Medium: Gold inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones Size: Height 21¼" (54.5 cm) Weight 24 pounds (11 kg) Date: Eighteenth Dynasty (Tutankhamun, ruled 1332–1322 BCE), c. 1327 BCE Source/Museum: Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Artist: n/a Title: Landscape (Spring Fresco) Medium: Wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction Size: n/a Date: Before 1630 BCE Source/Museum: From Akrotiri, Thera Cyclades / National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Artist: n/a Title: Bull Leaping Medium: Wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction Size: Height approx. 24 ½" (62.3 cm) Date: Late Minoan period, c. 1550–1450 BCE Source/Museum: From the palace complex, Knossos, Crete / Archaeological Museum, Iraklion, Crete
Artist: n/a Title: “Mask of Agamemnon” Medium: Gold Size: height approx. 12"(35 cm) Date: c. 1600–1550 BCE Source/Museum: Funerary mask, from the royal tombs, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece / National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Artist: Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop Title: Funerary Vase (Krater) Medium: Ceramic Size: height 42 ⅝ " (108 cm) Date: c. 750–700 BCE Source/Museum: Dipylon Cemetery, Athens / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1914 (14.130.14)
Artist: n/a Title: Dying Warrior Medium: Marble Size: length 6' (1.83 m) Date: c. 500–490 BCE Source/Museum: Sculpture from the left corner of the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina / Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich
Artist: n/a Title: Standing Youth (Kouros) Medium: Marble Size: height 6' (1.84 m) Date: c. 600 BCE Source/Museum: Attica / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1932 (32.11.1)
Artist: Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter) Title: Death of Sarpedon Medium: Ceramic calyx krater with red-figure decoration Size: height of krater 18" (45.7 cm) Date: c. 515 BCE Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Artist: n/a Title: Kritian Boy Medium: Marble Size: height 3'10" (1.17 m) Date: c. 480 BCE Source/Museum: From Acropolis, Athens / Acropolis Museum, Athens
Artist: Kallikrates and Iktinos Title: Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens. View from the Northwest. Medium: Pantelic marble Size: n/a Date: 447–432 BCE Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Porch of The Maidens (South Porch), Erechtheion Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Temple 430s–406 BCE; porch c. 420–410 BCE Source/Museum: Acropolis, Athens
Artist: Epigonos (?) Title: Dying Gallic Trumpeter (front) Medium: Marble Size: height, 36½" (93 cm) Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 220 BCE Source/Museum: Capitoline Museum, Rome
Artist: Master sculptor Vulca (?) Title: Apollo of Veii Medium: Painted terra cotta Size: height 5'10" (1.8 m) Date: c. 510–500 BCE Source/Museum: Temple of Minerva, Portenaccio, Veii. / Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Sarcophagus Medium: Terra cotta Size: length 6"7" (2.06 m) Date: c. 520 BCE Source/Museum: Fom Cerveteri. /Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Pont Du Gard Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Late 1st century BCE Source/Museum: Nîmes, France
Artist: n/a Title: Augustus of Primaporta Medium: Marble (originally colored) Size: height 6'8" (2.03 m) Date: Early 1st century CE. Perhaps a copy of a bronze statue of c. 20 BCE Source/Museum: Musei Vaticani, Braccio Nuovo, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Garden Scene Medium: Detail of a wall painting Size: n/a Date: Late 1st century BCE Source/Museum: From the dining room of the Villa of Livia at Primaporta, near Rome. / Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Young Woman Writing Medium: Detail of a wall painting Size: diameter 14 ⅝ " (37 cm) Date: Before 79 CE Source/Museum: From Pompeii. / Museo Archeològico Nazionale, Naples
Artist: n/a Title: Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum) from the air Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: 70–80 CE Source/Museum: Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Middle-Aged Flavian Woman Medium: Marble Size: height 9 ½" (24.1 cm) Date: Late 1st century CE Source/Museum: Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Rome. Profano, ex-Lateranese, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Pantheon Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 118–128 CE Source/Museum: Rome
Artist: n/a Title: The Tetrarchs Medium: Porphyry Size: height of figures 51" (129 cm) Date: c. 300 CE Source/Museum: Brought from Constantinople in 1204, installed at the corner of the façade of the Cathedral of Saint Mark, Venice
Artist: n/a Title: Harvesting of Grapes Medium: Mosaic Size: Mosaic Date: c. 350 Source/ Museum: Ambulatory vault, Church of Santa Costanza, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Good Shepherd, lunette over the entrance Medium: Mosaic Size: n/a Date: c. 425–26 Source/ Museum: Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna
Artist: n/a Title: Church of Hagia Sophia. Interior Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/ Museum: Istanbul
Artist: n/a Title: Emperor Justinian and His Attendants, North wall of the apse Medium: Mosaic Size: 8'8" X 12" (2.64 X 3.65 m) Date: Consecrated 547 Source/ Museum: Church of San Vitale, Ravenna
Artist: n/a Title: Virgin of Vladimir Icon Medium: Tempera on panel Size: height approx. 31" (78 cm) Date: Faces, 11th–12th century; the figures have been retouched Source/ Museum: Probably from Constantinople / Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
