Early Europe and Colonial Americas

Catacomb of Priscilla / Rome, Italy / Excavated tufa and fresco

Santa Sabina / Rome, Italy / Brick and stone, wooden roof

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well and Jacob Wrestling the Angel from the Vienna Genesis / Early Byzantine Europe / Illuminated manuscript

San Vitale / Early Byzantine Europe / Brick, marble, stone veneer, mosaic

Hagia Sophia / Constantinople / Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus / Brick and ceramic elements with stone and mosaic veneer

Merovingian Looped Fibulae / Early medieval Europe / Mid sixth century CE

Theotokos and Child between Saints Theodore and George / Early Byzantine Europe / Encaustic on wood

Lindisfarne Gospels / Hiberno Saxon / Illuminated manuscript

Great Mosque / Cordoba, Spain / Stone masonry

Pyxis of al-Mughira / Ummayad / Ivory

Church of Sainte-Foy / Conques, France / 1050-1130 and ninth century CE

Bayeux Tapestry / Romanesque Europe / Embroidery on Linen

Chartres Cathedral / Gothic Europe / Limestone, stained glass

Dedication page with Blanche of Castille and King Louis IX of France from the Bibles moralisees / Gothic Europe / Illuminated Manuscript

Rottgen Pieta / Late medieval Europe / Painted wood

Arena chapel / Padua Italy / Brick and fresco

Golden Haggadah / Late medieval Spain / Illuminated manuscript

Alhambra / Granada Spain / Nasrid Dynasty

Annunciation Triptych / Workshop of Robert Campin / Oil on wood

Pazzi Chapel / Filippo Brunelleschi / Masonry

Arnolfini Portrait / Jan Van Eyck / Oil on wood

David / Donatello / Bronze

Palazzo Rucellai / Florence Italy / Stone, masonry

Madonna and Child with two angels / Fra Filippo Lippi / Tempera on wood

Birth of Venus / Sandro Botticelli / Tempera on canvas

Last Supper / Leonardo da Vinci / Oil and tempera

Adam and Eve / Albrecht Durer / Engraving

Sistine chapel / Michelangelo / Fresco

School of Athens / Raphael / Fresco

Isenheim Altarpiece / Matthias Grunewald / Oil on wood

Entombment of Christ / Jacopo da Pontormo / Oil on wood

Allegory of Law and Grace / Lucas Cranach the Elder / Woodcut and letterpress

Venus of Urbino / Titian / Oil on Canvas

Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza / Viceroyalty of New Spain / Ink and color on paper

Il Gesu / Rome, Italy / Brick, marble, stucco, fresco

Hunters in the Snow / Pieter Bruegel the Elder / Oil on wood

Mosque of Selim II / Edirne Turkey / Brick and stone

Calling of Saint Matthew / Caravaggio / Oil on canvas

Henri IV receives the portrait of Marie de Medici / Peter Paul Rubens / Oil on canvas

Self-portrait with Saskia / Rembrandt van Rijn / Etching

San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane / Francesco Borromini / Stone and stucco

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa / Bernini / Marble, stucco, gilt bronze

Angel with Arquebus / Master of Calamarca / Oil on canvas

Las Meninas / Diego Velazquez / Oil on canvas

Woman Holding a Balance / Johannes Vermeer / Oil on canvas

Versailles / Versailles France / Began 1669 CE

Screen with Siege of Belgrade and Hunting Scene / Gonzalez family / Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay

Virgin of Guadalupe / Miguel Gonzalez / Oil on canvas inlaid with mother of pearl

Fruit and Insects / Rachel Ruysch / Oil on wood

Spaniard and Indian produce a Mestizo / 1715 CE / Oil on canvas

Tete a Tete / William Hogarth / Oil on canvas