Section I: Image/ID

Narmer Palette, ca. 3000–2950 B.C.E, (Early Dynastic Period), green schist, 25 “ h, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Khafre, ca. 2520–2494 B.C.E, (Fourth Dynasty), diorite-gabbro gneiss, 5’ 6 1/8”

Hatshepsut Kneeling with Offering Jars, ca. 1473–1458 B.C.E, (Eighteenth Dynasty), Red granite, 8’6”

Colossal Figure of Akhenaten, 1353–1336 B.C.E (Eighteenth Dynasty), sandstone, 13 ft.

Stele of Naram-Sin, ca. 2254—2218 BCE, limestone, H: 6’6”, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Simone Leigh, Sphinx, 2020, bronze edition of three, 48” h x 38” w x 24” d

Kara Walker, A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby: An Homage to the Unpaid and Overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet Tastes from the Cane Fields of the New World to the Demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant, 2014

Mixed-media installation

35 x 28 x 75 ft.

Domino Sugar Refining Plant, Brooklyn, NY

Woman of Willendorf, 25,000–20,000 B.C.E, limestone and red ochre, 4 1/3”

Anavysos Kouros, 520 B.C.E., Parian Marble (with traces of paint), about 6’4”

Getty Kouros, ca. 530 B.C.E. or modern forgery, Thasian Marble, about 6’9”

Kritios Boy, ca. 475 B.C.E., marble, 3’10”

Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Roman copy) ca. 450 – 440 B.C.E., marble (after bronze original), 6’11”

Patrician Carrying Portrait Busts of Two Ancestors (known as the Barberini Togatus), end of the 1^st century BCE, or beginning of 1^st c. CE, marble, 5’5”

Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, ca. 1490 C.E., ink, 13 ½” x 9 5/8”

Uruk Vase (or Warka Vase), 3200–3000 B.C.E., Alabaster, 36 in. (about 3ft.) h

Column of Trajan, 113 – 116 C.E., or 117 C.E., marble, overall height with base 125’

Bayeux Embroidery, 1066 – 1082 C.E., linen with wool embroidery, height 20,” 70 meters long

Lorenzo Ghiberti Jacob And Esau, panel of the “Gates of Paradise”
c. 1435,
gilded bronze, 31-1/4” square

Massaccio, Tribute Money, 1425–1426, fresco, 8’1” x 19’7”, Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

Kamal al-Din Bihzad, Yusuf Fleeing Zulayhka, 1488, From a copy of the Bustan of Sa’di, ink and pigments on paper, approx. 12” x 8 ½”

Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop, Terracotta Funerary Krater from the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, 750–735 B.C.E., Ceramic, 42 5/8 in. h

The Great Stupa at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh, India, Founded 3^rd c. B.C.E., enlarged 150–50 B.C.E.

Reliquary Statue of Sainte Foy, 9^th or 10^th c. C.E., silver gilt over a wood core, with gems and cameos of various dates. Height 33”, Conques, France

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), 1991, candies in cellophane, dimensions vary, ideal weight 175 pounds

Kaaba, Mecca, cube-shaped shrine with black textile, embroidery with Qur’anic verses in gold, solid gold door, 15 m tall, 10.5 meters wide

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 691 C.E., architecture

Icon of St. Michael the Archangel, 1100s C.E., From Constantinople

Cloissoné, enamel, silver-gilt, precious stones, Treasury of San Marcos

Theotokos (or Virgin) of Vladimir, From the first third of the 12^th c., Tempera on Panel, 41 x 27 in., Constantinople

Giotto di Bondone, Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, view of west wall, Padua. 1305–1306, Frescoes