Art in Europe Artworks

Dipylon Amphora

C. 755 - 750 BCE

Geometric Period

Attic Black-figure amphora

Exekias (potter and painter)

C. 540-530 BCE

Archaic Period

Dionysos Kylix

Exekias

c. 530 B.C.E

Archaic Period

Attic white ground kylix

Attributed to Villa Giulia painter

C. 470 BCE

Early Classical

Attic Red-figure Kylix (interior)

Gorgos

c. 500 B.C.E. 

Archaic period

Anavysos Kouros

Greek

C. 530 BCE

Archaic Period

Left: Phrasikleia Kore 

c. 540 B.C.E 

Archaic

Athens

Right: Peplos Kore 

c. 530 B.C.E.

Archais

Athens

Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer) or The Canon

Polykleitos

C. 450–440 B.C.

Early Classical

Capitoline Venus (Modest Venus)

2nd century C.E.

Late Classical

Roman copy after Greek original “Aphrodite of Knidos” (4th century B.C.) ~ Praxitele

Antikythera Youth 

340-330 B.C.E.

Late Classical/early Hellenistic

Panathenaic amphora, detail Charioteer and horses

c. 410–400 B.C.E

High Classical

Cup with boxers and wrestlers

Attributed to the Foundry Painter, Attic

490–80 B.C.E.

Early Classical

Fikellura style amphora with a running man

6th century B.C.

Archaic

Black-figured “Tyrrhenian” amphora showing athletes and a combat scene

540 BCE

Archaic

Greek but made for Etruscan market

Discus-thrower (The Townley Discobolus)

Roman copy of a bronze original of the 5th century BCE

Attributed to Myron

Early and High classical

From Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy

Head of a Roman Patrician from Otricoli

c. 75-50 BCE

Roman Republic

Augustus of Primaporta

1st century CE

Imperial Period

Portrait of a Young Woman (known as Sappho)

c. 55–79 C.E.

Fresco, Pompeii

Imperial

First Style painting

House of the Faun, Pompeii

Built 2nd century B.C

Roman Republic

Examples of Second Style painting

Top: Cubiculum (bedroom), Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

50–40 B.C.E

Republic

Bottom: View of the Dionysiac frieze, Villa of the Mysteries

60-50 BCE

Republic

Example of Third Style painting

Panel with candelabrum, Villa Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase

Last decade of the 1st century B.C.E.

Imperial

Example of Fourth Style painting, Ixion Room,

House of the Vetii, Pompeii

1st century C.E.

Imperial

The Parthenon, Acropolis

Iktinos and Kallikrates, architects, sculptural programme directed by Phidias

447–432 B.C.E.

Early Classical

East porch Erechtheion, Acropolis

421–407 B.C.E.

Early and High Classical

Corinthian

Eg. Pantheon, Acropolis, Rome

Imperial period

Alexander Sarcophagus

 c. 312 B.C.E

Hellenistic

One of the earliest surviving portraits of Alexander

Alexander Mosaic

2nd century B.C.E.

Hellenistic

from the House of the Faun in Pompeii

Nike of Samothrace (winged Victory)

c. 190 B.C.

Hellenistic

Boxer at Rest

Apollonius

1st century B.C.E. 

Hellenistic

(may be a copy of a 4th century sculpture)

The Pantheon

Rome

c. 125

Imperial Period

Parthenon metopes, e.g. Lapith and Centaur (Centauromachy)

Phidias (programme)

447–432 BCE

Early Classical

Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George

6th or early 7th century

Early Byzantine

encaustic on wood

Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt

Christ Blessing or Christ “Pantokrator” (all-ruler)

first half of the 6th century

Early Byzantine

Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt

The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt

Built between 548 and 565 AD by order of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.

San Vitale

begun c. 526–27, consecrated 547

Ravenna (Italy)

Late Antiquity

San Vitale mosaics: apse with Christ enthroned, sanctuary with offering and sacrifice (Abraham and Isaac)

c. 547

Late Antiquity

Justinian and his attendants; Theodora and her attendants, San Vitale

c. 547

Late Antiquity

Colossus of Constantine (Musei Capitolini, Rome)

c. 312–315 CE

Late Antiguity

Kritios Boy

480 BCE

Early Classical

Turning point after the kouroi; early contrapposto

Barberini Faun

c. 220 BCE

Hellenistic

Sleeping satyr; overtly sexualised male nude