AP Art History Identifiers

House of the Vettii

Cut stone and fresco. Rome. Pompeii, Italy. c. 2nd bce. rebuilt 62-67 ce.

Pantheon

Concrete with stone facing. Imperial Rome. Italy. c. 125.

Santa Sabina

Brick and stone, wooden roof. Late Antique Europe. Rome, Italy. c. 422-432 CE.

Church of Sainte-Foy

Stone (architecture), stone and paint (tympanum), gold silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood (reliquary). Romanesque Europe. Conques, France. c. 1050- 1130 CE.

Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France and Scenes from the Apocalypse, from a Bible moralisée

Illuminated manuscript (ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum). Gothic Europe. Paris, France. c. 1227-34 CE.

Golden Haggadah (The Plagues of Egypt, Scenes of Liberation, and Preparation for Passover)

Illuminated manuscript (pigments on vellum). Late medieval Spain. Barcelona, Spain. c. 1320.

School of Athens

Raphael. Fresco. c. 1509- 1511.

Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene

Oil on wood, mother of pearl inlay. Circle of the González family. Mexico. Baroque. c. 1697- 1701.

The Burghers of Calais

Auguste Rodin. Bronze. c. 1884- 1895.

Illustration from The Results of the First Five-Year Plan

Varvara Stepanova. Photomontage. Constructivism. Propaganda. Soviet Union. c. 1932.

Fountain (second version)

Marcel Duchamp. Readymade glazed sanitary china with black paint. Dada. c. 1950.

All-T'oqapu tunic

Inka. Camelid fiber and cotton. c. 1450- 1540.

Travelers among Mountains and Streams

Fan Kuan. Chinese brushwork. Ink on silk. c. 1000.

The Swing (after Fragonard)

Yinka Shonibare. Duch wax fabrics, mixed- media installation. c. 2001.

Apollo 11 Stones

Charcoal on Stone. Namibia.
c. 25,500-25,300 BCE

Great Hall of the Bulls

Charcoal and Ochre on Rock. Lascaux, France. Paleolithic Europe. c. 16,000-14,000 BCE

Camelid Sacrum in the shape of a canine

Bone. Tequixquiac, central Mexico. c. 14,000-7,000 BCE

Running Horned Woman

Pigment on Rock. Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria. Ajjer peoples. c. 6,000-4,000 BCE

Beaker with Ibex Motifs

Painted Terra Cotta. Susa, Iran.
c. 4200-3500 BCE

Anthropomorphic Stele

Sandstone. Arabian Peninsula
c. 4th millennium BCE

Jade Cong

Carved Nephrite (true jade). Liangzhu, China. Neolithic Period c. 2500 BCE

Stonehenge

Sandstone. Wiltshire, UK. Neolithic Europe. c. 2550-1600 BCE

The Ambum Stone

Greywacke. Papua New Guinea.
c. 1500 BCE

Tlatilco Female Figurine

Ceramic. Central Mexico, site of Tlatilco. c. 1200-600 BCE

Terra Cotta Fragment

Terra Cotta (incised), red-slip earthenware. Lapita peoples. Solomon Islands. c. 1000 BCE.

White Temple and Ziggurat

Mud Brick. Sumerian. Uruk (modern day Warka, Iraq)
c. late 4th millennium BCE.

Palette of King Narmer

Siltstone. Predynastic Egypt.
c. 3000-2920 BCE.

Statues of Votive Figures

Gypsum Inlaid with shell and black limestone. Sumerian. Eshnunna (modern day Tell Asmar, Iraq). c. 2900-2600 BCE.

Seated Scribe

Painted limestone. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. Saqqara, Egypt. c. 2620-2500 BCE.

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

Limestone. New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th dynasty. c. 1350 BCE.

Niobedes Krater

Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid painter. Clay, red-figure technique (white highlights). c. 460-50 BCE.

Bayeux Tapestry

Embroidery on Linen. Romanesque Europe. c. 1070.

Isenheim altarpiece

Matthias Grünewald. Oil on wood. Isenheim, Germany. c. 1510-15.

Allegory of Law and Grace

Lucas Cranach the Elder. Woodcut. Lutheran Reformation. c. 1529.

Mosque of Selim II

Sinan (architect). Brick and stone. Edirne, Turkey. Centrally planned. c. 1568- 75.

Calling of Saint Matthew

Caravaggio. Oil on canvas. Baroque. Italy. c. 1599-1600.

Fruit and Insects

Rachel Ruysch. Oil on wood. Baroque. Still life. c. 1711.

Monticello

Thomas Jefferson (architect). Brick, glass, stone, and wood. Virginia, US. Neoclassical. c. 1770- 1806.

Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix. Oil on canvas. French Romanticism. c. 1830.

Woman I

Willem de Kooning. Oil on canvas. Netherlands. Abstraction. c. 1950- 52.

Spiral Jetty

Robert Smithson. Earthwork, mud, precipitated salt crystals, rocks, and water coil. Great Salt Lake, Utah, US. c. 1970.

Transformation mask

Wood, paint, and string. Kwakwaka’wakw, Northwestern coast of Canada. c. late 19th century.

Bahram Gur Fights the Karg, folio from the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama

Ink and opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper. Islamic; Persian, Il'Khanid. c. 1330- 1340.

Lakshmana Temple

Sandstone. Hindu, Chandella Dynasty. Khajuraho, India. c. 930- 950.

Navigation Chart

Wood and fiber. Marshall Islands, Micronesia. c. 19th- early 20th century.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Maya Lin. Granite. Washington, DC. Contemporary. c. 1982.

Pink Panther

Jeff Koons. Glazed porcelain. Neo- pop art. c. 1988.

Pure Land

Mariko Mori. Color photograph on glass. Japan. Buddhist contemporary. c. 1998.

Old Man's Cloth

El Anatsui. Aluminum and copper wire. Africa. c. 2003.

Preying Mantra

Wangechi Mutu. Mixed media on mylar. c. 2006.

Standard of Ur

Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone. Sumerian. Royal Tombs at Ur (modern day Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq). c. 2600-2400 BCE.

Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx

Cut limestone. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. Giza, Egypt. c. 2600-2400 BCE

King Menkaura and Queen

Greywacke. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. Egypt. c. 2490-2472 BCE.

The Code of Hammurabi

Basalt. Susian. Babylon. c. 1792-1750 BCE.

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Cut sandstone and mud brick. New Kingdom, 18th and 19th dynasties. Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt. c. 2055-1650 BCE.

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite. New Kingdom, 18th dynasty. Near Luxor, Egypt. c. 1479- 58 BCE.

Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin

Gold inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. Valley of the Kings, Egypt. c. 1332-1323 BCE.

Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead)

Painted papyrus scroll. New Kingdom, 19th dynasty. Thebes, Egypt. c. 1275.

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II

Alabaster. Neo-Assyrian. Dur Sharrukin (modern day Khorsabad, Iraq). c. 720-705 BCE.

Athenian Agora

Plan. Archaic through Hellenistic. Public speaking place. Athens, Greece. c. 5th century BCE.

Anavysos Kouros

Marble with remnants of paint. Archaic Greek. c. 530 BCE.

Peplos Kore from the Acropolis

Marble, painted details. Archaic Greek. c. 530 BCE.

Sarcophagus of the Spouses

Terra Cotta. Etruscan. Cerveteri, Italy. c. 520 BCE.

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

Limestone. Persian. Persepolis, Iran. c. 6th to 5th century BCE.

Temple of Minerva and sculpture of Apollo

Vulca, from veii, Etruscan, 500 bce, temple of mud, brick, or tufa; sculpture of terracotta

Tomb of the Triclinium

Tufa and fresco. Etruscan. Tarquinia, Italy. c. 470 BCE.

Doryphoros (Spear bearer)

Polykleitos. Roman copy (marble), Greek original (bronze). Pompeii, Rome. c. 450- 440 BCE.

Acropolis

Iktinos and Kallikrates. Marble. Athens, Greece. c. mid 5th century BCE.

Grave Stele of Hegeso

Attributed to Kallimachos. Marble and paint. Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, Greece. c. 410 BCE.

Winged Victory of Samothrace

Marble. Hellenistic Greece. c. 190 BCE.

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon

Marble. Hellenistic Greece. Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). c. 200- 150 BCE.

Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun

Mosaic. Tesserae. Republican Roman copy of lost Greek painting. Hellenistic. Pompeii. c. 100 BCE.

Seated boxer

Bronze. Hellenistic Greece. c. 100 BCE.

Head of Roman patrician

Marble. Republican Roman. Verism. c. 75- 50 BCE.

Augustus of Primaporta

Marble. Imperial Roman. c. 1st century CE.

Colosseum (Flavian amphitheater)

Stone and concrete. Imperial Roman. Rome, Italy. c. 70- 80 CE.

Forum of Trajan

Apollodorus of Damascus. Brick and concrete (architecture), marble (column). Rome, Italy. c. 106-112 AD.

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

Marble. Late Imperial Roman. c. 250- 260 BCE.

Catacomb of Priscilla

Excavated tufa and fresco. Late Antique Europe. Rome, Italy. c. late 2nd century to 4th century BCE.

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well and Jacob Wrestling the Angle, from the Vienna Genesis

Illuminated manuscript (tempera, gold, and silver on vellum). Early Byzantine Europe. c. 6th century.

San Vitale

Brick, marble, and stone veneer, mosaic. Early Byzantine Europe. Ravenna, Italy. c. 526-547 CE.

Hagia Sophia

Anthemius of Talles and Isidorus of Miletus. Brick and ceramic elements with stone and mosaic veneer. Constantinople (Istanbul). c. 532-37 CE.

Merovingian looped fibula

Silver gilt worked in filigree, with inlays of garnets and other stones. Early medieval Europe. c. 6th century.

Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George

Encaustic on wood. Early Byzantine Europe. c. early 7th century.

Lindisfarne Gospels: St. Matthew, cross-carpet page; St. Luke portrait page; St. Luke incipit page

Illuminated manuscript (ink, pigments, and gold on vellum). Early medieval (Hiberno Saxon) Europe. c. early 8th century.

Great Mosque

Stone masonry. Umayyad. Córdoba, Spain. Hypostyle Hall. c. 8th-10th centuries.

Pyxis of al-Mughira

Ivory. Umayyad. c. 357- 986 CE.

Chartres Cathedral

Limestone, stained glass. Gothic Europe. Chartres, France. c. 1145- 1230.

Röttgen Pietà

Painted wood. Late medieval Europe. c. 1300-25.

Arena (Scrovengni) Chapel, including Lamentation

Giotto di Bondone (artist). Brick (architecture) and fresco. Padua, Italy. c. 1305

Alhambra Palace

Whitewashed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gilding. Nasrid Dynasty. Granada, Spain. c. 1238.

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Workshop of Robert Campin (Master of Flémalle?). Tempera and oil on panel. c. 1425-28.

Pazzi Chapel

Filippo Brunelleschi (architect). Masonry. Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence, Italy. c. 1420s- 1460s.

The Arnolfini Portrait

Jan van Eyck. Tempera and oil on wood. c. 1434.

David

Donatello. Bronze. c. mid 5th century.

Palazzo Rucellai

Leon Battista Alberti (architect). Stone, masonry. Roman influences. Florence, Italy. c. 1446- 1451.

Madonna and Child with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi. Tempera on panel. c. 1460- 1465.

Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli. Tempera on panel. Early Renaissance. c. 1283-85.

Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci. Oil and tempera, fresco. c. 1495- 98.

Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer. Engraving. c. 1504.