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Definition of Mastaba?
Definition of Step-pyramid or pyramid?
Definition of Hieratic Scale?
Definition of Papyrus?
Definition of Naturalism (naturalistic art)?
Definition of Relief sculpture?
Definition of sculpture ‘in the round’?
Definition of Contrapposto?
Definition of Black-figure pottery?
Definition of Red-figure pottery?
Definition of Foreshortening?
Definition of Concrete?
Definition of Barrel vault?
Definition of Groin vault?
Definition of Fresco?
Definition of Veristic ?
Definition of Basilica?
Definition of Apse?
Definition of Pendentive?
Definition of Icon?
Definition of Iconoclasm?
Definition of Illuminated manuscript?
Definition of Mosque?
Definition of Minaret?
Definition of Mihrab?
Definition of Qu’ran?
Definition of Süleyman “the Magnificent”?
Definition of Iznik Tiles?
Definition of Reliquary?
Definition of Pilgrimage?
Definition of Romanesque?
Definition of Gothic?
Definition of Ribbed vaults?
Definition of Flying buttress?

Artist: N/A
Title: Palette of Narmer
Medium: Slate/ Stone
Date: ca. 2950 BCE (early dynastic period)
Culture: Hierakonopolis, Egypt

Artist: N/A
Title: Step Pyramid of Djoser
Medium: Limestone
Date: ca. 2650 BCE (Old kingdom)
Culture: Saqqara, Egypt

Artist: N/A
Title: Pyramid of Khufu (Great Pyramid)
Medium: Limestone
Date: ca. 2550 BCE (Old kingdom)
Culture: Giza, Egypt

Artist: N/A
Title: Kafre Enthroned
Medium: Anorthosite gneiss (a hard, volcanic stone)
Date: ca. 2550 BCE (Old kingdom)
Culture: Giza, Egypt

Artist: N/A
Title: Menkaure and Queen
Medium: Greywacke (another hard, volcanic stone)
Date: ca. 2475 BCE (Old kingdom)
Culture: Giza, Egypt

Artist: N/A
Title: Last Judgment of Hunefer, Book of the Dead
Medium: Papyrus Scroll
Date: ca. 1275 BCE (New Kingdom)
Culture: N/A (Egypt?)

Artist: N/A
Title: The “New York Kouros”
Medium: Limestone statue
Date: ca. 600 BCE (Archaic Period)
Culture: Athens, Greece

Artist: N/A
Title: “Kritios Boy”
Medium: Marble kouros statue
Date: ca. 480 BCE (Early Classical Period)
Culture: Athens

Artist: Polykleitos
Title: Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer)
Medium: Roman marble copy of a High Classical Period bronze statue
Date: ca. 450-440 BCE
Culture: Roman

Artist: Praxiteles
Title: Aphrodite of Knidos
Medium: Marble
Date: c.350 BCE (Late Classical Period)
Culture: Roman, Knidos

Artist: N/A
Title: Nike of Samothrace
Medium: Marble sculpture of the goddess of Victory
Date: c. 190 BCE (Hellenistic Period)
Culture: Greece

Artist: Exekias
Title: Achilles and Ajax playing dice
Medium: Athenian black-figure amphora
Date: ca. 540 BCE (Archaic Period)
Culture: Athens

Artist: Euthymides
Title: Three Revelers
Medium: Athenian red-figure amphora
Date: ca. 510 BCE (Archaic Period)
Culture: Athens

Artist: Iktinos and Kallikrates, Head: Phidias
Title: The Parthenon (temple of Athena Parthenos)
Medium: Marble
Date: 447-438 BCE (High Classical Period)
Culture: Athens

Artist: N/A
Title: The temple of Portunus
Medium: Travertine, tufa, and concrete
Date: ca. 100 BCE
Culture: Rome

Artist: N/A
Title: The Pantheon
Medium: Concrete, brick, and marble
Date: 118-125 CE
Culture: Rome

Artist: N/A
Title: The “Tivoli General” - Portrait of a Roman nobleman from Tivoli (outside of Rome)
Medium: Marble
Date: ca. 75-50 BC
Culture: Rome

Artist: N/A
Title: Portrait of Augustus as a general (the “Primaporta Augustus”), from Primaporta
Medium: Marble
Date: ca. 10 CE
Culture: Italy (near Rome)

Artist: N/A
Title: Panel showing Tellus (Earth-goddess) surrounded by symbols of peace and plenty,
Medium: Marble relief-sculpture
Date: ca. 13-9 BCE
Culture: From the east side of the Ara Pacis; Rome

Artist: N/A
Title: Second Style wall-painting from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale, Italy
Medium: Fresco
Date: ca. 50-40 BCE
Culture: Italy, Rome

Artist: N/A
Title: The “Ixion Room” at the House of the Vettii at Pompeii
Medium: Fresco; fourth style wall painting
Date: c. 70-79 CE
Culture: Italy, Rome

Artist: N/A
Title: Decursio relief
Medium: Marble; Relief-sculpture from the pedestal of the Column of Antoninus Pius
Date: ca. 161 CE
Culture: Rome

Artist: N/A
Title: Portraits of the four Tetrarchs, from Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey)
Medium: Porphyry
Date: ca. 305 CE
Culture: Rome

Artist: N/A
Title: St. Peter’s Basilica- sponsored by the emperor Constantine I (‘the Great’)
Medium: Stone and timber
Date: ca. 320-340 CE
Culture: Rome


Artist: N/A
Title: Apse mosaic of Justinian and Archbishop Maximian
Medium: Mosaic
Date: ca. 547
Culture: Byzantine

Artist: Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
Title: Hagia Sophia
Medium: Stone, marble and brick
Date: ca. 532-537
Culture: Byznatine

Artist: N/A
Title: Icon of Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George
Medium: Encaustic on Wood
Date: ca. 600
Culture: Byzantine

Artist: N/A
Title: Rebecca and Eleazer at the well, from Vienna Genesis
Medium: Ink and tempera on purple vellum
Date: c. 500 CE
Culture: Byzantine

Artist: N/A (bishop of Lindisfarne)
Title: Cross-inscribed carpet page, from the Lindisfarne Gospels
Medium: Ink and tempera on vellum
Date: ca. 700 AD
Culture: N/A

Artist: N/A
Title: Purse cover, from the Sutton Hoo Ship burial in Suffolk, England
Medium: Gold, glass and cloisonné garnets
Date: ca. 625
Culture: Anglo Saxon art

Artist: N/A
Title: Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne
Medium: Stone, marble, bronze, gold, porphyry
Date: ca. 800 AD
Culture: Rome or Byzantine

Artist: Caliph Abd al-Malik
Title: The Dome of the Rock
Medium: Built mostly of stone, interior decorated in mosaic
Date: 687-692
Culture: Byzantine or Islamic?
Artist: Dome over the maqsura built by Al-Hakam II
Title: Great Mosque
Medium: Built of stone and brick, with mosaic decoration in some areas
Date: Begun ca. 786; Dome over the maqsura built by 962-96
Culture: Islamic or Byzantine?

Artist: Master illuminator: Abu Bakr (aka Sandal)
Title: Carpet pages from Sultan Baybars’ Qur’an
Medium: Ink, paint, and gold on vellum
Date: 1304
Culture: Mamluk illumination style

Artist: N/A
Title: The Pyxis of al-Mughira
Medium: Ivory
Date: 968
Culture: Islamic art

Artist: N/A
Title: Spherical Hanging Ornament
Medium: Ceramic (fritware), Iznik
Date: 1575-1585
Culture: Ottoman art

Artist: Mimar Sinan
Title: Rüstem Pasha Mosque
Medium: Iznik tiles in Rüstem Pasha Mosque
Date: 1561-63
Culture: Ottoman mosque

Artist: N/A
Title: The abbey church of Sainte Foy (Saint Faith) at Conques
Medium: Stone
Date: c. 1051-1120
Culture: French Romanesque art


Artist: N/A
Title: Reliquary statue of Sainte-Foy (Saint Faith), from the abbey church at Conques
Medium: Gold, silver gilt, jewels, and cameos over a wooden core
Date: 10th century
Culture: Romanesque?

Artist: N/A
Title: Gold reliquary pendant showing Queen Margaret of Sicily blessed by Bishop Reginald of Bath
Medium: Gold
Date: c. 1174-77
Culture: Romanesque

Artist: Nicholas of Verdun
Title: Three Kings’ Shrine reliquary, Cologne Cathedral
Medium: Gold, enamel, semiprecious stones
Date: c. 1225
Culture: Romanesque

Artist: Abbot Suger
Title: Abbey church of Saint-Denis
Medium: Stone, stained glass
Date: 1140-45
Culture: Gothic architecture


Artist: N/A
Title: Cathedral of Notre Dame (“Our Lady”)
Medium: Lutetian limestone and wood
Date: Begun in 1163
Culture: Gothic architecture


Artist: N/A
Title: Jamb-figure of St. Theodore from the south portal of Chartres Cathedral
Medium: Limestone
Date: c. 1230
Culture: Gothic

Artist: N/A
Title: Stained glass window from Sainte-Chapelle, showing the coronation of a king
Medium: Stained glass window
Date: c. 1243-1248
Culture: Gothic