Art History Volume 2

For aster

Artwork: The Bodhisattva Maitreya

Gandhara region, Pakistan, Kushan period ——→ Stone

Daisen Tomb

Sakai, Osaka prefecture

Mosaic funeral mask of Pakal

from Palenque, Maya —- >Jade tesserae with backing material

Cliff dwellings

Ancestral Puebloan culture, Mesa Verde, Four Corners region

Hagia Sophia (exterior)

Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey ——→ Architects Anthemius of Tralles and Isidoeus of Miletus. The external buttresses and four minarets were added later

Purse cover, from the Sutton Hoo ship burial

Suffolk, England ——→Gold, glass, garnets and enamels

Carpet page, from the Lindisfarne Gospels

Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England ——→Ink and tempera on vellum

The Dome of the Rock

Jerusalem

Painted interior of Abuna Yemata Guh

Tigray, Ethiopia

Head from Wunmonije Compound

Nigeria, Ancestral Yoruba —→ Copper

Giotto di Bondone, Lamentation

Fresco from the Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy

Florence Cathedral

Florence, Italy. (also known as Santa Maria del Fiore or the Duomo)

Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper

Fresco, tempera and oil ———>Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy.

Donatello, David

Bronze ——>Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy.

Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait

Oil on wood ——> National Gallery, London

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow

Brussels —→Oil on panel