Identifiers for the Early Europe and Colonial Americas pieces for the 2024 AP Art History exam
Catacombs of Priscilla
Late Antique Europe
Rome, Italy
200-400 CE
Tufa and fresco
Santa Sabina
Late Antique Europe
Rome, Italy
422-432 CE
Brick and stone, wooden roof
Vienna Genesis
Rebecca and Elizer at the Well and Jacob Wrestling the Angel
Early Byzantine Europe
6th century CE
Illuminated manuscript - tempera, gold, and silver on purple vellum
San Vitale
Early Byzantine Europe
Ravenna, Italy
526-547 CE
Brick, marble, and stone veneer; mosaic
Hagia Sophia
Early Byzantine Europe
Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
532-537 CE
Brick and ceramic elements with stone and mosaic veneer
Fibulae
Early Medieval Europe
6th century
Silver gilt worked in filigree, with inlays of garnets and other stones
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
Early Byzantine Europe
Sinai, Egypt
6th or 7th CE
Encaustic on wood
Lindisfarne Gospels
Early Midieval Europe
700 CE
Illuminated manuscript - ink, pigments, and gold on vellum
Bayeux Tapestry
Romanesque Europe
1066-1080 CE
Embroidery on linen
Church of Sainte-Foy
Romanesque Europe
Conques, France
Church: 1050-1130 CE Reliquary: 9th century CE
Architecture: Stone and paint Reliquary: gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood
Chartes Cathedral
Gothic Europe
Chartres, France
Original: 1145-1155 CE Reconstructed: 1194-1220 CE
Limestone, stained glass
Bible Moralisée
Gothic Europe
France
1225-1245 CE
Illuminated manuscript (ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum)
Golden Haggadah
Late Medieval Spain
Spain
130 CE
Illuminated manuscript (pigment and gold leaf on vellum)
Röttgen Pietà
Late Medieval Europe
Bonn, Germany
1300-1325 CE
Painted wood
Arena Chapel
Lamentation: Giotto di Bondone
Late Gothic
1303-1305 CE
Brick and Fresco
The Great Mosque of Córdoba
Early Medieval Europe
Córdoba, Spain
786 CE
Stone masonry
Pyxis of al-Mughira
Early Medieval Europe
Present-day Spain
968 CE
Ivory
Alhambra
Nasrid Dynasty
Granada, Spain
1354-1391
Brick, wood, and stucco
Mosque of Selim II
Mimar Sinan
Edirne, Turkey
1569-1575
Marble, granite, sandstone
Merode Altarpiece
Robert Campin
Northern Renaissance
1425-1428
Tempera and oil on panel
Pazzi Chapel
Filippo Brunelleschi
Early Italian Renaissance
1440-1460
Masonry
Arnolfini Portrait
Jan Van Eyck
Northern Renaissance
1434
Tempera and oil on oak panel
David
Donatello
Early Italian Renaissance
1440
Bronze
Palazzo Rucellai
Leon Battista Alberti
Early Italian Renaissance
1446-1451
Stone, masonry
Madonna with Child and Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi
Early Italian Renaissance
1460-1465
Tempera on panel
Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli
Early Italian Renaissance
1484-1486
Tempera on canvas
The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci
High Renaissance, Italy
1495-1498
Oil and tempera
Adam and Eve
Albrecht Dürer
Northern Renaissance (Germany)
1504
Engraving
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
High Renaissance (Italy)
Michelangelo
1508-1512
Frescoes
School of Athens
Raphael
High Renaissance (Italy)
1509-1511
Fresco
Isenheim Altarpiece
Matthias Grünewald
Renaissance (Germany)
1510-1515
Oil on wood
Entombment of Christ
Jacopo da Pontormo
Mannerism (Italy)
1525-1528
Oil on wood
Venus of Urbino
Titian
High Renaissance (Venice)
1538
Oil on canvas
Allegory of Law and Grace
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Renaissance (Germany)
1529
Woodcut and letterpress
II Gesù and Triumph in the Name of Jesus
Architects: Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta Artist: Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Rome
1568-1679
Brick, marble, fresco, and stucco
Hunters in the Snow
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Netherlands
1565
Oil on wood
Calling of Saint Matthew
Caravaggio
Baroque
1599-1600
Oil on canvas
The Presentation of the Portrait of Marie de’Medici
Peter Paul Rubens
Baroque
1622-1625
Oil on canvas
Self-Portrait with Saskia
Rembrandt van Rijn
Baroque
1636
Etching
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Francesco Borromini
Baroque
1638-1646
Stone and stucco
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Baroque
1647-1652
Sculpture: Marble Chapel: Stucco and gilt bronze
Las Meninas
Diego Velázquez
Baroque
1656
Oil on canvas
Woman Holding a Balance
Johannes Vermeer
Baroque
1664
Oil on canvas
The Palace at Versailles
Louis le Vau, André le Nôtre, and Charles le Brun
Versailles, France
1664-1710
Architecture: Masonry, stone, wood, iron, and gold leaf Sculpture: Marble and bronze
Fruit and Insects
Rachel Ruysch
Baroque
1711
Oil on wood
Tête à Tête from Marriage a la Mode
William Hogarth
1743
Oil on canvas
Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
Aztec
Viceroyalty of New Spain
1541-1542
Ink and color on paper
Angel with Arquebus
Master of Calamarca
17th century
Oil on canvas
Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and Hunting Scenes
Circle of the Gonzales family
New Spain
1697-1701
Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay
Virgin of Guadalupe
Miguel González
1698
New Spain (Mexico City)
Oil on canvas on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl
Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo
Attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez
New Spain
1715
Oil on canvas