Art of the Western World

Venus of Willendorf, limestone, Paleolithic, ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE

Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany: Human with Feline Head, mammoth ivory, Paleolithic, ca. 30,000-28,000 BCE

Le Tuc d’Audoubert Cave, France: Two Bison, clay relief, Paleolithic, ca. 13,000 BCE

Lascaux Cave: Chinese Horse, pigment on limestone, Paleolithic, ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE

Altamira Cave, Spain: Bison, pigment on limestone, Paleolithic,      ca. 12,000-11,000 BCE

Lascaux Cave, France: Hall of the Bulls,  Paleolithic, pigment on limestone, ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE

Lascaux Cave, France: Well Scene- Rhinoceros, Wounded Man, and Disemboweled Bison, pigment on limestone, Paleolithic,
ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE

Çatal Höyük: Deer and Boar Hunt Scene,
Neolithic, pigment on plaster,             
ca. 5750 BCE

Çatal Höyük: Landscape with a volcanic eruption (?), Neolithic, pigment on plaster, 
 ca. 6150 BCE

Uruk: “White Temple,” mud brick, Sumerian,  ca. 3200-3000 BCE

Uruk: Female head (Inanna?), alabaster, Sumerian,                    ca. 3200-3000 BCE

Uruk: Warka Vase, alabaster, Sumerian, ca. 3200-3000 BCE

Tell Asmar: Statues of Worshippers from temple of Eshunna, gypsum, Sumerian, ca. 2700 BCE

Standard of Ur, inlay of shell, lapis lazuli and red limestone in bitumen, Sumerian, ca. 2600 BCE

Ur: Bull-headed Lyre, gilded wood and lapis lazuli with shell and bitumen inlay, Sumerian, ca. 2600 BCE

Nineveh: Head of an Akkadian Ruler, copper, Akkadian, ca. 2250-2200 BCE

Susa: Victory Stele of Naram-Sin, limestone, Akkadian,            ca. 2254-2218 BCE

Statue of Gudea, diorite, Neo-Sumerian, ca. 2100 BCE

Stele with law code of Hammurabi, basalt, Babylonian, ca. 1780 BCE

Dur Sharrukin: Citadel of Sargon II- Lamassu, limestone, Assyrian,         ca. 720-705 BCE

Nimrud: Palace of Ashurnasirpal- Assyrian archers pursuing enemies, gypsum, Assyrian, ca. 875-860 BCE

Nineveh: North Palace of Ashurbanipal- Relief of Ashurbanipal hunting lions, gypsum, Assyrian, ca. 645-640 BCE

Babylon: Ishtar Gate, glazed brick, Neo-Babylonian, ca. 575 BCE

Saqqara: Stepped pyramid and mortuary precinct of Djoser, limestone, Egyptian, ca. 2630-2611 BCE

Hierakonpolis: Palette of King Narmer, greywacke, Egyptian,   ca. 3100 BCE