ap art history identifiers

name, artist name, art period/movement, materials, location

Apollo 11 Stones

Namibia

25,500 - 25,300 BCE

charcoal on stone

Great Hall of the Bulls

Paleolithic Europe

Lascaux, France

15,000 - 13,000 BCE

rock painting

Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine

Mexico

14,000 - 7000 BCE

bone

Running Horned Woman

Tassili n’Ajjer, ALgeria

6000 - 4000 BCE

pigment on rock

Beaker with ibex motifs

Susa, Iran

4200 - 3500 BCE

painted terracotta

Anthropomorphic stele

Arabian Peninsula

4000 - 3000 BCE

sandstone

Jade cong

Liangzhu, China

3300 - 2200 BCE

carved jade

Stonehenge

Wiltshire, UK

Neolithic Europe

2500 - 1600 BCE

sandstone

The Ambum Stone

Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

1500 BCE

greywacke

Tlatilco female figurine

Tlatilco, Mexico

1200 - 900 BCE

ceramic

Terracotta fragment

Lapita people, Solomon Islands
1000 BCE

terracotta

White Temple and ziggurat

Uruk (Iraq)

Sumerian

3500 - 300 BCE

mud brick

Palette of King Narmer

Predynastic Egypt

3000 - 2920 BCE

greywacke

Statues of votive figures

Square Temple at Eshnunna, modern Iraq

Sumerian

2700 BCE

gypsum, inlaid shell and black limestone

Seated Scribe

Saqqara, Egypt

Old Kingdom

2620 - 2500 BCE

painted limestone

Standard of Ur

Royal tombs at Ur

Sumerian

2600 - 2400 BCE

wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, red limestone

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

Giza, Egypt

Old Kingdom

2550 - 2940 BCE

limestone

King Menkaure and queen

Egypt

Old Kingdom

2490 - 1750 BCE

greywacke

Code of Hammurabi

Babylon

1792 - 1750 BCE

basalt

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Karnak, Egypt

New Kingdom

Temple: 1550 Hall: 1250 BCE

sandstone, mud brick

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

near Luxor, Egypt

New Kingdom

1473 - 1458 BCE

sandstone rock cliff, granite

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters

Egypt

Amarna period

1353 - 1335 BCE

limestone

Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin

Egypt

New Kingdom

1323 BCE

gold inlaid with enamel and semiprecious stones

Last judgement of Hunefer

Egypt

New Kingdom

1275 BCE

painted papyrus

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II

Dur Sharrukin

Neo-Assyrian

720 - 705 BCE

alabaster

plan

Athenian agora

Athens, Greece

600 BCE - 150 CE

Anavysos Kouros

Archaic Greek

530 BCE

marble, paint

Peplos Kore from Acropolis

Archaic Greek

530 BCE

marble, paint

Sarcophagus of the Spouses

Etruscan

520 BCE

terracotta

Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

Persepolis, Iran

Persian

520 - 465 BCE

limestone

Temple of Minerva and sculpture of Apollo

Master sculptor Vulca

Veii, Italy

510 - 500 BCE

temple of wood, mud brick, or tufa

terracotta sculpture

Tomb of the Triclinium

Tarquinia, Italy

Etruscan

480 - 470 BCE

tufa and fresco

Niobides Krater

Classical Greek

Niobid Painter

460 - 450 BCE

red-figure clay

Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)

Polykleitos

450 - 440 BCE

Roman marble copy of Greek bronze original

Acropolis

Iktinos and Kallikrates

Athens, Greece

447 - 410 BCE

marble

Grave stele of Hegeso

Kallimachos

Classical Greek

410 BCE

marble, paint

Winged Victory of Samothrace

Hellenistic Greek

190 BCE

marble

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon

Asia Minor

Hellenistic Greek

175 BCE

marble

House of the Vettii

Pompeii, Italy

Imperial Roman

2nd century BCE, rebuilt 62- 79 CE

cut stone and fresco

Alexander Mosaic

House of Faun, Pompeii

Republican Roman

100 BCE

mosaic

Seated boxer

Hellenistic Greek

100 BCE

bronze

Head of a Roman patrician

Republican Roman

75 - 50 CE

marble

Augustus of Prima Porta

Imperial Roman

early 1st century CE

marble

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)

Rome, Italy

Imperial Roman

70 - 80 CE

stone and concrete

Forum of Trajan

Rome, Italy

Apollodorus of Damascus

106 - 112 CE

brick, concrete, marble

Pantheon

Imperial Roman

118 - 125 CE

concrete with stone facing

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

Late Imperial Roman

250 CE

marble

Catacomb of Priscilla

Rome, Italy

Late Antique Europe

200 - 400 CE

excavated tufa and fresco

Santa Sabina

Rome, Italy

Late Antique Europe

422 - 432 CE

brick and stone, wooden roof

Vienna Genesis

early Byzantine Europe

early 6th century CE

illuminated manuscript

San Vitale

Ravenna, Italy

Early Byzantine Europe

brick, marble, and stone veneer

Hagia Sophia

Constantinople

Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus

532 - 537 CE

brick and ceramic with stone and mosaic veneer

Merovingian looped fibulae

early medieval Europe

mid 6th century CE

silver gilt, inlay of stones

Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George

early Byzantine Europe

6th or early 7th century CE

encaustic on wood

Lindisfarne Gospels

early medieval Europe

700 CE

illuminated manuscript

Great Mosque

Cordoba, Spain

Umayyad

785 - 786 CE

stone masonry

Pyxis of al-Mughira

Umayyad

968 CE

ivory

Church of Sainte-Foy

Conques, France

Romanesque Europe

church: 1050 - 1130, reliquary: 9th century CE

stone, paint; gold, silver, gemstones, enamel over wood

Bayeux Tapestry

Romanesque Europe

1066 - 1080 CE

embroidery on linen

Chartres Cathedral

Chartres, France

Gothic Europe

1145 - 1220 CE

limestone, stained glass

Dedication page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France, from moralised Bible

Gothic Europe

1225 - 1245 CE

illuminated manuscript

Rottgen Pieta

late medieval Europe

1300 - 1325 CE

painted wood

Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, Lamentation

di Bondone

1303 - 1305

brick and fresco

Golden Haggadah

late medieval Spain

1320 CE

illuminated manuscript

Alhambra

Granada, Spain

Nasrid Dynasty

1354 - 1391 CE

whitewashed stucco, wood, tile, paint, gilding

Annunciation Triptych

workshop of Robert Campin

1427 - 1432 CE

oil on wood

Pazzi Chapel

Florence, Italy

Brunelleschi

1429.- 1461 CE

masonry

Arnolfini Portrait

Jan van Eyck

1434 CE

oil on wood

David

Donatello

1440 - 1460

bronze

Palazzo Rucellai

Florence, Italy

Alberti

1429 - 1461 CE

masonry

Madonna and Child with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi

1465 CE

tempera on wood

Birth of Venus

Botticelli

1484 - 1486

tempera on canvas

The Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci

1494 - 1498 CE

oil and tempera

Adam and Eve

Albrecht Durer

1504

engraving

Sistine Chapel

Vatican City, Italy

Michelangelo

1508 - 1541

fresco

School of Athens

Raphael

1509 - 1511

fresco

Isenheim Altarpiece

Grunewlad

1512 - 1516 CE

oil on wood

Entombment of Christ

Pontormo

1525 - 1528 CE

oil on wood

Allegory of Law and Grace

Lucas Cranach the Elder

1530 CE

woodcut and letterpress

Venus of Urbino

Titian

1538 CE

oil on canvas

Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza

Viceroyalty of New Spain

1541 - 1542 CE

ink and color on paper

Il Gesu

Vignola, Porta, Gaulli

1568 - 1679 CE

brick, marble, fresco, stucco

Hunters in the Snow

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

1565 CE

oil on wood

Mosque of Selim II

Turkey

Sinan

1568 - 1575 CE

brick and stone

Calling of Saint Matthew

Caravaggio

1597 - 1601 CE

oil on canvas

Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de’Medici

Peter Paul Rubens

1621 - 1625 CE

oil on canvas

Self-Portrait with Saskia

Rembrandt

1636

etching

Sal Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Rome, Italy

Borromini

1638 - 1646 CE

stone and stucco

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria

Rome, Italy

Bernini

1647 - 1652 CE

marble, stucco and gilt bronze

Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Dei

Master of Calamarca

17th century CE

oil on canvas

Las Meninas

Velazquez

1656

oil on canvas

Woman Holding a Balance

Vermeer

1664

oil on canvas

Palace at Versailles

France

Le Vau and Hardouin-Mansart

1669 CE

masonry, stone, wood, iron, gold leaf; marble, bronze; gardens

Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene

Gonzalez family

1697 - 1701 CE

tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay