Art History Image List

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Palette of Narmer from Hierakonopolis, Egypt. Slate, ca. 2950 BCE (early dynastic period)

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, Egypt. Limestone, ca. 2650 BCE (Old Kingdom), Imothep

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Pyramid of Khufu (Great Pyramid) at Giza, Egypt. Limestone, ca. 2550 BCE (Old Kingdom)

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Khafre Enthroned, from Giza, Egypt. Anorthosite gneiss (a hard, volcanic stone), ca. 2500 BCE (Old kingdom)

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Menkaure and Queen, from Giza, Egypt. Greywacke (another hard, volcanic stone), ca. 2475 BCE (Old Kingdom)

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Last Judgment of Hunefer, Book of the Dead, Papyrus Scroll, ca. 1275 BCE (New Kingdom)

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

The “New York Kouros,” limestone statue from Athens, Greece, ca. 600 BCE (Archaic Period)

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

“Kritios Boy”, marble kouros statue from Athens, ca. 480 BCE (Early Classical Period)

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer), Roman marble copy of a High Classical Period bronze sculpture, ca. 450-440 BCE

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Nike of Samothrace. Marble sculpture of the goddess of Victory, c. 190 BCE (Hellenistic Period)

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Exekias, Achilles and Ajax playing dice, Athenian black-figure amphora (Archaic Period), ca. 540 BCE

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Euthymides, Three Revelers, Athenian red-figure amphora, ca. 510 BCE (Archaic Period)

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

The Parthenon (temple of Athena Parthenos), Athens, 447-438 BCE. Marble. High Classical Period. Architects: Iktinos and Kallikrates; head sculptor: Phidias

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

The Temple of Portunus, Rome, ca. 100 BCE. Travertine, tufa, concrete.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

The Pantheon, Rome, 118-125 CE. Concrete, brick, and marble.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Second Style wall-painting from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale, Italy, ca 50-40 BCE Fresco

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

The “Ixion Room” at the House of the Vettii at Pompeii. Fourth Style wall painting, c. 70-79 CE. Fresco.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

The “Tivoli General”. Portrait of a Roman nobleman from Tivoli (outside of Rome), ca 75-50 BC Marble

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Portrait of Augustus as a general (the “Primaporta Augustus”), from Primaporta, Italy (near Rome), ca 10 CE Marble

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Panel showing Tellus (Earth-goddess) surrounded by symbols of peace and plenty, from the east side of the Ara Pacis, Rome, 13-9 BCE Marble relief-sculpture

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Decursio relief, relief-sculpture from the pedestal of the Column of Antoninus Pius, Rome, ca 161 CE Marble

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Portraits of the four Tetrarchs, from Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), ca. 305 CE. Porphyry.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, ca. 320-340 CE. Sponsored by the emperor Constantine I (‘the Great’)

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Apse mosaic of Justinian and Archbishop Maximian, San Vitale, Ravenna, ca 547

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus (architects), the cathedral of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey), 532-537

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Icon showing the Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George, ca 600, from the Monastery of St. Catherine, Egypt. Encaustic on wood

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, Aachen, Germany, ca 800 AD

Comparison

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

The abbey church of Sainte Foy (Saint Faith) at Conques, France. Built c. 1051-1120, and especially the west portal, from c. 1100, carved in sandstone.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Reliquary statue of Sainte-Foy (Saint Faith), from the abbey church at Conques, 10th century. Gold, silver gilt, jewels, and cameos over a wooden core

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Nicholas of Verdun (artist), Three Kings’ Shrine reliquary, Cologne Cathedral, c. 1225. Gold, enamel, semiprecious stones

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, 1140-1145. Ambulatory and Radiating Chapels, Architect: Abbott Suger

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Cathedral of Notre Dame (“Our Lady”), Paris, Began construction in 1163

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Jamb-Figure of St. Theodore from the South Portal of Chartres Cathedral (France), c. 1230. Limestone

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Stained glass window from Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, showing the coronation of a king (Louis IX), c. 1243-1248.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Giotto di Bondone, Lamentation over the Dead Christ, Arena Chapel, Padua, 1305. Fresco.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Masaccio, The Tribute Money, Brancacci Chapel, Florence, ca. 1424-1427. Fresco.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac, competition panel for doors of the baptistery in Florence, Italy, 1401. Gilded Bronze

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Donatello, David, Florence, ca. 1440-1460. Bronze.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, ca. 1495-1498. Oil and tempura on plaster

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Raphael, Philosophy (School of Athens), Vatican Palace, Rome, 1509-1511. Fresco.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Michelangelo, David, Florence, ca. 1501-1504. Marble

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, the Vatican, 1508-1512. Fresco. (Known for both the Creation of Adam and The Fall of Man)

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra), Jerusalem, 691-692 (Umayyad)

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Great Mosque of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain, 784. Across from the Guadalquivir river

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Mimar Sinan, Rüstem Pasha Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, in church of San Luigi dei Francesi (Rome), 1600. Oil on Canvas

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Theresa in Ecstasy (Cornaro Chapel, in church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome), c. 1650. Marble with bronze additions.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, 1701. Oil on Canvas.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of the Cross, from the church of Saint Walburga (Antwerp, Belgium), 1610. OIl on Wood.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656. Oil on Canvas.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Virgin of Guadalupe. (Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico City), Mid-16th Century (c. 1550). Oil and possibly tempura on cloth.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Antoine Watteau, Embarkment to Cythera, 1717

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1767.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery, 1765. Oil on Canvas

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), Piazza San Marco, Venice, late 1720s. Oil on Canvas

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Antonio Canova, Theseus and the Minotaur, 1782. Marble. 

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784. Oil on Canvas.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, 1783. Oil on Canvas.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808, 1814. Oil on canvas.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821. Oil on canvas.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

 J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840. Oil on canvas.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849. Oil on canvas.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners, 1857. Oil on canvas.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Claude Monet, Saint-Lazare Train Station 1877. Oil on Canvas.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Édouard Manet, Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882. Oil on Canvas.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Vincent Van Gogh, Night Café, 1888. Oil on canvas. Post-Impressionism.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Henri Matisse, Luxe, Calme et Volupté, 1904. Oil on canvas. Fauvism/Expressionism.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1905-1906. Fauvism/Expressionism.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Oil on canvas. Cubism.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Georges Braque, Violin and Palette, 1909. Oil on canvas. Cubism.

Name, Location, Date, Style, Time Period

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. Urinal with black paint. Dada.

Mastaba

Step pyramid/pyramid

Hieratic scale

Papyrus

Naturalism (naturalistic art)

Relief sculpture (relief sculpture vs. sculpture ‘in the round’)

Contrapposto

Black-figure vs. red-figure pottery

Foreshortening