Art and Artifacts: Key Works from Medieval to Baroque Periods

Akan Drum, 1730, Ghana, Wood, skin, and fibre

What is this?

The Virgin and Child

Masaccio

1426

Santa Maria del Carmine, Pisa

Tempera paint on wood

What is this?

The baptism of Christ

Perio della Francesca

1450

Sansepolcro Cathedral, Tuscany

Tempra paint on wood

What is this?

The Virgin of the Rocks,

Leonardo da Vinci,

1491-1499

Milan

Oil Paint on Wood

What is this?

Salvator Mundi

Leonardo and others

1499-1510

unknown origin

oil paint on wood

What is this?

Bacchus and Ariadne

Titan

1522-1523

Ferrara

Oil paint on Canvas

What is this?

Supper at Emmaus, Carravaggio, 1601, Rome, oil paint on canvas

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Donine quo vadis?

Annibale Caracci

1602

Rome

Oil paint on Canvas

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The Toilet of Venus (Rokeby Venus), Diego Velázquez, 1647-1651, Madrid, oil paint on canvas

What is this?

Christ's Charge to Peter

Raphael

Rome, Italy

1515-16

Bodycolour painting on paper

What is this?

Virgin and Child with Angels

Pellegrino di Giovanni

Perguia Italy

1428

Tempera painting on Board

What is this?

Rosetta Stone

Ptolemaic Egypt

196 BC

Granodiorite

What is this?

Parthenon, Pediment Sculptures

Phidas

447-438 BC

Athens, Greece

Marble

What is this?

Parthenon, Lapith Battling a Centaur

Phidas

447-438

Athens, Greece

Marble

What is this?

Parthenon, Selene Horse

Phidas

447-438 BC

Athens, Greece

Marble

What is this?

Bust of Ramses II

1270 BC

Thebes, Egypt

Granite

What is this?

'Benin Bronze' plaque

16th-17th century

Kingdom of Benin (modern Nigeria)

Bronze and brass

What is this?

Dead Christ (on the cross), Unknown Artist, Tuscany, Italy, 1250, polychrome wood

What is this?

Altarpiece with 45 Scenes of the Apocalypse,

Master Bertram

Hamburg, Germany

1400

Tempera Painting on Board

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