First 15 images

IMAGE 1:  STANDING WORSHIPPERS FROM TELL ASMAR; Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq). Sumerian  c. 2700 BCE Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone.

IMAGE 2:  STELE OF HAMMURABI (LAW CODE OF HAMMURABI) Babylon (modern Iran).  Susian.  c. 1792-1750 BCE  . Basalt

IMAGE 3:  SEATED SCRIBE. Saqqara, Egypt.  Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2620-2500 BCE  Painted Limestone.

IMAGE 4:  DORYPHOROS (Spear Bearer). Polykleitos. Original 450-440 BCE  Roman copy (marble) of Greek original (bronze)

IMAGE 5:  ALEXANDER MOSAIC FROM THE HOUSE OF THE FAUN, POMPEII, Republican Roman.  c. 100 BCE  Mosaic.

IMAGE 6:  Ara pacis Augustae. 13-9 BCE  marble, Early Imperial Rome.  Julio-Claudian  USE KHAN ACADEMY

IMAGE 7:  BAYEUX TAPESTRY.  Romanesque Europe (English or Norman). c. 1066-1080 CE.  Embroidery on linen (2 DETAILS)

IMAGE 8:  Pyxis of al Mughira.  Umayyad c. 968 CE  Ivory  (15 cmx8cm)

IMAGE 9:   CHURCH OF SAINTE-FOY.  CONQUES, FRANCE ROMANESQUE EUROPE.  CHURCH DATES TO:  1050-1130 CE:  RELIQUARY OF SAINT FOY 9TH CENTURY CE WITH LATER ADDITIONS.  MATERIAL:  STONE ARCHITECTURE; STONE AND PAINT (TYMPANUM; GOLD, SILVER, GEMSTONES, AND ENAMEL OVER WOOD (RELIQUARY)

IMAGE 10:  Madonna and Child with Angels by Fra Filippo Lippi.  Early Italian Renaissance.  c. 1465  tempera on wood

IMAGE 11:   VENUS OF URBINO.  BY Titian. c 1538 CE  Oil on Canvas  High Italian Renaissance/ Venice

IMAGE 12:  THE CALLING OF SAINT MATTHEW.  BY CARAVAGGIO.  c. 1597-1601 CE.  OIL ON CANVAS.  ITALIAN BAROQUE

IMAGE 13:  Y No Hai Remedio (And There’s Nothing to be done).  from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War).  plate 15.  By Francisco de Goya.  1810-1823 CE.  (published 1863). Etching, drypoint, burin, and burnishing.

IMAGE 14 :  OLYMPIA BY EDUARD MANET. 1863 CE Oil on Canvas

IMAGE 15:  THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS. by Auguste Rodin.  1884-1895 CE  Bronze