APAH Content Area 3

Catacomb of Priscilla

Rome, Italy. Late Antique Europe. c. 200–400 ce. Excavated tufa and fresco.

Santa Sabina

Rome, Italy. Late Antique Europe. c. 422–432 ce. Brick and stone, wooden roof.

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well and Jacob Wrestling the Angel, from the Vienna Genesis

Early Byzantine Europe. Early sixth century ce. Illuminated manuscript (tempera, gold, and silver on purple vellum).

San Vitale

Ravenna, Italy. Early Byzantine Europe. c. 526–547 ce. Brick, marble, and stone veneer; mosaic.

Hagia Sophia

Constantinople (Istanbul). Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus. 532–537 ce. Brick and ceramic elements with stone and mosaic veneer.

Merovingian looped fibulae

Early medieval Europe. Mid-sixth century ce. Silver gilt worked in filigree, with inlays of garnets and other stones.

Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George

Early Byzantine Europe. Sixth or early seventh century ce. Encaustic on wood.

Lindisfarne Gospels: St. Matthew, cross-carpet page; St. Luke portrait page; St. Luke incipit page

Early medieval (Hiberno Saxon) Europe. c. 700 ce. Illuminated manuscript (ink, pigments, and gold on vellum).

Great Mosque of Cordoba

Córdoba, Spain. Umayyad. c. 785–786 ce. Stone masonry.

Pyxis of al-Mughira

Umayyad. c. 968 ce. Ivory.

Church of Sainte-Foy

Conques, France. Romanesque Europe. Church: c. 1050–1130 ce; Reliquary of Saint Foy: ninth century ce, with later additions. Stone (architecture); stone and paint (tympanum); gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood (reliquary).

Bayeux Tapestry

Romanesque Europe (English or Norman). c. 1066–1080 ce. Embroidery on linen.

Chartres Cathedral

Chartres, France. Gothic Europe. Original construction c. 1145–1155 ce; reconstructed c. 1194–1220 ce. Limestone, stained glass.

Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France, Scenes from the Apocalypse from Bibles moralisées

Gothic Europe. c. 1225–1245 ce. Illuminated manuscript (ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum).

Röttgen Pietà

Late medieval Europe. c. 1300–1325 ce. Painted wood.

Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, including Lamentation

Padua, Italy. Unknown architect; Giotto di Bondone (artist). Chapel: c. 1303 ce; Fresco: c. 1305 ce. Brick (architecture) and fresco.

Golden Haggadah (The Plagues of Egypt, Scenes of Liberation, and Preparation for Passover)

Late medieval Spain. c. 1320 ce. Illuminated manuscript (pigments and gold leaf on vellum).

Alhambra

Granada, Spain. Nasrid Dynasty. 1354–1391 ce. Whitewashed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gilding.

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Workshop of Robert Campin. 1427–1432 ce. Oil on wood.

Pazzi Chapel

Basilica di Santa Croce. Florence, Italy. Filippo Brunelleschi (architect). c. 1429–1461 ce. Masonry.

The Arnolfini Portrait

Jan van Eyck. c. 1434 ce. Oil on wood.

David

Donatello. c. 1440–1460 ce. Bronze.

Palazzo Rucellai

Florence, Italy. Leon Battista Alberti (architect). c. 1450 ce. Stone, masonry.

Madonna and Child with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi. c. 1465 ce. Tempera on wood.

Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli. c. 1484–1486 ce. Tempera on canvas.

Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1494–1498 ce. Oil and tempera.

Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer. 1504 ce. Engraving.

Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar wall frescoes

Vatican City, Italy. Michelangelo. Ceiling frescoes: c. 1508–1512 ce; altar frescoes: c. 1536–1541 ce. Fresco.

School of Athens

Raphael. 1509–1511 ce. Fresco.

Isenheim altarpiece

Matthias Grünewald. c. 1512–1516 ce. Oil on wood.

Entombment of Christ

Jacopo da Pontormo. 1525–1528 ce. Oil on wood.

Allegory of Law and Grace

Lucas Cranach the Elder. c. 1530 ce. Woodcut and letterpress.

Venus of Urbino

Titian. c. 1538 ce. Oil on canvas.

Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza

Viceroyalty of New Spain. c. 1541–1542 ce. Ink and color on paper.

Il Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco

Rome, Italy. Giacomo da Vignola, plan (architect); Giacomo della Porta, facade (architect); Giovanni Battista Gaulli, ceiling fresco (artist). Church: 16th century ce; facade: 1568–1584 ce; fresco and stucco figures: 1676–1679 ce. Brick, marble, fresco, and stucco.

Hunters in the Snow

Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1565 ce. Oil on wood.

Mosque of Selim II

Edirne, Turkey. Sinan (architect). 1568–1575 ce. Brick and stone.

Calling of Saint Matthew

Caravaggio. c. 1597–1601 ce. Oil on canvas

Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de’ Medici, from the Marie de’ Medici Cycle

Peter Paul Rubens. 1621–1625 ce. Oil on canvas.

Self-Portrait with Saskia

Rembrandt van Rijn. 1636 ce. Etching.

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Rome, Italy. Francesco Borromini (architect). 1638–1646 ce. Stone and stucco.

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. Rome, Italy. Gian Lorenzo Bernini. c. 1647–1652 ce. Marble (sculpture); stucco and gilt bronze (chapel).

Angel with Arquebus (Asiel Timor Dei)

Master of Calamarca (La Paz School). c. 17th century ce. Oil on canvas.

Las Meninas

Diego Velázquez. c. 1656 ce. Oil on canvas

Woman Holding a Balance

Johannes Vermeer. c. 1664 ce. Oil on canvas.

The Palace at Versailles

Versailles, France. Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart (architects). Begun 1669 ce. Masonry, stone, wood, iron, and gold leaf (architecture); marble and bronze (sculpture); gardens.

Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene

Circle of the González Family. c. 1697–1701 ce. Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay.

The Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe)

Miguel González. c. 1698 ce. Based on original Virgin of Guadalupe. Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico City. 16th century ce. Oil on canvas on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

Fruit and Insects

Rachel Ruysch. 1711 ce. Oil on wood.

Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo

Attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez. c. 1715 ce. Oil on canvas.

The Tête à Tête, from Marriage à la Mode

William Hogarth. c. 1743 ce. Oil on canvas.