Catacomb of Priscilla. Rome, Italy. Late Antique Europe. c. 200-400 C.E. Excavated tufa and fresco.
Date: c.200-400 C.E.
Period/Movement:Late Antique Europe
Original Location:
Location:
Patron:
Material/Technique: Excavated tufu and fresco
Content: Greek chapel that contains saints from the Old Testament and saints from the New Testament. The Peacock sy
Santa Sabina. Rome, Italy. Late Antique Europe. c. 422-432 C.E. Brick and stone, wooden roof.
Date: 422-432 C.C.E
Period/Movement:
Original Location: Rome, Italy
Material/Technique: brick and stone, wooden roof
Content: Church, large interior, door contained with biblical scenes, longitudinal axis plan, crystal windows (gypsum), stone with wooden
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well and Jacob Wrestling the Angel, from the Vienna Genesis. Early Byzantine Europe. Early sixth century C.E. Illuminated manuscript (tempera, gold, and silver on purple vellum).
Date: Early Sixth Century
Period: Early Byzantine Europe
Current Location: Austrian National Library, Vienna
Material: Illuminated manuscript (tempera, gold, and silver on purple vellum).
Content: Silver script then oxidized and turned black. Greek words.
San Vitale. Ravenna, Italy. Early Byzantine Europe. c. 526-547 C.E. Brick, marble, and stone veneer; mosaic.
Date: 526-547 C.E.
Period/Movement: Early Byzantine
Original Location:Ravenna, Europe
Material/Technique:Brick, marble and stone veneer: mosaic
Content: Eight-sided church with plain exterior except for a porch that added during the Renaissance. It contai
5.Hagia Sophia. Constantinople (Istanbul). Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus. 532-537 C.E. Brick and ceramic elements with stone and mosaic veneer.
Date: 532-537 C.E.
Period/Movement: Constantinople (Istanbul)Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
Original Location:
Patron: Emperor Justinian and Empresses Theodora
Material/Technique: Brick and ceramic elements with stone and mosaic veneer./Exte
Merovingian looped fibulae. Early medieval Europe. Mid-sixth century C.E. Silver gilt worked in filigree, with inlays of garnets and other stones.
Date: Mid 6th century C.E.
Period/Movement: Early Medieval Europe
Original Location: Europe
Material/Technique:Silver gilt worked in filigree, with inlays of garnets and other stones.
Content: Two matching pieces. Both were created as a pair. Fish design
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George. Early Byzantine Europe. Sixth or early seventh century C.E. Encaustic on wood.
Date: 6th or early 7th centurty C.E.
Period/Movement: Early Byzantine
Original Location: Byzantine, Europe
Material/Technique: Encaustic on wood
Content: Religious work of art;a mother holding a child with her husband next to her.
Form: Encaustic art form
Lindisfarne Gospels: St. Matthew, cross-carpet page; St. Luke portrait page; St. Luke incipit page. Early medieval (Hiberno Saxon) Europe. c. 700 C.E. Illuminated manuscript (ink, pigments, and gold on vellum).
Date: 700 C.E.
Period/Movement: Early Medieval Europe (Hiberno Saxon)
Original Location:
Material/Technique: Illuminated manuscript (ink, pigments, and gold on vellum).
Content: Carpet page of St. Matthew. It is designed with vivid details like designs an
Great Mosque. C�rdoba, Spain. Umayyad. Begun c. 785-786 C.E. Stone masonry.
Date: 785-786 C.E.
Period/Movement: Umayyad
Original Location: Cordoba, Spain
Material/Technique: Stone Masonry
Content: Mosque with many columns. Red and white striped patterns on the ceiling.
Form: Muslim
Context: Known as Mezquita-Catedra by the locals
10. Pyxis of al-Mughira. Umayyad. c. 968 C.E. Ivory.
Date: 968 C.E.
Period/Movement:
Location: Louvre
Material/Technique: Ivory
Content: Ivory with carved children and women and men. There are also animals. There are also patterns that connect everything with each other.
Form: Carved ivory
Context: The call
Church of Sainte-Foy. Conques, France. Romanesque Europe. Church: c. 1050-1130 C.E.; Reliquary of Saint Foy: ninth century C.E., with later additions. Stone (architecture); stone and paint (tympanum); gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood (reliqua
Date: c. 1050-1130 C.E
Period/Movement:
Original Location: Conques, France.
Material/Technique: Stone (architecture); stone and paint (tympanum); gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood (reliquary)
Context: Artistic building which originally had a c
Bayeux Tapestry. Romanesque Europe (English or Norman). c. 1066-1080 C.E. Embroidery on linen.
Date: 1300-1325 C.E.
Period/Movement: Late medieval Europe
Material/Technique: Painted wood
Content:Mary is holding her dead son in her lap. It shows Christ emaciated, drained of all blood, tissues, and muscle. There are thorns sticking into Christ's head
Chartres Cathedral. Chartres, France. Gothic Europe. Original construction c. 1145-1155 C.E.; reconstructed c. 1194-1220 C.E. Limestone, stained glass.
Date: c. 1145-1155 C.E.; reconstructed c. 1194-1220 C.E.
Material/Technique:Limestone, stained glass.
Content: Beautiful cathedral with detailed stained glass
Form: Symmetrical balance; focal point on the ceiling
Context: Finest example of French Gothic a
Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France, Scenes from the Apocalypse from Bibles moralis�es. Gothic Europe. c. 1225-1245 C.E. Illuminated manuscript (ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum). (2 images, each from a separate manusc
Date: 1225-1245 C.E
Material/Technique:Illuminated manuscript (ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum). (2 images, each from a separate manuscript)
Content: Depiction of Blanche of Castile and her son Louis. A cleric and a scribe are underneath them.
Form:
R�ttgen Piet�. Late medieval Europe. c. 1300-1325 C.E. Painted wood.
Date: 1300-1325 C.E.
Period/Movement: Late medieval Europe
Material/Technique: Painted wood
Content:Mary is holding her dead son in her lap. It shows Christ emaciated, drained of all blood, tissues, and muscle. There are thorns sticking into Christ's head
Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, including Lamentation. Padua, Italy. Unknown architect; Giotto di Bondone (artist). Chapel: c. 1303 C.E.; Fresco: c. 1305. Brick (architecture) and fresco.
Date: Chapel: c. 1303 C.E.; Fresco: c. 1305.
Artist: Giotto di Bondone
Patron: Enrico Scrovegni
Original Location: Padua, Italy
Material/Technique: Brick (architecture) and fresco.
Content: Christ is shown as a judge coming at the end of the world. The 12
Golden Haggadah (The Plagues of Egypt, Scenes of Liberation, and Preparation for Passover). Late medieval Spain. c. 1320 C.E. Illuminated manuscript (pigments and gold leaf on vellum).
Date: 1320 C.EPeriod/Movement:
Original Location: Spain
Period: Medieval Spain
Material/Technique:Illuminated manuscript (pigments and gold leaf on vellum).
Content: This item narrative cycle of events that are portrayed from the Book of Genesis and the B
Alhambra. Granada, Spain. Nasrid Dynasty. 1354-1391 C.E. Whitewashed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gilding.
Date: 1354-1391 C.E
Period/Movement:
Original Location: Granada, Spain.
Material/Technique: Whilewashed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gliding.
Content: Beautiful palace built on top of a hill with 16 windows at the top hall
Form: Patterned walls an
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece). Workshop of Robert Campin. 1427-1432 C.E. Oil on wood.
Date: 1427-1432 CE
Period/Movement:15th Century
Original Locatio: Tournai, South Netherlands
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Patron: N/A
Material/Technique: Oil on Wood
Content: Middle-class people kneeling by a holy scene
Form- Form of
20. Pazzi Chapel. Basilica di Santa Croce. Florence, Italy. Filippo Brunelleschi (architect). c. 1429-1461 C.E. Masonry.
Date: 1429-1461 C.E.
Period/Movement: 15th Century
Original Location: Basilica di Santa Croce; Florence, Italy
Location: Basilica di Santa Croce; Florence, Italy
Patron: N/A
Material/Technique: Masonry
Content: Chapel shaped in a rectangle that is attache
The Arnolfini Portrait. Jan van Eyck. c. 1434 C.E. Oil on wood.
Date: 1434 C.E.
Period/Movement: 15th Century
Original Location: London, UK
Location: National Gallery, London
Patron: N/A
Material/Technique: Oil on Wood
Content: A couple holding hands. The woman is holding her belly, assuming that she is pregnant. Ther
David. Donatello. c. 1440-1460 C.E. Bronze.
Date: 1440-1460 C.E.
Period/Movement: 15th Century
Original Location: Bargello, Florence
Location: National Museum, Barhello, Florence
Patron: N/A
Material/Technique: Bronze
Content: Carved bronze work of a nude soldier with a metal cap to protect his hea
Palazzo Rucellai. Florence, Italy. Leon Battista Alberti (architect). c. 1450 C.E. Stone, masonry.
Date: 1450 C.E.
Period/Movement: 15th Century
Original Location: Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Stone, Masonry
Patron: Giovanni Ruccelai
Content: Stone masonry with many rows of window. It is the traditional Florentine plaza; divided into three tiers
Madonna and Child with Two Angels. Fra Filippo Lippi. c. 1465 C.E. Tempera on wood
Date: 1465 C.E.
Period/Movement: 15th century
Original Location: Uffzi, Florence
Material/Technique: Tempera on wood
Content:
Form: Painting of a woman holding her baby meanwhile looking down at her other son.
Context: This painting was painted with a hum
Birth of Venus. Sandro Botticelli. c. 1484-1486 C.E. Tempera on canvas.
Date: 1484-1486 C.E.
Period/Movement: 15th Century
Original Location: N/A
Material/Technique:Tempera on Canvas
Content: Figures, some are fully dressed, some are not, floating with angel like figures. Their hair are also floating magically. The woman in t
Last Supper. Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1494-1498 C.E. Oil and tempera.
Date: 1494-1498
Period/Movement:15th century
Original Location: Santa Maria del le Grazie, Milan
Material/Technique: Oil and tempura
Content: A painting that depicts the last meal, it is a biblical meal.
Context: This portrait is painted to show the story
Adam and Eve. Albrecht D�rer. 1504 C.E. Engraving.
Date: 1504 C.E.
Period/Movement: 16t century
Original Location:NA
Material/Technique:Engraving
Content: Two naked figures. The left figure has a flower covering his private part. He is also holding part of a tree branch with a sign. The figure on the righ
Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar wall frescoes. Vatican City, Italy. Michelangelo. Ceiling frescoes: c. 1508-1512 C.E.; altar frescoes: c. 1536-1541 C.E. Fresco.
Date: 1508-1512 C.E. ; altar frescoes 1536-1541 C.E.
Period/Movement: 16th century
Original Location: Vatican City, Italy
Material/Technique: Frescoe
Content: Altar with stories on the ceiling. There are 3 different stories.
Context: This is a narrative t
School of Athens. Raphael. 1509-1511 C.E. Fresco.
Date:1509-1511 C.E.
Period/Movement: 16th Century
Original Location: Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
Material/Technique: Fresco
Content: Plato and Aristotle in the center being surrounded by other philosophers.
Context: This image shows Plato's and Aristot
30.Isenheim altarpiece. Matthias Gr�newald. c. 1512-1516 C.E. Oil on wood.
Date: 1512-1516 C.E.
Period/Movement: 16th century
Original Location: Chapel of the Hospital of Saint Anthony, Isenheim, Germany, now in Underlinden Museum
Material/Technique: Oil on Wood
Content: Mary dressed as nun who working and helping the people aro
Entombment of Christ. Jacopo da Pontormo. 1525-1528 C.E. Oil on wood.
Date: 1525-1528 C.E.
Period/Movement: 16th century
Original Location: Church of Santa Felicita, Florence
Material/Technique:Oil on wood
Content: Many dressed figures with different facial expressions, but all of them are either in shock or have a scared l
Allegory of Law and Grace. Lucas Cranach the Elder. c. 1530 C.E. Woodcut and letterpress.
Date: 1530 C.E.
Period/Movement:16th century
Original Location: NA
Material/Technique:Woodcut and Ietherpress
Content: Image that is in black in white. It seems at if it is a story because there are also words on top and on the bottom of this image. Also,
Venus of Urbino. Titian. c. 1538 C.E. Oil on canvas.
Date: 1538 C.E.
Period/Movement:16th century
Original Location: Uffizi, FLorence
Material/Technique: Oil on canvas
Content: Naked woman laying on the bed with another woman in the background and a child facing the window. The paint itself seems soft. T
Fo
Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza.
Viceroyalty of New Spain. c. 1541-1542 C.E. Ink and color on paper.
Date: 1541-1542 C.E.
Period/Movement:16th century
Original Location: Mexico City, Viceroyalty of New Spain
Material/Technique:Ink and color on paper
Content: It seems to be a story being told with pictures and symbols. There is an eagle landing on the cac
Il Ges�, 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 C.E.; facade: 1568-1584 C.E
Date: 1676-1679 C.E.
Period/Movement: 16th century
Original Location: Rome, Italy
Material/Technique: Brick, marble, fresco, and stucco
Content: On the ceiling in the main cave of II Gesu, Rome. Some cast long shadows across the barrel vault
Context: Ther
Hunters in the Snow. Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1565 C.E. Oil on wood.
Date:1565 C.E.
Period/Movement: 16th century
Original Location:Vienna, Austria
Material/Technique: Oil on wood
Content: This piece shows a window scene with the winter months shown in the painting.
Context: This painting depicts how the hunters have littl
Mosque of Selim II. Edirne, Turkey. Sinan (architect). 1568-1575 C.E. Brick and stone.
Date: 1568-1575 C.E.
Period/Movement: 16th century
Original Location: Edirne, Turkey
Material/Technique: Brick and stone
Content: There are thin soaring. There are large piers supporting the dome from the exterior portion of the building with an open inte
Calling of Saint Matthew. Caravaggio. c. 1597-1601 C.E. Oil on canvas.
Date:1597-1601 C.E.
Period/Movement: 16th century
Original Location:
Material/Technique:San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
Content: Diagonal shaft of light points that are towards Saint Matthew.
Context: This canvas was very useful at the time because many peop
Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de' Medici, from the Marie de' Medici Cycle. Peter Paul Rubens. 1621-1625 C.E. Oil on canvas.
Date: 1621- 1625 C.E.
Period/Movement: 16th century
Original Location: Paris, France
Material/Technique: Oil on canvas
Content: Nude figures. Some figures are floating, other figures are on their feet and the rest are sitting.
Context:These were portraits
40. Self-Portrait with Saskia. Rembrandt van Rijn. 1636 C.E. Etching.
Date: 1636 C.E.
Period/Movement:16th century
Original Location: New York
Material/Technique: Etching
Content: A sketch in black and white, pencil,l of a man with a woman behind him. They are around the same age, but she is physically smaller then him. It
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane. Rome, Italy. Francesco Borromini (architect). 1638-1646 C.E. Stone and stucco.
Date: 1638- 1646 C.E.
Period/Movement:17th century
Original Location: Rome, Italy
Material/Technique: Stone and stucco
Content: Buildings with walls that are treated sculpturally. There are facades that are higher than the rest of the building.
Context: T
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. Rome, Italy. Gian Lorenzo Bernini. c. 1647-1652 C.E. Marble (sculpture); stucco and gilt bronze (chapel).
Date:1647- 1652 C.E.
Period/Movement:17th century
Original Location: Comaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome Italy
Material/Technique: Marble (sculpture); stucco and gilt bronze (chapel)
Content: This work of art has a stage like setting
Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Dei. Master of Calamarca (La Paz School). c. 17th century C.E. Oil on canvas.
Date: N/A
Period/Movement:17th century Original Location: This piece of art originated in the region around Lake Titicaca in the Collao region of Peru
Material/Technique:Oil on canvas
Content: A man in a military pose that is derived from European engravi
Las Meninas. Diego Vel�zquez. c. 1656 C.E. Oil on canvas.
Date: 1656 C.E.
Period/Movement:17th century
Original Location: Prado, Madrid
Material/Technique: Oil on canvas
Content: Group portrait of a young girl with adults in the background and animals and different objects as well
Context: The wife's name is Sas
Woman Holding a Balance. Johannes Vermeer. c. 1664 C.E. Oil on canvas.
Date: 1664 C.E
Period/Movement:17th century
Original Location: Washington D.E.
Material/Technique: Oil on canvas
Content: Wife of the Vermeer family posing, holding a pin as if she is sewing. There are many pearls and coins on the table that look as if th
The Palace at Versailles. Versailles, France. Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart (architects). Begun 1669 C.E. Masonry, stone, wood, iron, and gold leaf (architecture); marble and bronze (sculpture); gardens.
Date: 1669 C.E
Period/Movement:17th century
Original Location: Versailles, France
Material/Technique:Masonry, stone, wood, iron, and gold leaf Content: A palace with a huge fountain in front of it. The city surrounds the perimeter of this huge mansion.
Co
Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene. Circle of the Gonz�lez Family. c. 1697-1701 C.E. Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay.
Date: 1697-1701 C.E.
Period/Movement:17th century
Original Location: Displayed in Viceregal Palace in Mexico City
Material/Technique: Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay
Content: This piece is an illustrated scene of Hapsburg power. There are two faces
The Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe). Miguel Gonz�lez. c. 1698 C.E. Based on original Virgin of Guadalupe. Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico City. 16th century C.E. Oil on canvas on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
Date:1698 C.E.
Period/Movement:16th century
Original Location: Basillica of Guadalupe, Mexico City
Material/Technique: Oil on canvas on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl
Content: Symbols of Mexico with the eagle perched on the cactus at the bottom center.
Fruit and Insects. Rachel Ruysch. 1711 C.E. Oil on wood.
Date: 1711 C.E
Period/Movement:18th century
Original Location: Florence, Italy
Material/Technique:Oil on wood
Content: Different fruits are shown with different contrasts; light and dark shadings and colors.
Context:It is not an actual depiction of flower
Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo. Attributed to Juan Rodr�guez Ju�rez. c. 1715 C.E. Oil on canvas.
Date: 1715 C.E.
Period/Movement:18th century
Original Location: Breamore House, Hampshire, UK
Material/Technique: Oil on canvas
Content: Spanish blood linked to civilizing forces; wearing lavish costumes
Context:This piece of painting portrays a Spanish a
The T�te � T�te, from Marriage � la Mode. William Hogarth. c. 1743 C.E. Oil on canvas.
Date: 1743 CE
Period/Movement:18th century
Original Location:London, UK
Material/Technique:Oil on canvas
Content: Everything is a mess, the wife looks in shock. The chair is knocked down.
Context: The painting shows how the son is staring at himself in th