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paleolithic
Title: Woman from Brassempouy, Grote du Pape, Brassempouy Landes,France
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Source/ Museum: Naturhistorisches Museum,Vienna
Medium: Limestone
Size: height 4 3/8" (11cm)
Title: Hall of Bulls, Lascaux caves
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Date: c. 15,000-13,000 BCE
Source/ Museum: n/a
Medium: Paint on limestone
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Title: Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England
Artist: n/a
Date: c. 2750-1500 BCE
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Ancient River Valley Civs
Ziggurats
Carved vase, Uruk, modernWarka, Iraq
c. 3500-3000
• Guardian on gateof palace ofAssyrian kingAssurnasirpal
• c. 800 BC
Title: Palette of Narmer, from Hierakonpolis, side one
Artist: n/a
Date: Dynasty 1, c. 3150-3125 BCE
Source/ Museum: Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Medium: Slate
Size: height 25" (63.5 cm)
Title: Judgment Before Osiris, illustration from a Book of the Dead
Artist: n/a
Date: Dynasty 19, c.1285 BCE
Source/ Museum: The British Museum, London
Medium: Painted papyrus
Size: height 15 5/8" (39.8cm)
Title: see Title
Artist: n/a
Date: Dynasty 4, c. 2601-2515 BCE
Source/ Museum: n/a
Medium: Granite and limestone
Size: height of pyramid of Khufu 450' (137 m)
Title: Young Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers, detail of wall painting, Room3 of House Xestes, Akrotiri, Thera
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Source/ Museum: Thera Foundation, Petros M. Nomikos, Greece
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Title: Octopus Flask, from Palaikastro, Crete
Artist: n/a
Date: c. 1500-1450 BCE
Source/ Museum: Archaeological Museum, Iráklion, Crete
Medium: Ceramic
Size: height 11" (28cm)
Title: Bull Jumping, wall painting, Knossos, Crete
Artist: n/a
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Hsia Plaque, 1700 BC
ShangUrn
Title: View from the northwest, Acropolis, Athens
Artist: Kallikrates and Iktinos
Date: 447-438 BCE
Source/ Museum: n/a
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Title: Kritios Boy
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Date: c. 480 BCE
Source/ Museum: Acropolis Museum, Athens
Medium: Marble
Size: height 33 4/5" (86 cm)
Title: Spear Bearer (Doryphoros), Achilles.
Artist: Polykleitos
Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450-44 BCE
Source/ Museum: Museo Archaeològico Nazionale, Naples,Italy
Medium: Marble
Title: Arch of Constantine, Rome
Artist: n/a
Date: 312-315 CE dedicated July 25, 315 CE
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Great Stupa
Sanchi, India
third century B.C.E. to first century C.E.
“The Greek’s cultural values revolved aroundthe individual and collective life in the
everyday world. By contrast, contemporaryIndian thinkers, preoccupied by the infinities
within and beyond humankind, were almostentirely indifferent to the temporal and
accidental aspects of ordinary life.”
W. McNiell
Title: Kandariya Mahadeva temple, Khajuraho Madhya Pradesh, India
Artist: n/a
Date: Chandella dynasty, early Medieval period. c/ 1000 CE
Museum/ Source: n/a
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Title: Nataraja: Shiva as Lord of Dance
Artist: n/a
Date: 12th Century, South India
Museum/ Source: National Museum of India, New Delhi, India
Medium: Chola bronze of Tanjore
Size: height 32" (81.25 cm)
Title: Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel
Artist: n/a
Date: Begun 692
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Title: Cutaway drawing of the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel
Artist: n/a
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Title: Interior, Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel
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Title: Prayer Hall, Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain
Artist: n/a
Date: 785-786
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Title: Elements of Architecture: Mosque Plans
Artist: n/a
Date: n/a
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Title: Dome in front of the mihrab, Great Mosque
Artist: n/a
Date: n/a
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Title: Medallion Rug, Variant Star Ushak style. Anatolia (modernTurkey).
Artist: n/a
Museum/ Source: Saint Louis Art Museum
Medium: Wool
Size: 10'3" x 7'6 1/4" (313.7 x 229.2 cm).
Title: Courtyard, Masjid-I Jami (Great Mosque). View from the northeast
Artist: n/a
Date: 11th-18th century
Museum/ Source: Isfahan,Persia (Iran)
Medium: n/a
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Title: Tile mosaic mihrab, from the Madrasa Imami, Isfahan, Persia(Iran)
Artist: n/a
Museum/ Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Medium: Glazed and cut ceramic
Size: 11'3" X 7'6" (3.43 X 2.29 cm)
Title: Sinan. Sultan Selim Mosque, Edirne, Turkey
Artist: n/a
Date: 1570-74
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Fan Kuan990-1030 AD
Title: Stone and gravel garden, Ryoan-ji, Kyoto
Artist: n/a
Date: Muromachi period
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Title: Constantine the Great, from the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine,Rome
Artist: n/a
Source/ Museum: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome
Medium: Marble
Size: height of head 8'6" (2.6 m)
Title: Arch of Constantine, Rome
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Date: 312-315 CE dedicated July 25, 315 CE
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Title: Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels, icon. Monastery of SaintCatherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt
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Medium: Encaustic on wood
Size: 27" X 18 7/8" (69 X 48cm)
Title: Empress Theodora and Her Attendants, mosaic on south wall of the apse,Church of San Vitale
Artist: n/a
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Medium: n/a
Size: 8'8" X 12' (2.64 X 3.65 m)
Title: Church of Hagia Sophia
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Title: Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus. Church of HagiaSophia.View from the southwest, Istanbul, Turkey
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Title: Chi Rho Iota page. Book of Matthew, Book of Kells, probably made at Iona,Scotland
Artist: n/a
Museum/ Source: The Board of Trinity College, Dublin
Medium: Tempera on vellum
Size: 13" X 9 1/2" (33 X 24 cm)
Title: Christ in Majesty, detail of apse painting from the Church of SanClemente, Tahull Lérida, Spain
Artist: n/a
Museum/ Source: Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
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Title: Detail of Christ of the Petecost
Artist: n/a
Date: c. 1135-1140
Museum/ Source: Saint Madeleine Cathedral. Vézelay, France
Medium: Stone
Title: Church of Mary Magdalene, Vézelay, Burgundy, France
Artist: n/a
Date: Before 1132. The nave dates to the consecration of 1132, but the choir was rebuilt
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Title: Plan of the Abbey Church of Saint- Denis
Artist: n/a
Date: 1140-1144
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Title: Interior, upper chapel, the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris
Artist: n/a
Date: 1243-1248
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Title: Cathedral of Notre- Dame, view from the southeast, Paris, France
Artist: n/a
Date: Begun 1163
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Title: Modern Cathedral, view from east
Artist: n/a
Date: Building begun 1099
Museum/ Source: Modena, Emilia, Italy
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Title: Church of Saint-Étienne
Artist: n/a
Date: Begun 1064; façade late 11th century; spires 13th century
Museum/ Source: Caen, Normandy, France
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