Venus of Willendorf

 Artist unknown

Willendorf, Austria

Limestone

Paleolithic Period

ca 28,000-25,000

Figure could be associated with child birth

Geometric Krater for Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, Greece,

740 BC

Gobekli, Tepe (Potbelly Hill)

Artist unknown

Gobekli, Tepe (Turkey)

Limestone

Neolithic

10,000-8,000 BCE

Tepe was a sactuary and religious place. Animals carved on the rocks are generally seen as scary and could be there to protect the dead.

Restored View of Catal Hoyuk

Artist unknown

Catal Hoyuk

6000-5900BCE

Shows what Catal Hoyuk would look like

Landscape with Volcanic Eruption

Artist unknown

Catal Hoyuk (Turkey)

water color of wall painting

Neolithic Stone Age Period

6150 BCE

Shows what the layout of Catal Hoyuk may have looked like. Additionally, two mountains appear in the background which may represent volcanic eruptions

Artist:  Exekias,

Achilles and Ajax playing dice

(detail of a black figure amphora)

540-530BCE

Vulci, ITaly

Stonehenge

Artist: group

Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England

Sandstone, bluestone, sarsen

Neolithic Period

2750-1500BCE

Shows the collaboration of a culture of people with simplistic tools were able to lift large masses, puzzling historians

Kleitias and Ergotimos

Athenian black figure volute krater depicting centauromachy

570BCE

Euphronios

Herakles wrestling Antaeus

510BCE

Cerveteri, Italy

Dying Warrior

Marble

East pediment of Temple of Aphaia

Aegina, Greece

480 BCE

Banquet Scene, Cylinder Seal and its Modern Impression

(Cylinder Seal of Pu-abi)

Artist unknown

Ur, Iraq

Lapis Lazuli

Neolithic

2600-2400 BCE

Seals like this were used to identify and secure goods

Dying Warrior

Marble

west pediment of Temple of Aphaia,

Aegina, GReece

490BC

Temple of Aphaia

Greece

490-500 BCE

exeplifies the transition to the classical period of greek temple architecture

Stele with the Laws of Hammurabi

Artist unknown

Susa, Iran

Basalt

Old Babylonian

1780BCE

Represents the laws of Hammurabi; shows his authority

Imhoptep

Stepped Pyramid of Djoser

3rd Dynasty, 2600BC

SAqqara, EGypt

Palette of Narmer

Predynastic, 3000BC

Heirakonopolis, Egypt

Shows the unification of upper and lower egypt

Ishtar Gate

Artist unknown

Babylon, Iraq

Glazed brick (lapis), cedar

Neo-Babylonian Period

575 BCE

Gate before the processional way, showed elegance

Facade of the north palace of the mortuary precinct of Djoser

Third Dynasty, 2600 BC

SAqqara, Egypt

oldest known stone columns in history of architecture(engaged columns)

Mantiklos Apollo, 700-680 BC, Bronze,

Thebes, Greece.

Kroisos, Anavysos Greece

530 BCE, MArble

Andokides

Achilles and Ajax playing dice

(black and red figure amphora)

525-520BCE

Orvieto Italy

Peace side of Standard of Ur

Artist unknown

Ur, Iraq

Wood, Lapis lazuli, wood, red limestone

Neolithic Period

2600-2400BCE

Sumerians may have been first culture to tell complete stories through pictures. One side shows the culture at war and the other shows a time of peace

Gigantomachy

north frieze of the siphnian treasury at delphi

MArble

530 BC

TEmple of HEra I "basillica"

Paestum, ITaly 550 BCE

example of early greek doric temple design

Figurine of a Woman

Syros, Greece

2600-2300BCE

Marble 

Belly may suggest fertility

Male Harp Player

Keros, Greece

2600-2300BCE

Marble

Expresses beautiful shape of harp; entertain deceased in afterlife

GReat Pyramids, Gizah, Egypt

Menkaure pyramid: 2500BC (little one)

Khafre pyramid: 2500BC (Big)

Khufu pyramid: 2550BC (medium)

theyre big pyramids woopdydoo.

represents the end of the old kingdom

Arial view of palace at Knossos, Crete, Greece

1700-1370BCE

GReat Sphinx of the pyramid of Khafre

Gizeh

4th Dynasty, 2500 BC

Stairwell at palace of Knossos, Crete, Greece

1700-1370BCE

Khafre Enthroned

Diorite (material)

Gizeh, 4th Dynasty, 2500BC

Menkaure and Khamerernebty

Graywacke (material)

Gizeh, 4th Dynasty, 2500 BC

Bull Leaping

Palace at Knossos, Crete, Greece

1400-1370BCE

Fresco

Middle Bronze Age

Depicts the ritual of leaping over a bull to perform acrobatic stunts (fuckin sweet)

Ti watching a Hippopotamus hunt

Painted Limestone

relief in mastaba of Ti, Saqqara, Egypt

5th Dynasty, 2450BC

minoan woman or goddess

Palace at Knossos, Crete, Greece

1400-1370BCE

Fragment of Fresco

Looks similar to Egyptian or Mesopotamian art

Goats treading seed and cattle fording a canal

Painted Limestone

relief in mastaba of Ti, SAqqara, Egypt,

5th Dynasty, 2450BC

Kamares Ware Jar

Phaistos Crete, Greece

1800-1700BCE

Minoan Period

Ceramic

Represents elite table-ware

Chariot Race of Pelops and Oinomaos

east pediment of the temple of zeus

Olympia, Greece

Marble

470BC

Marine Style Octopus Flask

Palaikastro Crete, Greece

Ceramic

1450BCE

Elite table-ware

Seer, from the east pediment of the temple of Zeus

Olympia, GReece

MArble

470BC

Harvesters Vase

Hagia Triada Crete, Greece

1500-1450BCE

Ceramic

Elite table-ware

Apollo, from the west pediment of the temple of zeus

Olympia, Greece

MArble

470BC

Athena, HErakles, and Atlas with the apples of the hesperides; metope from the temple of zeus

MArble

470BC

Snake Goddess

Palace at Knossos Crete, Greece

1600BCE

silicate

Implies she has power over animal world

Kritios Boy, the acropolis of athens

MArble,

480BC

Young God

Palaikastro Crete, Greece

1500-1450BCE

Ivory, gold

Cretan

Shows power

WArrior, from the sea off Riace, Italy

Bronze

460BC

Zeus, from the sea off Cape Artemision, Greece

Bronze

460Bc

Lion Gate

Mycenae, Greece

1300-1250BCE

Limestone

Main entrance to Mycenae

Myron, Discobolos

Roman copy of bronze statue

450BC

Megaron Place of Nestor

Pylos, Greece

1300BCE

Charioteer, from the temple of apollo

Delphi, Greece

BRonze

470BC

Corbel-vaulted gallery in the circuit wall of the citadel

Tyrins, Greece

1400-1200BCE

Large "Cyclopian" Stones

Shows the arch architecture

PolyKleitos, Doryphorus

Roman copy from pompeii of bronze statue

450BC

Three Methods of spanning passage way

post and lintel, corbeled arch, arch

KResilas, Pericles

Roman copy of bronze statue

Marble

430BC

Arial View of Tyrins, Greece

1400-1200BCE

Warrior Vase

Mycenae, Greece

1200BCE

Ceramic

Mixing bowl for wine and water

The Acropolis, Greece

Aerial View

Inlaid dagger with lion hunt

Mycenae, Greece

1600-1500BCE

bronze, gold, silver, niello

Burried in grave circle as a valuable possesion; use in afterlife

Iktinos and KalliKrates

East facade of the Parthenon

Acropolis, Greece

440 BC

Female Head

Mycenae, Greece

1300-1250BCE

painted plaster

could be head of goddess or sphinx

Phidias, Athena PArthenos

cella of the pathenon

(model of the lost statue)

treasury of atreus

Mycenae, Greece

1300-1250BCE

Cyclopian stones

Doorway to Tholos tomb

Centauromachy, metope of the south side of the parthenon

440BC

Arial view of Mycenae

(Grave circle A)

1600BCE

Helios and his horses and Dionysos

East pediment of the Parthenon

MArble

440BC

Funerary mask from grave circle A

Mycenae, Greece

1600-1500BCE

Gold

May have been placed with a person of royalty

Three Godesses (hestia, dione, aphrodite)

east pediment of the parthenon

marble

440BC

landscape with swallows (I swallow ;) )

Thera, Greece

1650-1625BCE

Fresco

Captures essence of nature

Gold drinking cup

Vapheio

1600-1500BCE

Panathaneic festival Frieze from the parthenon

Poseidon, Artemis, Apollo

440BC

Miniature ships fresco

Akrotiri

Fresco

1650-1625BCE

Panathaneic festival frieze from the parthenon

horsemen

MArble

440Bc

Panathaneic festival frieze from the parthenon

elders and maidens

MArble

440BC

Crocus gatherers

Akrotiri

1650-1625BCE

Mnesikles, Propylaia

Acropolis, Athens

435 BC

Erechtheion

Acropolis, Athens, Greece

420 BC

CAryatids of the Erechtheion

Acropolis, Athens, Greece

MArble

420BC

KalliKrates, Temple of Athena Nike

Acropolis Athens, GReece

420 BC

Nike adjusting her sandal 

South parapet of the temple of athena nike

Acropolis, Athens, Greece

Marble

410 BC

Grave Stele of Hegeso

from Dipylon Cemetery

Athens

MArble

400BC

Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos

Roman copy 

350 BC

MArble

Praxiteles, HErmes and Infant Dionysos from the temple of HEra, GReece

MArble Copy

340 BC

Lysippos, Apoxyomenos

Roman copy of bronze

MArble

330 Bc

Lysippos, Weary Herakles

signed by Glykon of Athens

based on bronze statue

MArble 320 BC

Head of Alexander the Great

Pella, Greece

third century

MArble

Gnosis, Stag Hunt

Pella, GReece

Pebble Mosaic

300BC

Fragamentery head of senusret III

Egypt

1860BCE

Red Quartzite

Reflects the mood of the time

Hades abducting Persephone

wall painting in tomb (fresco)

4th century BC

Rock cut tombs

Beni Hasen, Egypt

1950-1900BCE

Hollowed out cliffs made into tombs

PHiloxenos of Eretria, Battle of Issus

Roman copy 

tessera mosaic 310 BC

Polykleitos the Younger, theater

Epidauros, Greece

350BC

Hatshepsut with offering jars

Deir el-bahri, Egypt

1473-1458BCE

Red granite

Represents the power of the first female pharaoh

Polykleitos the Younger, Corinthian Capital

 from the tholos

Epidauros, GReece

350 BC

mortuary temple of hatshepsut

Deir el-bahri, egypt

1473-1458BCE

funerary temple for first female pharaoh

King and queen of punt and attendants

Deir el-bahri, egypt

1473-1458BCE

painted limestone

Celebrate hatshepsut reign and birth

Paionios of Ephesos and Daphnis of Miletos

313BC

facade of the temple of ramses II

Abu simbel, Egypt

1290-1224BCE

Sandstone

Grand entrance to temple

Temple of Amen-re

Karnak, Egypt

hypostyle hall of temple of amen-re

Karnak, Egypt

1290-1224BCE

clerestory in back let in light to illuminate the passage

Akhenaton

Karnak Egypt

1353-1335BCE

Sandstone

portrays pharaoh as aton

akhenaton nefertiti and 3 daughters

Amarna Egypt

1353-1335BCE

Limestone

family basks in life-giving rays of aton

Tiye

Ghurab, Egypt

1353-1335BCE

wood, precious metals, alabaster

shows queens complexion

Thutmose, Nefertiti

Amarna, Egypt

painted limestone

1353-1335BCE

Shows the influence of the wive and her elegant beauty

Death mask of tutankhamen

Thebes, Egypt

1323BCE

Semiprecious stones

painted chest from the tomb of tutankhamen

Thebes, Egypt

1333-1323BCE

Wood

contrasts chariots to chaotic soldiers

Last judgement of hunter

Thebes, Egypt

1300-1290 BCE

painted papyrus scrolls

Seated Boxer

Rome, Italy

fuck this shit is so gay