Snake Goddess

Greek (Minoan, from Crete)

1500 BC

Sculpture (figurine)

Faience

Alexander Mosaic

Roman

100 BC

Mosaic

Glass & Stone tiles

Bayeaux Tapestry

Norman French/English

1075

Tapestry

Embroidery on cloth (wool & linen)

Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymus Bosch

1502

Painting

Oil on panel

Saltcellar

Benvenuto Cellini

1542

Objet d'art

Gold enamel, ebony

Winter

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

1563

Painting

Oil on panel

Ardabil Carpet

Persian

Mid 1500s

Carpet

Wool & silk

Melancholia

Albrecht Durer

1514

Engraving

Print on paper

The Kiss

Gustav Klimt

1907

Painting

Oil, silver & gold on canvas

Book of Kells

Irish

c 805

Illuminated manuscript

Colors on vellum

Isenheim Altarpiece

Matthias Grunewald

1515

Painting

Oil on panel

White Crucifixion

Marc Chagall

1938

Painting

Oil on canvas

Page from the Koran

Iraqi

1500s

Illuminated manuscript

Ink & colors on paper

Olmec Head

Olmec culture, ancient Mexico

c 1050

Sculpture

Stone

Funerary Portrait of a Roman Soldier

Roman/Egyptian

c 150

Painting

Encaustic on panel

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Andrea Mantegna

c 1489

Painting

Distemper on canvas

Arnolfini Portrait

Jan van Eyck

1434

Painting

Oil on panel

Las Meninas

Diego Valasquez

1656

Painting

Oil on canvas

Hohokam Jar

Hohokam culture USA

c 1000

Pottery

Painted ceramic

The Scream

Edvard Munch

1893

Painting

Oil, casein & pastel on cardboard

Broadway Boogie Woogie

Piet Mondrian

1942

Painting

Oil on canvas

Bust of Nefertiti

Egyptian

c 1340 BC

Sculpture

Painted limestone

Yoruba Palace Doors

Areogun (Yoruba culture, Nigeria)

1905

Sculpture

Wood Carving

Horsemen from the Parthenon Frieze

Pheidias

c 440 BC

Sculpture

Marble

David

Donatello

1435

Sculpture

Bronze

Lillies of the Valley Egg

Peter Carl Faberge

1898

Objet d'art

Gold, silver, jewels

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp

1917

Readymade (found art)

Ceramic urinal

Arc of Petals

Alexander Calder

1941

Mobile

Painted sheet metal & wire

Tilted Arc

Richard Serra

1981

Sculpture

Steel

God Creating Adam

William Blake

1795

Print

Colored print, pen, & water color on paper

Icon of the Holy Trinity

Andrei Rublev

1411

Painted icon

Tempera on panel

The Raft of the Medusa

Theodore Gericault

1819

Painting

Oil on Canvas

Christ Pantocrator

Greek

c 1150

Mosaic

Mosaic

The Human Condition

Renee Magritte

1933

Painting

Oil on canvas

Lavender Mist

Jackson Pollock

1950

Painting

Oil, enamel & aluminum paint on canvas

The Calling of St Matthew

Caravaggio

1599

Painting

Oil on canvas

The Two Fridas

Frida Kahlo

1939

Painting

Oil on canvas

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Artemisia Gentileschi

1613

Painting

Oil on canvas

Aksum Stele

Axumite

c 300

Stele

Limestone

Yoruba Female Head

Yoruba

c 1250

Sculpture

Terra cotta

Moai Figures

Polynesian

c 1000

Sculpture

Stone

Eagle Warrior

Aztec

c 1480

Sculpture

Painted earthenware & plaster

Ecstasy of St Teresa

Gianlorenzo Bernini

c 1649

Sculpture

Marble

Kneeling Archer

Chinese

c 214 BC

Sculpture

Painted terra cotta

Catching a Catfish With a Gourd

Josetsu

c 1410

Painting

Ink & color on paper

Seven Leagues Tea Bowl

Koetsu

c 1620

Ceramic

Glazed ceramic

Shiva as Nataraja

Hindu

c 1050

Sculpture

Bronze

Third of May 1808

Francisco Goya

1814

Painting

Oil on canvas

Portrait of an Official

Korean

c 1650

Painting

Ink & color on silk

Spiral Jetty

Robert Smithson

1970

Earth art

Basalt, earth & salt crystals