Palette of Narmer

c. 3000 BC

Egyptian

Slate

Seated Scribe

Saqqara

Painted Limestone

2400 BC

Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut

Dier el-Bahari

1480 BC

Egyptian

Idol from Amorgos

2500-1100 BC

Marble

Cycladic

Toreador Fresco

1500

Minoan

Octopus Jar

1500 BC

Minoan

Dipylon Vase

700 (8th Century) BC

Greek

Geometric Style Black Figure Fase

Ezekias

Dionysios in Boat

Interior of a Black Figured Kylix

540 BC

Greek Archaic Period

Kore in Dorian Peplos

530 BC

Greek Archaic Period

Iktinos and Kallikrates

The Parthenon

438

Athens, Greece

Polykleitos

Doryphoros

450 BC

Roman copy of Greek Original

Praxiteles

Hermes and Infant Dionysus

320-300 BC

Greek Late Classical

Dying Gaul

230 BC

Roman Marble Copy of Greek Bronze Original

Nike of Samothrace

200 BC

Greek Hellenistic Period

Sarcophagus from Cerveteri

Etruscan

520 BC

Scenes of a Dionysiac Mystery Cult

Pompeii

50 BC

Fresco Cycle

Augustus of Primaporta

20 BC

Rome

Roman

Arch of Titus

81 AD

Rome

Roman

Arch of Titus (Relief Detail)

81 AD

Rome

Roman

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Pantheon

118-125 AD

Rome

Pantheon

118-125 AD

Rome

Pantheon

118-125

Rome

Roman

St. Costanza

c. 350 AD

Rome

Early Christian

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St. Costanza

350 AD

Rome

Early Christian

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus

360 AD

Early Christian

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (Detail)

360 AD

Early Christian

Anthemius of Trallis and Isidorus of Miletus (Hagia Sophia)

532-537

Constantinople/Istanbul

Byzantine

Anthemius of Trallis and Isidorus of Miletus

537

Constantinople/Istanbul

Byzantine

St. ANthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus (Hagia Sophia)

537

Constantinople/Istanbul

Byzantine

Katholikon of Hosios Loukas

Greece

1020 AD

Byzantine

Cross Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels

700 AD

England

Early Medieval

Monastery of St. Gall

820

Switzerland

Carolingian

Early Medieval

Plan for the Monastery of St. Gall

820

Switzerland

Carolingian

Early Medieval

Plan for the Monastery of St. Gall

820

Switzerland

Carolingian

Early Medieval

Bronze Doors of Bishop Bernward

1015

St. Michael's of Hildesheim 

Germany

Ottonian, Medieval

Bronze Doors of Bishop Bernward

1015

St. Michael's of Hildesheim 

Germany

Ottonian, Medieval

St. Sernin

1080-1120

Toulouse, France

Medieval

St. Sernin

1080-1120

Toulouse, France

Romanesque Medieval

Tympanum ofthe Mission of the Apostles

1120-1132

St. Madeline at Vezelay

Romanesque, Medieval

Detail of the Tympanum of the Mission of the Apostles

1120-1132

St Madeline at Vandelay

Romanesque, Medieval

Chartres Cathedral

1145-1220

France

Gothic

Chartres Cathedral

1145-1220

Gothic

France

Chartres Cathedral

1145-1220

Gothic

France

Chartres Cathedral

1145-1220

Gothic

France

Chartres Cathedral Flying Buttress

1145-1220

Gothic

France

Annunciation and Visitation

Reims Cathedral

1225-1290

High Gothic

Nicola Pisano

Baptistry of Pisa Pulpit

1259-60

Italian Gothic

Italy

Nicola Pisano

Pulpit of the Baptistry of Pisa

Giotto

Lamentation

1305

Italian Proto Renaissance

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Allegory of Good Government

1339

Italian Proto-Renaissance

Italy

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Allegory of Good Government

1339

Italian Proto-Renaissance

Italy

Limbourg Brothers

February

Les Tres Riche Heures du Duc de Berry

1413-1416

France

Northern Proto-Renaissance

Jan Van Eyck

Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife

1434

Northern Renaissance

Ghiberti

Gates of Paradise

1435

Italian Early Renaissance

Ghiberti

Gates of Paradise

Isaac and His Sons (detail)

1435

Early Italian Renaissance

Donatello

David

1430

Italian Renaissance

Masaccio

The Holy Trinity

1425

Early Italian Renaissance

Brunelleschi

Piazzi Chapel

1430-1433

Florence, Italy

Renaissance

Brunelleschi

Pazzi Chapel

1430-1433

Florence, Italy

Renaissance

Alberti

San Andrea

1470

Italian Renaissance

Alberti

San Andrea

1470

Italian Renaissance

Alberti

San Andrea

1470

Italian Renaissance

Leonardo

Virgin of the Rocks

1490

Renaissance

Michaelangelo

Laurentian Library

1524

Italian Late Renaissance

Titian

Madonna with Pesarro Family

1526

Italian High Renaissance

Parmigianino

Madonna with the Long Neck

1535

Italian Mannerism

Grunewald

Isenheim Altarpiece

1510-1515

German

Northern Renaissance

Grunewald

Isenheim Altarpiece (open)

1510-1515

Germany

Northern Renaissance

Grunewald

Isenheim Altarpiece

1510-1515

Germany

Nothern Renaissance

Durer

Adam and Eve

1504

Germany

Northern Renaissance

Gentileschi

Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes

1625

Italian Baroque

Bernini, Maderno and Others

16th and 17th centuries

St. Peter's, Rome

Italy

Italian High Renaissance and Baroque

Maderno and Others

St. Peter's Basilica

16th & 17th century

Rome

High Renaissance and Baroque

Borromini

San Carlo alle Quattro Fountane

1638-1676

Rome

Italian Baroque

Bernini

Ecstacy of St. Teresa

1650

Rome

Italian Baroque

Bernini

Ecstacy of St. Terese

1650

Rome

Italian Baroque

Velazquez

Las Meninas

1656

Spanish Baroque

Rubens

Garden of Love

1636

Flanders

Baroque

Rembrandt

The Night Watch

1662

Dutch Baroque

Vermeer

The Letter

1666

Dutch Baroque

Poussin

Rape of the Sabine Women

1636

French Baroque

Watteau

Pilgrimage to Cythera

1717

Rococo

French

Prandtauer, Berduzzi, and Munggenast

Interior of Monastery Church at Melk

1738

Austrian Baroque, Rococo

David

Death of Socrates

1787

French Neoclassicism

Thomas Jefferson

Monticello

1770-1806

Virginia

American Neoclassicism

Goya

Third of May

1814

Spanish Romanticism

Ingres

Odalisque

1814

French Neoclassicism/Romanticism

Delacroix

Massacre at Chios

1824

French Romanticism

Turner

The Slave Ship

1840

English Romanticism

Courbet

the Stone Breakers

1849

French Realism

Renoir

Le Moulin de la Galette

1876

French Impressionism

Tanner

The Banjo Lesson

1893

American Realism

Labrouste

Bibliotheque St. Genevieve

1850

Paris

19th Century Architecture

Labrouste

Bibliotheque St. Genevieve

1850

Paris

19th Century Architecture

Rodin

Monument to Balzac

1898

French

Cezanne

Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bibemus Quarry

1900

French Post-impressionism

A sunday on the isle of la gran jatte

Seurat

1885

French Neo-Impressionism

Gaugin

The Vision After the Sermon

1888

French Post-Impressionism

Louis Sullivan

The Wainwright Building

1890

American Early Modernist Architecture

Matisse

The Red Studio

1911

French Fauvism

Kandinsky

Sketch for Composition VII

1913

German Expressionism

Picasso

Still Life with Chair Caning

1912

Spanish Synthetic Cubism

Malevich

White on White

1918

Russian Suprematist

Mondrian

Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow

1930

Neo-Plasticism or De Stijil

Dutch

Joan Miro

Painting

1933

Surrealism

Paul Klee

Twittering Machine

1922

Surrealism

Georgia O'Keeffe

Black Iris III

1926

American Early Modernism

Jackson Pollock

Autumnal Rhythm

1950

Abstract Expressionism

De Kooning

Woman II

1952

Abstract Expressionism

Francis Bacon

Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef

1954

English Expressionism

Rothko

Orange and Yellow

1956

Abstract Expressionism

Frank Stella

Empress of India

1965

Minimalism

Jasper Johns

Three Flags

1956

Neo-Dada

Don Eddy

New Shoes for H.

1974

Photorealism

Anselm Kiefer

To the Unknown Painter

1983

German

Neo-Expressionism

Brancusi

Bird in Space

1932-1940

Romanian

Early Modernism

Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

1913

Italian Futurism

Marcel Duchamp

In Advance of a Broken Arm

1915

Dada

Moore

Recumbent Figure

Green Horton Stone

1938

English Modernist Sculpture

David Smith

Cubi Series

1964

USA

Abstract Expressionism

Puryear

The Spell

1985

Postmodern Sculpture

Robet Smithson

Spiral Jetty

1970

USA

Earth Art

Edward and Nancy Keinholtz

The State Hospital

1966

USA

Funk Art

Beuys

Coyote

1974

Performance Art

USA

Frank LLoyd Wright

Robie House

1909

Modernist Architecture

Gropius

Shop Block, Bauhaus

1925

Modernist Architecture

Germany

Le Corbusier

Villa Savoye

1930

Modernist Architecture

France

Le Corbusier

Villa Savoye (Interior)

1930

Modernist Architecture

French

Rogers and Piano

Pompidou Center

1977

Paris

Postmodern Architecture

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother

1936

Documentary Photography

Robert Frank

Santa Fe, New Mexico

1955-56

American Documentary Photography

Robert Longo

Now Everybody

1982-3

Postmodernism

USA