This page has a running list of all key-works in the course, divided by week and topic. Images will be added on a weekly basis.

Old and New Kingdom Egypt

Palette of Narmer, slate, ca. 3000-2920 B.C.E.

Pyramid of Khufu (Great Pyramid), limestone, Giza, Egypt ca. 2551-2528 B.C.E.

Khafre Enthroned, Anorthosite gneiss (hard stone), ca. 2520-2494 B.C.E.

Archaic and Classical Greece

Anavysos Kouros, marble, (Archaic) Greek, (Anavysos, near Athens), ca. 530 B.C.E.

Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer), Roman marble copy of a (Classical) Greek bronze, ca. 450-440 B.C.E.

Winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace, marble, Hellenistic Greek, ca. 190 B.C.E.

Iktinos and Kallikrates, Parthenon, Athens, Greece, 447 – 432 B.C.E.

Rome

Portrait of Emperor Augustus as a general (the ‘Primaporta Augustus), Primaporta (Italy), marble, ca. 10 C.E.

Maison Carrée, Nîmes, France, limestone, ca. 4-7 C.E.

Ixion Room, House of the Vettii, Pompeii, 1^st century C.E.

The Colossus of Constantine, marble, Late Roman (originally located in the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine, Rome), ca. 312-315

Byzantium

Isidore of Miletus & Anthemius of Tralles, Hagia Sophia, (Constantinople) Istanbul, Brick with various stones and other materials, 532-37

Constantine the Great Presents the City (Constantinople) and Justinian the Great Presents Hagia Sophia to the Virgin, Hagia Sophia, mosaic, ca. 10th Century

Emperor Justinian and his Attendants, San Vitale, Ravenna (Italy), mosaic, ca. 546-56

Ming

Portrait of the Yongle Emperor, hanging scroll (ink and color on silk), Yongle period, 1403-24

Hall of Supreme Harmony (formerly, Hall of Revering Heaven), Forbidden City, Beijing, China (painted and carved wood; glazed tiles), First built 1406-1420 (Yongle Period, 1403-24); current structure from 1695 (with additional restorations)

Lan Ying, Whirling Snow on the River Bank, hanging scroll (ink on silk), 1639

Vase in Meiping Shape with Daoist Immortal Zhongli Quan, Jingdezhen, China, Porcelain (painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze), second half of the 15^th century

Jug with Portuguese Arms, Jingdezhen, China, Porcelain (painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze), ca. 1520-40

Medieval Europe

Great Mosque of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain, (multiple materials), begun 786 (enlarged during the 9^th and 10^th centuries)

Interior, Ibn Shushan Synagogue (now, Saint Maria the White), Toledo, Spain, Stucco, Paint, Cement covered Bricks, 1180

Maestro Mateo, Portico of Glory, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, granite and paint, 1188

Reliquary statue of Sainte-Foy (Saint Faith), gold, silver gilt, jewels, and cameos over a wooden core, Abbey Church, Conques, late 9^th or 10^th century

Our Lady, Chartres Cathedral, limestone (and other materials), Chartres, France, 1194-1220

Ottoman Art

Tughra (Official Signature) of Sultan Süleyman “the Magnificent”, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, ca. 1555-60

Spherical Hanging Ornament, ceramic (fritware), Iznik, 1575-85

Mimar Sinan, Rüstem Pasha Mosque, Istanbul, 1561-63

Iznik tiles in Rüstem Pasha Mosque

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design, silk, wool, and cotton, ca. 1575-90

Portrait of Sultan Ahmed I, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper (illustrated manuscript), ca. 1600

BEGIN MATERIAL FOR SECOND EXAM:

Renaissance

Giotto, Lamentation, Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, Padua, Italy, fresco, ca. 1305

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy, tempera and oil on plaster, 1498

Michelangelo, David, marble, 1501-04

 Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros, woodcut, 1515

Giovanni Bellini and Titian, The Feast of the Gods, oil on canvas, 1514-1529

Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon, Ca’ d’Oro, Venice, Italy, stone and other materials, ca. 1422-1440

Baroque

Caravaggio, Conversion of St. Paul, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy, oil on canvas, 1601

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, David, marble, 1623-24

Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, oil on canvas, 1701

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, oil on canvas, 1656

Virgin of Guadalupe, Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico, oil and possibly tempera on maguey cactus cloth and cotton, 16^th century

Biombo with the Conquest of Mexico City and View of Mexico City, Colonial Mexico (New Spain), painted lacquer folding screen, late 17^th century

Eighteenth Century Art in Europe and the Americas

Europe

Jean-Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera, oil on canvas, 1717

Johann Gottlieb Kirchner, Great Bustard, Meissen porcelain, 1732

 Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Basilica of Constantine, from Views of Rome, etching, ca. 1757

Americas

Melchor Pérez de Holguín, Entry of the Viceroy Archbishop Morcillo into Potosí, oil on canvas, 1716

Unknown Artist, Silver mounted gourd (cup), Guatemala, ca. 1740

Miguel Cabrera, Spanish Man, Indian Woman, Mestizo Child, oil on canvas, 1763

Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States

Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington, marble, Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia, 1788-1792

Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat, oil on canvas, 1793

Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, oil on canvas, 1801

Francisco de Goya, A Heroic Feat! With Dead Men!, from The Disasters of War, etching and aquatint, ca. 1810-15 (published, 1863)

Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreakers, oil on canvas, 1849

Edouard Manet, Olympia, oil on canvas, 1863

Claude Monet, Impression Sunrise, oil on canvas, 1872

The Modern World: ca. 1900 to the World Wars: Europe, Mexico, and the United States

Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night, oil on canvas, 1889               

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, oil on canvas, 1907

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, urinal, 1917

Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, oil on canvas, 1939

Diego Rivera, Rural Schoolteacher, Ministry of Education, Mexico City, Mexico, fresco (Mural), 1923

Aaron Douglas, From Slavery through Reconstruction, from Aspects of Negro Life, Schomburg Center,

New York Public Library, oil on canvas, 1934 (Aaron Douglas, 1934)

Jacob Lawrence, During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans, from The Migration Series, Casein tempera on hardboard, 1940-1941