Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine
Prehistory Tequixquiac, Mexico 14,000-7,000 BCE Prehistoric Americas bone National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico
Anthropomorphic stele
Prehistory fourth millennium BCE sandstone Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Jade cong
Prehistory Liangzhu, China 3,300-2,200 BCE jade Zhejiang Institute of Arc
The Ambum Stone
Prehistory 1500 BCE greywacke National Gallery of Australia, Canberra from Papua New Guinea
Tlatilco Female Figures
Prehistory Tlatilco, Mexico 1200-900 BCE ceramic Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Terra-cotta fragment
Prehistory Lapita Solomon Islands 1000 BCE University of Aukland, New Zealand
Apollo 11 stones
(African) Prehistory Windhoek, Namibia 25,500-25,300 BCE charcoal on stone State Museum of Namibia
Lascaux Caves
Prehistory (Paleolithic Europe) 15,000-13,000 BCE pigment on rock Dordogne, France
Running Horned Woman
Prehistory 6,000-4,000 BCE rock painting Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria
Beaker with ibex motifs
(West Asian) Prehistory 4,200-3,500 BCE terra-cotta Louvre, Paris
Stonehenge
(Neolithic Europe) Prehistory 2500-1600 BCE sandstone Wiltshire, England
White Temple and its ziggurat
Sumerian 3500-3000 BCE mud brick Uruk, Iraq
Statues of votive figures
Sumerian Square Temple at Eshunna 2700 BCE gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone Iraq Museum, Baghdad; University of Chicago, Illinois
Standard of Ur
Sumerian 2600-2400 BCE wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and limestone British Museum, London
Stele of Hammurabi
Babylonian 1792-1750 BCE basalt Louvre,Paris
Lamassu
Assyrian from Citadel of Sargon II 720-705 BCE alabaster Louvre, Paris
Persepolis
Persian 520-465 BCE limestone Iran
Narmer Palette
Egyptian 3000-2920 BCE slate Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Seated scribe
Egyptian 2620-2500 BCE painted limestone Louvre, Paris
Great Pyramids (Including Pyramid of Khufu; Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx; Pyramid of Menkaura)
Egyptian 2550-2490 BCE (2500 BCE Sphinx) limestone Giza, Egypt
Menkaura and His Queen
Egyptian 2490-2472 BCE greywacke Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall
Egyptian 1550-1250 BCE sandstone and mud brick near Luxor, Egypt
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut (with Queen Hatshepsut with Offering Jars)
Egyptian 1473-1458 BCE sandstone (red granite statue, in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) near Luxor, Egypt
Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters
Egyptian (Armana Period) 1353-1335 BCE limestone Egyptian Museum, Berlin
Innermost Coffin of King Tutankhamun
Egyptian 1323 BCE gold, enamel, semiprecious stones Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer (from the Book of the Dead)
Egyptian 1275 BCE painted papyrus scroll British Museum, London
Anavysos Kouros
Archaic Greek 530 BCE marble and paint National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Peplos Kore
Archaic Greek 530 BCE marble and paint Acropolis Museum, Athens
Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)
Polykleitos Classical Greek 450-440 BCE marble copy from a bronze original National Archaeological Museum, Naples
Acropolis (The Parthenon: Helios, Horses, and Dionysos; Plaque of the Ergastines; Temple of Athena Nike: Victory Adjusting Her Sandal)
Classical Greek (Parthenon - Iktinos and Kallikrates 447-438 BCE Athens, Greece) (Details: 438-432 BCE) (410 - Victory, from Temple of Athena Nike) marble British Museum, London; Louvre, Paris; Acropolis Museum, Athens
Grave Stele of Hegeso
Kallimachos Classical Greek 410 BCE painted marble National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Nike of Samothrace
Hellenistic Greek 190 BCE marble Lourve Paris
Athena
Hellenistic Greek from the Pergamon Altar 175 BCE marble State Museum, Berlin
Seated Boxer
Hellenistic Greek 100 BCE bronze National Roman Museum, Rome
Athenian Agora
Classical Greek 600-150 BCE Athens, Greece
Temple of Athena Nike
Kallikrates Classical Greek 425 BCE Athens, Greece
Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
Classical Greek 175 BCE marble State Museum, Berlin
Niobides Krater
Niobid Painter Classical Greek 460-450 BCE clay Louvre, Paris
Alexander Mosaic
Hellenistic Greek from the House of Faun 320 BCE Roman copy of 100 BCE mosaic National Archaeological Museum, Naples
Temple of Minerva
Etruscan 510-500 BCE mud brick or tufa and wood Veii, Italy
Tomb of the Triclinium
Etruscan 480-470 BCE tufa and fresco Tarquinia, Italy
Sarcophagus of the Spouses
Etruscan Cerveteri 520 BCE terra-cotta Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome
Apollo from Veii
Etruscan 510 BCE terra-cotta Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome
House of the Vettii
Roman second century BCE-first century CE, rebuilt 67-79 CE stone and fresco Pompeii, Italy
The Colosseum
Imperial Roman 72-80 CE stone and concrete Rome
Treasury, Monastery and Great Temple of Petra
Roman 400 BCE-100 CE cut rock Jordan
Forum of Trajan (Basilica of Ulpia, Market of Trajan)
Apollodorus of Damascus Roman 106-112 CE (Basilica - 112) Rome, Italy
Pantheon
Roman 118-125 CE concrete with stone facing Rome
Pentheus Room
Roman 62-79 CE fresco Pompeii, Italy
Head of a Roman Patrician
Republican Roman 75-50 BCE marble Museo Torlonia, Rome
Augustus of Prima Porta
Imperial Roman 20 CE copy of a bronze original Vatican Museums, Rome
Column of Trajan
Roman 112 CE marble Rome
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
Roman 250-260 CE marble National Roman Museum, Rome
Catacomb of Priscilla
Early Christian 200-400 tufa and fresco Rome, Italy
Santa Sabina
Early Christian 422-432 brick, stone, and wooden roof Rome, Italy
Hagia Sophia (including Theotokos and Deësis mosaics)
Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus Byzantine 532-537 brick, ceramic, stone, mosaic Istanbul
San Vitale (including Justinian and Attendants; Theodora and Attendants)
Byzantine mosaics - 547 brick, marble, stone Ravenna, Italy
Vienna Genesis (including Jacob Wrestling an Angel; Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well
Byzantine early sixth century illuminated manuscript pigment on vellum Austrian National Library, Vienna
Theotokos and Child between Saints Theodore and George
Byzantine sixth-early seventh centuries encaustic on wood Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt
Pyxis of al-Mughira
Islamic 968 ivory Louvre, Paris
Folio from the Qur'an
Islamic eighth-ninth century ink and gold on parchment
Basin (Baptistere de St. Louis)
Muhammad ibn al-Zain Islamic 1320-1340 brass inlaid with gold and silver Louvre, Paris
The Ardabil Carpet
Maqsud of Kashan Islamic 1539-1540 silk on wool Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Bahram Gur Fights the Karg
Islamic (Persian) 1310-1340 ink and watercolor, gold, silver on paper Harvard University Art Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Court of Gayumars
Sultan Muhammad Islamic (Persian) folio from the Shah Tashmasp 1522-1525 ink, opaque watercolor, gold on paper Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
The Kaaba
Islamic 631-632 granite masonry, covered with silk curtain, gold and silver thread Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Dome of the Rock
Islamic 691-692 stone masonry and wood roof decorated with glazed ceramic tile, mosaics, and gilt aluminum and bronze dome Jerusalem
Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh)
Islamic 700 and following, mostly eleventh-seventeenth centuries brick, wood, plaster, ceramic tile Isfahan, Iran
Great Mosque at Córdoba
Islamic eighth-tenth centuries stone Córdoba, Spain
Alhambra (including Court of the Lions; Hall of the Sisters)
Islamic 1354-1391 whitewashed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gilding Granada, Spain
Mosque of Selim II
Sinan Islamic 1568-1575 brick and stone Edirne, Turkey
Taj Mahal
Islamic 1632-1648 stone, marble, precious and semi-precious stones Agra, India
Looped Fibulae
Merovingian (Medieval) mid-sixth century silver gilt with semiprecious stones, inlays of garnets and other stones Cabinet des Médailles, Paris
Lindisfarne Gospels (cross-carpet page of St. Matthew)
Hiberno-Saxon (Medieval) 700 illuminated manuscript, ink, pigments, and gold on vellum British Library, London
Church of Sainte-Foy (including reliquary; Last Judgment)
Romanesque 1050-1130 (Last Judgment - 1107-1125 painted stone) (Reliquary - ninth century gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood) stone Conques, France
Bayeux Tapestry
Romanesque 1066-1080 embroidery on linen Bayeux Tapestry Museum, Bayeux, France
Chartres Cathedral (including Royal Portals; Notre Dame la Belle Verriere, Our Lady of the Beautiful Window)
Gothic 1145-1155 (stained glass - 1170) later additions, limestone and stained glass Chartres, France
Röttgen Pietá
Gothic 1300-1325 painted wood Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Blanche of Castile and Louis IX (dedication page and Scenes from the Apocalypse)
Gothic 1226-1234 illuminated manuscript, ink, tempera and gold leaf on vellum (Apocalypse - Catheral, Toledo) Morgan Library, New York
Golden Haggadah (The Plagues of Egypt, Scenes of Liberation and Preparation for Passover)
(Jewish) Gothic 1320 illuminated manuscript, pigment on vellum British Library, London
Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel (including Last Judgment; Lamentation)
(Italian) Gothic 1303 (frescoes - 1305-1306) brick and fresco Padua, Italy
The Annunciation Triptych (The Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin (? or workshop) Northern European Renaissance 1425-1428 oil on wood Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck Northern European Renaissance 1434 oil on wood National Gallery, London
Adam and Eve
Albrecht Dürer Northern European Renaissance 1504 engraving Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Isenheim Altarpiece
Matthias Grünewald Northern European Renaissance 1512-1516 oil on panel Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar
Allegory of Law and Grace
Lucas Cranach the Elder Northern European Renaissance 1530 woodcut
Return of the Hunters
Pieter Bruegel Northern European Renaissance 1565 oil on wood panel Art History Museum, Vienna
Pazzi Chapel
Filippo Brunelleschi Early Renaissance designed 1423, built 1429-1461 masonry Florence, Italy
Palazzo Rucellai
Leon Battista Alberti Early Renaissance 1450 stone, masonry Florence, Italy
Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi Italian Renaissance 1465 tempera on wood Uffizi, Florence
Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli Italian Renaissance 1484-1486 tempera on canvas Uffizi, Florence
David
Donatello Italian Renaissance 1440-1460 bronze National Museum, Bargello, Florence
The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci Italian High Renaissance 1494-1498 tempera and oil Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Sistine Chapel Ceiling (Delphic Sybil, The Flood, Last Judgment)
Michelangelo Italian High Renaissance 1508-1512 fresco Vatican City, Italy
School of Athens
Raphael Italian High Renaissance 1509-1511 fresco Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, Italy
Venus of Urbino
Titian Italian High Renaissance 1538 oil on canvas Uffizi, Florence
Entombment of Christ
Jacopo da Pontormo Italian High Renaissance 1525-1528 oil on wood Santa Felicitá, Florence
Il Gesú (including façade; Triumph of the Name of Jesus)
Giacomo della Porta Italian High Renaissance 1575-1584 brick and marble (Triumph - Giovanni Battista Gaulli Italian Baroque 1676-1679) Rome
Saint Charles of the Four Fountains (San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane)
Francesco Borromini Baroque 1638-1646 stone and stucco Rome
The Palace at Versailles
Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart Baroque 1669 masonry, stone, wood, iron, and gold leaf gardens, Versailles, France
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
Gian Lorenzo Bernini Italian Baroque 1647-1652 marble, stucco and gilt bronze Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome (by Carlo Maderno in 1605-1620)
Calling of Saint Matthew
Caravaggio Italian Baroque 1597-1601 oil on canvas San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
Las Meninas
Diego Valázquez Spanish Baroque 1656 oil on canvas Prado, Madrid
Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de'Medici (from the Marie de' Medici Cycle)
Peter Paul Rubens Flemish Baroque 1621-1625 oil on canvas Louvre, Paris
Self-Portrait with Saskia
Rembrandt Dutch Baroque 1636 etching Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Woman Holding a Balance
Johannes Vermeer Dutch Baroque 1664 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington
Fruits and Insects
Rachel Ruysch Dutch Baroque 1711 oil on wood Uffizi, Florence
Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
New Spain 1542 pigment on paper Bodleian Library, Oxford University
Angel with Arquebus (Asiel Timor Dei)
Master of Calamarca New Spain 1680 oil on canvas National Art Museum, La Paz, Bolivia
Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and Hunting Scenes
Circle of the Gonzales Family New Spain 1697-1701 tempera and resin on wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl Brooklyn Museum, New York
Virgin of Guadelupe
Miguel Gonzáles New Spain 1698 oil on canvas on wood with mother-of-pearl Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo
Attributed to Juan Rodriguez New Spain 1715 oil on canvas Private Collection, London
Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Miguel Cabrera New Spain 1750 oil on canvas
The Swing
Jean-Honoré Fragonard Rococo 1767 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London
Self-Portrait (of Le Brun)
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Rococo 1790 oil on canvas Uffizi, Florence
The Tête á Tête from Marriage á la Mode
William Hogarth Eighteenth-Century English 1743 oil on canvas National Gallery, London
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery
Joseph Wright of Derby Eighteenth-Century English 1763-1765 oil on canvas Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, U.K.
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson Neoclassical 1768-1806 brick, glass, stone, and wood Charlottesville, Virginia
The Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David Neoclassical 1784 oil on canvas Louvre, Paris
George Washington
Jean-Antoine Houdon Neoclassical 1788-1792 marble State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia
Westminster (Palace: The Houses of Parliament; Hall; Central Lobb)
Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin Romantic 1840-1870 limestone, masonry, and glass (Halls - Gothic 1097-1099, ceiling 1390s stone and wood London, England) London
And There's Nothing to Be Done (Y no hai remedio) from the Disasters of War
Francisco de Goya Romantic 1810-1823 drypoint etching
La Grand Odalisque (The Grand Odalisque)
Jean-Auguste Ingres Romantic 1814 oil on canvas Louvre, Paris
Liberty Leading the People
Eugéne Delacroix Romantic 1830 oil on canvas Louvre, Paris
Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)
Joseph Turner Romantic 1840 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Oxbow
Thomas Cole Romantic 1836 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Still Life in Studio
Louis Daguerre Romantic 1837 daguerreotype French Photographic Society, Paris
The Stone Breakers
Gustave Courbet Realism 1849 oil on canvas formerly in Gemäldgalerie, Dresden, destroyed in World War II
Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art
Honoré Daumier Realism 1862 lithograph Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Olympia
Édouard Manet Realism 1863 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris
The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel
José Maria Velasco Realism 1882 oil on canvas National Art Museum
The Horse in Motion
Eadweard Muybridge Realism 1878 photograph
The Saint-Lazare Station
Claude Monet Impressionism 1877 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris
The Coiffure
Mary Cassatt Impressionism 1890-1891 drypoint and aquatint National Gallery of Art, Washington
The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh Post-Impressionism 1889 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Paul Gaugin Post-Realism 1897-1898 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mont Saint-Victoire
Paul Cézanne Post-Impressionism 1902-1904 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
The Scream
Edvard Munch Symbolism 1893 tempera and pastel on cardboard National Gallery, Osio
The Kiss
Gustav Klimt Art Nouveau 1907-1908 oil on canvas Austrian Gallery, Vienna
Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building
Louis Sullivan Late Nineteenth-Century 1899-1904 iron, steel, glass, terra-cotta Chicago
The Burghers of Calais
Auguste Rodin Late Nineteenth-Century 1884-1895 bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Goldfish
Fauvism Henri Matisse 1912 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Pertersburg, Russia
Improvisation 28 (second version)
Expressionism Vassily Kandinsky 1912 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York
Self-Portrait as a Soldier
Expressionism Ernst Kirchner 1915 oil on canvas Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht
Expressionism Käthe Kollwitz 1919-1920 woodcut Private Collection
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Cubism Pablo Picasso 1907 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Portuguese
Cubism Georges Braque 1911 oil on canvas Art Museum, Basel, Switzerland
The Kiss
Cubism Cónstantin Brancusi 1907-1908 limestone Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
The Steerage
Photo-Secession Alfred Stieglitz 1907 photograph Private Collection
Fountain
Dada Marcel Duchamp original 1917, this version 1950 china with black paint Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Object
Surrealism Meret Oppenheim 1936 fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Two Fridas
Surrealism Frida Kahlo 1939 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
The Jungle
Surrealism Wifredo Lam 1943 gouache on paper mounted on canvas The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Illustration from) The Results of the First Five-Year Plan
Constructivism Varvara Stepanova 1932 photomontage Museum of the Revolution, Moscow, Russia
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
DeStijl Piet Mondrian 1930 oil on canvas Private Collection
Kaufmann House "Fallingwater"
Prairie Style Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright 1936-1939 reinforced concrete, sandstone, steel, and glass Bear Run, Pennsylvania
Villa Savoye
International Style Architecture Le Corbusier 1929 steel and reinforced concrete Poissy-sur-Seine, France
Seagram Building
International Style Architecture Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson 1954-1958 steel frame with glass curtain wall and bronze New York
The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49
Harlem Renaissance Jacob Lawrence 1940-1941 tempera on hardboard Museum of Modern Art, New York
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park
Mexican Muralists Diego Rivera 1947-1948 fresco Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City
Woman, I
Abstract Expressionism Willen de Kooning 1950-1952 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art
The Bay
Color Field Painting Helen Frankenthaler 1963 acrylic on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Marilyn Diptych
Pop Art Andy Warhol 1962 oil, acrylic, silkscreen enamel on canvas Tate Gallery, London
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
Pop Art Claes Oldenburg 1969-1974 cor-ten steel, aluminum, and cast resin, painted with polyurethane enamel Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Narcissus Garden
Happenings Yayoi Kusama first seen in 1966 installation of mirrored balls Venice
Spiral Jetty
Site Art Robert Smithson 1970 mud, salt crystals, rocks, water coil Great Salt Lake, Utah
House in New Castle County
Postmodern Architecture Robert Venturi, John Rauch, and Denise Scott Brown 1978-1983 wood frame and stucco Delaware
Buddha from Bamiyan
Buddhist 400-800, destroyed 2001 cut rock with plaster and polychrome paint Afghanistan
Jowo Rinpoche from the Jokhang Temple
Buddhist 641 gilt metal with semiprecious stones and paint Lhasa, Tibet
Great Stupa at Sanchi
Buddhist third century BCE - first century CE stone masonry, sandstone on dome Sanchi, Madhya Preadesh, India
Borobudur
Buddhist 750-842 volcanic stone masonry Java, Indonesia
Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja) with a nimbus
Hindu eleventh century CE cast bronze Musée Guimet Paris
Lakshmana Temple
Hindu 930-950 sandstone Khajuraho, India
Angkor, Angkor Wat, and the city of Angkor Thom
Hindu 800-1400 stone masonry, sandstone Cambodia
Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
Hindu Bichitr 1620 watercolor, gold, and ink on paper Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Forbidden City
Chinese fifteenth century, Ming Dynasty stone masonry, marble, brick, wood, ceramic tile Beijing, China
Funeral Banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui)
Chinese 180 BCE painted silk Human Provincial Museum, Changsha
Travelers among Mountains and Streams
Chinese Fan Kuan 1000 ink on silk National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Portrait of Sin Sukju
Korean 1417-1475 ink and color on silk
Chairman Mao En Route to Anyuan
Chinese 1969 color lithograph based on an oil painting by Liu Chunhua Private Collection
Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi
Chinese 221-209 BCE, Qin Dynasty painted terra-cotta Lintong, China
Longmen Caves
Chinese 493-1127, Tang Dynasty limestone Luoyang, China
Gold and jade crown
Korean fifth-sixth century metalwork National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
The David Vases
Chinese 1351 white porcelain with cobalt blue underglaze British Museum, London
Todai-ji (and its Great Buddha, Nio Guardian Figures, and Great South Gate
Japanese 743, rebuilt 1700 wood with ceramic tile roofing (Buddha - base eighth century, upper portion including head twelveth century, copper) (Nio Guardian Figures - Unkei, Tankei, and Jokahu; 1203, wood) (Gate - 1181-1203, wood with ceramic tile roofing) Nara, Japan
Ryoan-ji
Japanese 1480, current design eigthteenth century rock garden Kyoto, Japan
Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace
Japanese 1250-1300 Handscroll (ink and color on paper) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
White and Red Plum Blossoms
Japanese Ogata Korin 1710-1716 watercolor on paper MOA Museum of Art Atami, Japan
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), called "The Great Wave," from "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji"
Japanese Hokusai 1830-1833 polychrome woodblock print, ink and color on paper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Chavín de Huántar (Plan, Lanzón Stone, Relief Sculpture, Nose Ornament)
Chavín 900-200 BCE granite (stone and sculpture), gold alloy (ornament) Peru
Yaxchilán (Structure 40, Lintel 25 of Structure 23, Structure 33)
Mayan 725 limestone Chiapas, Mexico
Mesa Verde cliff dwellings
Anasazi 450-1300 sandstone Montezuma County, Colorado
Great Serpent Mound
Mississippian (Eastern Woodlands) 1070 earthwork Adams County, southern Ohio
Templo Mayor (Main Temple) (including Coyolxauhqui "She of the Golden Bells" and Calendar Stone and Olmec-style mask)
Aztec 1375-1520 volcanic stone from 1469 (Coyolxauhqui) stone (Calendar Stone is basalt, Mask is jadeite) Tenochtitlán Mexico City, Mexico
Ruler's feather headdress (probably of Motecuhzoma II)
Aztec 1428-1520 feathers (quetzal and blue cotinga) and gold Museum of Ethnology, Vienna
Maize cobs
Inkan 1400-1533 sheet metal/repoussé, gold and silver alloys Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
City of Cusco plan (including Qorikancha: main temple, church, and convent of Santo Comingo and Walls at Saqsa Waman (Sacsayhuaman))
Inkan 1440 sandstone Peru
City of Machu Picchu (including Obervatory and Intihuatana Stone)
Inkan 1450-1540 granite Peru
All-T'oqapu tunic
Inkan 1450-1540 camelid fiber and cotton Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.
Bandolier bag
North American Indian Art Lenape (eastern Delaware) tribe 1850 beadwork on leather Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana
Transformation Mask
North American Indian Art Kwakiutl, Northwest coast of Canada late nineteenth century wood, paint, and string Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana
Hide Painting of a Sun Dance
North American Indian Art Attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody) 1890-1900 painted elk hide found at Easter Shoshone, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming Cowan's Auctions, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio
black-on-black ceramic vessel
North American Indian Art Maria Martínez and Julian Martínez mid-twentieth century Tewa, Puebloa, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery
Great Zimbabwe
African 1000-1400 granite Zimbabwe
Great Mosque of Djenné
African 1200, rebuilt 1906-1907 adobe Djenné, Mali
Wall plaque from Oba's palace
(Benin) African sixteenth century brass Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Golden Stool (Skia dwa kofi)
(Ashanti) African 1700 gold over wood location unknown
Ndop (portrait figure) of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul
(Kuba) African 1760-1780 wood Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Power figure (Nkisi n'kondi)
(Kongo) African late nineteenth century wood and metal
Portrait mask (Mblo)
(Baule) African late nineteenth to early twentieth century wood and pigment
Female (Pwo) mask
(Chokwe) African late nineteenth to early twentieth century wood, fiber, pigment, and metal National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.
Bundu mask
(Mende) African Sande Society nineteenth to early twentieth century wood, cloth, and fiber Private Collection
Ikenga (shrine figure)
(Igbo) African nineteenth to twentieth century wood Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New Yotk
Memory Board (Lukasa)
(Luba) African Mbudye Society nineteenth to twentieth century wood, beads, and metal Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Aka elephant mask
(Bamileke) African nineteenth to twentieth century wood, woven raffia, cloth, and beads
Reliquary guardian figure (nlo bieri)
(Fang) African 19th to 20th century wood Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Vernanda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga)
(Yoruba) African Olowe of Ise 1910-1914 wood and pigment Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Nan Madol
Micronesia 700-1600 basalt boulders and prismatic columns Pohnpei, Micronesia
Female deity
Micronesia eighteenth to nineteenth century wood Nukuoro, Micronesia
Navigation chart
Micronesia nineteenth to early twentieth century wood and fiber Marshall Islands
'Ahu'ula (feather cape)
Hawaii late eighteenth century feathers and fiber Museum of the Americas, Madrid
Staff god
Cook Islands (Rarotonga) late eighteenth to early nineteenth century wood, tapa, fiber, and feathers British Museum, London
Hiapo (tapa) from Niue
Polynesia 1850-1900 tapa or bark cloth freehand painting Aukland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand
Tamati Waka Nene
New Zealand Gottfried Lindauer 1890 oil on canvas Aukland Art Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand
Malagan mask
Papua New Guinea twentieth century wood, pigment, fiber, and shell Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Buk (mask)
Papua New Guinea Torres Strait mid-to-late nineteenth century turtle shell, wood, fiber, feathers, and shell Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II during the 1953-1954 royal tour
Fiji 1953 multimedia performance photographic documentation
Moai on platform (ahu)
Easter Island (Rapa Nui) 1100-1600 volcanic tuff figures on basalt base
Guggenheim Bilboa Museo
Frank Gehry Modern Architecture 1997 titanium, glass, and limestone Bilboa, Spain
MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Zaha Hadid Modern Architecture 2009 glass, steel, and cement Rome, Italy
The Gates
Christo and Jean-Claude Modern Art 1979-2005 mixed media installation New York City
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Maya Lin Modern Art 1982 black granite Washinton, D.C.
Horn Players
Jean-Michel Basquiat Modern Art 1983 acrylic and oil paintstick on canvas panels Broad Art Foundations, Santa Monica, California
Summer Trees
Song Su-nam Modern Art 1983 ink on paper British Museum, London
Androgyn III
Magdalena Abakanowicz Modern Art 1985 burlap, resin, wood, nails, and string Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A Book from the Sky
Xu Bing Modern Art 1987-1991 100 boxed sets of 4-volume woodblock printed books, variable numbers of scrolls hanging from the ceiling, and variable number of wall panels installation Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Pink Panther
Jeff Koons Modern Art 1988 glazed porcelain Museum of Modern Art, New York
Untitled #228 (from the History Portraits series)
Cindy Sherman Modern Art 1990 photograph Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, California
Dancing at the Louvre (from the series The French Collection, Part I; #1)
Faith Ringgold Modern Art 1991 acrylic on canvas, with fabric borders Private Collection
Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)
Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith Modern Art 1992 oil and mixed media Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk
Earth's Creation
Emily Kame Kngwarreye Modern Art 1994 synthetic polymer, paint on canvas Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, Australia
Rebellious Silence (from the Women of Allah series)
Shirin Neshat, photo by Cynthia Preston Modern Art 1994 ink on photograph Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
En la Barberia no se Llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop)
Pepón Osorio Modern Art 1994 mixed media installation
Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000)
Michel Tuffery Modern Art 1994 mixed media Collection of the Artist
Electronic Superhighway
Naum June Paik Modern Art 1995 mixed media (49-channel closed-circuit video installation, neon, steel, and electronic components) Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Crossing
Bill Viola Modern Art 1996 video and sound installation, room dimensions: 16 x 27.5 x 57 ft, performer: Phil Esposito, photo: Kira Perov
Pure Land
Mariko Mori Modern Art 1998 color photograph on glass Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Lying with the Wolf
Kiki Smith Modern Art 2001 ink and pencil on paper
Darkytown Rebellion
Kara Walker Modern Art 2001 cut paper and projection on wall Collection Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
The Swing (after Fragonard)
Yinka Shonibare Modern Art 2001 mixed media installation Tate, London
Old Man's Cloth
El Anatsui Modern Art 2003 aluminum liquor bottle caps and copper wire
Stadia II
Julie Mehretu Modern Art 2004 ink and acrylic on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Preying Mantra
Wangechi Mutu Modern Art 2006 mixed media on mylar Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Shibboleth
Doris Salcedo Modern Art 2007-2008 installation Tate Modern, London
Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)
Ai Weiwei Modern Art 2010-2011 sculpted and painted porcelain Tate Modern, London