Ancient and Medieval Art
30,000 BC - c. 1500AD
By Kristy Short
Cave Painting: Horse
c. 15,000-10,000 BC
Lascaux, France
Neolithic temple of Mnajdra, Island of
Malta
3500 BC and 2900 BC
Lion, Ishtar Gate
575 BC
Temple of Bel
Inanna - Female Head from Uruk, c. 3500
- 3000 B.C.
War side of the Standard of Ur, Royal
Cemetery (Ur) c. 2600 B.C.
Peace side of the Standard of Ur, Royal
Cemetery (Ur) c. 2600 B.C.
Menkaure and Khamerernebty c. 24902472 BC
Goats treading seed and cattle fording a
canal, reliefs in the mastaba of Ti,
Saqqara, Egypt, c. 2450-2350 BC
Fowling scene, from the tomb of
Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1400-1350 BC
Fowling scene, from the tomb of
Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt, c.
1400-1350 BC
Smenkhkare and Meritaten (?), from Tell
el-Amarna, Egypt, c. 1335 BC
Thutmose, Nefertiti c. 1350 BC
Death Mask of Tutankhamen, from the
innermost coffin in his tomb at Thebes,
Egypt, c. 1323 BC
"Toreador Fresco" from Knossos, c. 14501400B.C.
"Spring" fresco from Thera,
c. 1650 BC.
"Snake Goddess" c. 1600 B.C. from
Knossos.
Knossos mural, the so called 'Prince with
the Lilies' or 'Priest King' Fresco (Knossos,
c. 1500 BC)
So-called "King's Throne" from the Palace
of Knossos, 1700-1400 B.C.
"Queen's Megaron" from Knossos,
1700-1400 B.C
Nubian with Oryx, monkey, and leopard
skins, 8th–7th century B.C.
Horse blinker with sphinx, 8th–7th
century B.C.;
Winged Sphinx, 13-12th century BCE
Cyrus the Great, 550 BC–330 BC
Korakou Pottery, 1190-1050 B.C.
Funerary Mask (Mask of Agamemnon) c.
1600-1500 B.C.
Mycenae dated LH II (about 1500 BC)
Haghia Triada, Crete, 1450-1400 BC.
Terracotta krater
Greek, Attic, Geometric, ca. 750–735 B.C.
Bowl with a gorgon's head, Greek,
Archaic period, about 625-600 BC
Made in Corinth, Greece; from Kamiros,
Rhodes
Perhaps the poet Sophokles (496-406 BC),
2nd century, Bronze Head
Marble head of a youthful god: the
'Aberdeen Head'
Greek, late Classical or early Hellenistic
period, about 325-280 BC
Amphora, ca. 490 B.C
Grave stele of a little girl, ca. 450–440
B.C.
Greek
Fragments of the Great Eleusinian
Relief, 27 B.C.–14 A.D
Statue of Pan, 1st century A.D.
Statuette of a veiled and masked dancer,
Hellenistic, 3rd–2nd century B.C.
Cameo portrait of Augustus, AD 14-20
Augustus, AD 14
Head of Augustus, Roman Period, 27–20
B.C.
Julio Claudian Prince, AD 1-50
Statue of Diadoumenos (youth tying a
fillet around his head), ca. 69–96 A.D.;
Trajan's column and forum, Rome, c.106113. AD
Ara Pacis 13-9 BCE
Aphrodite of Cnidus, c. 4th BCE
So-called Antioch Mosaic, second half of
2nd century; Late Antonine
Roman
Relief panel, c.420, showing Christ
crucified and Judas hanging
Byzantine Christ, 5th c
Jesus the Alpha and Omega, 4th c.
"Christ Pantocrator" in the central dome,
Church of the Dormition, Daphne,
Greece. Mosaic, c.1090-1100
"The Vladimir Madonna“, c. 12th
Gothic sculpture 15 century
Iskandar (Alexander the Great) at the
Talking Tree, 1330-1340
Tile depicting a peacock, from
Kubadabad Palace, Lake Beysehir,
Turkey, 1236.
The Book of Kells, (folio 292r), circa 800
Lorsch Gospels 778–820.
Adoration of the Magi: sculpture by
Pisano, c. 1259–60
Reims Cathedral: Judgement Portal
sculpture, c. 1140–50.
Chasuble, ca. 1330–1350