San Marcos High School
Art Detective Project
Suggested Artists/Pieces
Egypt
Great Pyramids
Statue of Khafre
Statue of Nefertiti by Thutmose
Hagia Sophia
San Vitale
St. Mark’s – Venice
Andrea Rublyev – Russian icons
Greece
Kritios Boy
Myron
Polykleitos
The Parthenon
Praxiteles
Lysippos
Epigonos
Nike of Samothrace
Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of
Rhodes
Islamic Art
Dome of the Rock
Great Mosque at Damascus
Great Mosque of Cordoba
India
Great Stupa at Sanchi
Visvanatha Temple
Taj Mahal
African Art
King statue from Ife, Nigeria
Ivory belt mask form Benin, Nigeria
Conical tower, Great Zimbabwe
China
Shang dynasty bronze figures
Army of Emperor She Huangdi
Early Medieval Art
Cross and carpet page from Lindesfarne Gospels
St. Matthew from Ebbo Gospels
Bronze doors from St. Michael’s of Hildesheim
commissioned by Bishop Bernward
Japan
Haniwa figures
Ise Shrine
Rome
Temple of “Fortuna Virilis”
Ara Pacis Augustae
Pont du Gard
Colosseum
Arch of Titus
Column of Trajan
Pantheon
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius
Arch of Constantine
Early Christian Art
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
Santa Sabina
Byzantine Art
Art of the Americas
Olmec colossal heads
Teotihuacan – Pyramids of the Moon and Sun
Serpent Mound – Ohio
Cliff Palace – Anasazi, Mesa Verde National
Park, Colorado
Romanesque Art
St. Sernin
Sant’ Ambrogio
Cathedral complex at Pisa (cathedral,
baptistery,campanile)
Wiligelmo
Gislebertus – Last Judgement tympanum
Virgin and Child (Morgan Madonna)
Bayeux tapestry
Gothic Art
Chartres Cathedral
Notre Dame, Paris
Virgin and Child (Virgin of Paris)
Virgin of Jeanne d’Evreux
Cologne Cathedral
Virgin with the Dead Christ (Rottgen Pieta)
Doge’s Palace, Venice
Proto-Renaissance
Cimabue
Giotto
Florence Cathedral
Duccio Di Buoninsegna
Simone Martini
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
15thc. N. Europe and Spain
Jan van Eyck
Rogier van der Weyden
Hugo van der Goes
Hieronymus Bosch
Konrad Witz
Veit Stoss
Early Renaissance
Filippo Brunelleschi
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Donatello
Masaccio
Andrea del Verrocchio
Sandro Botticelli
Leon Battista Alberti
Giovanni Bellini
Titian
Jacopo da Pontormo
Parmigianino
Bronzino
Sofonisba Anguissola
Tintoretto
High Renaissance and Mannerism
Leonardo da Vinci
Donato d’Angelo Bramante
Michelangelo
Raphael
Palladio
Paolo Veronese
Reformation Art
Matthias Grunewald
Albrecht Durer
Hans Holbein the Younger
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
El Greco
Baroque Art
Caravaggio
Artemisia Gentileschi
Diego Velazquez
Peter Paul Rubens
Frans Hals
Rembrandt van Rijn
Jan Vermeer
Palace of Versailles
Christopher Wren
Rococo
Antoine Watteau
Jean-Honore Fragonard