Essential Images for Art History
Artist
anonymous
Title
The Riace Bronzes
Date
460-450
BC
450 BC
Style
Greek: Severe
Medium
sculpture
Myron
Discobolos
Greek: Severe
bronze
Iktinos
+Kalikrates
Kalikrates
The Parthenon
High Classical
High Classical
architecture/
sculpture
architecture/
sculpture
bronze
High Classical
painted vase
Praxiteles
448-432
BC
Temple of Athena Nike 427-424
BC
Doryphoros
450-440
BC
Argonaut Krater
455-450
BC
Hermes and Dionysos 340 BC
Late Classical
sculpture
anon
Nike of Samothrace
190 BC
Hellenistic
sculpture
anon
Laocoon
ca. 0
Hellenistic
sculpture
anon
Old Market Woman
sculpture
anon
The Lion Hunt
2nd century Hellenistic
BC
300 BC
Hellenistic
anon
Cerveteri
Sarcophagus
She-Wolf of the
Capitol
Head of a Roman
520 BC
Etruscan
sculpture
500 BC
Etruscan
bronze
80 BC
Republican
sculpture
2nd century Republican
BC
50 BC
Roman
architecture
anon
Temple of Fortuna
Virilis
Great Frieze in the
Villa of the Mysteries
(Pompeii)
The Battle of Issus
80 BC
Republican
mosaic
anon
Pont du Gard (Nimes)
late Republican
architecture
anon
late Republican
architecture
anon
Maison Carrée
(Nîmes)
Colosseum (Rome)
1st century
BC
20 BC
70-82 A.D.
Roman
architecture
anon
The Pantheon
Roman
architecture
anon
Augustus of
Primaporta
Column of Trajan
118-125
A.D.
20 BC
Roman
sculpture
113 A.D.
Roman
sculpture
165 A.D.
Roman
bronze
Polykleitos
Niobid painter
anon
anon
anon
anon
Apollodorus
anon
Marcus Aurelius
(equestrian)
High Classical
mosaic
painting
anon
anon
Place of Diocletian
(Split)
Allegory of Africa
anon
Arch of Constantine
anon
Constantine the Great
anon
Old St. Peter's
anon
Christ Enthroned in
Majesty, with Saints
(Sta Pudenziana)
Mausoleum of Galla
Placidia
Sant' Apollinare
Nuovo
Apse mosaic in Sant'
Apollinare in Classe
Hagia Sophia
(Constantinople/
Istanbul)
anon
anon
anon
Anthemius of
Tralles and
Isidorus of
Miletus
anon
Late Roman
architecture
Late Roman
mosaic
Late Roman
architecture
Early Medieval/
late Roman
Early Christian
sculpture
Early Christian
mosaic
424-450
Byzantine
architecture
504
Byzantine
architecture
549
Byzantine
mosaic
532-537
Byzantine
architecture
late Byzantine
architecture
late Byzantine
manuscript
late Byzantine
fresco
4th century
A.D.
402-417
architecture
anon
The Paris Psalter
begun
1063
960
anon
The Harrowing of Hell
1310-1320
anon
The Vladimir Madonna 12th
century
Sutton Hoo purse
655
cover
Oseberg Ship
825
Russian/Byzanti
ne.
Germanic
Icon
Viking
wood
Book of Lindsfarne
(especially St.
Matthew page)
High Cross of
Muiredach
Palatine Chapel of
Charlemagne
(Aachen)
Torhalle (gatehouse)
7th century
Hiberno-Saxon
illumination
923
Hiberno-Saxon
sculpture
792-805
Carolingian
architecture
800
Carolingian
architecture
St. Matthew (Ebbo
Gospels)
St. Gall Plan
(Switzerland)
(Square schematism)
816-835
Carolingian
illumination
819
Carolingian
drawing
anon
anon
anon
anon
anon
anon
anon
Abbot of
Reichenau
St. Mark's, Venice
300-305
A.D.
4th century
A.D.
312-315
A.D.
330 A.D.
gold+enamel
anon
Doubting Thomas
1000
Carolingian
ivory
anon
St. Sernin (Toulouse,
France)
Speyer Cathedral
(Germany)
Sant' Ambrogio
(Milan)
St. Etienne (Caen,
France)
Cathedral of Pisa
1080-1120
Romanesque
architecture
begun
1030
late 11th
century
begun
1067
1053-1272
Romanesque
architecture
Romanesque
architecture
Romanesque
architecture
Romanesque
architecture
1115-1135
Romanesque
sculptures
1120-1132
Romanesque
sculptures
1070-1080
Romanesque
tapestry
Abbot Suger
St. Pierre (Moissac,
France): Tympanum,
trumeau, etc.
Portal of La Madelaine
(Vezelay, France)
Battle of Hastings
(Bayeux Tapestry)
St. Denis
1140-1144
Early Gothic
architecture
anon
Laon Cathedral
1160-1205
Early Gothic
architecture
anon
Notre Dame (Paris)
1215
Early Gothic
architecture
anon
Chartres Cathedral
1145-1170
Gothic
architecture
Robert de
Luzarches
anon
Amiens Cathedral
1220-1236
High Gothic
architecture
1243-2359
High Gothic
architecture
1500-1514
Late Gothic
architecture
begun
1220
1503-1519
English Gothic
architecture
anon
Sainte Chapelle
(Paris)
St. Maclou (Rouen,
F.rance)
Salisbury Cathedral
(England)
Chapel of Henry VII
English Gothic
architecture
anon
Cologne Cathedral
German Gothic
architecture
anon
Milan Cathedral
Italian Gothic
architecture
anon
Doge's Palace
(Venice)
The Well of Moses
begun
1248
begun
1386
1345-1438
Late Italian
Gothic
Early Northern
Renaissance
Northern
Renaissance
architecture
Northern
Renaissance
Northern
Renaissance
painting
anon
anon
anon
anon
anon
anon
anon
anon
William of Sens
Claus Sluter
Limbourgh
Brothers
Master of
Flemalle
Jan van Eyck
1395-1406
Les Tres Riches
1413-1416
Heures du Duc de
Berry (May page)
The Merode Altarpiece 1425-1428
The Ghent Altarpiece
1432
sculpture
illumination
painting
Jan van Eyck
The Arnolfini Wedding
1432
Northern
Renaissance
Northern
Renaissance
Northern
Renaissance
Northern
Renaissance
Northern
Renaissance
Northern
Renaissance
Northern
Renaissance
Northern
Renaissance
Northern
Renaissance
Baroque
painting
Hugo van der
Goes
Hieronymus
Bosch
Albrecht
Altdorfer
Matthias
Grunewald
Albrecht Dürer
The Portinari
Altarpiece
The Garden of Earthly
Delights
The Battle of Issus
1476
The Isenheim
Altarpiece
Melancolia I
1510-1515
Hans Holbein
The French
Ambassadors
Hunters in the Snow
1533
The Burial of Count
Orgaz
St. Peter's in Rome
(Square, Scala,
Facade, Cathedral,
etc.)
David and
Coronaro Chapel
Chapel of St. Ivo (on
100 SFr. bill)
The Conversion of St.
Paul
Judith with the Head
of Holofernes
Las Meninas
1586
1623
1645-1652
begun
1642
1601
Baroque
Baroque
sculpture
sculpture
architecture
Baroque
painting
1625
Baroque
painting
1656
Baroque
painting
1617
Baroque
painting
1662
Baroque
painting
1665
Baroque
painting
1640
Baroque
painting
Perrault, Le Vau,
and Le Brun
Various
The Rape of the
Daughters of
Leucippus
Syndics of the Cloth
Guild
Young Woman with a
Water Jug
Family of Country
People
Et In Arcadia Ego and
The Burial of Phocion
East Facade of the
Louvre
Versailles Castle
1655
1648
1667-1670
Baroque
Baroque
Baroque
painting
painting
architecture
1669-1685
Baroque
architecture
Hardouin-Mansa
rt
Pierre Puget
Church of the
Invalides (Paris)
Milo of Crotona
1676-2706
Baroque
architecture
1671-1682
Baroque
sculpture
Pieter Bruegel
El Greco
Various Artists
Gianlorenzo
Bernini
Francesco
Borromini
Caravaggio
Artemisa
Gentilieschi
Diego Velasquez
Peter Paul
Rubens
Rembrandt van
Rijn
Jan Vermeer
Louis le Nain
Nicolas Poussin
1505-1510
1529
1514
1565
17th
century
painting
painting
painting
painting
engraving
painting
painting
painting
architecture/
sculpture
Richard Boyle
William Kent
Antoine Watteau
B. Neumann
J.S. Copley
Jaques Louis
David
Thomas
Jefferson
Henry Fuseli
Francisco Gova
Charles Barry
Francois Rude
J.L. Charles
Garnier
A.L.
Girodet-Trioson
Antoine Jean
Gros
J.A.D. Ingres
Eugene
Delacroix
J.M.W. Turner
Francisco Goya
J.D.G. Courbet
J.F. Millet
H.O. Tanner
Auguste Rodin
A.W.
Bouguereau
Jean Baptiste
Carpeaux
Edouard Manet
Chiswick House
(England)
L'Indifferent and
Return from Cythera
Vierzehnheiligen (14
Saints)
The Portrait of Paul
Revere
The Oath of the Horatii
1725
architecture
1716
1717-1719
1743-2883
Palladian
Classicism
Rococo
Rococo
Rococo
1768-1770
Late Rococo
painting
1784
painting
1770-1806
1809-1825
1781
Romantic
Classicism
Neo-Classical
Neo-Classical
Romantic
Monitcello and
University of Virginia
The Nightmare
The Sleep of Reason
Produces Monsters
Houses of Parliament
(London)
La Marsaillaise (Arc
de Triomphe, Paris)
Opera (Paris)
1794-1799
Romantic
painting (etching)
1835
architecture
1861-1874
Neoclassicism/
Neo-Gothic
post-classical
Baroque
Neo-Baroque
The Burial of Atala
1808
Romanticism
painting
Pest House at Jaffa
1804
painting
Grande Odalisque and
Paganini
Paganini
Liberty Leading the
People
The Slave ship
1814
1819
1832
1830
Romantic-NeoBaroque
Romantic
Romantic
Romantic
Romantic
1840
High Romantic
painting
The Third of May
The Family of Charles
IV
Burial at Ornans
1808
1800
Realism
Realism
painting
painting
1849
Realism
painting
The Gleaners
(Haystacks)
The Thankful Poor
1857
Realism
painting
1894
Realism
painting
Walking Man
Balzac
Nymphs and Satyr
1905
1982-197
1873
Realism
Realism
Romanticism
sculpture
sculpture
painting
Ugolino and his
Children
1865-1867
sculpture
Le Dejeuner sur
l'Herbe
1863
Realism/
Baroque/
Mannerism
Realism
1833-1836
painting
painting
architecture
architecture
architecture
painting
sculpture
architecture
painting
drawing
painting
painting
painting
Auguste Renoir
Le Moulin de la
Galette
The Morning Bath
1876
Impressionism
painting
1883
Impressionism
painting
Sunday Afternoon on
the Island of La
Grande Jatte
La Montagne
Sainte-Victoire
The Starry Night
1884-1886
Post-Impression painting
ism
1886-1888
painting
1892
Edvard Munch
Spirit of the Dead
Watching
Christ's entry into
Brussels in 1889
The Scream
Louis Sullivan
Guaranty Building
1894-1895
Post-Impression
ism
Post-Impression
ism
Post-Impression
ism
Post-Impression
ism
Post-Impression
ism
Art Nouveau
Anton Gaudi
Casa Milá (Barcelona)
1907
Fauvism
architecture
Pablo Picasso
Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907
Cubism
painting
Edgar Degas
George Serate
Paul Césanne
Vincent van
Gogh
Paul Gauguin
James Ensor
1889
1888
1895
painting
painting
painting
painting
architecture
Renaissance
Ambrogio
Lorenzetti
Giotto
“Allegory of Good
Government” fresco
Madonna Enthroned
1338-1339
Donatello
St. Mark (Florence)
1411-1413
Donatello
David
1428-1432
Filippo
Bunelleschi
Santo Spirito
(Florence)
Ospedale degli
Innocenti
The Tribute Money
1436
1419-1424
Domenico
Veneziano
Piero della
Francesca
Fra Angelico
The St. Lucy
Altarpiece
Resurrection
1445
Annunciation
1440-1445
Leon Battista
Alberti
Santa Maria Novella
San Francesco
(Rimini)
Sant' Andrea (Mantua)
1458-1470
1451
1470
Andrea del
Verrocchio
David
Bartolomeo Colleoni
1465
1483-1488
Antonio
Pollaiuolo
Domenico
Ghirlandaio
Sandro Botticelli
Battle of the Ten
Nudes
Giovanna Tornabuoni
1465
Birth of the Venus
1482
Perugino
Christ Delivering the
Keys of the Kingdom
to St. Peter
The Dead Christ
Camera degli Sposi
1481-1483
Masaccio
Andrea
Mantegna
1310
1427
1463
1488
1501
1474
ProtoRenaissance
ProtoRenaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
painting
Early
Renaissance
Early
Renaissance
Painting
fresco
Painting
Sculpture
Sculpture
Architecture
architecture
Fresco
Painting
Fresco
Fresco
Architecture
architecture
architecture
Sculpture
sculpture
Engraving
Painting
Painting
Fresco
Leonardo Da
Vinci
The Virgin of the
Rocks
The Last Supper
Mona Lisa
1485
1495-1498
1503-1505
Rosoo Fiorentino Moses defending the
daughters of Jethro
Parmigianino
Madonna with Long
Neck
Bronzino
Venus, Cupid, Folly,
and Time
Giovanni da
Rape of the Sabine
Bologna
Women
Andrea Palladio
Villa Rotonda
San Giorgio Maggiore
Giovanni Bellini
Madonna of the Tree
The Feast of the Gods
Giorgione
Pastoral Symphony
1523
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
High
Renaissance
Mannerist
Bramante
Tempietto
1504
Raphael
The Marriage of the
Virgin
The School of Athens
Galatea
1504
1509-1511
1513
Michelangelo
David
Dying Slave
Interior of the Sistine
Chapel
Tomb of Guiliano de'
Medici
Captioline Hill
St. Peter's
The Last Judgment
1501-1504
1513-1516
1508-1541
1519-1534
1537-1569
1546-1564
1535
Mannerist
painting
1546
Mannerist
painting
1583
Mannerist
sculpture
1566-1570
1565
1487
1514
1508
Venetian
Venetian
Venetian
Venetian
Venetian
architecture
architecture
painting
painting
painting
Titian
1515
1538
Venetian
Venetian
painting
painting
1548
Venetian
painting
1573
Venetian
painting
Tintoretto
Veronese
Sacred and Profane
Love
Venus of Urbino
The Miracle of the
Slave
Christ in the House of
Levi
Painting
fresco
painting
Architecture
Painting
fresco
fresco
sculpture
sculpture
fresco
sculpture
architecture
architecture
fresco
painting