Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art
Figures:
1-7 Woman from Willendorf, c. 24,000 BCE, Limestone, Willendorf,
Austria
1-11
1-12
Hall of the Bulls, c. 15,000 BCE, painting, Lascaux cave, France
Bird-Headed Man with Bison, c. 15,000 BCE, painting, Lascaux cave,
France
1-13 Bison, c. 12,500 BCE, painting, Altamira cave, Spain
1-21 Stonehenge, 2750-1500 BCE, stone, Wiltshire, England
Important terms and ideas: post-and-lintel mortise-and-tenon joints composite form (book uses the term composite pose) abstraction naturalism realism sculpture in the round relief sculpture
Chapter 2: Art of the Ancient Neareast
Figures:
2-1 Stele of Naram-Sin, 2254-2218 BCE, limestone, Susa, Iran
2-2 Ruins of the Anu Ziggurat and White Temple, 3300-3000 BCE, Uruk, Iraq
2-4 Votive Figures from the Square Temple, 2900-2600 BCE, limestone, alabaster and gypsum, Iraq p. 35 The Great Lyre with Bull’s Head, 2550-2400 BCE, gold leaf and lapis lazuli over wooden core, Royal Cemetery, Ur, Iraq p. 35 Sound Box of The Great Lyre
2-7 Reconstruction of the Nanna Ziggurat, 2100-2050 BCE
2-8 Votive Statue of Gudea, 2090 BCE, diorite, Girsu, Iraq p. 38 Stele of Hammurabi, 1792-1750 BCE, diorite, Susa, Iran
2-10 Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions, 875-860 BCE, alabaster, from the Palace of
Assurnasirpal II, Nimrud, Iraq
2-11 Reconstruction of citadel of Sargon II, 721-706 BCE, Dur Sharrukin, Iraq
2-12 Guardian figures at Gate A of the Citadel of Sargon II During its
Excavation, Dur Sharrukin, c. 721-706 BCE (Lamassu Figures)
Important terms and ideas:

stele votive figures iconography idealization hieratic scale registers cuneiform ziggurats
Chapter 3: Art of Ancient Egypt
Figures:
3-1 Funerary mask of Tutankhamun, 1332-1322 BCE, gold with inlay of glass and semiprecious stones, Eighteenth Dynasty, Thebes p. 52 The Narmer Palette, 2950 BCE, green schist, Early Dynastic period
3-2
Reconstruction Drawing of Djoser’s Funerary Complex, Saqqara, 2630-
2575 BCE
3-3 The Step Pyramid, and Sham Buildings, Funerary Complex of Djoser,
Saqqara, limestone, height of pyramid 204’
3-4 Great Pyramids, 2575-2450 BCE, Fourth Dynasty, Giza
3-8 Khafre, 2520-2494 BCE, anorthosite gneiss, Fourth Dynasty, Giza
3-9 Menkaure and a Queen, 2490-2472 BCE, graywacke with traces of red and black paint, Fourth Dynasty, Giza
3-10 Seated scribe, 2450-2325 BCE, painted limestone, Fifth Dynasty, Saqqara
3-14 Rock-cut tombs, 1938-1755 BCE, Twelfth Dynasty, Beni Hasan
3-18 Reconstruction Drawing of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, New
Kingdom, c. 1579-1075 BCE
3-19 Reconstruction drawing of the Hypostyle hall, Temple of Amun, 1292-
1190 BCE, Nineteenth Dynasty, Karnak
3-20 Ruins of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, 1579-1075 BCE
3-22 Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut, 1473-1458 BCE, Eighteenth Dynasty, Deir el-Bahri
3-25 Akhenaten, 1353-1336 BCE, sandstone, Eighteenth Dynasty, Karnak
3-26 Akhenaten and His Family, 1353-1336 BCE, limestone sunken relief, Tell el-Amarna, Egypt
3-28 Nefertiti, 1353-1336 BCE, painted limestone, Eighteenth Dynasty,
Tell el-Amarna
3-29
Inner Coffin of Tutankhamun’s Sarcophagus, 1332-1322 BCE, gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones, Eighteenth Dynasty, Thebes
Important terms and ideas: mastaba hypostyle hall stele

necropolis clerestory
Chapter 4: Art of the Ancient Aegean
Figures:
4-2 Figure of a Women, 2600-2400 BCE, marble, Cycladic Islands
4-4 Reconstruction of the Palace Complex, Knossos, Crete, 2000-1375 BCE
4-5 Kamares Ware Jug, 2000-1900 BCE, Phaistos, Crete
4-6 Bull Leaping, 1550-1450 BCE, fresco, Knossos, Crete
4-7 Woman or Goddess with Snakes, 1700-1550 BCE, faience, Palace of
Knossos, Crete
4-10 Octopus Flask, 1500-1450 BCE, Palaikastro, Crete
4-12 Landscape (Spring Fresco), before 1630 BCE, fresco, Akrotiri, Thera
Important terms and ideas:
Potter’s wheel abstract forms labyrinth minotaur dry fresco (fresco secco) wet fresco (true fresco) corbel vault, corbeling
Chapter 5: Art of Ancient Greece
Figures:
5-1 Exekias, Achilles and Ajax playing a game, 540 BCE, Orvieto, Italy
5-2 Funerary Vase (krater), from the Dipylon cemetery, 750-700 BCE,
Athens, Greece
5-9 Plan and Exterior of Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy, 550-540
BCE
5-16
Metropolitan Kouros, 600 BCE, marble, 6’ tall
5-18 Anavysos Kouros, 530 BCE, marble, Anavysos, Greece, 6’ 4” tall
5-19
“Peplos” Kore, 530 BCE, marble, from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
22 Exekias, Achilles and Ajax playing a game (detail), 540 BCE, Orvieto,
Italy
5-26 Warrior, 460-450 BCE, bronze, Riace, Italy
5-31 Iktinos and Kallikrates, Parthenon, 447-432 BCE, Athens, Greece
5-32 Photographic Mock-Up of the East Pediment of the Parthenon (including
The Three Goddesses), 447-432 BCE
5-33 Lapith Fighting a Centaur, 447-432 BCE, metope from Parthenon, Athens,
Greece p. 134 Polykleitos, Spear Bearer (Doryphorus), 450-440 BCE, Roman marble
5-

copy after the bronze original
5-35 Marshals and Young Women, Panathenaic Festival frieze, 447-432 BCE, marble, Parthenon, Athens, Greece
5-39 Nike (Victory) Adjusting her Sandal, 410-405 BCE, Temple of Athena
Nike, Athens, Greece
5-45 Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, 350 BCE, Roman marble copy
5-52 Dying Gallic Trumpeter, 220 BCE, Roman copy
5-54 Athena Attacking the Giants, from the Altar of Pergamon, 175-150 BCE, marble
5-55
Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros of Rhodes, Laocoön and His sons, 1 st
century, marble, 8’
Important terms and ideas:
Geometric period
Archaic period
Classical period
Hellenistic period doric ionic corinthian entabulature pediment frieze kouros, kore archaic smile red-figure and black-figure painting contrapposto relief sculpture expressionism emotionalism
Chapter 6: Etruscan and Roman Art
Figures:
6-3 Reconstruction of an Etruscan temple p. 170 Patrician Carrying Portrait Busts of Two Ancestors, end of 1 st
century
BCE or beginning of 1 st
century CE, marble, height 5’5”
6-13 Portrait Head of an Elder, 80 BCE, marble, life size p. 172 Pont du Gard, late 1 st
century BCE, Nîmes, France
6-16 Temple, perhaps dedicated to Portunus, late 2 nd
century BCE, Rome, Italy
6-18 Augustus of Primaporta, early 1 st
century BCE, marble copy of bronze

original, Primaporta, Italy p. 176 Ara Pacis Augustae, 13-9 BCE, Rome, Italy p. 177 Imperial Procession, south façade of the Ara Pacis, 13-9 BCE, Rome, Italy
6-23 Peristyle Garden, House of the Vettii, rebuilt 62-79 CE, Pompeii, Italy
6-29 Cityscape, Late 1 st
century CE, from a bedroom in the House of Publius
Fannius Syistor, Boscoreale, Italy
6-32 The Arch of Titus, 81 CE, Rome, Italy
6-33 Spoils from the Temple of Solomon, scene from the Arch of Titus
6-35 Flavian Amphitheater, The Colosseum, 70-80 CE, Rome, Italy
6-43 Column of Trajan, 113-116 or after 117 CE, forum of Trajan, Rome, Italy
6-44 Column of Trajan Detail
6-45
6-46
6-48
Pantheon, 118-128 CE, Rome, Italy (exterior)
Reconstruction Drawing of the Pantheon
Interior of the Pantheon
6-52 Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, 176 CE, bronze, Rome, Italy
6-53 Commodus as Hercules, 191-192 CE, marble
6-54 Caracalla, Early 3 rd
century CE, marble
6-55 Baths of Caracalla, 211-217 CE, Rome, Italy
6-56 Plan of the Baths of Caracalla, 211-217 CE, Rome, Italy
6-63 Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Basilica Nova), 306-313 CE,
Rome, Italy
6-65 Reconstruction drawing of the Basilica Nova, 306-312 AD
6-66 Constantine the Great, 325-326 CE, Rome, Italy
Important terms and ideas from Chapter 6: patricians plebians veristic/verism amphitheater atrium peristyle garden velarium intuitive perspective continuous narrative frieze frigidarium, tepidarium, caldarium
Chapter 7: Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
Figures:
7-6 The Good Shepherd, second half of the 3 rd century, marble
7-9
7-13
Interior of Santa Sabina, 422-32, Rome, Italy
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, 359, marble, Rome, Italy
7-14 Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, 425-26, Ravenna, Italy

7-15 Interior of Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
7-16 Christ as the Good Shepherd, 425-26, mosaic from the Mausoleum of
Galla Placidia
7-17 Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus, Church of Hagia Sophia,
7-18
7-19
7-20
532-37, Istanbul, Turkey plan and section of the Church of Hagia Sophia
Church of Hagia Sophia, Interior
Plan and Cutaway drawing, Church of San Vitale, 520-48, Ravenna, Italy
7-21 Church of San Vitale, Interior, 520-48
7-22 Christ Enthroned, Flanked by Angels, St. Vitalis and Bishop Ecclesius,
Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Mosaic
7-23 Emperor Justinian and His Attendants, 547, mosaic, San Vitale
7-24 Empress Theodora and Her Attendants, 547, San Vitale
7-25
The Transfiguration of Christ with Sant’Appolinare, First Bishop of
Ravenna, 549, apse mosaic, Church of Sant’Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, Italy
Important terms and ideas: basilica nave narthex, vestibule apse transept side aisles ambulatory central planned church cruciform mosaics
Byzantine, Byzantium pendentives hieratic scale mandorla iconoclasm
Chapter 8: Islamic Art
Figures:
8-4 Cutaway Drawing of the Dome of the Rock
8-5 Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 691 p. 268 Prayer Hall, Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain, begun785/786 p 269 Plan, Greak Mosque, Cordoba, Spain p. 269 Dome in front of the Mihrab, Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain, 965
8-20 Qu’ran Frontispiece, Cairo, 1368, ink, pigments and gold on paper
8-22 Sinan, Mosque of the Sultan Selim, Edirne, Turkey, 1568-1575
8-23 Plan of the Mosque of the Sultan Selim
8-24 Interior of the Mosque of Sultan Selim

Important terms and ideas: mosque minbar mihrab aniconism arabesques qibla minaret horseshoe arches
Chapter 14: Early Medieval Art of Europe
Figures:
14-5 Page with Man, Gospel Book of Durrow, Gospel of St. Matthew, second half of the 7 th century, ink and tempera on parchment, Iona, Scotland
14-18 Page with Matthew the Evangelist, Ebbo Gospels, Gospel of Matthew, second quarter of the 9 th
century, ink, gold, and colors on vellum
14-19 Crucifixion with Angels and Mourning Figures, Lindau Gospels, outer cover, 870-80, gold, pearls, sapphires, garnets, and emeralds
14-24 Doors of Bishop Bernward, 1015, Abbey Church of Saint Michael,
Hildesheim, Germany, 16’6”
Important terms and ideas: biomorphic, organic, zoomorphic forms manuscript illuminations
Chapter 15: Romanesque Art
Figures:
15-3 Interior, Church of Sant Vincenc, Cardona, 1020s-30s
15-11 Cathedral Complex, Pisa, Italy, cathedral begun 1063, baptistery begun
1153, campanile begun 1174
15-16 Interior, Speyer Cathedral, Germany, c. 1080-1106
15-17 Exterior, Speyer Cathedral, Germany, c. 1080-1106
15-18 Nave, Durham Cathedral, England, 1087-1133 p. 478 Giselbertus, Last Judgment, tympanum on west portal, Cathedral of Saint-
Lazare, Autun, France, ca. 1120-30 p. 484 Bayeux Tapestry, embroidered wool on linen, 1066-82
Important terms and ideas:

feudalism campanile mandorla wall elevation, façade elevation tympanum, lunette
Chapter 16: Gothic Art of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Figures:
Introduction to Gothic architecture:
16-2 Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, Plan
16-3 Interior, Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, Choir, France, 1140-44
Chartres Cathedral:
16-6
West Façade, Chartres Cathedral, France, begun 1134, rebuilt after 1194
16-7
Royal Portal, West Façade, Chartres Cathedral, 1145-55
16-8 Royal Portal, West Façade, Chartres Cathedral, Prophets and Ancestors of
Christ jamb statues, 1145-55
16-11 Nave, Chartres Cathedral, 1194-1220
16-13 Chartres Cathedral, North Transept, Rose window and Lancets, 1220
Reims Cathedral:
16-15 West façade, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims, France, ca. 1225-1290
16-16 West Façade, Central Portral, Visitation and Annunciation figures, Reims
Cathedral
16-17 Nave, Reims Cathedral, 1220
The Epitome of Gothic architecture:
P. 509 Upper Chapel, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, France, 1243-48
Important terms and ideas: gothic rib vault sexpartite vault rose window triforium flying buttresses jamb figures, jamb sculpture