important pieces of art

Question 1

Title: The Crossing of the Red Sea, Wall with Torah Niche
Location: Dura-Europos, Syria Culture/People: Early Jewish
Date: 244-245 CE

Question 2

Wall with Torah Niche, house synagogue, tempera
on plaster, Dura-Europos, Syria, 244-245 CE

Question 3

Harvesting of Grape, from ambulatory vault,
mosaic, Santa Costanza, Rome, c. 350 CE

Question 4

Title: Reconstruction, Old St. Peter’s
Location: Rome, Italy Culture/People: Early Christian:
Date: c. 320-327 CE

Question 5

Title: Santa Costanza
Location: Rome, Italy
Culture/People: Early
Christian
Date: c. 350 CE

Question 6

Artist: Anthemius of
Tralles and Isidorus of
Miletus Title: Hagia
Sophia, Location:
Constantinople
(Istanbul), Turkey
Culture/Period: Early
Byzantine
Date: 532-537 CE

Question 7

Church of San Vitale,
Ravenna, Italy, Early
Byzantine, c. 547 CE

Question 8

Title: Emperor Justinian and his Attendants
Location: Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
Culture/Period: Early Byzantine Date: c. 547
CE

Question 9

Title: Icon, Virgin and
Child with Saints and
Angels,
Culture/Period: Early
Byzantine
Date: late 6th century
CE

Question 10

Anastasis, Monastery Church of Christ in Chora Kariye
Müzesi, Constantinople, fresco, Late Byzantine, 1315-1321
CE

Question 11

Title: Hinged Clasp from Sutton Hoo Burial Ship
Location: England Culture/Period: Anglo-Saxon
(England)
Date: first half of 7th century CE

Question 12

Title: Symbol of the
Evangelist Matthew,
Gospel Book of
Durrow
Culture/People: Anglo-
Saxon (Ireland)
Date: second half of
7th century CE

Question 13

Title: Chi Rho Iota
page from the
Book of Kells
Culture/People:
Anglo-Saxon (UK)
Date: late 8th or
early 9th century
CE

Question 14

Title: Interior, Church
of Sant Vicenç
Location: Cardona,
Spain, Culture/Period:
Romanesque
Date: 1020s-1030s CE

Question 15

Title: Durham Cathedral Location: Durham,
England, Culture/ Period: Romanesque, 1087-
1133 CE

Question 16

Artist: Gislebertus ?, Title: The Last Judgment
Location: Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France
Culture/Period: Romanesque Date: 1120-1130 or 1130-
1145 CE

Question 17

Title: Cathedral of St. James, Santiago de Compostela,
Location: Galicia, Spain Culture/Period: Romanesque Date:
1078-1122 CE

Question 18

Title: Reliquary Statue
of Sainte Foy
Culture/Period:
Romanesque
Date: late 9th or 10th
century CE

Question 19

Eve, from Cathedral of St-Lazare of Autun, c. 1120-35.
Right half of a stone lintel from the north portal, 28½ in. × 51 in.
(72.4 × 129.5 cm). Musée Rolin, Autun, France

Question 20

Virgin and Child (The Morgan Mado
nna),
12th century. Wood with polychrom
y,
height 31 in.
(78.7 cm). Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York

Question 21

Title:
Ambulatory
and Apse
Chapels, Abbey
Church of
Saint-Denis
Location:
Saint-Denis,
France
Culture/Period:
Gothic
Date: 1140-
1144 CE

Question 22

Title: West Façade, Chartres
Cathedral (Cathedral of
Notre-Dame),
Location: Chartres, France
Culture/Period: Gothic,
Date: west façade begun c.
1134, continued to 1260 CE

Question 23

Title: Upper Chapel, Sainte-Chapelle, Location: Paris, France
Culture/Period: Gothic, Date: 1239-1248 CE

Question 24

Röttgen Pietà,
c. 1300–25, painted
wood,
34 1/2” high
(LVR-
LandesMuseum
Bonn)

Question 25

Artist: Cimabue,
Title: Virgin and
Child Enthroned
Location: for Santa
Trinità, Florence
Date: c. 1280 CE

Question 26

Artist: Giotto di
Bondone, Title: Virgin
and Child Enthroned
Location: Florence
Date: 1305-1310 CE

Question 27

Artist: Jean Pucelle Title: The Kiss of Judas and The Annunciation,
Book of Hours of Jeanne d’Évreux Culture/Period: Gothic
Date: c. 1324-1328 CE

Question 28

Title: Bi, Culture/Period: Liangzhu culture,
Neolithic China, Date: c. 3000-2000 BCE

Question 29

Dogū (Clay
Figurine), Final
Jōmon period (ca.
1000–300 B.C.),
Japan, Earthenware
with cord-marked
and incised
decoration (Tōhoku
region), H. 6 1/2 in.
(16.5 cm); W. 6 3/8
in. (16.2 cm); D. 3
1/8 in. (7.9 cm)

Question 30

Title: Stele of
Naram-Sin
Culture/Period:
Akkadian Date: 2254-
2218 BCE

Question 31

Title: Great Pyramids (from left, Menkaure,
Khafre, and Khufu), Location: Giza, Egypt
Culture/Period:
Old Kingdom Egypt Date: 2575-2450 BCE

Question 32

Title: Menkaure and a
Queen
(Khamerernebty II?)
Culture/Period: Old
Kingdom Egypt
Date: 2490-2472 BCE

Question 33

Title: Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut, Location: Deir El-
Bahri, Thebes Period/Culture: New Kingdom Egypt
Date:1473-1458 BCE

Question 34

Title: Metropolitan
Kouros
Culture/Period:
Archaic Date: c.
600-590 BCE

Question 35

Artists: Kallikrates and Iktinos Title: The Parthenon, Location:
Acropolis, Athens, Greece Culture/Period: High Classical
Date: 447-432 BCE

Question 36

Artist: Polykleitos
Title: Spear Bearer
(Doryphoros
Culture/Period: High
Classical Date: c.
450-440 BCE

Question 37

Artists: Hagesandros, Polydoros, and
Athenodoros of Rhodes,
Title: Laocoön and His
Sons Culture/Period:
Hellenistic Date: 1st century
BCE

Question 38

Title: Patrician Carrying Portrait
Busts of Two Ancestors
Culture/Period: Roman Republic
Date: end of 1st century BCE or
1st century CE

Question 39

Title: Portrait of
the Four Tetrarchs
Culture/Period:
Tetrarchy
Date: 300 CE

Question 40

Title: Audience Hall of Constantius Chlorus (The Basilica),
Location: Trier, Germany Culture/Period: Tetrarchy
Date: early 4th century CE

Question 41

Title: Great Stupa at Sanchi Location: India
Culture/Period: Maurya Period
Date: founded 3rd century BCE, enlarged later

Question 42

Shiva Nataraja (Shiva as
Lord of the Dance), India,
Chola Dynasty, bronze,
11th century CE

Question 43

Title: Qutb Minar,
Location: Quwwat ul-Islam
Mosque, Delhi,
Date: 1211-1236 CE

Question 44

Title: Terra-cotta soldiers
Location: Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi
Culture/Period: Qin Dynasty China Date: c. 210 BCE

Question 45

Burial Suit of Prince Liu Sheng, jade sewn
with gold wire, Han Dynasty, died 113 BCE

Question 46

Title: Incense Burner
Culture/Period: Han
Dynasty China
Date: 113 BCE

Question 47

Artist: Fan Kuan,
Title: Travellers
Among Mountains
and Streams,
Culture/Period:
Northern Song,
China
Date: 11th century
CE

Question 48

Artist: Ma Yuan, Title: On a Mountain Path in Spring
Culture/Period: Southern Song, China Date: c. 1190-
1225

Question 49

Haniwa, Kofun Period, earthenware, c. 6th
century CE

Question 50

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine, detail from
handscroll, Kamakura period (after Heian), late 13th century

Question 51

Title: Dome of the Rock, Location: Jerusalem,
Culture/Period: Early Islamic, Date: Begun 691 CE

Question 52

Title: Court of the Lions, Location: Alhambra,
Granada, Spain, Culture/Period: Nasrids

Question 53

Title: Head,
Culture/People:
Nok,
Date: 900 BCE –
300 BCE

Question 54

Title: Crowned Head
of a Yoruba Ruler
from Ife,
Culture/Period:
Yoruba, Date: 12th –
15th century CE

Question 55

Title: Offering 4, Location: La Venta, Mexico,
Culture/Period: Olmec Date: c. 750-550 BCE

Question 56

Colossal Head, San
Lorenzo, Mexico,
Olmec culture,
basalt, c. 1200-900
BCE

Question 57

Olmec Baby-face
Figurine,clay, 1000 -
300 BCE (Mexico:
Olmec), Snite Museum
of Art

Question 58

Title: The Founding
of Tenochtitlan,
page from Codex
Mendoza,
Culture/People:
Aztec,
Date: 1545 CE

Question 59

Title: Model of Templo Mayor, Location:
Tenochtitlan, Mexico, Culture/People: Aztec

Question 60

Title: Remains of Qorikancha with Spanish colonial masonry,
Location: Cusco, Peru, Culture/People: Inca, Date: c. 1440 CE

Question 61

Title: Mica ornament in
shape of hand,
Culture/People:
Hopewell
Date:200 BCE – 400 CE

Question 62

The Hero Redhorn or
Morningstar, 1100-
1200, Mississippian
culture, Bauxite,
8.7/8 in.

Question 63

Title: “Cliff Palace,” Location: Mesa Verde, Colorado,
Culture/People: Ancestral Puebloan culture, Date: 1150-
1300 CE

Question 64

Seed Jar, Ancestral Puebloan culture, fired
clay and pigment, c. 1150 CE

Question 65

Mimbres artist, Bowl with Scorpions, Mimbres culture,
earthenware with white slip and black paint, c. 1000-1050
CE