2. Archeologists that study Paleolithic (old stone age) era humans,
believe that the paintings discovered in 1994, in the cave at
Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc in the Ardèche valley in France, are more than
30,000 years old.
4. Ziggurat of Ur, c. 2100 B.C.E. mud brick and baked brick,
Tell el-Mukayyar, Iraq (largely reconstructed)
5.
6. Standing female figure, ca. 2600–2400 b.c.;
Early Cycladic II
Cycladic; Keros-Syros culture
Marble
Greek
7. Hatshepsut, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign
of Hatshepsut, ca. 1473–1458 b.c.
Egyptian; From Deir el-Bahri, western Thebes
Indurated limestone
8. Portrait bust of a man, 1st
century b.c.; Republican
Roman
Marble
9. Standing male worshipper, 2750–2600 b.c.;
Early Dynastic period II; Sumerian style
Excavated at Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna),
central Mesopotamia
Alabaster (gypsum), shell, black limestone
10. Canopic Jar Lid, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, late reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1340–1336 B.C.
Egyptian; From KV55, Valley of the Kings, western Thebes
Egyptian alabaster with glass and stone inlays
11. Facsimile of tomb
painting of Ramesses III,
New Kingdom, Dynasty 20,
reign of Ramesses III,
ca. 1184–1153 b.c.
Egyptian
12. Fragment of a Floor
Mosaic with a
Personification of
Ktisis, 500–550
Byzantine
Marble and glass
14. Portrait of a Boy, Roman period, 2nd century
Egyptian
Encaustic on wood
15. Head of a king, 4th century;
Sasanian period
Iran
Gilded silver
16. Head of an Angel, ca. 1250
France, Paris, Notre-Dame Cathedral
Limestone
17. Horse with Female Rider, Tang dynasty (618–
906), 7th century
Astana, Turfan, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous
Region, China
Unfired clay with pigment
18. Madonna and Child,
ca. 1300
Duccio di Buoninsegna
(Italian, Sienese,
active ca. 1278–d. 1318)
Tempera and gold on wood,
with original engaged frame
