Catacomb of Priscilla
Rome, Italy
Late Antique Europe
c. 200-400 CE
Excavated tufa and fresco
Santa Sabina
Rome, Italy
Late Antique Europe
c. 422-432 CE
Brick and stone, wooden roof
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well and Jacob Wrestling the Angel, from the Vienna Genesis
Early Byzantine Europe
Early sixth century CE
Illuminated manuscript (tempera, gold, and silver on purple vellum)
San Vitale
Ravenna, Italy
Early Byzantine Europe
c. 526-547 CE
Brick, marble, and stone veneer; mosaic
Hagia Sophia
Constantinople (Istanbul)
Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
532-537 CE
Brick and ceramic elements with stone and mosaic veneer
Mergovingian looped fibulae
Early medieval Europe
Mid-sixth century CE
Silver gilt worked in filigree, with inlays of garnets and other stones
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
Early Byzantine Europe
Sixth or early seventh century CE
Encaustic on wood
Lindisfarne Gospels: St. Matthew, cross-carpet page; St. Luke portrait page; St. Luke incipit page
Early medieval (Hiberno Saxon) Europe
c. 700 CE
Illuminated manuscript (ink, pigments, and gold on vellum)
Great Mosque
Córdoba, Spain
Umayyad
c. 785-786 CE
Stone masonry
Pyxis of al-Mughira
Umayyad
c. 968 CE
Ivory
Church of Sainte-Foy
Conques, France
Romanesque Europe
Church: c. 1050-1130 CE
Reliquary of Saint Foy: ninth century CE, with lated additions
Stone (architecture); stone and paint (tympanum); gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood (reliquary)
Bayeux Tapestry
Romanesque Europe (English or Norman)
c. 1066-1080 CE
Embroidery on linen
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France
Gothic Europe
Original construction: c. 1145-1155 CE
Reconstructed: c. 1194-1220 CE
Limestone, stained glass
Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France, Scenes from the Apocalypse from Bibles moralisées
Gothic Europe
c. 1225-1245 CE
Illuminated manuscript (ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum)
Röttgen Pietà
Late medieval Europe
c. 1300-1325 CE
Painted wood
Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, including Lamentation
Padua, Italy
Unknown architect; Giotto di Bondone (artist)
Chapel: c. 1303 CE
Fresco: c. 1305 CE
Brick (architecture) and fresco
Golden Haggadah (The Plagues of Egypt, Scenes of Liberation, and Preparation for Passover)
Late medieval Spain
c. 1320 CE
Illuminated manuscript (pigments and gold leaf on vellum)
Alhambra
Granada, Spain
Nasrid Dynasty
1354-1391 CE
Whitewashed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gilding
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Workshop of Robert Campin
1427-1432 CE
Oil on wood
Pazzi Chapel
Basilica di Santa Croce
Florence, Italy
Filippo Brunelleschi (architect)
c. 1429-1461 CE
Masonry
The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck
c. 1434 CE
Oil on wood
David
Donatello
c. 1440-1460 CE
Bronze
Palazzo Rucellai
Florence, Italy
Leon Battista Alberti (architect)
c. 1450 CE
Stone, masonry
Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi
c. 1465 CE
Tempera on wood
Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli
c. 1484-1486 CE
Tempera on canvas
Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci
c. 1494-1498 CE
Oil on tempera
Adam and Eve
Albrecht Dürer
1504 CE
Engraving
Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar wall frescoes
Vatican City, Italy
Michelangelo
Ceiling frescoes: c. 1508-1512 CE
Altar frescoes: c. 1536-1541 CE
Fresco
School of Athens
Raphael
c. 1509-1511 CE
Fresco
Isenheim altarpiece
Matthias Grünwald
c. 1512-1516 CE
Oil on wood
Entombment of Christ
Jacopo da Pontormo
1525-1528 CE
Oil on wood
Allegory of Law and Grace
Lucas Cranach the Elder
c. 1530 CE
Woodcut and letterpress
Venus of Urbino
Titian
c. 1538 CE
Oil on canvas
Frontispiece of the Codex of Mendoza
Viceroyality of New Spain
c. 1541-1542 CE
Ink and color on paper
Il Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco
Rome, Italy
Plan (architect): Giacomo da Vignola
Facade (architect): Giacomo della Porta
Ceiling fresco (artist): Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Church: 16th century CE
Facade: 1568-1584 CE
Fresco and stucco figures: 1676-1679 CE
Brick, marble, fresco, and stucco
Mosque of Selim II
Edirne, Turkey
Sinan (architect)
1568-1575 CE
Brick and stone
Calling of Saint Matthew
Caravaggio
c. 1597-1601 CE
Oil on canvas
Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de’ Medici, from the Marie de’ Medici Cycle
Peter Paul Rubens
1621-1625 CE
Oil on canvas
Self-Portrait with Saskia
Rembrant van Rijn
1636 CE
Etching
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Rome, Italy
Francesco Borromini (architect)
1638-1646 CE
Stone and stucco
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria
Rome, Italy
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
c. 1647-1652 CE
Marble (sculpture); stucco and gilt bronze (chapel)
Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Dei
Master of Calamarca (La Paz School)
c. 17th century CE
Oil on canvas
Las Meninas
Diego Velázques
c. 1656 CE
Oil on canvas
Woman Holding a Balance
Johannes Vermeer
c. 1664 CE
Oil on canvas
The Palace at Versailles
Versailles, France
Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart (architects)
Begun 1669 CE
Masonry, stone, wood, iron, and gold-leaf (architecture); marble and bronze (sculpture); gardens
Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene
Circle of the González Family
c. 1697-1701 CE
Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay
The Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe)
Miguel González
c. 1698 CE
Based on original Virgin of Guadalupe
Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico City
Oil on canvas on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl
Fruit and Insects
Rachel Ruysch
1711 CE
Oil on wood
Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo
Attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez
c. 1715 CE
Oil on canvas
The Tête à Tête, from Marriage à la Mode
William Hogarth
c. 1743 CE
Oil on canvas