STONE AGE
1.21  Venus of Willendorf, c.25,000 BCE (Stone Age)
Sculpture, subtractive: stone. Sculpture came before painting, and this is one of the earliest sculptures.  She is possibly a mother goddess figure.

ANCIENT MID EAST
10.12  Korsabad, Lamassu, 720 BCE (Ancient Mid East)
A lamassu is a large sculpture of a man-headed bull found at doorways in palaces. This one is from Sargon's Citadel in Khorsabad.  It was for protection.

10.11  Dying Lioness from Nineveh, 650 BCE (Ancient Mid East)
A low-relief sculpture from a palace at Nineveh. Naturalistic image of an animal. These low-relief plaques applied to walls for decoration are called orthostats.

10.9  Ishtar Gate of Babylon, 575 BCE (Ancient Mid East)
Entry way to city flanked by lions and decorated with baked brick. It would have shone in the sun.

EGYPTIAN
10.23  Nefertiti, c.1355 BCE (Egyptian)
Sculpture, subtractive: stone w/polychromy.  A relatively "naturalistic" image of a woman, a queen.  She is most likely NOT a "ka" figure.  During this
brief period in Egyptian art, the Amarna Period, naturalism was somewhat favored.

2.11  Sphinx at Giza, 2540 BCE (Egyptian)
A sphinx is a seated lion with the head of a human.  They were most likely protective statues.  This one is at the entry to causeway that linked a temple
with a tomb.  Other sphinxes are found at entrances to temples alone.

GREEK ISLANDS
11.3   Lion Gate at Mycenae, 1250 BCE (Mycenaean)
Entry way into a fortified settlement "protected" by lions in a corbelled arch.

GREEK
11.8   Parthenon, on Athens Acropolis, by Ictinus & Callcrates, 440 BCE (Greek)
Architecture:  example of a classical temple, a peristyle temple, of the Doric Order.

11.11  Erechtheum, on Athens Acropolis, 410 BCE (Greek)
Architecture:  a different style temple with a porch held up by female figures acting as columns.  These are called caryatids.

11.14  Praxiteles, Hermes & Dionysus, 340 BCE (Greek)
Sculpture; subtractive, made of marble.   Example of a Classical statue.  An ideal figure of a god, smooth and naturalistic. His pose, with his weight
more on one foot than the other, and with a little shift of his hips, is called contraposto.

11.16  Three Rhodian sculptors, Laocoon,  150 BCE (Greek)
Sculpture; subtractive, marble.   Example of a Hellenistic statue.   It twists and turns in space, shows emotion, drama.  More real than real.

ROMAN
7.10   Pont-du-Gard, France 1^st c BCE (Roman)
Architecture: example of an arcade made of many arches all in a row. This is an aqueduct to bring water to a city.

7.13  Pantheon, Rome, 125 CE (Roman)
Architecture: example of a dome. Hole in center=oculus. This is a temple dedicated to all the gods.  (This is a painting by Pannini)

RENAISSANCE
4.9  Andrea del Pollaiuolo, Battle of Ten Naked Men, 1460s (Italian Renaissance)
Print, intaglio: engraving: Printed on paper.

2.43  Masaccio, The Tribute Money, 1427 (Italian Renaissance)
Fresco painting made with tempera paint. This is a narrative, with the story told over time in several scenes incorporated into one work
of art.  It is one of the ways of dealing with "time" in a medium that does not move.  The last "scene" is in the middle, giving a similar sense
to "flashbacks" in film.

6.10  Donatello, Mary Magdalen, c.1440 (Italian Renaissance)
Sculpture, subtractive: wood. She still has traces of polychromy and gold leaf on her surface.

6.2  Michelangelo, Moses, c.1515  (Italian Renaissance)
Sculpture, subtractive: stone. Larger than life. Highly polished surface.

BAROQUE
13.26  Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Teresa, 1645 (Baroque)
Sculpture, subtractive: stone. Moving drapery and high emotion is very Baroque.

19th CENTURY
4.10  Mary Cassatt, La Toilette, 1891 (19th Century)
Print, intaglio: drypoint.  Delicate lines possible with this method enhance the intimate theme.

7.21   Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building, St. Louis, 1891  (19th Century)
Architecture: first skyscraper, example of steel frame construction.

20th CENTURY
5.15  Emil Nolde, Prophet, 1912 (Expressionism)
Print, relief: woodcut. Printed on paper.

15.16  Kathe Kollwitz, Death & the Mother, 1934 (Expressionism)
Print, planographic: lithograph.

5.11  Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936 (20th Century)
Photograph: an attempt to create social change by protesting conditions of some workers.

7.16  Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water, PA, 1937  (20th Century)
Architecture: example of cantilever construction. Wright makes his buildings fit into their environment.

16.27   Fantasia, Mickey Mouse & the Sorcerer's Apprentice, 1940
Film:  this early feature length cartoon is all art.  Each frame had to be hand drawn.  No computer graphics for these
guys!!

5.10  Ansel Adams, Moon & Half-Moon, Yosemite, 1960 (20th Century)
Photograph: to document areas out West that not everyone could visit.  But, composition, lighting, etc., makes it art.

I.24  Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962 (Pop Art)
Print, serigraphy: silkscreen.

8.10  Andy Warhol, 200 Campbell Soup Cans, 1962 (Pop Art)
Painting: image of package design (kind of graphic design) for a commercial product, now turned into "high" art.

6.11  Louise Nevelson, Royal Tide II, 1963 (20th Century)
Assemblage: although this 3-D object is made of wood, it's assembled pieces, not a traditional sculpture.

7.7   Buckminster Fuller, U.S. Pavilion, Expo '67, 1967  (20th Century)
Architecture: example of a geodesic dome.

7.32  Moshe Safdie, Habitat, Expo '67, 1967 (20^th Century)
Architecture: housing block built of modules jumbled on top of one another, rather like a town from the ancient Middle East.

5.1  Eddie Adams, Execution of Vietcong, 1968 (20th Century)
Photograph: to document the horrors of war, a long time use of photography.

9.10  Joseph Beuys, I like America, and America likes Me, 1974 (Post Modern)
Performance Art: it's no longer something static on a wall, but something done over time.

18.39  I.M. Pei, Hancock Building, Boston, 1975 (20^th Century)
Architecture: modern skyscraper made from steel frame construction. The glass skin helps the building fit into its surroundings by reflecting them.

18.37  Judy Pfaff, Dragon, 1981 (Post Modern)
Installation: Not "just" a sculpture, but now art is an installation into which you can walk.

5.19  David Hockney, Celia, Los Angeles, 1982 (20th Century)
Polaroid photographs assembled into a larger image.  He could combine multiple views and a sense of movement in one
image.  Further, he could make something larger by combining several polaroids.

NON-WESTERN
4.5 Hokusai, Great Wave, c.1823  (Japanese)
Print, relief: woodcut.  Printed on paper.

13.43  Saltceller, Sierre Leone, 15^th c? (African)
Minor arts: object made from costly material, ivory. It may be small, but it IS art.