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Great Mosque of Cordoba (Spain) - ISLAMIC Once one of the biggest mosques in the World, it’s now a Catholic Cathedral since the Spanish Inquisition. Andrea Mantegna , Lamentation Over Dead Christ , c1490 EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ChacMool figure, MAYAN CIVILIZATION
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Great Mosque of Cordoba (Spain) - ISLAMIC Once one of the biggest mosques in the World, it’s now a Catholic Cathedral since the Spanish Inquisition.
Andrea Mantegna,Lamentation Over Dead Christ, c1490 EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
Simone Martini,Annunciation, 1333.LATE GOTHIC / PROTO-RENAISSANCE
Mihrab in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. ISLAMIC ART
Dying Gaul Pergamon, Turkey ca. 230-220 BC HELLENISTIC PERIOD
The Alexander Mosaic (Roman Copy) ca. 310 BCE HELLENISTIC
Albrecht Durer Adam And Eve, Engraving, 1504. HIGH GERMAN RENAISSANCE
Pieter Bruegel the ElderThe Hunters In the Snow. 1565. Oil on panelHIGH NETHERLANDISH RENAISSANCE
CHI-RHO-IOTA page from the Book of Kells, c800. HIBERNO-SAXON ART
St. Chapelle 1220-1236 FRENCH RAYONNANT GOTHIC Housed holy relics of the Passion of Christ collected by Louis IX
Mihrab (Islamic niche on qibla wall) ISLAMIC
Emperor Justinian and his Attendants,Church of San Vitale,Ravenna, c547. BYZANTINE
Moai(Large Monolithic heads) Rapa Nui (Easter Island) 1250-1500 POLYNESIAN
The Dome of the Rock, 691 CE(Oldest existing Islamic building in the World) ISLAMIC
Japanese PAGODA BUDDHISM
“Shiva Nataraja (The Dancing Shiva)”. Bronze sculpture, ca 1400. HINDU
Vishnu the Preserver Hindu
Augustus of Primaporta,Early 1st Century BCE REPUBLIC ROME
Umberto Boccioni Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913. FUTURISM
Hokusai,The Great Wave (off Kanagawa), 1832, Woodblock Print, EDO PERIOD
Giant Head! 6 to 7’ tall La Venta & San Lorenzo 1400-400BCE OLMEC