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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. Death Mask of Tutankhamen
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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
Death Mask of Tutankhamen Thebes, Egypt, Dynasty XVIII 1323 BC NEW KINGDOM EGYPT
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
Nefertiti Tell el-Amarna, Egypt Dynasty XVIIIAmarna Period 1353-1335 BCE
St. Chapelle 1220-1236 FRENCH RAYONNANT GOTHIC Housed holy relics of the Passion of Christ collected by Louis IX
Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer Thebes, Egypt, Dynasty 19 1290-1280 BC NEW KINGDOM EGYPT
Mihrab (Islamic niche on qibla wall) ISLAMIC
Menkaure and Khamerernebty Gizeh, Egypt Dynasty IV, ca 2490-2472 BC OLD KINGDOM EGYPT
Emperor Justinian and his Attendants,Church of San Vitale,Ravenna, c547. BYZANTINE
“Shiva Nataraja (The Dancing Shiva)”. Bronze sculpture, ca 1400. HINDU
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
Imhotep, Stepped Pyramid and mortuaryprecinct of Djoser, Saqqara Egypt Dynasty III OLD KINGDOM EGYPT
Human-headed Winged Bull (Lamassu) ASSYRIAN Reign of Sargon II, 721-705 BCE
Gudea of Lagash 2141-2122 B.C.Neo-Sumerian period
Japanese PAGODA BUDDHISM
Vishnu the Preserver Hindu
The Palette of King Narmer Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Early Dynastic 3000-2920 BC
Seated Khafre Gizeh, Egypt, Dynasty IV Ca 2520-2495 BCOLD KINGDOM EGYPT
Stele of NaramSin AKKADIAN c. 2300-2200 BCE 6 ½ ft. tall Sandstone
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
Akhenaton and NefertitiKarnak, Egypt, Dynasty XVIII 1353-1335 BC AMARNA PERIOD
Stele of Hammurabi BABYLONIAN c. 1780 BCE
Fowling scene, from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt, Dynasty XVIII, ca 1400-1350 BC NEW KINGDOM EGYPT