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Paleolithic
Abstract Figurine
c. 28,000-22,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

       

Aegean
Acrobat from Knossos (Bull leaper)
c. 2000-1550 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Austrian
Adam
c. 1500-1525, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

 

French
Adam, from the south transept of Notre-Dame, Paris
c. 1260, Musée de Cluny, Paris

 

Flemish
Adoration of the Magi
c. 1500-1520, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Flemish
Adoration of the Magi
c. 1540, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

 

German
Adoration of the Magi
c. 1600-1650, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Flemish
Adoration of the Magi from a Retable
c. 1440, Notre-Dame du Vivier, Marche-les-Dames

 

Netherlandish
Adoration of the Magi from a Retable
c. 1460-1465, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht

 

Roman
Adventus of Vespasian
c. 93-95, Musei Vaticani, Rome

   

Byzantine
Aedicula with Lions
c. 300-500, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

 

Greek
Aged Herakles
c. 100 BCE - 100 CE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Roman
Agrippina the Younger
c. 48-51, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Parma

 

Egyptian
Akhenaten and His Family
c. 1353-1336 BCE, Ägyptisches Museum and Papyrussammlung, Berlin

   

Egyptian
Akhenaten and his Family Making Offerings
c. 1353 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Egyptian
Akhenaten and Nefertiti Making Offerings
c. 1350 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Cairo

 

Egyptian
Akhenaten Presenting a Duck to Aten
c. 1353-1336 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Akroterion with Double Palmette, from a Grave Stele
c. 350-325 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Alabastron in the Form of a Woman Holding a Bird
c. 560-550 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Austrian
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov
before 1704, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Alexander Sarcophagus
c. 320 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Istanbul

             

Neolithic European
Almallutx Column
c. 1200-700 BCE, Gorg Blau, Majorca

 

Pre-Columbian
Altar 5
c. 900-400 BCE, Parque-Museo de La Venta, Villahermosa

 

German
Altar Cross
c. 985, Essen Cathedral Treasury, Essen

 

German
Altar Cross
c. 1150-1175, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

German
Altar Cross of Abbess Mathilde and Duke Otto
973-982, Essen Cathedral Treasury, Essen

 

African
Altar Figure of a King
c. 1700-1900, private collection

 

German
Altar Fragment with Apostles
c. 1100-1125

 

German
Altar Frontal at Basel Cathedral
c. 1017

   

Spanish
Altar Frontal from Santa Maria, Tahull
c. 1123, Museu d'Arte de Catalunya, Barcelona

 

Italian
Altar Frontal with Griffins Drinking from a Chalice
c. 850-950, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

African
Altar Group with Oba Akenzua I
c. 1700-1800, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

 

African
Altar group with Oba Ewuakpe
c. 1700-1800, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

 

African
Altar Grouping with Lyoba
c. 1700-1800, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

Roman
Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus
c. 125-75 BCE

     

Pre-Columbian
Altar of the Sacred Tree
c. 1300, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

   

Pre-Columbian
Altar of the Warriors
c. 1510, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

     

Mesopotamian
Altar of Tukulti-Ninurta I (Cult Pedestal of the God Nusku)
c. 1244-1208 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

   

African
Altar to the Hand, Ikegobo of an Ezomo
c. 1800-1900, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Altar with Eos and Kephalos
c. 500-475 BCE, Museo Archaeologico Regionale di Gela, Gela

 

Greek
Altar with Medusa, Pegasus and Chrysaor
c. 500-475 BCE, Museo Archaeologico Regionale di Gela, Gela

   

Pre-Columbian
Altar with the Date 10 Rabbit
c. 1325-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Greek
Altar with Three Female Figures
c. 500-475 BCE, Museo Archaeologico Regionale di Gela, Gela

 

French
Altarpiece
c. 1525, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Flemish
Altarpiece from Saluzzo
c. 1500, Musée de la Ville, Brussels

 

Flemish
Altarpiece of Ollomont
c. 1500-1525, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels

 

Peruvian
Altarpiece of the Virgin of Copacabana
c. 1650-1675, Museo de Arte de Lima

 

Mexican
Altarpiece of the Virgin of Sorrows
c. 1690, private collection

 

French
Altarpiece with the Bearing of the Cross, Crucifixion and Resurrection
completed 1533, Church of Rumilly-lès-Vaudes

 

Netherlandish
Altarpiece with the Passion of Christ
c. 1492-1495, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Egyptian
Amenemhab with Lotus, Offered by His Father, Djehuti
c. 1550-1479 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Egyptian
Amenhotep III and Queen Tiy
1391-1353 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Egyptian
Amenirdas I, God's Wife (Priestess) of Amen
c. 744-656 BCE, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha

 

Byzantine
Amphora with Amazonomachy
c. 300-400, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Roman
Amphora with Putti
c. 25-50, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

   

Egyptian
Amulet in the Form of Sow
c. 672-525 BCE, private collection

 

Mesopotamian
Amulet with a Figure of Lamashtu
c. 800 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Native American
Amulet with Eagle, Bears and Octopus Tentacles
before 1900, Burke Museum, Seattle

 

Egyptian
Amun
c. 800-770 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

     

Roman
Anaglypha Hadriani
c. 117-120, Curia, Forum Romanum, Rome

 

Greek
Anavysos Kouros
c. 530 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Oceanic
Ancestor Figure
c. 1800-1900, private collection

 

Oceanic
Ancestor Figure (Tino)
c. 1750-1800, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

     

Oceanic
Ancestor Figure (Tino)
before 1960, private collection

 

Oceanic
Ancestor Spirit Figure (Architectural Element)
before 1955, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Egyptian
Ancestral Bust of a Woman
c. 1336-1279 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Flemish
Angel holding a Shield with a Coat of Arms
c. 1450, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels

 

French
Angel of the Annunciation
c. 1280-1300, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

French
Angel of the Annunciation
c. 1450-1500, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes

 

Italian
Angel of the Annunciation
c. 1430-1440, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

German
The Angel of the Annunciation
c. 1500, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Italian
Angel Relief
c. 1430-1435, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

French
Angel with a Flowering Staff
1175-1200, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

 

Greek
Angelitos's Athena
c. 480 BCE, Acropolis Museum, Athens

 

Egyptian
Ankh Seated with Clasped Hands
c. 2780-2680 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

German
Annunciation
1484, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

 

Italian
Annunciation Relief from a Pulpit
c. 1180-1200, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

Etruscan
Antefix in the form of a woman's head
c. 510-500 BCE, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Etruscan
Antefix with Head of a Woman Wearing a Diadem
c. 550-500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Etruscan
Antefix with Maenad and Silenos Dancing
c. 500-450 BCE, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Figure
c. 1000-400 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Oceanic
Anthropomorphic Figure
before 1938, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Head (Monument M)
500-300 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Jaguar Figure
c. 600-300 BCE, Museo Regional de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez

 

English
Anthropomorphic Jug
c. 1280-1320, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Neolithic European
Anthropomorphic Plaque
c. 2500 BCE, Museo Archaeologico Nacional, Madrid

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Sculpture
c. 1350-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Sculpture (Macehualli)
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Greek
Antikythera Bronze
c. 350 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Roman
Antinous as Apollo
c. 130-138, Archaeological Museum, Delphi

 

Roman
Antinous as Aristaios
after 130, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Roman
Antinous as Osiris
after 130, Musei Vaticani, Rome

       

Paleolithic
Antler Batons with Engraved Designs
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE

 

Egyptian
Anubis
c. 1403-1365 BCE, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

 

Roman
Aphrodite
before 79, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

 

Greek
Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo)
c. 125-75 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

   

Greek
Aphrodite with Eros Statuette
c. 450 BCE, Museo Archaeologico di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria

 

Greek
Aphrodite, Pan, and Eros
c. 100 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Roman
Apollo and Herakles Fighting Over the Tripod
c. 100-200, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Greek
Apollo Belvedere
330 BCE, Vatican Museum, Rome

   

Greek
Apollo Citharoedus
c. 200-100 BCE, Museo Archaeologico Nazionale, Naples

 

Greek
Apollo from Piraeus (Zeus Soter)
c. 525 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Etruscan
Apollo from Veii
c. 510-500 BCE, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome

       

Greek
Apollo of Piombino
c. 480 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

   

Spanish
Apostles Paul, Andrew, and James
1140-1170, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

 

Roman
Apotheosis of Caesar (Belvedere Altar)
c. 12-2 BCE, Musei Vaticani, Rome

 

Roman
Apotheosis of Sabrina, from the Arco di Portogallo
136 - 138, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome

 

English
Aquamanile in the Form of a Horseman
c. 1250, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

Italian
Aquamanile in the form of a Mounted Knight
c. 1000-1100, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

 

French
Aquamanile in the form of Aristotle and Phyllis
c. 1400, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Roman
Ara Pacis Augustae
13-9 BCE, Rome

                   

Roman
Ara Pietatis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Piety)
c. 43, Villa Medici, Rome

 

Roman
Arch of Constantine
312-315, Rome

               

Roman
Arch of Galerius
c. 298-303, Thessaloniki

   

Roman
Arch of Septimius Severus
203, Forum Romanum, Rome

       

Roman
Arch of the Argentarii
204, Forum Boarium, Rome

     

Roman
Arch of Titus
c. 81, Rome

             

Roman
Arch of Trajan
c. 114-118, Benevento

       

Egyptian
Archaistic Statue of a Priest of Amun (The Dattari Statue)
c. 381-362 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Egyptian
Archaizing Relief from the Tomb of Montuemhat
c. 670-650 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Byzantine
Archangel Michael
c. 525-550, British Museum, London

   

German
Archangel Michael
c. 1450-1500

 

Oceanic
Archer's Shield
before 1977, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Mesopotamian
Architectural Decoration from the Temple of Inanna
c. 1500-1400 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

     

Islamic
Architectural Relief from the Royal Palace at Madinat al-Zahra
c. 936-976, Conjunto Arqueológico de Madinat al-Zahra, Cordoba

 

Egyptian
Architectural Relief of Nectanebo I
c. 380-362 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Egyptian
Architectural Relief with an Angel in a Medallion and Nilotic Motifs
c. 500-800, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Greek
Architectural Revetment from Duver
c. 550-500 BCE

 

Greek
Architectural Sculpture from the Temple at Prinias
c. 625-600 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Greek
Aristodikos Kouros
c. 500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

African
Arm Cuff
c. 1700-1800, private collection

 

French
Arm Reliquary
c. 1150-1200, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

 

Greek
Artemis
c. 100 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Greek
Artemis from Piraeus
c. 350 BCE, Piraeus Museum, Piraeus

 

Greek
Artemision Zeus, or Poseidon
c. 460-450 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

     

Greek
Asclepius of Munychia
c. 350 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Mesopotamian
Ashurbanipal Rebuilding Babylon
c. 650 BCE, British Museum, London

 

English
Assumption of the Virgin
c. 1450-1500, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

 

Roman
Athena
c. 100-200, Archaeological Museum, Argos

 

Greek
Athena
c. 510 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Greek
Athena
c. 490-480 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Greek
Athena
c. 470-460 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Greek
Athena
c. 480-470 BCE, Antikensammlung, Berlin

 

Greek
Athena from Piraeus
c. 350 BCE, Piraeus Museum, Piraeus

     

Greek
Athena Promachos
c. 580-560 BCE, private collection

 

Roman
Athena with a Owl (The Lanckoronski Relief)
c. 1-100, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

 

Greek
Athena with an Owl
c. 450 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Greek
Athena, from the Pediment of the Temple of the Peisistratidai
c. 525 BCE, Acropolis Museum, Athens

 

Greek
Athena, from the West Pediment of the Temple of Apollo Daphnephoros
c. 510 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Chalkis

 

Egyptian
Atjema Standing
c. 2465-2323 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Oceanic
Atkom Archer's Shield
before 1977, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Mexican
Atrial Cross
before 1556, Basilica Mexico City, Mexico City

 

Greek
Attic Funerary Lekythos
c. 330 BCE, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

   

Roman
Augustus as Pontifex Maximus
12 BCE, Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome

 

Roman
Augustus of Primaporta
c. 14-37, Musei Vaticani, Rome

         

Etruscan
Aula Metele
c. 100-50 BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence

 

Roman
Aulus Metellus (Orator)
c. 80 BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence

       

Paleolithic
Aurochs from the Abri du Fourneau-du-Diable
c. 20,000-16,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Egyptian
Baboon Appliqué
305-30 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Egyptian
Baboon Statuette
c. 3100 BCE, Ägyptisches Museum and Papyrussammlung, Berlin

 

Pre-Columbian
Baby Holding a Ball
c. 1200-800 BCE, de Young Museum, San Francisco

 

Roman
Bacchus and Silenus
c. 100-200, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Roman
Balbinus in the Guise of Jupiter
238, Archaeological Museum, Piraeus

 

Pre-Columbian
Ballplayer Relief
c. 1000-400 BCE, Museo Regional de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez

 

Anglo-Saxon
Baptism of Christ
c. 1000-1050, British Museum, London

 

Italian
Baptism of Christ
c. 1100, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

 

German
Baptismal Font
c. 1226, Hohe Domkirche, Hildesheim

     

Spanish
Baptismal Font made from a Sculpture of Quetzalcoatl
c. 1521, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlan

   

English
Baptismal Font, Saint Michael's Church, Castle Frome
c. 1140, Saint Michael's Church, Castle Frome

 

Roman
Barbarian Warrior
after 106, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Byzantine
Barberini Ivory (Justinian as Conqueror)
c. 500-550, Musée du Louvre, Paris

     

Greek
Base of a Kouros from the Themistoklean Wall
c. 500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

   

Greek
Base of a Statue, from the Themistoklean Wall
c. 490 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Mesopotamian
Base of Vase from the the Diyala Region
c. 3000 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

German
Basilewsky Situla
c. 980, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Spanish
Basin from Andalusia
c. 1000-1099, Museo del Almudin, Jativa

 

Spanish
Basin of King Badis
1038-1073, Museo Nacional de Arte Hispano Musulmán, Granada

   

Egyptian
Bastet as a Cat
c. 664-610 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Egyptian
Battlefield Palette
c. 3100 BCE, British Museum, London

           

Iranian
Beaker with Male Figures
c. 1400-1200 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

       

Native American
Bear Mother Figure
c. 1880, National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.

 

Egyptian
Bearded Deity, from Saqqara
c. 2780-2680 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Greek
Bearded Head
c. 350-300 BCE, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Roman
Bearded Hercules with the Lion's Skin
c. 69-98, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Egyptian
Bearded Man
c. 3650-3300 BCE, Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Lyon

 

Native American
Beaver Effigy Platform Pipe
c. 200-400, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle in the Form of a Horse
c. 500-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Roman
Belt Buckle with Peter and Paul Embracing
c. 400-500, Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompeii, Pompeii

 

Greek
The Belvedere Torso
c. 50 BCE, Vatican Museum, Rome

 

Native American
Bentcorner Dish
before 1850, American Museum of Natural History, New York

 

Native American
Bentcorner Dish
c. 1860, Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria

 

Greek
Berlin Kore
c. 570-560 BCE, Antikensammlung, Berlin

     

Native American
Berlin Tablet
c. 400-1 BCE, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus

 

German
The Bernward Cross
c. 1007-1022, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

German
Bernward's Candlesticks
before 1022, Dom-Museum Hildesheim

 

Egyptian
Bes-image of the God Horus-Ashakhet
c. 400-100 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Oceanic
Betel Nut Mortar
before 1977, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Oceanic
Betel Nut Mortar
before 1977, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

French
Betrayal of Christ
c. 1240-1250, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

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