Ancient and Medieval Art30,000 BC - c. 1500AD

By Kristy Short

Cave Painting: Horsec. 15,000-10,000 BC

Lascaux, France

Neolithic temple of Mnajdra, Island of Malta

3500 BC and 2900 BC

Lion, Ishtar Gate575 BC

Temple of Bel

Inanna - Female Head from Uruk, c. 3500 - 3000 B.C.

War side of the Standard of Ur, Royal Cemetery (Ur) c. 2600 B.C.

Peace side of the Standard of Ur, Royal Cemetery (Ur) c. 2600 B.C.

Menkaure and Khamerernebty c. 2490-2472 BC

Goats treading seed and cattle fording a canal, reliefs in the

mastaba of Ti, Saqqara, Egypt, c. 2450-2350 BC

Fowling scene, from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1400-

1350 BC

Fowling scene, from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes,

Egypt, c. 1400-1350 BC

Smenkhkare and Meritaten (?), from Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, c. 1335 BC

Thutmose, Nefertiti c. 1350 BC

Death Mask of Tutankhamen, from the innermost coffin in his tomb at

Thebes, Egypt, c. 1323 BC

"Toreador Fresco" from Knossos, c. 1450-1400B.C.

"Spring" fresco from Thera, c. 1650 BC.

"Snake Goddess" c. 1600 B.C. from Knossos.

Knossos mural, the so called 'Prince with the Lilies' or 'Priest King' Fresco

(Knossos, c. 1500 BC)

So-called "King's Throne" from the Palace of Knossos, 1700-1400 B.C.

"Queen's Megaron" from Knossos, 1700-1400 B.C

Nubian with Oryx, monkey, and leopard skins, 8th–7th century B.C.

Horse blinker with sphinx, 8th–7th century B.C.;

Winged Sphinx, 13-12th century BCE

Cyrus the Great, 550 BC–330 BC

Korakou Pottery, 1190-1050 B.C.

Funerary Mask (Mask of Agamemnon) c. 1600-1500 B.C.

Mycenae dated LH II (about 1500 BC)

Haghia Triada, Crete, 1450-1400 BC.

Terracotta kraterGreek, Attic, Geometric, ca. 750–735

B.C.

Bowl with a gorgon's head, Greek, Archaic period, about 625-600 BC

Made in Corinth, Greece; from Kamiros, Rhodes

Perhaps the poet Sophokles (496-406 BC), 2nd century, Bronze Head

Marble head of a youthful god: the 'Aberdeen Head'

Greek, late Classical or early Hellenistic period, about 325-280 BC

Amphora, ca. 490 B.C

Grave stele of a little girl, ca. 450–440 B.C.

Greek

Fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief, 27 B.C.–14 A.D

Statue of Pan, 1st century A.D.

Statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, Hellenistic, 3rd–

2nd century B.C.

Cameo portrait of Augustus, AD 14-20

Augustus, AD 14

Head of Augustus, Roman Period, 27–20 B.C.

Julio Claudian Prince, AD 1-50

Statue of Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), ca. 69–96 A.D.;

Trajan's column and forum, Rome, c.106-113. AD

Ara Pacis 13-9 BCE

Aphrodite of Cnidus, c. 4th BCE

So-called Antioch Mosaic, second half of 2nd century; Late Antonine

Roman

Relief panel, c.420, showing Christ crucified and Judas hanging

Byzantine Christ, 5th c

Jesus the Alpha and Omega, 4th c.

"Christ Pantocrator" in the central dome, Church of the Dormition,

Daphne, Greece.  Mosaic, c.1090-1100

"The Vladimir Madonna“, c. 12th

Gothic sculpture 15 century

Iskandar (Alexander the Great) at the Talking Tree, 1330-1340

Tile depicting a peacock, from Kubadabad Palace, Lake Beysehir,

Turkey, 1236.

The Book of Kells, (folio 292r), circa 800

Lorsch Gospels 778–820.

Adoration of the Magi: sculpture by Pisano, c. 1259–60

Reims Cathedral: Judgement Portal sculpture, c. 1140–50.

Chasuble, ca. 1330–1350