– 400 C.E.
Ancient Cultures

Prehistoric More
Paleolithic Introduction Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf) Neolithic Neolithic Revolution Jericho Çatal Höyük Stonehenge
Ancient Near East More
Introduction Sumerian Art It all begins at Uruk The Invention of Writing Standard of Ur Great Lyre from the "Kings Grave" at Ur Perforated Relief of Ur-Nanshe Ziggurat of Ur Art of Akkad and Ur Victory Stele of Naram-Sin Babylonian Art Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi Unfinished Kudurru Assyrian Art Relief Sculpture Human-Headed Winged Lion and Bull (Lamassu) Neo-Babylonian Art Ishtar Gate and Processional Way (reconstruction) Art of the Persian Empire Relief Scupture from Persepolis
Ancient Egypt More
Introduction Egyptian Art Materials & Techniques Old Kingdom Seated Scribe The Great Pyramids of Giza (Introduction) Pyramid of Khufu Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx Pyramid of Menkaure New Kingdom House Altar with Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Three Daughters Portrait Head of Queen Tiye with a Crown of Two Feathers Bust of Nefertiti Ramesses II Ptolemaic Period Rosetta Stone
Ancient Greece More
Introduction Geometric Krater Archaic Exekias, Attic Black Figure Amphora Exekias, Dionysos Kylix Odysseus Mixing Vessel Euphronios, Attic Red Figure Calyx-Krater New York Kouros Classical Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) Temples at Paestum Pediments, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina Myron, Discobolus (Discus Thrower) Parthenon Parthenon: East Pediment Parthenon: Frieze Parthenon: Metopes Erechtheion: Caryatid and Column Late Classical (4th Century) Lysippos, Farnese Hercules Praxiteles, Venus The Hellenistic World Barberini Faun Dying Gaul Nike of Samothrace Pergamon Altar Apollonius, Boxer at Rest Alexander Mosaic Laocoön and his Sons Eros Sleeping and Old Market Woman Petra: Introduction Petra: Rock-cut Façades Petra: Urban Metropolis
Etruscan More
Introduction "Sarcophagus of the Spouses"
Ancient Rome More
Introduction Digging through Time Roman Republic Temple of Portunus Veristic Male Portrait Roman Empire Pantheon (virtual tour) Augustus of Primaporta Painted Garden, Villa of Livia Head of Augustus Ara Pacis Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii Colosseum Arch of Titus Hadrian's Villa Maritime Theatre, Hadrian's Villa Centaurs Fighting Cats of Prey, Hadrian's Villa Column of Trajan Medea Sarcophagus Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus Tetrarchs Arch of Constantine Colossus of Constantine
Buddhist Art More
The Historical Buddha Introduction to Buddhism Four Buddhas at the American Museum of Natural History India Caves at Ajanta China Dunhuang Cave-temples Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo) Japan Negoro ware ewer

Alexander Mosaic

Alexander Mosaic, c. 100 B.C.E., tessera mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii, 8 feet 11 inches x 16 feet 9 inches (this Roman floor mosaic may be based on a lost Hellenistic painting by Philoxenos of Eretria, The Battle of Issus, c. 315 B.C.E.), Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

Note on the battle:
Scholars continue to debate whether this mosaic depicts the Battle of Issus in 333 B.C.E. or the Battle of Gaugamela two years later in 331.

Note on the mosaic replica installed in the House of the Faun, Pompeii:
The original mosaic was uncovered at the House of the Faun in 1841 and moved to Naples two years later. In 2003, Severo Bignami and a team from the International Center for the Study and Teaching of Mosaic in Ravenna, began work on a replica mosaic. The project took 22 months and was installed at the House of the Faun in 2005.