Examinations of works of art through history

Tula’s pyramid B – Toltecs (950 – 1200 AD)

Aryballos Macmillan – Archaic period (630 BC)

The Ambassadors – Hans Holbein the Younger

Nike adjusting her sandal – Classical art (5th century BC)

Temple of Athena Nike – Classical period (5th century BC)

The Ray – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Rock of Behistun – Achaemenid Empire (6th century BC)

Mausoleum of Galla Placidia’s mosaics – Christian art (5th century AD)

Mausoleum of Galla Placidia – Christian art (5th century AD)

Napoléon Bonaparte visiting the plague-victims of Jaffa – Antoine Gros

Aïn Ghazal’s sculptures – Neolithic (8th millenium BC)

The suicide of Ajax – Exekias

Château de Versailles – French architecture (17th century)

Sarcophagus of the Spouses – archaic Etruscan art

Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte – Georges Seurat

Charioteer of Delphi – Classical art (5th century BC)

Wilton diptych – Medieval art (14th century AD)

Dish with a standard bearer – Abbasid Caliphate (10th century AD)

The Kroisos kouros – Archaic period (6th century BC)

Great Stupa of Sanchi – From Maurya dynasty to Satavahana dynasty

Eva Prima Pandora – Jean Cousin the Elder

Sanchi’s Stupa 2 – Sunga dynasty (187-75 BC)

Soap bubbles – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Dinos by the Gorgon Painter – Archaic period

Self-portrait of Jean Fouquet

Compotier et verre (fruit dish and glass) – Georges Braque

Spring’s peaceful message – Giuseppe Castiglione (also known as Lang Shining)

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus – Christian art (4th century AD)

Erechtheion – Classical Greek art

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist – Caravaggio

Dona Isabel de Requesens – Raphael

Kore 675 – Archaic Greek sculpture

Impression, soleil levant – Monet

The Niobid krater – Classical Greek vase (5th century BC)

Gold glass with Saint Agnes – Christian art (4th century AD)

Ewer (pitcher) with the name of the Caliph al-Aziz – Fatimid caliphate (10th – 12th centuries)

Durga Mahishasuramardini – Pallava dynasty (7th century AD)

Standard of Ur – Sumerian art

Saint Joseph the Carpenter – Georges de La Tour

Pompey – Roman art

Déjeuner sur l’herbe – Manet

The tympanum of Saint-Foy of Conques – Medieval (Romanesque art)

Lintel 24 from Yaxchilan – Classical Maya (400 BC – 900 AD)

Psyche revived by Cupid’s kiss – Canova

La partie de campagne – Maurice de Vlaminck

The Court of Keyomars – Soltan Mohammad

Type A amphora, Ajax and Achilles playing dices – Exekias

Allegory of Spring – Sandro Botticelli

Pancharatha – Pallava dynasty (7th century AD)

Bedroom Wall from Fannius Synistor’s villa – Boscoreale

Le Radeau de la Méduse – Théodore Géricault

Lion hunt scene – Assyria

Deposition – Rogier van der Weyden

The rape of Proserpina – Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Tezcatlipoca’s mask – Aztec civilization

Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring – Ma Yuan

The Torment of Marsyas – Greek sculpture

Estate – Robert Rauschenberg

Marquise de Pompadour – Quentin Delatour