Early Europe & Colonial Americas
200–1750 C.E.
Works to know
(the works crossed out and in orange will be reviewed in a different unit)
48. Catacomb of Priscilla
49. Santa Sabina
50. Vienna Genesis
Jacob Wrestling the Angel
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well
51. San Vitale
Empress Theodora, rhetoric, and Byzantine primary sources
52. Hagia Sophia, Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
Theotokos mosaic
Deësis mosaic
Hagia Sophia as a mosque
53. Merovingian looped fibulae
54. Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
55. Lindisfarne Gospels: St. Matthew, cross-carpet page; St. Luke portrait page; St. Luke incipit page
56. Great Mosque at Cordoba
57. Pyxis of al-Mughira
58. Church of Sainte-Foy
59. Bayeux Tapestry
60. Chartres Cathedral
61. Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France, Scenes from the Apocalypse from Bibles moralisées
Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France
62. Röttgen Pietà
63. Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, Giotto di Bondone
Introduction
Fresco cycle
Lamentation
Last Judgment
The Arena Chapel in virtual reality
64. Golden Haggadah (The Plagues of Egypt, Scenes of Liberation, and Preparation for Passover)
65. Alhambra
66. Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), Workshop of Robert Campin
67. Pazzi Chapel, Filippo Brunelleschi
68. The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan Van Eyck
The question of pregnancy in The Arnolfini Portrait
69. David, Donatello
70. Palazzo Rucellai, Leon Battista Alberti
71. Madonna and Child with Two Angels, Fra Filippo Lippi
72. Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli
73. Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci
74. Adam and Eve, Albrecht Dürer
More about Adam and Eve
75. Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar wall frescos, Michelangelo
Ceiling frescoes
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso), Michelangelo
Altar wall, Last Judgment
76. School of Athens, Raphael
Raphael, an introduction
77. Isenheim Altarpiece, Matthias Grünewald
78. Entombment of Christ, Jacopo da Pontormo
79. Allegory of Law and Grace, Lucas Cranach the Elder
80. Venus of Urbino, Titian
81. Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
82. Il Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco
83. Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
84. Mosque of Selim II, Mimar Sinan
85. Calling of St. Matthew, Caravaggio
86. Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de’Medici, from the Marie de’Medici Cycle, Peter Paul Rubens
87. Self-Portrait with Saskia, Rembrandt van Rijn
88. San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Francesco Borromini
89. Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Gian Lorenzo Bernini
90. Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Dei, Master of Calamarca
91. Las Meninas, Diego Velázquez
92. Woman Holding a Balance, Johannes Vermeer
93. The Palace at Versailles
94. Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene
95. The Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe), Miguel González
96. Fruit and Insects, Rachel Ruysch
97. Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo, attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez
98. The Tête à Tête, from Marriage a la Mode, William Hogarth