1-4          Spotted horses and negative hand imprints, wall painting in the cave at Pech-Merle, France, ca. 23,000BCE (Prehistoric)

1-4          Spotted horses and negative hand imprints, wall painting in the cave at Pech-Merle, France, ca. 23,000BCE (Prehistoric)

Stele of Hammurabi, Susa, Iran, ca. 1780 BCE (Mesopotamia)

Imhotep, stepped pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt, ca. 2630 BCE (Ancient Egypt)

Menkaure and Khamerernebty (?), Gizeh, Egypt, ca. 2475 BCE (Ancient Egypt)

Colossal statue of Akhenaton, Karnak, Egypt, ca. 1350 BCE (Ancient Egypt)

Iktinos and Kallikrates, Parthenon, Athens, Greece, 440 BCE (Classical Greek)

Bull-leaping fresco, Knossos (Crete), Greece, ca. 1500 BCE (Minoan)

Geometric krater, from the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 740 BCE (Geometric Greek)

 Kroissos, from Anavysos, Greece, ca. 530 BCE (Archaic Greek)

Elevations of the Doric and Ionic orders (Classical Greek)

Kritios Boy, Athens, Greece, ca. 480 BCE (Classical Greek)

Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer), Roman copy, Pompeii, Italy, ca. 450-440 BCE (Classical Greek)

Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, Roman copy, Rome, Italy, ca. 350-430 BCE (Late Classical Greek)

Nike of Samothrace, Samothrace, Greece, ca. 190 BCE (Hellenistic)

Portrait of Augustus as imperator, Primaporta, Italy, ca. 20 BCE (Roman Empire)

Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome, Italy, 10 BCE (Roman Empire)

Pont-du-Gard, Nîme, France, ca. 16 BCE (Roman Empire)

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater), Rome, Italy, ca. 75 BCE (Roman Empire)

Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy, after 18 CE (Roman Empire)

Pantheon, Rome, Italy, 125 CE (Roman Empire)

Portrait of Constantine, Rome, Italy, ca. 325 CE (Late Roman Empire)

The Good Shepherd, catacombs of Rome, Italy, early 4^th century (Early Christian)

Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey, 535 (Byzantine)

Justinian, Bishop Maximanius, and attendants mosaic, San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, ca. 547 (Byzantine)

Great Mosque, Córdoba, Spain, 8^th – 10^th centuries (Islamic)

Maqsud of Kashan, Ardabil carpet, Ardabil, Iran, 1540 (Islamic)

Sultan-Muhammad, Court of Gayumars, from the Shahnama, Tabriz, Iran, ca. 1525 (Islamic)

Saint-Pierre, Moissac, France, ca. 1115-1135 (Romanesque)

Purse cover from the Sutton Hoo ship burial, Suffolk, England, ca. 625 (Early Medieval)

 Chi-rho-iota page, from the Book of Kells, Iona, Scotland, late 8^th or early 9^th century (Early Medieval)

Crucifixion, from the cover of the Lindau Gospels, Saint Gall, Switzerland, ca. 870 (Early Medieval)

Reliquary statue of Sainte Foy, Conques, France, late 10^th or early 11^th century (Romanesque)

Gislebertus, Last Judgement tympanum of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France, ca. 1125 (Romanesque)

Bayeux Tapestry, Bayeux, France, ca. 1075 (Romanesque)

Annunciation and Visitation, jamb statues on the west façade, Reims Cathedral, Reims, France, ca. 1250 (Gothic)

Giotto, interior of the Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy, 1305 (Late Medieval)