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The Lion-Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel

C. 38,000–33,000 BC

The Venus of Willendorf

C. 30,000 YEARS AGO

The Painted Caves of Lascaux

ESTIMATED 17,000 TO 22,000 YEARS AGO

The Carved Pillars of Göbekli Tepe

10TH MILLENNIUM BCE

Cueva de las Manos

7300 BC–AD 700

The Rock Art of Tassili n'Ajjer

The Narmer Palette

32ND CENTURY BC

The Bust of Nefertiti

1350 BC

The Frescoes of the Villa of the Mysteries

1ST CENTURY BC

The Charioteer of Delphi

478 BC

Laocoön and His Sons

1ST CENTURY BC (DISPUTED)

The Fayum Mummy Portraits

The Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro

AROUND 2500 BC

The Gateways of the Great Stupa at Sanchi

1ST CENTURY BCE

The Murals of the Ajanta Caves

2ND CENTURY BCE TO 5TH CENTURY CE

The Sigiriya Frescoes

The Reliefs of Borobudur

9TH CENTURY

The Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur

1010

The Sculpture of Khajuraho

885–1000 CE

The Bas-Reliefs of Angkor Wat

12TH CENTURY, WITH LATER ADDITIONS

A Folio from the Hamzanama

1562–C. 1577

A Tibetan Thangka

The Terracotta Army

248 BC

The Cave Paintings of Dunhuang

366 CE TO 14TH CENTURY

The Vairocana Buddha at Longmen

TANG DYNASTY

Fan Kuan's Travelers Among Mountains and Streams

C. 1000

Along the River During the Qingming Festival

1085

Song Dynasty Ru Ware

12TH CENTURY

Huang Gongwang's Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

1348–1350

The Goryeo Water-Moon Avalokiteshvara

14TH CENTURY

The Tale of Genji Handscroll

12TH CENTURY

Hasegawa Tōhaku's Pine Trees

LATE 16TH CENTURY

The Rock Garden of Ryōan-ji

Hiroshige's Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge

1856

A Folio from the Blue Qur'an

11TH CENTURY

The Dome of the Rock

691

The Great Mosque of Córdoba

Al-Wasiti's Maqamat al-Hariri

TEXT LATE 11TH OR EARLY 12TH CENTURY; ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS 13TH–14TH CENTURY

The Alhambra

The Ardabil Carpet

1540

Sinan's Selimiye Mosque

The Taj Mahal

Nok Terracotta Sculpture

C. 1500 BC–1 AD

The Garima Gospels

C. 390–660

The Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela

14TH CENTURY

The Great Enclosure at Great Zimbabwe

13TH–14TH CENTURIES

The Terracottas of Djenné-Djeno

250 BC–1400 AD

A Sapi-Portuguese Ivory Saltcellar

A Kongo Nkisi Nkondi

19TH CENTURY

A Luba Lukasa Memory Board

19TH CENTURY

The Birth of Venus

C. 1480S

The Olmec Colossal Heads

900 BCE ONWARDS

The Lanzón of Chavín de Huántar

C. 1200–500 BC

Paracas Embroidered Textiles

C. 800–100 BCE

The Murals of Teotihuacan

C. 1–550 CE

The Nazca Lines

200 BC–500 AD

The Bonampak Murals

LATE CLASSIC PERIOD, C. 580–800 CE

Inca Stonework at Machu Picchu and Cusco

The Florentine Codex

1575

Mississippian Repoussé Copper

800–1600 CE

Arnhem Land Bark Painting

An Asmat Bisj Pole

Māori Wharenui Carving

Lapita Pottery

C. 1600–500 BCE

Hagia Sophia

537

The Justinian Mosaic at San Vitale

6TH CENTURY

The Book of Kells

C. 800

The Bayeux Tapestry

1070

The Windows of Chartres Cathedral

1194–1220

Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel Frescoes

AROUND 1305

Andrei Rublev's Trinity

1412 OR 1420

Masaccio's Holy Trinity

1420

Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait

1434

Botticelli's Primavera

1480

Leonardo's Mona Lisa

1503

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling

1508–1512

Raphael's The School of Athens

1509–1511

Dürer's Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight

1500

Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow

1565

Caravaggio's The Calling of Saint Matthew

1599–1600

Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes

Velázquez's Las Meninas

1656

Rembrandt's The Night Watch

1642

Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

1665

Fragonard's The Swing

1767

David's Oath of the Horatii

1784–1785

Goya's The Third of May 1808

1814

Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed

1843

Courbet's A Burial at Ornans

1849–50

Monet's Impression, Sunrise

1872

Berthe Morisot's The Cradle

1872

Degas's The Dance Class

1871

Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

1884–1886

Van Gogh's The Starry Night

1889

Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire

1882–1906

Klimt's The Kiss

1907

Munch's The Scream

1893

Kandinsky's Composition VII

1913

Malevich's Black Square

1915

Mondrian's Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

1930

David

1500

Guernica

1937

Liberty Leading the People

1830

The Creation of Adam

1511

Pietà (Michelangelo)

1499

The Potato Eaters

1885

L'Origine du monde

1866

The Death of Socrates

1787

Lady with an Ermine

1490

The Garden of Earthly Delights

15TH–16TH CENTURY

Salvator Mundi

C. 1490–1500

The Last Judgment

1536–1541

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

1818

Madara Rider

8TH CENTURY

The Raft of the Medusa

1819

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

1890

Luncheon on the Grass

1863

La maja desnuda

C. 1800

The Milkmaid

C. 1660

American Gothic

1930

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

1632

Siegessäule

1873

Wheatfield with Crows

JULY 1890

Bal du moulin de la Galette

1876

Irises

MAY 1889

Capitoline Wolf

6TH CENTURY BC (DISPUTED)

Olympia

1863

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

1647

View of Delft

1661

Venus of Urbino

1538

The Death of Marat

OCTOBER 1793

Café Terrace at Night

SEPTEMBER 1888

Ginevra de' Benci

1476

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

16TH CENTURY

Ghent Altarpiece

1432

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

1882

Nighthawks

1942

Sistine Madonna

1512

The Blue Boy

1770

The Blue Boy

1770

The Night Café

1888

The Coronation of Napoleon

1807

Starry Night Over the Rhone

1888

Venus of Dolní Věstonice

C. 29TH–25TH MILLENNIA BC

Sleeping Venus

16TH CENTURY

Netherlandish Proverbs

1559

The Surrender of Brea

1634–1635

Benois Madonna

15TH CENTURY

Saturn Devouring His Son

C. 1819–1820

Black Square (1915)

1915

The Church at Auvers

JUNE 1890

The Red Vineyard

1888

The Yellow House

1888

Mesha Stele

840 BC

Barge Haulers on the Volga

1870–1873

The Ninth Wave

1850

Riace bronzes

C. 460 BC

Aztec sun stone

16TH CENTURY

Trundholm Sun Chariot

C. 1400 BC

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

1907

La Belle Ferronnière

1495

Saint John the Baptist

1514

The Tempest

1506

Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel

Madurodam

2 JULY 1952

totem pole

The Ambassadors

1533

Adoration of the Magi

1482

Grande Odalisque

1810

Jeanneke Pis

1985

Merlion

1972

The Astronomer

1664

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

1897

The Calling of Saint Matthew

1609

Ophelia

1851

Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581

1883

Madonna of Bruges

C. 1501–1505

Fallen Astronaut

1971

Moses

1513–1515

Shigir Idol

76TH OR 96TH CENTURY BC

Bocca della Verità

The Yellow Christ

1889

Lamentation of Christ

1483

The Art of Painting

C. 1660–1667

The Jewish Bride

1667

The Treachery of Images

1929

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee

1633

Spire of Dublin

2003

La fornarina

16TH CENTURY

The Wedding at Cana

1562

Rokeby Venus

1644

The Sleepers

1866

Theotokos of Vladimir

C. 1125

The Little Street

1658

The Triumph of Death

C. 1560–1562

Whistler's Mother

1871

Doni Tondo

1500

When Will You Marry?

1892

Sunset at Montmajour

4 JULY 1888

Chimera of Arezzo

The Return of the Prodigal Son

C. 1665–1668

Madonna of the Carnation

1475

Charles IV of Spain and His Family

1800

Las Hilanderas

17TH CENTURY

The Baptism of Christ

C. 1470–1472

Death of Sardanapalus

1827

The Painter's Studio

1855

Annunciation

1472

L'Absinthe

1875–1876

Madonna Litta

1490

The Hay Wain

1821

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

1608

Morning in a Pine Forest

1889

Cloud Gate

2004

Alexander Sarcophagus

4TH CENTURY BC

Venus of Brassempouy

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

1586

Supper at Emmaus

1601

The Wounded Angel

1903

At Eternity's Gate

MAY 1890

The Peasant Wedding

1567 (SOME RECORDS GIVE 1568)

The Source

1856

Luncheon of the Boating Party

1880

The Blind Leading the Blind

1568

A Journalist Lecturing on the Orrery

1766

Madonna of the Goldfinch

1505

Judith Beheading Holofernes

C. 1598–1599

Unisphere

1964

Omphalos

The Abbey in the Oakwood

1809

Amor Vincit Omnia

1601

The Three Philosophers

1500, AS RECORDED

View of Toledo

1596

The Kiss

1859

The Marriage of the Virgin

1504

The Massacre at Chios

1824

Medusa

1597

Self-Portrait as Bacchus

1595

Portrait of a Musician

1485

A Young Girl Reading

1770

The Clothed Maja

1800

Venus of Hohle Fels

351ST CENTURY BC

Havis Amanda

1906–1908

Serpent Column

6TH CENTURY BC

Hermannsdenkmal

Bronze Soldier of Tallinn

1947

Apollo and Daphne

C. 1620–1622

Kryptos

1990

The Sea of Ice

1823

The Descent from the Cross

1440

Death of the Virgin

1603–1604

Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window

1658

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

1883

The Balcony

1868

Woman Holding a Balance

1665

The Magpie on the Gallows

1568

The Sleeping Gypsy

1897

Assumption of the Virgin

1517

The Turkish Bath

1862

Venus and Mars

C. 1485

Danaë

1636

The Barque of Dante

1822

The Last Day of Pompeii

1833

Chair of Saint Peter

1647–1658

Emerald Buddha

16TH CENTURY

Norra skenet

1969

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

1632

Disputation of the Holy Sacrament

1509

Ecce Homo

C. 1930

Sacred and Profane Love

1514

Belshazzar's Feast

1636

The Gleaners

1857

Madonna of Chancellor Rolin