MR. J’S TOP 200
PRESHISTORIC
Venus of Willendorf,
25,000 BCE
Cave Painting, Lascaux, 13, 000 BCE
Plastered skull
from Jericho,
7,000 BCE
Stonehenge, 2000 BCE
EGYPTIAN
People, Boats,
Animals tomb
painting, 3200 BCE
Palette of Narmer
Step Pyramid of
King Zoser
Pyramids of Giza, 2500 BCE
Menkare and His Wife
Seated Scribe from Saqqara
The Great Sphinx
Khafre Statue
Temple of Ramses
II
ANCIENT
NEAR EAST
Ziggurat at Ur,
Iraq, c.2100
BCE
Statuettes from Abu
Temple
Victory stele of Naram-Sin
Gudea statue
Stele of Hammurabi
Dying Lioness
Winged Human-headed
Bulls,
700 BCE
Audience Hall of
Darius at Persepolis
MINOAN/CYCLADIC
Cycladic Idol, 2500
BCE
Minoan Queen’s Megaron, 1500 BCE
Snake Goddess
GREEK
Dipylon Vase, 8th c. BCE
Hercules Srangling
Nemean Lion vase
Kouros/Kore, 600 BCE
Temple of Artemis
at Corfu
Parthenon. 425 BCE
The Propylaea,
Temple of Nike
Porch of Maidens, Erechtheum, 420 BCE
Kritios Boy, 480 BCE
Doryphoros, Spear Bearer
Riace Bronzes
Charioteer
Discobolus (Discus Thrower)
Battle of Issus
mosaic
Cnidian Aphrodite
Apollo Belvedere
Apoxyomenos, The Scraper,
330 BCE
Nike of Samothrace
ETRUSCAN
Etruscan
Sarcophagus, 520 BCE
ROMAN
Pont du Gard,
1st cent CE (AD)
Colosseum, 1st cent CE
Pantheon, 120 CE
Roman Patrician
with Busts of
Ancestors
Augustus of Primaporta
The Tetrarchs
Constantine the
Great
Marcus Aurelius,
175 CE
Arch of
Constantine, 315 CE
EARLY
CHRISTIAN
Catacomb ceiling
painting, 4th
cent CE
Saint Apollinare
in Classe
BYZANTINE
San Vitale,
Ravenna, 526 CE
Emperor
Justinian/Empress
Theodora & Attnedants
Hagia Sophia, 535 CE
Madonna Enthroned
EARLY
MEDIEVAL
Purse Cover from
Sutton Hoo, 625 CE
Lindisfarne Gospels, 700 CE
Chapel of
Charlemagne at Aachen
ROMANESQUE
St. Michael’s
Cathedral at Hildesheim, Germany
St. Sernin,
1080 CE
Last Judgment
Tympanum, Autun Cathedral, 1130
Bayeux Tapestry, 1080
GOTHIC
Notre Dame, c.1200
CE
Chartres Cathedral, c.1200 CE
Chartres Cathedral West Portal
Chartres Cathedral stained glass
Annunciation,
Visitation
portal, Reims Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral
Madonna Enthroned, Cimabue, c.1290
Lamentation of
Christ, Giotto
The Adoration of
the Magi, de
Fabriano
RENAISSANCE/HIGH
RENAISSANCE
San Lorenzo, Floreence, Brunelleschi
Baptistry Doors,
David, Donatello
Mary Magdelene,
Donatello
The Holy Trinity, Masaccio, 1425
Battle of San
Romano, Uccello
Birth of Venus, Boticelli
Tempietto, Bramante
David,
Michelangelo, 1504
Pieta, Michelangelo
Moses, Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel,
Michelangelo
Virgin of the
Rocks, da Vinci
Mona Lisa, da Vinci, 1504
Last Supper, da Vinci
The School of
Athens, Raphael
Man with a Glove,
Titian
MANNERISM
Madonna with the
Long Neck, Parmigianino, 1535
Christ Before
Pilate, Tintoretto
The Last Supper, Tintoretto
The Burial of Count
Orgaz, El Greco
Christ in the House
of Levi, Veronese
Descent from the
Cross, Pontormo
LATE
GOTHIC/NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Ghent Altarpiece,
van Eycks, 1432
Arnolfini Wedding, Van Eyck
Descent from the
Cross, van der Weyden
The Garden of
Delights, Bosch
Portinari Altarpiece, Hugo van der
Goes
Isenheim Altarpiece, c.1510, Grunewald
Self Portrait,
Albrecht Durer
Knight, Death, and
Devil,
1513
Henry VIII
Portrait, Hans Holbein
Peasant Wedding, Bruegel
BAROQUE
The Calling of St.
Matthew,
Caravaggio, 1600
Judith and the
Maidservant,
Gentileschi
San Carlo alle
Quarto Fontane, Borromini
David, Bernini
The Ecstasy of St.
Theresa, Bernini, 1645
Self Portrait,
Judith Leyster
Maids of Honor,
Velazquez
Marie de’Medici,
Rubens
Portrait of Charles
I
Hunting, van Dyck
The Jolly Toper, Hals
The Nightwatch,
Rembrandt, 1642
Self Portait,
Rembrandt
The Letter, Vermeer
Woman Holding a
Balance,
Vermeer
The Abduction of
the Sabine
Women, Poussin
A Pastoral
Landscape,
Lorraine
Palace of
Versailles, Mansart, 1680
St. Paul’s
Cathedral, London,
Wren
ROCOCO
A Pilgrimage to Cythera, Watteau,
1717
Back From the
Market, Chardin
Robert Andrews and
Wife,
Gainsborough
Mrs. Siddons
as the Tragic Muse, Reynolds
Self Portrait, Maire-Louise Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun
NEO-CLASSICISM
The Death of
Socrates, JL David,
1787
Death of Marat,
JL David
Oath of the Horatti, JL David
The Death of
General Wolfe,
West
Watson and the
Shark, Copley
Chiswick House, Burlington & Kent
Monticello,
Jefferson
ROMANTICISM
The Sleep of Reason
. .
. Goya, 1798
The Third of May,1808, Goya
The Raft of the
Medusa, Géricault
Odalisque, Ingres, 1814
Louis Bertin
Portrait, Ingres
Liberty Leading the
People,
Delacroix
The Raft of the
Medusa, Gericault
The Third Class
Carriage, Daumier
The Sower,
Millet
The Gleaners, Millet
The Haywain,
Constable
Rain, Steam, Speed,
Turner,
1844
View of Schroon
Mountain,
Cole
Fur Traders
Descending the
Mississippi, Bingham
Stature of Liberty,
Bartholdi
Paris Opera House, Garnier, 1870
REALISM
Studio of a
Painter, Courbet, 1854
The Crystal Palace,
1851
The Brooklyn
Bridge, 1867
IMPRESSIONISM
The Fifer, Manet, 1866
Luncheon on the
Grass, Manet
Impression Sunrise,
Monet
Le Moulin de la Galette, Renoir, 1876
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, Manet
The Bath, Cassatt
Rouen Cathedral(s),
Monet
Prima Ballerina,
Degas
Nocturne in Black
& Gold,
Whistler
The Little
Fourteen-Year-Old
Dancer, Degas
The Thinker, Rodin, c.1885
Bibliotheque Ste.-Genevieve, Henri Labrouste,
1850
POST
IMPRESSIONISM
Mt. St. Victoire,
Cézanne, 1897
Still Life with
Apples,
Cézanne
The Starry Night,
Van Gogh
A Sunday on La
Grande Jatte, Seurat
At the Moulin
Rouge, Lautrec
The Vision After
the Sermon, Gauguin
The Scream, Munch
The Sleeping Gypsy,
Rousseau
Casa Milá,
Gaudí
20 C. ARCHITECTURE
Carson Pirie Scott
&
Company, Sullivan, 1900
Fagus Shoe Factory, Gropius
&
Meyer, 1912
Seagram Building,
New York,
van der Rohe,
1955
Robie House, Chicago, 1909, Wright
Lever House,
Savoye House, Le Corbusier, 1930
Notre-Dame du Haut,
Le
Corbusier, 1955
20 C. PHOTOGRAPHY
Stieglitz, The Steerage,
1907
Migrant Mother,
California,
Lange, 1936
20 C.
PAINTING & SCULPTURE
Red Room, Matisse,
1908
Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, Picasso
Three Musicians,
Picasso
Guernica, Picasso
Still life with
Chair Caning,
Picasso
Sketch I for
Composition VII,
Kandinsky
Nude Descending a
Staircase, Duchamp
Composition with
Red, Blue,
& Yellow, Mondrian, 1930
Persistence of
Memory, Dalí, 1933
Death Seizing a
Woman, Kathe Kollwitz
Departure, Beckman
Black Iris III,
O’Keeffe
Autumn Rhythm,
Pollock
Three Flags, Jasper
Johns
Unique Forms of
Continuity in
Space, Boccioni, 1913
Bird in Space, Brancusi, 1928
Cubi, David Smith