AP Art history

Global prehistory

  1. Stonehenge
  1. The Ambum stone
  1. Jade cong
  1. Tlatilco female figurine
  1. Anthropomorphic stele
  1. Terra cotta fragment
  1. Bushel with ibex motifs
  1. Running Horned Woman
  1. Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine
  1. Great Hall of the Bulls
  1. Apollo 11 Stones

Ancient Mediterranean

  1. King Menkaura and queen
  1. The Code of Hammurabi
  1. Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx
  1. Temple of Amun-Re and the Hypostyle Hall
  1. Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur
  1. Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
  1. Seated scribe
  1. Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters

Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna

  1. Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin
  1. Palette of King Narmer
  1. Last judgment of Hunefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead)
  1. White Temple and its ziggurat

Early Europe and Colonial Americas

  1. Merovingian looped fibulae
  1. Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
  1. Hagia Sophia, Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
  1. Lindisfarne Gospels: St. Matthew, cross-carpet page; St. Luke portrait page; St. Luke incipit page
  1. San Vitale
  1. Great Mosque at Cordoba
  1. Vienna Genesis
  1. Pyxis of al-Mughira
  1. Santa Sabina
  1. Church of Sainte-Foy
  1. Catacomb of Priscilla
    2nd century - 4th century

Indigenous Americas

  1. Maize cobs
  1. City of Machu Picchu
  1. City of Cusco, including Qorikancha (Inka main temple), Santo Domingo (Spanish colonial convent), and Walls at Saqsa Waman (Sacsayhuaman)
  1. All-T’oqapu tunic
  1. Ruler’s feather headdress (probably of Motecuhzoma II)
  1. Bandolier bag
  1. Templo Mayor (Main Temple)
  1. Transformation mask
  1. Great Serpent Mound
  1. Painted elk hide, attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody)
  1. Yaxchilán
  1. Black-on-black ceramic vessel, Maria Martínez and Julian Martínez
  1. Mesa Verde cliff dwellings
  1. Chavín de Huántar

Africa

West and Central Asia

South, East, and Southeast Asia

  1. Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq)
  1. Athenian Agora
    600 BCE- 150 CE
    Civic, Community, Architecture, Religion, Public,

This work is thematically similar to Forum of Trajan because of its connection to the public. Both of these places served as a public forum where people interacted, and information was spread. They were both community areas where politicians, scholars, and other members of the community would have discussed current events.


This piece is formally similar to the ancient city of Thebes. Both the Athenian agora and the ancient city of Thebes are elevated above the rest of the landscape. They also both have a non rectilinear form because of the geography of the area. They also both have roads connecting domestic areas to economic centers.

  1. Anavysos Kouros
    530 BCE
    Funerary, Ideal man, nudity, Commemoration, Cross-cultural, War, Afterlife, Violence
    This work is thematically similar to Yaxchilan because of the theme of the Ideal man. The Mayan and Greek had different ideas of what an ideal man looked like. The Greek thought of an ideal man as tall, muscular and confident as shown with the Anavysos Kouros. The Mayan thought of the Ideal man as having a flattened skull, being loyal to his wife, and being strong.

This piece is formally similar to marble statue of a kouros. Both the Anavysos Kouros and the Marble statue of a kouros are a sculpture in the round, they both emphasize symmetry, and they both have the subject taking a step forward with the left foot. They are also expressionless and likely would have been painted.

  1. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis
    530 BCE
    Ideal woman, Offering, religion
    This piece is thematically similar to Virgin (Theotokos) and Child because of their shared theme of religion. Both pieces represent a religious figure that would be in a place of worship. Both were decorated to idolize the figure.

This piece is formally similar to Lady of Auxerre. Both statues are carved from stone. They both have blank expressions that lack naturalistic detail, and they both would have been elaborately painted. Both statues are symetrical except for one arm being bent and the other being straight down.

  1. Sarcophagus of the Spouses
    520 BCE
    Male/Female relationships, Funerary, Status
    THis piece is thematically similar to Yaxchilan because they both share Male/Female relationships. In the Sarcophagus of the spouses, the piece represents the love of the two and how they will be with each other in death. In Yaxchilan, the Queen is proving her husband's legitimacy. This is not typical of the relationship between men and women in ancient art.

This piece is formally similar to Sarcophagus with couple (Larth Tetnies and Thanchvil Tarnai) c. 350-300 BCE. Both this piece and the Sarcophagus of the spouses depict a man and a woman reclined. They are both have a rectangular form. They are also both carved out of stone. Both these pieces would have been sarcophagus for a wife and husband.

  1. Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes
  1. Temple of Minerva (Veii, near Rome, Italy) and sculpture of Apollo, Master sculptor Vulca
    Religious complex, appropriation, deities, place of worship
    This piece is similar to Great Mosque of Cordoba because of the place of worship theme. Temple of Minerva would have been a place to honor the roman god, Minerva. The Great Mosque of Cordoba originally would have been an Islamic Mosque but got turned into a church.
    This piece is formally similar to the temple of Vesta. Both temples have Corinthian columns ordered evenly. They both have rectilinear forms and are bilaterally symmetrical. The two temples are also a pale white and would have been painted.
  1. Tomb of the Triclinium
  1. Niobides Krater
  1. Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer), Polykleitos
  1. Acropolis
  1. Grave stele of Hegeso
  1. Winged Victory of Samothrace
  1. Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
  1. House of the Vettii
  1. Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun, Pompeii
  1. Seated Boxer
  1. Head of a Roman patrician
  1. Augustus of Prima Porta
  1. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
  1. Forum of Trajan, Apollodorus of Damascus
  1. Pantheon
  1. Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
  1. Bayeux Tapestry
  1. Chartres Cathedral
  1. Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France, Scenes from the Apocalypse from Bibles moralisées
  1. Alhambra
  1. Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
  1. Mosque of Selim II, Mimar Sinan
  1. Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe
  1. Great Mosque of Djenné
  1. Wall plaque, from Oba's palace
  1. Sika dwa kofi (Golden Stool)
  1. Ndop (portrait figure) of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul
  1. Power figure (Nkisi n'kondi)
  1. Female (pwo) mask
  1. Portrait mask (Mblo)
  1. Bundu mask
  1. Ikenga (shrine figure)
  1. Lukasa (memory board)
  1. Aka elephant mask
  1. Reliquary figure (byeri)

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  1. Petra, Jordan: Treasury and Great Temple
  1. Buddha, Bamiyan
  1. The Kaaba
  1. The Kaaba
  1. Dome of the Rock
  1. Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh), Isfahan
  1. Folio from a Qur’an
  1. Basin (Baptistère de Saint Louis), Mohammed ibn al-Zain
  1. Bahram Gur Fights the Karg, folio from the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama
  1. The Court of Gayumars, folio from Shah Tahmasp’s Shahnama
  1. The Ardabil Carpet
  1. Great Stupa at Sanchi
  1. Terra cotta warriors from mausoleum of the first Qin emperor of China
  1. Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui)
  1. Longmen caves
  1. Gold and jade crown
  1. Tōdai-ji
  1. Borobudur Temple
  1. Angkor, the temple of Angkor Wat
  1. Lakshmana Temple
  1. Travelers among Mountains and Streams, Fan Kuan
  1. Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)
  1. Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace
  1. The David Vases
  1. Portrait of Sin Sukju (1417–1475)
  1. Forbidden City
  1. Ryōan-ji
  1. Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, Bichitr
  1. Taj Mahal
  1. Red and White Plum Blossoms, Ogata Kōrin
  1. Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Katsushika Hokusai
  1. Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan, Liu Chunhua