Art 200
Approaches to the History of Art

James Van Dyke, Department of Art


New York Kouros
ca. 600 BCE
Greek Archaic Period
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Doryphoros by Polykleitos
450-440 BCE
Greek Classical Period
marble copy
after a bronze original
Minneapolis, Museum of Art

The Parthenon
Iktinos & Kallikrates
(architects)
447-432 BCE
Greek Classical Period
Athens, Greece

The Parthenon Frieze
Fragment from East Side #V (Gods)
447-432 BCE
Greek Classical Period
London, British Museum

Lapith & Centaur
Metope XXVIII
from South Side of Parthenon
447-432 BCE
Greek Classical Period
London, British Museum

Laocoon Group
ca. 150 BCE, marble
Greek Hellenistic Period
Rome, Vatican Museums

Colosseum
View from the Esquiline Hill
ca. 80 CE
Rome

The Old Senator
marble, ca. 50-1 BCE
Rome, Museo Torlonia

Augustus of Prima Porta
ca. 20 BCE
Julio-Claudian Period
Rome,Musei Capitolini

Column of Trajan
Trajanic Period
107-112 CE
Rome, Piazza Colonna

Column of Trajan (mid-section)
Trajanic Period
107-112 CE
Rome, Piazza Colonna

The Pantheon
View of Facade
Trajanic Period
2nd C CE
Rome, Italy

Arch of Constantine
Constantinian Period
ca. 320 CE
(with earlier reused reliefs)
Rome

Arch of Constantine
Constantinian Relief
Distribution of Largesse
ca. 320 CE
Rome

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
marble, 4th C CE
Rome, St. Peter's Treasury

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
(detail) Christ Enthroned)
marble, 4th C CE
Rome, St. Peter's Treasury

The Good Shepherd
mosaic, 5th C CE
Ravenna, Galla Placidia

San Vitale, Apse Mosaic
"Christ in Glory"

Byzantine Church
ca. 546-48 CE
Ravenna, Italy

Book of Kells
Chi-Rho Page, ca. 800
Dublin, Trinity College

Coronation Gospels:
St. John the Evangelist

Late 8th C
Schtzkammer, folio 178v
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

Saint Foy Abbey Church
(Plan)
ca. 1080
Conques, France

Saint Foy Abbey Church
View of Tympanum
Last Judgement
Relief Sculpture, ca. 1125-50
Conques, France

Saint Foy Abbey Church
Interior View of Choir
& Ambulatory
ca. 1080
Conques, France

Saint Denis Abbey Church
Interior of Ambulatory
1140-44
Paris, Saint Denis

Chartres Cathedral
"Royal Portals"
Center Doorway
Second Coming of Christ
ca. 1150
Chartres, France

Chartres Cathedral
Nave Towards Choir
1195-1205
Chartres, France

Sainte Chapelle
Interior View of Upper Chapel
1231-48
Paris