Empress Theodora And Her Court

Title: Empress Theodora And Her Court
Date: 547 AD
Culture/Period: Rome/Early Chirstian
Artist/Architect: NA
Material: Mosaic
Location: San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
Significant Point Or Fact: Theodora stands in an abbreviated apse with court ladies on the right and two churchmen on the left.

Christ As The Good Shepherd

Title:Christ As The Good Shepherd
Date: 2nd - 3rd Century
Culture/Period: Rome/Early Christian
Material: Fresco
Location: Rome
Significant Point Or Fact: An underground painting of Christ in the Catacombs for performng funerary rites.

Pantheon Temple

Title: Pantheon Temple
Date: 125 AD
Culture/Period: Rome
Artist/Architect: NA/Early Medieval
Material: Concrete, Brick, and Marble
Location: Rome
Significant Point Or Fact: Pantheon is a temple built (in its present form) cicra 125 AD, and dedicate to all Roman gods, now a Christan church.

Procession With Spoils From The Temple Of Jerusalem

Title: Procession With Spoils From The Temple Of Jerusalem
Date: 81 AD
Culture/Period: Rome/Senate
Artist/Architect:
Material: Marble
Location: Rome
Significant Point Or Fact:In Ancient Rome, successful military leaders were given a "Triumph", which was a sort of parade of their soldiers, manacled prisoners, and spoils from their campaigns. The procession usually ended at the Senate, where the military man was made First Consul, the highest position of authority under the emperor.

Fight Between Lapith And Centaur

Title: Fight Between Lapith And Centaur Methope from Parthenon Temple
Date: 448 - 432 BC
Culture/Period: Greece/Classical
Material: Marble
Location: Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Significant Point Or Fact: A high relief craving. People are able to tell the details when they are at distance.

Parthenon Tenple

Title: Parthenon Temple
Date: 447 - 433 BC
Culture/Period: Greece/Classical
Artist/Architect: Ikitnos And kallikrates
Material: Marble
Location: Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Significant Point Of Fact: The Parthenon is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena whom people of Athens considered their protector.

Spearbearer

Title: Spearbearer
Date: 440BC
Culture/Period: Roman marble copy of Greek bronze original
Artist/Architect: Polykeitos
Material: Marble
Location: NA
Significant Or Fact: The right feet is stepping forward and the left is slghtly bend, know as the contrapposto pose.

Lion Gate

Title: Lion Gate
Date: 1400 - 1300 BC
Culture/Period: Greek/Early Bronze Age
Artist/Architect: NA
Material: Limestone
Location: Mycenae, Greece
Significant Point Or Fact: The lion at the gate stands for power as guardians of the entrances.

Menkaure And Queen

Title: Menkaure And Queen
Date: 2548 - 2530 BC
Culture/Period: Egypt/Old Kingdom
Artist/Architect: NA
Material: State
Location: NA
Significant Point Or Fact: Menkaure assumes the classic pose for men in Egyptian art, striding forward, his left leg advanced, arms rigid by his sides. He wears the royal headcloth (nemes), kilt, and false beard. The queen also steps forward, clasping Mycerinus in traditional gesture of intimacy and respect.

Great Pyramids At Giza

Title: Great Pyramids At Giza
Date: The Pyramids Of Khufu (c2601 - 2528 BC)
The Pyramids Of Khafe (c2570 - 2544 BC)
The Pyramids Of Menkaure (c2533 - 2515 BC)
Culture/Period: Egypt/Old Kingdom
Artist/Architect: NA
Material: Sandstone and Limestone
Location: Giza, Egypt
Significant Point Or Fact: Khufu's pyramid - the largest of the three - was over twice as high as Zoser's step pyramid at Saqqarra.

Palette Of Narmer

Title: Palette Of Narmer
Date: c 310 BC
Culture/Period: Egypt/Old Kingdom
Artist/Architect: NA
Material: State
Location: NA
Significant Point Or Fact: The front call upper Egypt because Narmer is wearing a white crown. The reserve side is called the Lower Egypt because the Pharaoh is wearing the red crown.