Advanced Placement (AP) Art History (also known as APAH) is an

Advanced Placement Advanced Placement (AP) is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board. AP offers undergraduate university-level curricula and examinations to high school students. Colleges and universities in the US and elsewhere ...

art history Art history is the study of Work of art, artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Tradit ...

course and exam offered by the

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in the United States. AP Art History is designed to allow students to examine major forms of artistic expression relevant to a variety of cultures evident in a wide variety of periods from the present to the past. Students acquire an ability to examine works of art critically, with intelligence and sensitivity, and to articulate their thoughts and experiences. The course content covers

prehistoric Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use o ...

, Mediterranean, European, American, Native American, African, Asian,

Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the cont ...

, and

contemporary Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present. In the social sciences, contemporary history is also continuous with, and related t ...

art and architecture.

Course

The course is designed to teach the following art historical skills: *Visual Analysis *Contextual Analysis *Comparisons of Works of Art *Artistic Traditions *Visual Analysis of Unknown Works *Attribution of Unknown Works *Art Historical Interpretations *Argumentation The course is also built on five core "Big Ideas": *Culture *Interactions with Other Cultures *Theories and Interpretations *Materials, Processes, and Techniques *Purpose and Audience Starting in the 2015–2016 school year,

has introduced a new curriculum and exam for students to apply art historical skills to questions.

Exam

Score distribution

The multiple-choice section of the exam is worth 50% of a student's score and the free response is worth 50%. Each correctly answered multiple choice question is worth one point. Wrong and omitted questions do not affect the raw score. For the free-response section, the four short essays are each graded on a scale of 0 to 5 and the two long essays are each graded on a scale of 0 to 7.

Works studied

The current curriculum, which began in 2015, focuses on 250 works of art and architecture across 10 units, beginning with

prehistoric art In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, Prehistory, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other met ...

and ending with

contemporary art Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a ...

.AP® Art History Course and Exam Description, Effective Fall 2015
November 20, 2015; revised and corrected edition April 21, 2017. The College Board. Global Prehistory (30,000 – 500 BCE) * Apollo 11 stone * Great Hall of the Bulls * Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine * Running horned woman * Beaker with ibex motifs * Anthropomorphic stele * Jade cong *

Stonehenge Stonehenge is a prehistoric Megalith, megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons, to ...

* The Ambum stone * Tlatilco female figurine * Terra cotta fragment Ancient Mediterranean (3500 BCE – 300 CE) * White Temple and its ziggurat * Palette of King Narmer * Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq) * Seated scribe * Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq) * Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx * King Menkaura and queen * The Code of Hammurabi * Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall * Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut * Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters * Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin * Last judgement of Hunefer, from his tomb (page from the

Book of the Dead The ''Book of the Dead'' is the name given to an Ancient Egyptian funerary texts, ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom of Egypt, New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC ...

) *

Lamassu ''Lama'', ''Lamma'', or ''Lamassu'' (Cuneiform: , ; Sumerian language, Sumerian: lammař; later in Akkadian language, Akkadian: ''lamassu''; sometimes called a ''lamassuse'') is an Mesopotamia, Assyrian protective deity. Initially depicted as ...

from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq) *

Athenian agora The ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is an ancient Greek agora. It is located to the northwest of the Acropolis of Athens, Acropolis, and bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill k ...

* Anavysos

Kouros Kouros (, , plural kouroi) is the modern term given to free-standing Ancient Greek sculpture, Ancient Greek sculptures that depict nude male youths. They first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and are prominent in Attica and Boeotia, with ...

* Peplos Kore from the Acropolis *

Sarcophagus of the Spouses The Sarcophagus of the Spouses () is a tomb effigy considered one of the masterpieces of Etruscan art. The Etruscans lived in Italy between two main rivers, the Arno and the Tiber, and were in contact with the Ancient Greeks through trade, mainl ...

* Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes * Temple of Minerva (Veii, near Rome, Italy) and sculpture of Apollo * Tomb of the Triclinium * Niobides Krater * Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) *

Acropolis An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense. The term is typically used to refer to the Acropolis of Athens ...

* Grave Stele of Hegeso *

Winged Victory of Samothrace The ''Winged Victory of Samothrace'', or the ''Niké of Samothrace'', is a Votive offering, votive monument originally discovered on the island of Samothrace in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Helleni ...

* Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon *

House of the Vettii The House of the Vettii is a domus located in the Roman town Pompeii, which was preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The house is named for its owners, two successful freedmen: Aulus Vettius Conviva, an Augustalis, and Aulus Ve ...

* Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun, Pompeii * Seated boxer * Head of a Roman patrician *

Augustus of Prima Porta The Augustus of Prima Porta () is a full-length Roman portraiture, portrait statue of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. The statue was discovered on April 20, 1863, during archaeological excavations directed by Giuseppe Gagliardi at the Villa of ...

* Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater) * Forum of Trajan * Pantheon *

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus The Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus or "Great" Ludovisi sarcophagus is an ancient Roman sarcophagus dating to around AD 250–260, found in 1621 in the Vigna Bernusconi, a tomb near the Porta Tiburtina. It is also known as the Via Tiburtina Sarcopha ...

Early Europe and Colonial Americas (200 – 1750 CE) *

Catacomb of Priscilla The Catacomb of Priscilla is a large archaeological site on the Via Salaria in Rome, Italy, situated in what was a quarry in Roman times. The catacombs extend underground for over seven miles, making them one of Romes most extensive catacombs. ...

Santa Sabina The Basilica of Saint Sabina (, ) is a historic church on the Aventine Hill in Rome, Italy. It is a titular minor basilica and mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Preachers, better known as the Dominicans. Santa Sabina is the oldest ex ...

* Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well and Jacob Wrestling the Angel, from the Vienna Genesis * San Vitale *

Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia (; ; ; ; ), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (; ), is a mosque and former Church (building), church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be successively ...

* Merovingian looped fibulae * Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George *

Lindisfarne Gospels The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715–720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the Bri ...

: St. Matthew, cross-carpet page; St. Luke portrait page; St. Luke incipit page * Great Mosque * Pyxis of al-Mughira * Church of Sainte-Foy *

Bayeux Tapestry The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidery, embroidered cloth nearly long and tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest, Norman Conquest of England in 1066, led by William the Conqueror, William, Duke of Normandy challenging H ...

Chartres Cathedral Chartres Cathedral (, lit. Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres) is a Catholic cathedral in Chartres, France, about southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the List of bishops of Chartres, Bishop of Chartres. Dedicated in honour of the Virgin Mary ( ...

* Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France, Scenes from the Apocalypse * Röttgen Pietà * Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, including Lamentation * Golden Haggadah (The Plagues of Egypt, Scenes of Liberation, and Preparation for Passover) *

Alhambra The Alhambra (, ; ) is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Muslim world, Islamic world. Additionally, the ...

* Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece) * Pazzi Chapel * The Arnolfini Portrait *

David David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Dam ...

Palazzo Rucellai Palazzo Rucellai is a palatial fifteenth-century townhouse on the Via della Vigna Nuova in Florence, Italy. The Rucellai Palace is believed by most scholars to have been designed for Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 ...

* Madonna and Child with Two Angels * Birth of Venus *

Last Supper Image:The Last Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci - High Resolution 32x16.jpg, 400px, alt=''The Last Supper'' by Leonardo da Vinci - Clickable Image, ''The Last Supper (Leonardo), The Last Supper'' (1495-1498). Mural, tempera on gesso, pitch and mastic ...

Adam and Eve Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. ...

Sistine Chapel ceiling The Sistine Chapel ceiling (), painted in fresco by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance Renaissance art, art. The Sistine Chapel is the large papal chapel built within the Vatican City, Vatican betwee ...

and altar wall frescoes *

School of Athens A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of f ...

Isenheim altarpiece The ''Isenheim Altarpiece'' is an altarpiece sculpted and painted by, respectively, the Germans Nikolaus Hagenauer, Nikolaus of Haguenau and Matthias Grünewald in 1512–1516. It is on display at the Unterlinden Museum at Colmar, Alsace, in Fra ...

Entombment of Christ The burial of Jesus refers to the entombment of the body of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus after his crucifixion before the erev Shabbat, eve of the sabbath. This event is described in the New Testament. According to the Gospels, canonical gospel ...

* Allegory of Law and Grace *

Venus of Urbino The ''Venus of Urbino'' (also known as ''Reclining Venus'') is an oil painting by Italian painter Titian, depicting a nude young woman, traditionally identified with the goddess Venus, reclining on a couch or bed in the sumptuous surroundings o ...

* Frontispiece of the

Codex Mendoza The Codex Mendoza is an Aztec codices, Aztec codex, believed to have been created around the year 1541. It contains a history of both the Aztec rulers and their conquests as well as a description of the daily life of pre-conquest Aztec society. ...

* Il Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco * Hunters in the Snow * Mosque of Selim II * Calling of Saint Matthew * Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de' Medici, from the Marie de' Medici Cycle * Self-Portrait with Saskia *

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (Saint Charles at the Four Fountains), also called , is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, Italy. The church was designed by the architect Francesco Borromini and it was his first independent commission. ...

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa The ''Ecstasy of Saint Teresa'' (also known as ''Saint Teresa in Ecstasy''; or ) is a sculptural altarpiece group in white marble set in an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel of the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Santa Maria d ...

* Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Dei *

Las Meninas ) is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Baroque painting, Spanish Baroque. It has become one of the most widely analyzed works in Western painting for the way its complex a ...

* Woman Holding a Balance * The Palace at Versailles * Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene * The Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe) * Fruit and Insects * Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo * The Tête à Tête, from Marriage à la Mode Later Europe and Americas (1750 – 1980 CE) * Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz * A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery * The Swing *

Monticello Monticello ( ) was the primary residence and plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States. Jefferson began designing Monticello after inheriting l ...

* The Oath of the Horatii *

George Washington George Washington (, 1799) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot (American Revoluti ...

* Self-Portrait * Y no hai remedio (And There's Nothing to Be Done), from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), plate 15 * La Grande Odalisque *

Liberty Leading the People ''Liberty Leading the People'' ( ) is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 that toppled King Charles X (''r.'' 1824–1830). A bare-breasted “woman of the people” w ...

* The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm) * Still Life in Studio * Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) * Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament) * The Stone Breakers * Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art * Olympia * The Saint-Lazare Station *

The Horse in Motion ''The Horse in Motion'' is a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, including six cards that each show a series of six to twelve "automatic electro-photographs" depicting successive phases in the movement of a horse, shot in June 187 ...

* The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel (El Valle de México desde el Cerro de Santa Isabel) *

The Burghers of Calais ''The Burghers of Calais'' () is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in 12 original castings and numerous copies. It commemorates an event during the Hundred Years' War, when Calais, a French port on the English Channel, surrendered to the English af ...

The Starry Night ''The Starry Night'', often called simply ''Starry Night'', is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Sain ...

* The Coiffure *

The Scream ''The Scream'' is an art composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The Norwegian name of the piece is ('Screaming, Scream'), and the German title under which it was first exhibited is ' ('The Scream of Nature'). The agonize ...

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

Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building The Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building or Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Store, is a commercial building at 1 South State Street at the corner of East Madison Street in Chicago, Illinois. Louis S ...

Mont Sainte-Victoire Montagne Sainte-Victoire (Provençal dialect, Provençal according to Occitan language#Writing system, classical orthography and according to Occitan language#Writing system, Mistralian orthography) is a limestone mountain ridge in the south ...

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (''The Young Ladies of Avignon'', originally titled ''The Brothel of Avignon'') is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it portrays f ...

The Steerage ''The Steerage'' is a black and white photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1907. It has been hailed by some critics as one of the greatest photographs of all time because it captures in a single image both a formative document of its time and ...

The Kiss (Klimt) ''The Kiss'' () is an oil painting, oil-on-canvas painting with added gold leaf, silver and platinum by the Austrian Symbolism (movement), Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. It was painted at some point in 1907 and 1908, during the height of what s ...

The Kiss (Brâncuși sculpture) ''The Kiss'' (in Romanian language, Romanian: Sărutul /səruːtul/) is a sculpture by Romanian Modernist sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. It is an early example of his Proto-Cubism, proto-cubist style of non-literal representation. This sculptur ...

* The Portuguese * ''Goldfish'' * Improvisation 28 (second version) * Self-Portrait as a Soldier * Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht *

Villa Savoye Villa Savoye () is a Modern architecture, modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 usin ...

* Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow * Illustration from The Results of the First Five-Year Plan *

Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure) Object may refer to: General meanings * Object (philosophy), a thing, being, or concept ** Object (abstract), an object which does not exist at any particular time or place ** Physical object, an identifiable collection of matter * Goal, an ai ...

Fallingwater Fallingwater is a Historic house museum, house museum in Stewart Township, Pennsylvania, Stewart Township in the Laurel Highlands of Greater Pittsburgh, southwestern Pennsylvania, United States. Designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, i ...

* The Two Fridas * The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49 * The Jungle * Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park *

Fountain A fountain, from the Latin "fons" ( genitive "fontis"), meaning source or spring, is a decorative reservoir used for discharging water. It is also a structure that jets water into the air for a decorative or dramatic effect. Fountains were o ...

(second version) * Woman, I *

Seagram Building The Seagram Building is a skyscraper at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street (Manhattan), 52nd and 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe along with P ...

Marilyn Diptych The ''Marilyn Diptych'' (1962) is a silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol depicting Marilyn Monroe. The monumental work is one of the artist's most noted of the movie star. The painting consists of 50 images. Each image o ...

* Narcissus Garden * The Bay * Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks *

Spiral Jetty ''Spiral Jetty'' is a work of land art constructed in April 1970 that is considered to be the most important work by American sculptor Robert Smithson. Smithson documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled ' ...

* House in New Castle County Indigenous Americas (1000 BCE – 1980 CE) * Chavín de Huántar *

Mesa Verde Mesa Verde National Park is a national park of the United States and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, and the only World Heritage Site in Colorado. The park protects some of the best-preserved Ancestral Pueblo ...

cliff dwellings * Yaxchilán * Great Serpent Mound * Templo Mayor (Main Temple) * Ruler's feather headdress (probably of Motecuhzoma II) * City of Cusco, including Qorikancha (Inka main temple), Santo Domingo (Spanish colonial convent), and Walls at Saqsa Waman (Sacsayhuaman) * Maize cobs * City of Machu Picchu * All-T’oqapu tunic * Bandolier bag * Transformation mask * Painted elk hide * Black-on-black ceramic vessel Africa (1100 – 1980 CE) * Conical tower and circular wall of

Great Zimbabwe Great Zimbabwe was a city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Masvingo. It was settled from 1000 AD, and served as the capital of the Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe from the 13th century. It is the largest stone struc ...

Great Mosque of Djenné The Great Mosque of Djenné in the Sudano-Sahelian architecture, Sudano-Sahelian architectural style is the largest adobe brick building in the world. The mosque is located in the city of Djenné, Mali, on the flood plain of the Bani River. The ...

* Wall plaque, from Oba's palace * Sika dwa kofi (Golden Stool) * Ndop (portrait figure) of * Power figure (Nkisi n'kondi) * Female (Pwo) mask * Portrait mask (Mblo) * Bundu mask * Ikenga (shrine figure) * Lukasa (memory board) * Aka elephant mask * Reliquary figure (byeri) * Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga) West and Central Asia (500 BCE – 1980 CE) * Petra, Jordan:

Treasury A treasury is either *A government department related to finance and taxation, a finance ministry; in a business context, corporate treasury. *A place or location where treasure, such as currency or precious items are kept. These can be ...

and Great Temple *

Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha (),* * * was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist legends, he was ...

* The Kaaba * Jowo Rinpoche, enshrined in the Jokhang Temple *

Dome of the Rock The Dome of the Rock () is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City (Jerusalem), Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the List_of_the_ol ...

* Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh) * Folio from a

Qur'an The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God ('' Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which consist of individual verses ('). Besides ...

* Basin (Baptistère de St. Louis) * Bahram Gur Fights the Karg, folio from the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama * The Court of Gayumars, folio from Shah Tahmasp's Shahnama * The Ardabil Carpet South, East, and Southeast Asia (300 BCE – 1980 CE) * Great Stupa at

Sanchi Sanchi Stupa is a Buddhist art, Buddhist complex, famous for its Great Stupa, on a hilltop at Sanchi Town in Raisen District of the States and territories of India, State of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located, about 23 kilometers from Raisen ...

* Terra cotta warriors from mausoleum of the first Qin emperor of China * Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui) * Longmen caves * Gold and jade

crown A crown is a traditional form of head adornment, or hat, worn by monarchs as a symbol of their power and dignity. A crown is often, by extension, a symbol of the monarch's government or items endorsed by it. The word itself is used, parti ...

* Todai-ji *

Borobudur Temple Borobudur, also transcribed Barabudur (, ), is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, near the city of Magelang and the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indonesia. Constructed of gray andesite-like stone, the temple consi ...

Angkor Angkor ( , 'capital city'), also known as Yasodharapura (; ),Headly, Robert K.; Chhor, Kylin; Lim, Lam Kheng; Kheang, Lim Hak; Chun, Chen. 1977. ''Cambodian-English Dictionary''. Bureau of Special Research in Modern Languages. The Catholic Uni ...

, the temple of Angkor Wat, and the city of Angkor Thom, Cambodia * Lakshmana Temple * Travelers among Mountains and Streams * Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja) * Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace * The David Vases * Portrait of Sin Sukju (1417–1475) *

Forbidden City The Forbidden City () is the Chinese Empire, imperial Chinese palace, palace complex in the center of the Imperial City, Beijing, Imperial City in Beijing, China. It was the residence of 24 Ming dynasty, Ming and Qing dynasty, Qing dynasty L ...

* Ryoan-ji * Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings *

Taj Mahal The Taj Mahal ( ; ; ) is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal Empire, Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan () to house the tomb of his belo ...

* White and Red Plum Blossoms * Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji * Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan The Pacific (700 – 1980 CE) *

Nan Madol Nan Madol is an archaeological site adjacent to the eastern shore of the island of Pohnpei, now part of the Madolenihmw district of Pohnpei state in the Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean. Nan Madol was the capital o ...

Moai Moai or moʻai ( ; ; ) are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but h ...

on platform (ahu) * 'Ahu 'ula (feather cape) * Staff god * Female deity * Buk (mask) * Hiapo (

tapa Tapa, TAPA, Tapas or Tapasya may refer to: Media *Tapas (website), a webtoon site, formerly known as Tapastic * ''Tapas'' (film), a 2005 Spanish film * ''Tapasya'' (1976 film), an Indian Hindi-language film * ''Tapasya'' (1992 film), a Nepalese f ...

) * Tamati Waka Nene * Navigation chart * Malagan display and mask * Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II Global Contemporary (1980 CE – Present) *

The Gates ''The Gates'' was a site-specific work of art by Bulgarian artist Christo Yavacheff and French artist Jeanne-Claude, known jointly as Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The artists installed 7,503 steel " gates" along of pathways in Central Park in N ...

Vietnam Veterans Memorial The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The site is dominated by two black granit ...

* Horn Players * Summer Trees * Androgyne III * A Book from the Sky * Pink Panther * Untitled #228, from the History Portraits series * '' The French Collection Part I, #1: Dancing at the Louvre * Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People) * Earth's Creation * Rebellious Silence, from the Women of Allah series * En la Barberia no se Llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) * Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000) * Electronic Superhighway * The Crossing *

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Biscay, Spain. It is one of several museums affiliated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish a ...

* Pure Land * Lying with the Wolf * Darkytown Rebellion * The Swing (after Fragonard) * Old Man's Cloth * Stadia II * Preying Mantra *

Shibboleth A shibboleth ( ; ) is any custom or tradition—usually a choice of phrasing or single word—that distinguishes one group of people from another. Historically, shibboleths have been used as passwords, ways of self-identification, signals of l ...

* MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts * Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) Notes

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