Feature Archive Thomas Hoving's personal choice of the Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization      A note about navigation: all external links open in a new window, and many of these spawn a second window if you click to enlarge an item. Ancient Art Through the Classical Era   Artist      Title of Work      Date      Medium Paleolithic           Venus of Willendorf Museum of Natural History, Vienna 24,000 B.C. sculpture Egyptian Rahotep and his Wife, Nofret Egyptian Museum, Cairo There doesn't seem to be a great image online, but you can try this alternative or this one 2610 B.C. sculpture Egyptian The Sphinx Giza, Egypt 2500 B.C. monument Sumerian Gudea, King of Lagash Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2100 B.C. sculpture Minoan The Harvester Vase Archaeological Museum, Crete 1550 B.C. vase Egyptian Queen Nofretiti (Nefertiti) Agyptisches Museum, Berlin Two additional views at the bottom of this page... 1365 B.C. sculpture Egyptian Golden Mask of Tutankhamun Egyptian Museum, Cairo 1323 B.C. sculpture Olmec The Great Olmec Head Museo de Anthropologia, Xalapa, Mexico 1000 B.C. sculpture Etruscan The She-Wolf of Rome Museo Capitolino, Rome 7th C. B.C. sculpture Assyrian The Lion Hunt of Assurbanipal British Museum, London Additional scenes from the lion hunt... 650 B.C. relief Euphronios The Sarpedon Vase Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 515 B.C. vase Phidias The Sculptures of the Parthenon British Museum, London Many images from the British museum... Many images from another site about the Parthenon Marbles... 5th C. B.C. sculpture Greek Poseidon National Archaeological Museum, Athens 5th C. B.C. sculpture Greek Gold Pectoral Historical Museum, Kiev 4th C. B.C. gold Greek The Alexander Sarcophagus Archaeological Museum of Istanbul Detail of a battle scene 280-200 B.C. relief Greek Altar of Pergamon State Museum, Berlin Casts from the Great Altar... 180 B.C. relief Roman Cameo of Emperor Augustus Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 10 A.D. cameo Roman Constantine the Great Musei Capitolini, Rome 320 sculpture Jump to: • Ancient Art Through the Classical Era • The Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance • The High Renaissance and the Late Renaissance • The Baroque and Rococo Eras • The Nineteenth Century • The Twentieth Century