Architectural Monuments

2. The Erechtheum (Acropolis, Athens, Greek, Ionic, c.421-405 B.C.)

3. Nike, From the Temple of Athena Nike (Greek, Phidian, c.410-407 B.C.)

4. Grave Stele of Hegeso (Greek, Phidian, c.410-400 B.C.)

5.Hermes by Praxiteles (Praxitles, Hermes With the Infant Bacchus at Olympia. Greek, Late Classical, c.330-320 B.C.)

6. Dying Gaul (Dying Gaul. Greek, Hellenistic, c 230-220 B.C.)

7. Nike of Samothrace (Winged Victory. Greek, Hellenistic, c.200-190 B.C.)

8. The Laocoon Group (Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus of Rhodes, Greek, Hellenistic, Late 2nd Century B.C.)

9. Sarcophagus from Cerveteri (Roman, c.520 B.C.)

10. The Pantheon (The Pantheon, Temple, Roman, 118-125 A.D.)

11.The Battle of Issus or Battle of Alexander and The Persians.(Battle of Isis, Mosaic copy of a Hellenistic Painting, Roman, 1st Century B.C.)

12.The Laestrygonians Hurling Rocks at the Fleet of Odysseus (Roman, Late 1st Century)

13. Augustus of Primaporta(Emperor Augustus, Roman, c.20 B.C.)

14.Constantine the Great (Constantine the Great, Roman, Early 4th Century A.D.)

15.Empress Theodora and Her Attendents (Empress Theodora and Her Attendents (Mosaic, Byzantine, 547 A.D.)

16.Hagia Sophia (Church of Holy Wisdom, Byzantine, 532-537 A.D.)

17.St. Mark's, Venice (St. Mark's Cathedral of Venice, Late Byzantine, Begun 1063)

18.Cathedral of St. Basil, Moscow (Cathedral of St. Basil, Late Byzantine, 1554-1560).

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y to Rome in 312 A.D. The architecture here is flattened against the relief background, and the figures are doll-like, with big heads and dwarfish bodies. 4.St. Mark's, Venice (St. Mark's Cathedral of Venice, Late Byzantine, Begun 1063) and the Cathedral of St. Basil, Moscow (Cathedral of St. Basil, Late Byzantine, 1554-1560). St. Mark's Cathedral is the largest and most lavishly decorated church of the Second Golden Age still surviving, and the church shows the Byzantine influence in the Greek-cross plan inscribed within a square. Each arm of the cross, though, has a dome of its own, with each dome encased in bulbous wooden helmets covered by gilt copper sheeting and topped by ornate lanterns so they seem taller and more conspicuous at a distance. St. Basil in Moscow shows many Eastern influences in the domes and ornamentation. This Byzantine structure shows the sort of transformation that took place through the use of wood as a structural material, and the church seems very Russian with the many domes keyed to the imagination of simple peasant folk. 5.Apostle, St Sernin, Toulose (Romanesque, c. 1090)and The Virgin of Paris ("Realism of Particulars", Gothic Sculpture, Early 14th Century) The Apostle is a frieze showing a so
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