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1—Chi Rho Iota Page from the Book of Kells
Date: 800 CE
Medium: Iron-gall ink and pigments on vellum
Size: 13 inches wide and 10 inches high.
Description: Arguably the finest of all illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages and famous for the intricate swirling patterns of its Celtic art.
2—Hinged Clasp from the Sutton Hoo Burial Ship
Date: 7th century
Medium: gold, garnet and millefiori
Size: 19 x 8.3 cm
Description: Seven gold, garnet cloisonné and millefiori glass plaques were set into it.
3—Page with the Beginning of the Text of Matthew’s Gospel, Lindesfarne Gospel Book
Date: ca.698-721
Medium: Ink, pigments and gold on vellum Medium: Calligraphy, Illumination, and Illustrated Book
Size: H: 13 ½ in. (34.2 cm.), W: 9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.)
Description: The manuscript is one of the finest works in the unique style of Hiberno-Saxon or Insular art, combining Mediterranean, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic elements.
4—Gripping Beasts, Detail of Oesberg Ship
Date: 820 CE
Medium: Oak
Size: Length: 71′
Description: The Oseberg Ship find is a burial, implied by the two human skeletons found within the ship.
5—Stave Church, Burgund, Norway
Date: c. 1125–1150
Medium: timbers
Size: 7.35 meters long and 6.10 meters wide.
Description: The best preserved and most authentic stave church is Borgund stave church in Norway
6—Palace Chapel of Charlemagne
Date: 804 CE
Description: The Palatine Chapel at Aachen is the most well-known and best-preserved Carolingian building. It is also an excellent example of the classical revival style that characterized the architecture of Charlemagne’s reign.
7—Page with St. Matthew the Evangelist, Coronation Gospels
Date: c. 800-810
Medium: ink and tempera on vellum
Description: Charlemagne probably had this Gospel book made before he was crowned emperor. It is such an impressive book that it was used in imperial coronation services from about the twelfth to the sixteenth century.
8—Al-Masjid al-Haram and Kaabla
Date: 638 AD
Medium: Marble
Size: 13.1 m (43 ft) high (some claim 12.03 m (39.5 ft)), with sides measuring 11.03 m (36.2 ft) by 12.86 m (42.2 ft)
Description: The holiest shrine in Islam. As one of the destinations of the hajj and ʿumrah pilgrimages, it receives millions of worshippers each year.
9—Dome of the Rock
Date: 691−692
Medium: Marble, mosaics, and metal plaques
Size: 115’ Height
Description: Islamic shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem
10—The Great Mosque, Kairouan, Tunisia
Date: 836–75
Medium: the minbar is made from teak
Size: 9,000 square metres (97,000 sq ft).
Description: one of the masterpieces of Islamic architecture, notable among other things for the first Islamic use of the horseshoe arch
11—Great Mosque, Cordoba
Date: 785–786
Medium: Mostly stone and brick (marble, jasper and granite)
Size: 590 x 425 ft
Description: Red and white double arches
12—Page from the Qur'an (Surah II: 286 and Title Surah III)
Date: 9th century
Medium: Black ink pigments, and gold on vellum.
Size: 8 3/8" x 11 1/8"
Description: "We hear, and we obey. [We seek] Your forgiveness, our Lord, and to You is the [final] destination."
13—Mamluk Glass Oil Lamp
Date: ca. 1329–35
Medium: Glass, polychrome enamel, and gold.
Size: Diam. of top 10 1/4", Height 13 6/8"
Description: Used to light mosques and other buildings in mosque complexes, in large spaces in groups hanging from a circular metal frame.
14—Tile mosaic mihrab from the Madrasa Imami
Date: 754/1354–55 CE
Medium: Mosaic of polychrome-glazed cut tiles on stonepaste body, set in mortar
Size: H. 11 ft. 3 in. x 9 ft. 5 5/8 in. (3.43 x 2.89 m)
Description: The mihrab was created by joining a myriad of cut glazed tiles to produce its intricate arabesque and calligraphic designs.
15—Mina'i bowl with Bahram Qur and Azada
Date: late 12th–early 13th century
Medium: Stonepaste; glazed (opaque monochrome), in-glaze- and overglaze-painted, gilded
Size: H. 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm)
Diam. 8 11/16 in. (22.1 cm)
Wt. 15.3 oz. (433.8 g)
Description: The tragic epilogue of this story from the Persian epic Shahnama, in which a camel tramples Azada after she disparages the prince for his cruel feats, is portrayed at the bottom of the bowl.
16—Masjid-i Shah
Date: 1611-1629
Medium: Brick
Size: 512 by 159 meters
Description: It is regarded as one of the masterpieces of Persian architecture in the Islamic era. Its splendor is mainly due to the beauty of its seven-color mosaic tiles and calligraphic inscriptions.
17—Islamic Mosque and Cultural Center, Rome
Date: Completed 1994
Medium: travertino and cotto
Size: area of 30,000 m2 (320,000 sq ft)
Description: The largest mosque in the western world ever built
18—ALL images of the Chartres Cathedral
Date: c.1194-1260
Medium: limestone, stained glass
Size: Nave length c.130’ width 53’, height 122’
Description: One of the most authentic and complete works of religious architecture of the early 13th century.
19—ALL images of Notre Dame de Reims
Date: ca. 1225-1290
Medium: limestone
Size: 266’ towers
Description: Famous for being the traditional location for the coronation of the kings of France.
20—Reliquary Statue of Sainte Foy
Date: c. 1050–1130
Medium: agates, amethysts, crystals, carnelians, emeralds, garnets, hematite, jade, onyx, opals, pearls, rubies, sapphires, topazes, antique cameos and intaglios.
Size: 33-½ inch
Description: The reliquary holds the skull of Sainte Foy in the bust, which is made from a repurposed Roman helmet. The use of spolia, or the repurposing of Roman artifacts, connects the statue to Rome, the seat of Christianity, and its riches.
21—Cathedral of St. James (all images)
Date: 1078–1122
Medium: granite
Size: 75 meters (246 ft)
Description: A few years later, this site became a famous pilgrimage town, one of the most important of Christianity. Pilgrims came from all over Europe following the Camino de Santiago to reach the city born around the Holy Tomb, exercising a great influence on the surrounding area.
22—The Last Judgement Tympanum at Autun
Date: 1130-45
Medium: Stone
Size: 640 cm wide, supported by a 76.5 cm tall
Description: This Christian story of the end of the world involves Jesus coming back to Earth to judge the souls of the living and the dead to determine who goes to heaven and hell for eternity.
23—Bayeux Embroidery
Date: c. 1070
Medium: embroidered wool on linen
Size: 20 inches high
Description: Measuring twenty inches high and almost 230 feet in length, the Bayeux Tapestry commemorates a struggle for the throne of England between William, the Duke of Normandy, and Harold, the Earl of Wessex (Normandy is a region in northern France).
24—Serpent Mound, Mississippian Culture,
Date: c. 1070 CE
Medium: Ground?
Size: 1300 feet long
Description: Rich spiritual beliefs of the ancient Native American cultures that created them
25—Colossal Head, San Lorenzo, Mexico. Olmec culture,
Date: c. 1200-900 BCE
Medium: Basalt
Size: 10 feet tall and weighs an estimated 40 tons
Description: Given that the extremely large slabs of stone used in their production were transported over large distances (over 150 kilometres (93 mi)), requiring a great deal of human effort and resources, it is thought that the monuments represent portraits of powerful individual Olmec rulers.
26—Temple I, Tikal, Guatemala. Maya culture.
Date: 4th century BCE-5th century CE
Medium: Limestone
Size: rises 47 meters (154 ft) high
Description: It is also known as Temple of the great Jaguar.
27—Geoglyph Of A Hummingbird, Nazca culture,
Date: c. 1-700 CE
Medium: Stone
Size: 300 feet in length
Description: The hummingbird measures over 300 feet in length, among the world’s largest drawings.
28—Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.
Date: 830-1250 CE
Medium: stone and adobe plaster
Size: 3 acres
Description: It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126.
29—Date: 2600-1900 BCE
Medium: sun dried bricks
Size: 750 acres
Description: Mohenjo-daro was built in the 26th century BCE. It was one of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, which developed around 3,000 BCE from the prehistoric Indus culture.
30—Torso of A "Priest-King"
Date: 2000-1900 BCE
Medium: Steatite
Size: 6 7/8“ High
Description: The central ornament worn on the forehead of the famous "priest-king" sculpture from Mohenjo-daro appears to represent an eye bead, possibly made of gold with steatite inlay in the center.
31—Great Stupa, Sanchi, India, 3rd century BCE to 1st century CE
Date: 3rd century BC to 1st century Ce
Medium: Brick and stone
Size: 16.46 m (54.0 ft) (dome of the Great Stupa)
Description: It is one of the oldest Buddhist monuments in the country and the largest stupa at the site. It is believed to house ashes of the Buddha.
32—Vishvanatha Temple
Date: 999 CE or 1002 CE
Medium: Sandstone
Size: 223 m
Description: The temple is dedicated to Shiva, meaning "Lord of the Universe"
33—Army of the First Emperor of Qin
Date: 210–209 BCE
Medium: Terracotta
Size: 7,000 terracotta warriors, 56.25 square kilometers
Description: An army including over 7,000 terracotta warriors, horses, chariots and weaponry intended to protect him in the afterlife. The First Emperor envisioned a subterranean domain that would parallel his worldly existence after corporal death.
34—Nanchan Temple
Date: 782
Medium: wood
Size: 3078 square meters
Description: The Great Buddha Hall of Nanchan Temple is a prayer hall that has been preserved in the temple, is currently China’s oldest preserved timber building extant, as wooden buildings are often prone to fire and various destructions.
35—Fan Kuan, Travelers among Mountains and Streams
Date: Early 11th century
Medium: Hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk
Size: 206.3 x 103.3 cm
Description: Fan Kuan has described with realistic detail the solemn grandeur of a majestic landscape.
36—Tomb of Emperor Nintoku
Date: Late 4th century to early 5th century
Medium: -
Size: at 486 meters long and with a mound 35 meters high,
Description: Daisen-ryo is the largest burial mound in the world, estimated to have taken 16 years and 6.8 million man-days of labor to complete, and is said to contain a greater volume of material than the Great Pyramid of Giza.
37—Haniwa warrior figure
Date: 5th century – mid-6th century
Medium: Low-fired clay
Size: 4’1”
Description: Massive quantities of haniwa—many near life sized—were carefully placed on top of colossal, mounded tombs, known as kofun.