Pillar and Lion Capital with Askok's incription.

Lauriya Nandangarh, India.

Mid-third century BCE. Buddhist South Asian.

Stupa 1. Sanchi, India. c. late first century BCE or 

early first century CE. Buddhist South Asia.

Scene of Stupa Worship from Stupa 1, north torana. Sanchi, India. c late first century BCE or

early first century CE. Buddhist South Asia.

Great Departure from Stupa 1, east torana. Sanchi, India.

c. late first century BCE or ealry first century CE.

Buddhist South Asia.

Standing Bodhisattva. Ganhara region, Pakistan. 

c. second- third century CE. Buddhist South Asia.

Diplyon Vase (from Diplyon Cemetary). Athens, Greece.

8th century BCE. Geometric Period Greece.

Kneeling Youth. Samos, Greece. c. 600 BCE.

Orientalizing Period.

Metropolitan Kouros. Attica, Greece. c 600 BCE.

Archaic Greece.

Anavysos Kouros. Anavysos, Greece. c. 530 BCE.

Archaic Greece.

Peplos Kore. Athens, Greece. c 510 BCE.

Late Archaic Greece.

Acropolis Kore. Acropolis in Athens, Greece. c 510 BCE.

Late Archaic Greece.

Kritios Boy. Athens, Greece. c 510 BCE.

Late Archaic Greece.

Doryphoros/ Spear-Bearer. Herculaneum, Italy. 

1st Century CE. Imperial Roman

(copies Classical Greece from 5th century BCE).

Warrior. Shipwreck at Riace, Italy. 5th century BCE.

Imperial Roman (copy of Classical Greek).

Discobolus/ Discus-throwe. Rome, Italy. 1st century CE.

Imperial Roman (copied after Classical Greek).

Medici Venus. Imperial Roman copy of a

Hellenistic Bronze original. 1st century CE.

Victory of Samothrace. Samothrace, Greece.

c. 350-325 BCE. Hellinistic.

Laocoon and his Sons. Artists:

Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros.

Rome, Italy. 1st century BCE.  

Hellenistic or Roman copy of Hellenistic.

Vishnu on the Cosmic Waters.

Vishnu Temple, Deogarh, India. c. 530 CE.

Gupta Dynasty.

Shiva Mahadeva. Elephanta, India. c. Mid 6th Cenutry CE.

Gupta Dynasty.

Augustus of Prima Porta. Rome, Italy.

Early 1st Century CE. Imperial Roman. Emperor Augustus.

Maison Carre. Nimes, France. 1st Century BCE.

Roman Republic.

Sanctuary of Fortuna. Palestrina, Italy. c. 80 BCE.

Roman Republic.

Column of Trajan. Rome, Italy. 113 CE. Roman Imperial.

Patron: Trajan.

Basilica Ulpia from the Forum of Trajan. Rome, Italy.

113 CE. Roman Imperial. Patron: Trajan. 

Baths of Caracalla. Rome, Italy. 212-216 CE.

Roman Imperial. Patron: Emperor Caracala.

Acropolis of Athens. Athens, Greece. 

c. 450 - 400 BCE. High Classical Greek. Patron: Pericles.

Parthenon. Athens, Greece. 447-432 BCE. 

High Classical Greece.

Temple of Hera. Paestrum, Italy. c 550-540 BCE.

Archaic Greek.

Erechtheion on the Acropolis. Athens, Greece. 

421-405 BCE. High Classical Greece.

Reconstruction plan of Dur Sharrukin, Iraq. c 720 BCE.

Assyrian.

Lammassu from the Palace of Sargon II.

Dur Sharrukin, Iraq. c 720 BCE. Assyrian.

Gate of all Nations from Persepolis. Persepolis, Iran.

c 500 BCE. Persian Achaemenid.