great mosque of cordoba (spain) - islamic once one of the biggest mosques in the world, it’s now a...

Great Mosque of Cordoba (Spain) - ISLAMICOnce one of the biggest mosques in the World, it’s now a Catholic Cathedral since the Spanish Inquisition.

“Shiva Nataraja (The Dancing Shiva)”. Bronze sculpture, ca 1400. HINDU

Japanese Torii

Andrea Mantegna, Lamentation Over Dead Christ, c1490EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

Simone Martini, Annunciation, 1333.LATE GOTHIC / PROTO-RENAISSANCE

Hagia Sophia (Istanbul 532-537)BYZANTINE

Mihrab in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.

ISLAMIC ART

Dying Gaul Pergamon, Turkey ca. 230-220 BC

HELLENISTIC PERIOD

Albrecht DurerAdam And Eve, Engraving, 1504.

HIGH GERMAN RENAISSANCE

Pieter Bruegel the ElderThe Hunters In the Snow. 1565. Oil on panel

HIGH NETHERLANDISH RENAISSANCE

St. Chapelle1220-1236FRENCH RAYONNANT GOTHIC

Housed holy relics of the Passion of Christ collected by Louis IX

Mihrab(Islamic niche on qibla wall) ISLAMIC

Gerrit Rietveld, Schroder House, 1923-24. DE STIJL

The Dome of the Rock, 691 CE(Oldest existing Islamic building in the World) ISLAMIC

The Taj Mahal, Agra, India. ISLAMIC ART

Ganeshathe Elephant-headed

God

HINDU

The Great Stupa, 3rd Century BCE, Sanchi, India. BUDDHISM

Japanese PAGODA

BUDDHISM

Vishnu the Preserver

Hindu

Hindu Temple

Vedas, or Vedic HinduText pages

HINDU

Augustus of Primaporta,Early 1st Century BCE

REPUBLIC ROME

Umberto BoccioniUnique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913.FUTURISM

Georgia O’KeeffeRed Canna, 1923.REGIONALISM

Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1905-06. FAUVISM

Salvador Dali, The Persistence Of Memory, 1931. SURREALISM