ETH’s 250 by Content Area or Unit
every 250 is listed here as placeholder in each content area, with pieces seen in their allotted spots. full information and images of the rest can be seen best here, on smarthistory.
Unit 1 :
Global Prehistory
30,000 - 500 B.C.E.
1. Apollo 11 Stones
2. Great Hall of the Bulls
3. Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine
4. Running horned woman
6. Anthropomorphic stele
8. Stonehenge
9. The Ambum Stone
10. Tlatilco female figurine
11. Terra cotta fragment
Unit 2 :
Ancient Mediterranean
3,500 B.C.E. - 300 C.E.
12. White Temple and its ziggurat
13. Palette of King Narmer
14. Statues of votive figures
17. Great Pyramids
18. King Menkaura and queen
20 .Temple of Amun-Re and the Hypostyle Hall
21. Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
22. Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters
23. Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin
26. Athenian Agora
27. Anavysos Kouros
28. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis
30. Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes
31. Temple of Minerva [and sculpture of Apollo]
32. Tomb of the Triclinium
34. Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer)
35. Acropolis: the Parthenon
36. Grave stele of Hegeso
38. Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
39. House of the Vettii
40. Alexander Mosaic
41. Seated Boxer
42. Head of a Roman patrician
43. Augustus of Prima Porta
44. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
45. Forum of Trajan
46. Pantheon
47. Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
Unit 3 :
Early Europe and Colonial Americas
200 - 1750 C.E.
48. Catacomb of Priscilla
49. Santa Sabina
50. Vienna Genesis
51. San Vitale
52. Hagia Sophia
53. Merovingian looped fibulae
54. Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
55. Lindisfarne Gospels
56. Great Mosque, Córdoba
58. Church of Sainte-Foy
60. Chartres Cathedral
61. Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile
62. Röttgen Pietà
63. Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel
64. Golden Haggadah
65. Alhambra
66. Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
67. Pazzi Chapel
69. David
70. Palazzo Rucellai
71. Madonna and Child with Two Angels
72. Birth of Venus
73. Last Supper
74. Adam and Eve
75. Sistine Chapel ceiling frescos
76. School of Athens
77. Isenheim Altarpiece
78. Entombment of Christ
79. Allegory of Law and Grace
80. Venus of Urbino
81. Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
82. II Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco
83. Hunters in the Snow
84. Mosque of Selim II
85. Calling of Saint Matthew
87. Self-Portrait with Saskia
88. San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
89. Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
90. Angel with Arquebus
91. Las Meninas
94. Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene
95. The Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe)
96. Fruit and Insects
Unit 4 :
Later Europe and Americas
1750 - 1980 C.E.
99. Portrait of Sir Juana Inés de la Cruz
100. A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery
106. Y no hai remedio (And There’s Nothing to Be Done) from Los Desastres de la Guerre (The Disasters of War), plate 15
110. Still Life in Studio
111. Slave Ship (Slaves Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)
113. The Stone Breakers
114. Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art
118. The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel (El Valle de México desde el Cerro de Santa Isabel)
121. The Coiffure
122. The Scream
123. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
124. Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building
125. Mont Sainte-Victoire
127. The Steerage
128. The Kiss
129. The Kiss
130. The Portuguese
131. Goldfish
132. Improvisation 28 (second version)
133. Self-Portrait As a Solider
135. Villa Savoye
136. Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow
137. Illustration from The Results of the First Five-Year Plan
140. The Two Fridas
141. The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49
142. The Jungle
143. Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park
144. Fountain (second version)
145. Woman, I
148. Narcissus Garden
149. The Bay
150. Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
151. Spiral Jetty
152. House in New Castle County
Unit 5 :
Indigenous Americas
1000 B.C.E. - 1980 C.E.
153. Yaxchilán
155. Yaxchilán
156. Great Serpent Mound
157. Templo Mayor (Main Temple)
158. Ruler’s feather headdress (probably of Motecuhzoma II)
159. City of Cusco, including Qorikancha
160. Maize cobs
161. City of Machu Picchu
162. All-T’oqapu tunic
163. Bandolier bag
164. Transformation mask
165. Painted elk hide
166. Black-on-black ceramic vessel
Unit 6 :
Africa
1100 - 1980 C.E.
167. Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe
168. Great Mosque of Djenné
169. Wall plaque, from Oba’s palace
170. Sika dwa kofi (Golden Stool)
171. Ndop (portrait figure) of King Moshe miShyaang maMbul
172. Power figure (Nkisi n’tondi)
173. Female (Pwo) mask
174. Portrait mask (Mblo)
175. Bundu mask
176. Ikenga (shrine figure)
177. Lukasa (memory board)
178. Aka elephant mask
179. Reliquary figure (byeri)
180. Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga)
Unit 7 :
West and Central Asia
500 B.C.E. - 1980 C.E.
181. Petra, Jordan
182. Buddha, Bamiyan
183. The Kaaba
184. Jowo Rinpoche, enshrined in the Jokhang Temple
185. Dome of the Rock
186. Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh), Isfahan
187. Folio from a Qur’an
188. Basin (Baptistère de Saint Louis)
189. Bahram Gur Fights the Karg, folio from the Great II-Khanid Shahnama
190. The Court of Gayumars, folio from Shah Tahmasp’s Shahnama
Unit 8 :
South, East, and Southeast Asia
300 B.C.E. - 1980 C.E.
192. Great Stupa at Sanchi
193. Terra cotta warriors from the mausoleum of the first Qin emperor of China
194. Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui)
195. Longmen caves
196. Gold and jade crown
197. Tōdai-ji
198. Borobudur Temple
199. Angkor, the temple of Angkor Wat
200. Lakshmana Temple
201. Travelers among Mountains and Streams
203. Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace
205. Portrait of Sin Sukju
206. Forbidden City
207. Ryōan-ji
208. Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
209. Taj Mahal
210. Red and White Plum Blossoms
211. Under the Wave off Kanagawa, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
212. Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan
Unit 9 :
The Pacific
700 - 1980 C.E.
213. Nan Madol
214. Moi on platfrom (ahu)
215. ‘Ahu ‘ula (feather cape)
216. Staff god
217. Female deity
218. Buk (mask)
219. Hiapo (tapa)
220. Tamati Waka Nene
221. Navigation chart
222. Malagan display and mask
223. Presentation of Fijian Mats and Tapa Cloths to Queen Elizabeth II
Unit 10 :
Global Contemporary
1980 C.E. - Present
224. The Gates
226. Horn Players
227. Summer Trees
228. Androgyne III
229. A Book from the Sky
230. Pink Panther
231. Untitled #228, from the History Portraits series
232. Dancing at the Louvre, from the series The French Collection
233. Trade (Gifts fro Trading Land with White People)
234. Earth’s Creation
235. Rebellious Silence, from the Women of Allah series
236. En la barber no se flora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop)
237. Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000)
239. The Crossing
240. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
241. Pure Land
242. Lying with the Wolf
243. Darkytown Rebellion
244. The Swing (After Fragonard)
245. Old Man’s Cloth
246. Stadia II
247. Preying Mantra
249. MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
250. Kui Hua ZI (Sunflower Seeds)
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