A-Level: Animals in 2D or 3D works

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A-Level: Tipu’s Tiger

Descent of the Ganges or Arjuna’s Penance, 7-8th C., Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, India — […]

The Great Relief at Mamallapuram

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Illustration from the Akbarnama

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Double-headed serpent

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Bahram Gur Fights the Karg (Horned Wolf), ...

Ceremonial Palm Wine Vessel, 19th–20th century, Grassfields region, Cameroon, gourd, glass beads, cloth, cane, wood, 76.2 x 30.8 x 19.7 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Ceremonial Palm Wine Vessel (Cameroon Grasslands peoples)

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Linguist Staff (Okyeamepoma) (Asante peoples)

Detail, Buffalo (Bocio), 19th century, Republic of Benin, Fon people, silver, iron, and wood, 30.5 cm high (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Buffalo (Bocio) (Fon peoples)

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Feline-Head Bottle

Kòmò Helmet Mask (Kòmòkun), 19th–mid-20th century, Guinea or Mali or Burkina Faso or Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, Komo or Koma Power Association, Wood, bird skull, porcupine quills, horns, cotton, sacrificial materials, 35.2 x 22.1 x 85.6 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Kòmò Helmet Mask (Kòmòkunw) (Bamana peoples)

Headdress: Male Antelope (Ci Wara), 19th–20th century Mali, Bamako region, Bamana, wood, metal bands, 71.1 cm high (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Male and Female Antelope Headdresses (Ci wara) ...

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Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus

Glass bottle in the form of a fish, c. 1390-1336 B.C.E., 18th Dynasty, glass, 14.5 cm, el-Amarna, Egypt © Trustees of the British Museum — […]

A bottle and a toy: Objects from ...

Nebamun fowling in the marshes, Tomb-chapel of Nebamun, c. 1350 B.C.E., 18th Dynasty, paint on plaster, 83 x 98 cm, Thebes © Trustees of the British Museum — […]

Paintings from the Tomb-chapel of Nebamun

Preparations for a Sacrifice, fragment from an architectural relief, c. mid-first century C.E., marble, 172 x 211 cm / 67¾ x 83⅛ inches (Musée du Louvre, Paris) — […]

Preparations for a Sacrifice

Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000), 1994, flattened cans of corned beef (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Collection) ©Michael Tuffery — […]

Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef ...

"Spring Fresco (detail)," Building Complex Delta, room delta 2, west wall, Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini), Greece — […]

Akrotiri, Thera

Eleusis Amphora — […]

Eleusis Amphora

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Camelid sacrum in the shape of a ...

Louis Comfort Tiffany, Hair Ornament, c. 1904, gold, silver, platinum, black opals, boulder opals, demantoid garnets, rubies, enamel, H. 3 1/4" / 8.3 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). — […]

Louis Comfort Tiffany, Hair Ornament

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504, engraving (fourth state), 25.1 x 20 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve

Capitoline Wolf, 5th century B.C.E. or medieval, bronze, 75 cm (Capitoline Museums, Rome) — […]

Capitoline She-wolf

Tassili N'Ajjer in Algeria — […]

Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus (Libya)

Standing Hippopotamus, ca. 1961–1878 B.C.E., Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 7 7/8" x 2 15/16" x 4 7/16" / 20 cm x 7.5 cm x 11.2 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Standing Hippopotamus

Standard of Ur (detail) — […]

Standard of Ur

Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (detail) — […]

Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

Basin (Baptistère de Saint Louis) (detail) — […]

Mohammed ibn al-Zain, Basin (Baptistère de Saint ...

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Bushel with ibex motifs

Capital of a column from the audience hall of the palace of Darius I (detail) — […]

Capital of a column from the audience ...

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Lion Gate

The David Vases (detail) — […]

The David Vases

Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions (detail) — […]

Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions

The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (detail) — […]

The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia

Exekias, Dionysos Kylix (detail) — […]

Exekias, Dionysos Kylix

Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, Laocoön and his Sons (detail) — […]

Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, Laocoön ...

Franz von Stuck, The Sin (detail) — […]

Franz von Stuck, The Sin

Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living — […]

Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death ...

Painted Garden, Villa of Livia (detail) — […]

Painted Garden, Villa of Livia

Coronation Mantle (detail) — […]

Coronation Mantle

Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884 (detail) — […]

Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte ...

Sir Frederic Leighton, An Athlete Wrestling with a Python — […]

Sir Frederic Leighton, An Athlete Wrestling with ...

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Horse (detail) — […]

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Horse

Edgar Degas, At the Races in the Countryside (detail) — […]

Edgar Degas, At the Races in the Countryside

Washington Allston, Elijah in the Desert (detail) — […]

Washington Allston, Elijah in the Desert

The Unicorn in Captivity (detail) — […]

The Unicorn in Captivity

Pair of Centaurs Fighting Cats of Prey from Hadrian's Villa (detail) — […]

Pair of Centaurs Fighting Cats of Prey ...

Winslow Homer, The Fog Warning (detail) — […]

Winslow Homer, The Fog Warning (or Halibut ...

Rosa Bonheur, Sheep in the Highlands (detail) — […]

Rosa Bonheur, Sheep in the Highlands

Paul Gauguin, The Red Cow (detail) — […]

Paul Gauguin, The Red Cow

Rosa Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais (detail) — […]

Rosa Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais (or ...

Apollo 11 Cave Stones, Namibia, quartzite, c. 25,500–25,300 B.C.E. Image courtesy of State Museum of Namibia. — […]

Apollo 11 Cave Stones

Mirror Pendant in the Form of a Bat-Human, from Grave 5, Sitio Conte, Coclé Province, Panama, gold, c. 850, 3 11/16” x 3 3/16” x 1 1/8” (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University) — […]

Mirror Pendant in the Form of a ...

Disemboweled bison and bird-headed human figure? Cave at Lascaux, c. 16,000-14,000 B.C.E. — […]

Hall of Bulls, Lascaux

Paul Gauguin, Nevermore (detail) — […]

Paul Gauguin, Nevermore

Elephant (Aka) Mask (detail) — […]

Elephant Mask (Bamileke Peoples)

Lion Capital, Ashokan Pillar at Sarnath — […]

Lion Capital, Ashokan Pillar at Sarnath

Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912, oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 43 1/4 " (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo) — […]

Italian Futurism: An Introduction

Henri Matisse, Goldfish, 1912, oil on canvas, 146 x 97 cm (Pushkin Museum of Art, Moscow) — […]

Henri Matisse, Goldfish

Uche Okeke, Owls, From the Oja Suite, 1962, ink on paper © The Estate of Uche Okeke (Newark Museum) — […]

Uche Okeke

Kiki Smith, Lying with the Wolf, 2001, ink and pencil on paper 88 x 73 in (Centre Pompidou, Paris) © Kiki Smith — […]

Kiki Smith, Lying with the Wolf

John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778, oil on canvas, 182 x 230 cm (National Gallery, Washington) — […]

John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark

John Singleton Copley, A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham), 1765, oil on canvas, 77.15 x 63.82 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) — […]

John Singleton Copley, A Boy with a ...

Kwakwaka’wakw artist, Eagle Mask open, late 19th c., from Alert Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, cedar wood, feathers, sinew, cord, bird skin, hide, plant fibers, cotton, iron, pigments, 37 x 57 x 49 cm (American Museum of Natural History) — […]

Transformation masks

Attributed to Cotsiogo, Hide Painting of the Sun Dance, c. 1890-1900, Eastern Shoshone (Wind River Reservation, WY), painted elk hide (Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe) — […]

Eastern Shoshone: Hide Painting of the Sun ...

Frontispiece, Codex Mendoza, Viceroyalty of New Spain, c. 1541–1542, pigment on paper © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford — […]

Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza

Aerial view of the Great Serpent Mound, c. 1070, Adams County, Ohio — […]

Fort Ancient Culture: Great Serpent Mound

Pieter Aertsen, A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms, 1551, oil on panel 45 1/2 x 66 1/2" / 115.6 x 168.9 cm (North Carolina Museum of Art). Other versions include one in the University Art Collections, Uppsala University, Sweden. — […]

Pieter Aertsen, Meat Stall

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504, engraving (fourth state), 25.1 x 20 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1480-1505, oil on panel, 220 x 390 cm (Prado, Madrid) — […]

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights

William Holman Hunt, Our English Coasts ("Strayed Sheep") (detail) — […]

William Holman Hunt, Our English Coasts (Strayed Sheep)

Sir Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern Times; Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Victoria, Princess Royal, 1840-43, oil on canvas, 113.3 x 144.5 cm (The Royal Collection) — […]

Sir Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern ...

John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831, oil on canvas, 151.8 x 189.9 cm (National Gallery, London, on loan from a private collection) — […]

John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows

William Blake, The spiritual form of Nelson guiding Leviathan, in whose wreathings are infolded the Nations of the Earth, c. 1805-9, tempera on canvas 30" x 24" / 76.2 x 62.5 cm (Tate Britain, London) — […]

William Blake, The spiritual form of Nelson ...

Figure asleep (detail), Francisco Goya, Plate 43, The sleep of reason produces monsters from Los Caprichos, 1799, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin, plate: 21.2 x 15.1 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces ...

"Bahram Gur in a Peasant's House," Folio from the so-called "Second Small Shahnama," early 14th c., ink, opaque watercolors, gold on paper, 6 5/16 x 5 11/16", Ilkhanid Dynasty (Brooklyn Museum of Art) — […]

Bahram Gur in a Peasant’s House, Ilkhanid ...

Pyxis of al-Mughira, possibly from Madinat al-Zahra, AH 357/ 968 CE, carved ivory with traces of jade, 16cm x 11.8 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris) (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) — […]

Pyxis of al-Mughira

Chimera from Arezzo, c. 400 B.C.E., bronze, 129 cm in length, (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence) — […]

Chimera of Arezzo

Terracotta kantharos (vase), 7th century B.C.E., Etruscan, terracotta, 18.39 cm high (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Bucchero

Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Matthew (detail), Second Initial Page, f.29, early 8th century (British Library) — […]

The Lindisfarne Gospels

David Composing the Psalms, from the Paris Psalter, c. 900 C.E. 14-1/8 x 10-1/4" / 36 x 26 cm (Bibliothèque nationale de France) — […]

The Paris Psalter

The Ishtar Gate (detail) — […]

The Ishtar Gate and Neo-Babylonian art and ...

The phoenix from folio 56 recto of the Aberdeen Bestiary, written and illuminated in England around 1200. The Bestiary describes this magical bird as building its own funeral pyre and then rising from the ashes. — […]

The Bestiary