Material: The Easter Island statues are made of tuff. This is a soft volcanic rock native to Easter Island.

Possible Date: Between A.D. 1400 – 1600

Culture: The Moai or the Easter Island statues come from the Polynesian culture. It was made by the Rapa Nui people.

Use: These statues were made to honor the chieftains and other important people that have passed away.

Credit of the Photo: Alberto Loyo // Shutterstock

Material: This photograph of the Nefertiti Bust, is created from a painted stucco-coated bust of Nefertiti.

Possible Date: 1345 BC

Culture: Egyptian

Use: A documentation and proof of the existence of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. 

Credit of the Photo: Public Domain // Wikimedia Commons

Material: This painting was made from oil on canvas.

Possible Date: 1666–1668

Culture: Dutch

Use: Portrays the naturalistic technique of painting in the period where painting’s prominence was at a peak in the netherlands. 

Credit of the Photo: Public Domain // Wikimedia Commons

 

Material: This painting was made from oil on canvas.

Possible Date: 1937

Culture: Spanish

Use: Served as an anguished testament to the horrific bombing of the Nazis of the eponymous Basque town at the request of Spanish Nationalists.

Credit of the Photo: Laura Estefania Lopez // Wikimedia Commons

Material: This photograph of the “At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, used oil paint as its primary medium/material on fabric canvas.

Possible Date: 1890 Post-Imperialissm

Culture: French

Use: To document the and portray the nightlife of the working class in france during the 1890’s through the dance instruction of “Valentine the Boneless,” a Moulin Rouge veteran, to a dancer.

Credit of the Photo: Public Domain // Wikimedia Commons