AP ART HISTORY
The 250 Required Works
A Comprehensive Visual Study Guide Covering
Every Required Work for the AP Art History Examination
Organized by Content Area • Complete with Identifying Information,
Context, Vocabulary, and Essential Study Notes
TEN CONTENT AREAS
I Global Prehistory (30,000–500 BCE)
II Ancient Mediterranean (3500 BCE–300 CE)
III Early Europe and Colonial Americas (200–1750 CE)
IV Later Europe and Americas (1750–1980 CE)
V Indigenous Americas (1000 BCE–1980 CE)
VI Africa (1100–1980 CE)
VII West and Central Asia (500 BCE–1980 CE)
VIII South, East, and Southeast Asia (300 BCE–1980 CE)
IX The Pacific (700–1980 CE)
X Global Contemporary (1980–Present)
, STUDY PRIORITY GUIDE
AP Art History Unit Breakdown — Exam Weight & Study Priority
Units ranked by recommended study priority — combines official AP exam weight with relative content density.
PRIORITY UNIT EXAM WEIGHT
1 Unit 3: Early Europe and Colonial Americas 200–1750 CE 21%
2 Unit 4: Later Europe and Americas 1750–1980 CE 21%
3 Unit 10: Global Contemporary 1980 CE–Present 11%
4 Unit 8: South, East, and Southeast Asia 300 BCE–1980 CE 8%
5 Unit 2: Ancient Mediterranean 3500 BCE–300 CE 15%
6 Unit 6: Africa 1100–1980 CE 6%
7 Unit 5: Indigenous Americas 1000 BCE–1980 CE 6%
8 Unit 7: West and Central Asia 500 BCE–1980 CE 4%
9 Unit 1: Global Prehistory 30,000–500 BCE 4%
10 Unit 9: The Pacific 700–1980 CE 4%
STRATEGY NOTES
Units 3 & 4 together = 42% of the exam — nearly half. These should be your strongest areas. Master the Renaissance, Baroque,
Neoclassical, Romantic, Realist, Impressionist, and Modernist movements thoroughly.
Unit 2 (Ancient Mediterranean) at 15% is often underrated — it's the third-largest weight but covers a long span with many key works
(Greek temples, Roman portraiture, etc.).
Units 5–9 (non-Western) each weight 4–8% but together total 28%. Don't neglect them — they're where many AP test-takers lose easy
points because the works are less familiar.
Unit 10 (Global Contemporary, 11%) rewards memorizing artists + context. Many works have strong political/identity themes that recur
in free-response questions.
AP Art History: 250 Works • Page 2
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
UNIT 1: GLOBAL PREHISTORY
1. Apollo 11 Stones
2. Great Hall of the Bulls (Lascaux) — Unknown (Paleolithic)
3. Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine
4. Running Horned Woman
5. Beaker with Ibex Motifs
6. Anthropomorphic Stele
7. Jade Cong — Unknown (Liangzhu culture)
8. Stonehenge — Unknown (Neolithic peoples of Britain)
9. The Ambum Stone
10. Tlatilco Female Figurine
11. Terra Cotta Fragment (Lapita) — Unknown (Lapita culture)
UNIT 2: ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
12. White Temple and its Ziggurat — Unknown (Sumerian)
13. Palette of King Narmer — Unknown (Egyptian)
14. Statues of Votive Figures (from the Square Temple at Eshnunna) — Unknown (Sumerian)
15. Seated Scribe — Unknown (Egyptian)
16. Standard of Ur — Unknown (Sumerian)
17. Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx of Giza — Unknown architects
18. King Menkaure and Queen — Unknown (Egyptian)
19. The Code of Hammurabi — Unknown (Babylonian, commissioned by Hammurabi)
20. Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall (Karnak) — Unknown architects
21. Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut — Designed by Senenmut (Hatshepsut's vizier/architect)
22. Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters — Unknown (Amarna period artist)
23. Tutankhamun's Tomb, Innermost Coffin — Unknown (Egyptian craftsmen)
24. Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer (from his tomb, Book of the Dead) — Unknown (Egyptian scribe/artist)
25. Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II — Unknown (Neo-Assyrian)
26. Athenian Agora — Various architects
27. Anavysos Kouros — Unknown (Greek, Archaic)
28. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis — Unknown (Greek, Archaic)
29. Sarcophagus of the Spouses — Unknown (Etruscan)
30. Audience Hall (Apadana) of Darius and Xerxes — Unknown architects (Persian)
31. Temple of Minerva and Sculpture of Apollo (Master sculptor Vulca) — Sculptor: Vulca of Veii
32. Tomb of the Triclinium — Unknown (Etruscan)
33. Niobides Krater — Niobid Painter (attributed)
34. Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
35. Acropolis (Parthenon, Erechtheion, Temple of Athena Nike, Plan)
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, 36. Grave Stele of Hegeso — Attributed to Kallimachos
37. Winged Victory of Samothrace (Nike of Samothrace) — Unknown (Greek, Hellenistic)
38. Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon — Unknown (Hellenistic Greek)
39. House of the Vettii
40. Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun
41. Seated Boxer — Unknown (Hellenistic Greek)
42. Head of a Roman Patrician — Unknown (Roman)
43. Augustus of Prima Porta — Unknown (Imperial Roman)
44. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
45. Forum of Trajan — Apollodorus of Damascus (architect)
46. Pantheon — Unknown (commissioned by Emperor Hadrian)
47. Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus — Unknown (Roman)
UNIT 3: EARLY EUROPE AND COLONIAL AMERICAS
48. Catacomb of Priscilla — Unknown (Early Christian)
49. Santa Sabina — Unknown (commissioned by Peter of Illyria)
50. Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, and Jacob Wrestling the Angel (Vienna Genesis)
51. San Vitale (with Justinian and Theodora mosaic panels)
52. Hagia Sophia — Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
53. Merovingian Looped Fibulae — Unknown (Merovingian/Frankish)
54. Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George — Unknown (Byzantine)
55. Lindisfarne Gospels: St. Matthew cross-carpet page; St. Luke portrait page; St. Luke incipit page — Eadfrith of
Lindisfarne
56. Great Mosque of Córdoba — Unknown architects
57. Pyxis of al-Mughira — Unknown (Umayyad Spain)
58. Church of Sainte-Foy (with Reliquary) — Unknown (Romanesque)
59. Bayeux Tapestry — Unknown (likely English embroiderers)
60. Chartres Cathedral
61. Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France (Bible Moralisée)
62. Röttgen Pietà — Unknown (late medieval German)
63. Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, including Lamentation — Giotto di Bondone
64. Golden Haggadah (The Plagues of Egypt, Scenes of Liberation, Preparation for Passover) — Unknown (likely Jewish
artists working in Spain)
65. Alhambra — Unknown (Nasrid dynasty)
66. Annunciation Triptych (Mérode Altarpiece) — Workshop of Robert Campin
67. Pazzi Chapel — Filippo Brunelleschi
68. The Arnolfini Portrait — Jan van Eyck
69. David — Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi)
70. Palazzo Rucellai — Leon Battista Alberti
71. Madonna and Child with Two Angels — Fra Filippo Lippi
72. Birth of Venus — Sandro Botticelli
73. Last Supper — Leonardo da Vinci
74. Adam and Eve — Albrecht Dürer
AP Art History: 250 Works • Page 4
The 250 Required Works
A Comprehensive Visual Study Guide Covering
Every Required Work for the AP Art History Examination
Organized by Content Area • Complete with Identifying Information,
Context, Vocabulary, and Essential Study Notes
TEN CONTENT AREAS
I Global Prehistory (30,000–500 BCE)
II Ancient Mediterranean (3500 BCE–300 CE)
III Early Europe and Colonial Americas (200–1750 CE)
IV Later Europe and Americas (1750–1980 CE)
V Indigenous Americas (1000 BCE–1980 CE)
VI Africa (1100–1980 CE)
VII West and Central Asia (500 BCE–1980 CE)
VIII South, East, and Southeast Asia (300 BCE–1980 CE)
IX The Pacific (700–1980 CE)
X Global Contemporary (1980–Present)
, STUDY PRIORITY GUIDE
AP Art History Unit Breakdown — Exam Weight & Study Priority
Units ranked by recommended study priority — combines official AP exam weight with relative content density.
PRIORITY UNIT EXAM WEIGHT
1 Unit 3: Early Europe and Colonial Americas 200–1750 CE 21%
2 Unit 4: Later Europe and Americas 1750–1980 CE 21%
3 Unit 10: Global Contemporary 1980 CE–Present 11%
4 Unit 8: South, East, and Southeast Asia 300 BCE–1980 CE 8%
5 Unit 2: Ancient Mediterranean 3500 BCE–300 CE 15%
6 Unit 6: Africa 1100–1980 CE 6%
7 Unit 5: Indigenous Americas 1000 BCE–1980 CE 6%
8 Unit 7: West and Central Asia 500 BCE–1980 CE 4%
9 Unit 1: Global Prehistory 30,000–500 BCE 4%
10 Unit 9: The Pacific 700–1980 CE 4%
STRATEGY NOTES
Units 3 & 4 together = 42% of the exam — nearly half. These should be your strongest areas. Master the Renaissance, Baroque,
Neoclassical, Romantic, Realist, Impressionist, and Modernist movements thoroughly.
Unit 2 (Ancient Mediterranean) at 15% is often underrated — it's the third-largest weight but covers a long span with many key works
(Greek temples, Roman portraiture, etc.).
Units 5–9 (non-Western) each weight 4–8% but together total 28%. Don't neglect them — they're where many AP test-takers lose easy
points because the works are less familiar.
Unit 10 (Global Contemporary, 11%) rewards memorizing artists + context. Many works have strong political/identity themes that recur
in free-response questions.
AP Art History: 250 Works • Page 2
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
UNIT 1: GLOBAL PREHISTORY
1. Apollo 11 Stones
2. Great Hall of the Bulls (Lascaux) — Unknown (Paleolithic)
3. Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine
4. Running Horned Woman
5. Beaker with Ibex Motifs
6. Anthropomorphic Stele
7. Jade Cong — Unknown (Liangzhu culture)
8. Stonehenge — Unknown (Neolithic peoples of Britain)
9. The Ambum Stone
10. Tlatilco Female Figurine
11. Terra Cotta Fragment (Lapita) — Unknown (Lapita culture)
UNIT 2: ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
12. White Temple and its Ziggurat — Unknown (Sumerian)
13. Palette of King Narmer — Unknown (Egyptian)
14. Statues of Votive Figures (from the Square Temple at Eshnunna) — Unknown (Sumerian)
15. Seated Scribe — Unknown (Egyptian)
16. Standard of Ur — Unknown (Sumerian)
17. Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx of Giza — Unknown architects
18. King Menkaure and Queen — Unknown (Egyptian)
19. The Code of Hammurabi — Unknown (Babylonian, commissioned by Hammurabi)
20. Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall (Karnak) — Unknown architects
21. Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut — Designed by Senenmut (Hatshepsut's vizier/architect)
22. Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters — Unknown (Amarna period artist)
23. Tutankhamun's Tomb, Innermost Coffin — Unknown (Egyptian craftsmen)
24. Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer (from his tomb, Book of the Dead) — Unknown (Egyptian scribe/artist)
25. Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II — Unknown (Neo-Assyrian)
26. Athenian Agora — Various architects
27. Anavysos Kouros — Unknown (Greek, Archaic)
28. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis — Unknown (Greek, Archaic)
29. Sarcophagus of the Spouses — Unknown (Etruscan)
30. Audience Hall (Apadana) of Darius and Xerxes — Unknown architects (Persian)
31. Temple of Minerva and Sculpture of Apollo (Master sculptor Vulca) — Sculptor: Vulca of Veii
32. Tomb of the Triclinium — Unknown (Etruscan)
33. Niobides Krater — Niobid Painter (attributed)
34. Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
35. Acropolis (Parthenon, Erechtheion, Temple of Athena Nike, Plan)
AP Art History: 250 Works • Page 3
, 36. Grave Stele of Hegeso — Attributed to Kallimachos
37. Winged Victory of Samothrace (Nike of Samothrace) — Unknown (Greek, Hellenistic)
38. Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon — Unknown (Hellenistic Greek)
39. House of the Vettii
40. Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun
41. Seated Boxer — Unknown (Hellenistic Greek)
42. Head of a Roman Patrician — Unknown (Roman)
43. Augustus of Prima Porta — Unknown (Imperial Roman)
44. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
45. Forum of Trajan — Apollodorus of Damascus (architect)
46. Pantheon — Unknown (commissioned by Emperor Hadrian)
47. Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus — Unknown (Roman)
UNIT 3: EARLY EUROPE AND COLONIAL AMERICAS
48. Catacomb of Priscilla — Unknown (Early Christian)
49. Santa Sabina — Unknown (commissioned by Peter of Illyria)
50. Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, and Jacob Wrestling the Angel (Vienna Genesis)
51. San Vitale (with Justinian and Theodora mosaic panels)
52. Hagia Sophia — Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
53. Merovingian Looped Fibulae — Unknown (Merovingian/Frankish)
54. Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George — Unknown (Byzantine)
55. Lindisfarne Gospels: St. Matthew cross-carpet page; St. Luke portrait page; St. Luke incipit page — Eadfrith of
Lindisfarne
56. Great Mosque of Córdoba — Unknown architects
57. Pyxis of al-Mughira — Unknown (Umayyad Spain)
58. Church of Sainte-Foy (with Reliquary) — Unknown (Romanesque)
59. Bayeux Tapestry — Unknown (likely English embroiderers)
60. Chartres Cathedral
61. Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France (Bible Moralisée)
62. Röttgen Pietà — Unknown (late medieval German)
63. Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, including Lamentation — Giotto di Bondone
64. Golden Haggadah (The Plagues of Egypt, Scenes of Liberation, Preparation for Passover) — Unknown (likely Jewish
artists working in Spain)
65. Alhambra — Unknown (Nasrid dynasty)
66. Annunciation Triptych (Mérode Altarpiece) — Workshop of Robert Campin
67. Pazzi Chapel — Filippo Brunelleschi
68. The Arnolfini Portrait — Jan van Eyck
69. David — Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi)
70. Palazzo Rucellai — Leon Battista Alberti
71. Madonna and Child with Two Angels — Fra Filippo Lippi
72. Birth of Venus — Sandro Botticelli
73. Last Supper — Leonardo da Vinci
74. Adam and Eve — Albrecht Dürer
AP Art History: 250 Works • Page 4
