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Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1490–1510

National Gallery, London

The Ambassadors

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Netherlandish Proverbs

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559

Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Museums

The School of Athens

Raphael, 1509–1511

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Night Watch

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642

Saint Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent

Ghent Altarpiece (Adoration of the Mystic Lamb)

Hubert and Jan van Eyck, 1432

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Children's Games

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560

Palace Museum, Beijing

Along the River During the Qingming Festival

Zhang Zeduan, c. 1100–1125

Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museums

The Last Judgment

Michelangelo, 1536–1541

Art Institute of Chicago

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat, 1884–1886

Uffizi, Florence

Primavera

Sandro Botticelli, late 1470s–early 1480s

The Met Cloisters, New York

Mérode Altarpiece (Annunciation Triptych)

Workshop of Robert Campin, c. 1427–1432

National Gallery, London

The Arnolfini Portrait

Jan van Eyck, 1434

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Hunters in the Snow

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Art of Painting

Johannes Vermeer, c. 1666–1668

Museo del Prado, Madrid

Las Meninas

Diego Velázquez, 1656

Refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

The Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci, 1495–1498

Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Haywain Triptych

Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1510–1516

Palazzo Pubblico (Sala dei Nove), Siena

The Allegory of Good and Bad Government

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1338–1339

Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Coronation of Napoleon

Jacques-Louis David, 1805–1807

National Gallery, London

Marriage A-la-Mode: 1. The Marriage Settlement

William Hogarth, 1743–1745

Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Wedding at Cana

Paolo Veronese, 1562–1563

Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings

Bichitr, c. 1615–1618

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Madonna of Chancellor Rolin

Jan van Eyck, c. 1435

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix, 1830

Mauritshuis, The Hague

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1632

Tate Britain, London

Ophelia

John Everett Millais, 1851–1852

Palace Museum, Beijing

The Night Revels of Han Xizai

Gu Hongzhong (surviving version a 12th-century copy), 10th century, copy 12th century

National Gallery, London

Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time

Agnolo Bronzino, c. 1545

Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Third of May 1808

Francisco Goya, 1814

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Portinari Altarpiece

Hugo van der Goes, c. 1475

Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things

Hieronymus Bosch (or workshop), c. 1500–1525

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

Declaration of Independence

John Trumbull, 1786–1820

Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Raft of the Medusa

Théodore Géricault, 1818–1819

Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Descent from the Cross

Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1435

Museo del Prado, Madrid

Las Hilanderas

Diego Velázquez, c. 1655–1658

The Courtauld Gallery, London

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

Édouard Manet, 1882

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Night Attack on the Sanjō Palace (Heiji Monogatari Emaki)

Unknown, Kamakura period, c. 1250–1275

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Emanuel Leutze, 1851

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889

James Ensor, 1888

Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican Museums

The Transfiguration

Raphael, 1516–1520

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David, 1787

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Paul Gauguin, 1897–1898

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

The Painter's Studio

Gustave Courbet, 1854–1855

Art Institute of Chicago

At the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892–1895

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Beware of Luxury (In Weelde Siet Toe)

Jan Steen, 1663

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Milkmaid

Johannes Vermeer, c. 1658–1661

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Judith Slaying Holofernes

Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1620

Church of Santo Tomé, Toledo

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

El Greco, 1586–1588

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Feast of Saint Nicholas

Jan Steen, c. 1665–1668

Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

The Court of Gayumars, from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp

Sultan Muhammad, c. 1524–1525

British Museum, London

Admonitions Scroll

Attributed to Gu Kaizhi, 5th–8th century, after a 4th-century original

Kōzan-ji, Kyoto

Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga (Scrolls of Frolicking Animals and Humans)

Traditionally attributed to Toba Sōjō, 12th–13th century

National Gallery, London

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe

Édouard Manet, 1863

Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The Battle of Alexander at Issus

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529

Skokloster Castle, Sweden

Vertumnus (Rudolf II as Vertumnus)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1591

National Gallery, London

Belshazzar's Feast

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1635–1638

Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Money Changer and His Wife

Quentin Matsys, 1514

Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Maestà

Duccio di Buoninsegna, 1308–1311

National Gallery, London

The Supper at Emmaus

Caravaggio, 1601

Art Institute of Chicago

The Bedroom (Bedroom in Arles)

Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City

Our Lady of Guadalupe (the tilma image)

Anonymous, 16th century

Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Apotheosis of Homer

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1827

State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Ilya Repin, 1880–1891

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Winter Landscape with Skaters

Hendrick Avercamp, c. 1608

Museo del Prado, Madrid

Charles IV of Spain and His Family

Francisco Goya, 1800–1801

Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp

The Descent from the Cross

Peter Paul Rubens, 1612–1614

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Adoration of the Magi

Gentile da Fabriano, 1423

Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

The Tribute Money

Masaccio, c. 1425

Galleria Borghese, Rome

Sacred and Profane Love

Titian, c. 1514

Tate Britain, London

The Awakening Conscience

William Holman Hunt, 1853

Palace of Versailles

Marie Antoinette and Her Children

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1787

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A Goldsmith in His Shop

Petrus Christus, 1449

National Museum in Gdańsk

The Last Judgment

Hans Memling, c. 1467–1471

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

View from Mount Holyoke — The Oxbow

Thomas Cole, 1836

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Watson and the Shark

John Singleton Copley, 1778

Museum of the Imperial Collections, Tokyo

Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba (Illustrated Account of the Mongol Invasions)

Anonymous, commissioned by Takezaki Suenaga, c. 1293

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin, probably 1633–1634

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Fortune-Teller

Georges de La Tour, probably 1630s

National Gallery, London

Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life

Harmen Steenwijck, c. 1640

Mauritshuis, The Hague

Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels

Clara Peeters, c. 1615

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Slab

Rachel Ruysch, 1716

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Self-portrait

Judith Leyster, c. 1630

Mauritshuis, The Hague

The Proposition

Judith Leyster, 1631

National Museum in Poznań

The Game of Chess

Sofonisba Anguissola, 1555

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur, 1852–1855

Art Institute of Chicago

The Child's Bath

Mary Cassatt, 1893

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Portrait of Madeleine

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, 1800

Jaganmohan Palace, Mysore

Galaxy of Musicians

Raja Ravi Varma, 1889

Pera Museum, Istanbul

The Tortoise Trainer

Osman Hamdi Bey, 1906

Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán

Casta painting (complete set of sixteen castas)

Anonymous, New Spain, 18th century

Museo de Arte de Lima

Virgin of Carmel Saving Souls in Purgatory

Anonymous, Cusco School, late 17th century

Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, Sergiyev Posad

The Trinity

Andrei Rublev, c. 1411 or 1425–1427

National Gallery, London

The Wilton Diptych

Unknown (French or English court painter), c. 1395–1399

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Annunciation with Saint Margaret and Saint Ansanus

Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, 1333

National Museum, Warsaw

Battle of Grunwald

Jan Matejko, 1878

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga ("The Red Boy")

Francisco de Goya, 1787–1788

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.

George Washington (Lansdowne portrait)

Gilbert Stuart, 1796