Donato d'Angelo Bramante

Tempietto

San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, Italy

1500

Michelangelo

plan & elevation for St. Peter's

Vatican City, Rome, Italy

1550

Andrea Palladio

Villa Rotunda

near Vicenza, Italy

c. 1550

Giorgione

The Tempest

c. 1510

oil on canvas

Titian

Pastoral Symphony

c. 1510

oil on canvas

fresco

Venus

 Titian

Venus of Urbino

1540

oil on canvas

Neck

Parmagianino

Madonna of the Long Neck

1530

oil on wood

Luxury

Bronzino

Cupid, Folly, and Time

c. 1550

oil on wood

Levi

Paolo Veronese

Christ in the House of Levi

1570

oil on canvas

Giambologna

Abduction of the Sabine Women

1580

marble

Hieronymous Bosch

The Garden of Earthly Delights (open)

1510

oil on wood

Matthias Grunewald

Isenheim Altarpiece (closed)

from the chapel of the Hospital of Saint Anthony, Isenhiem, Germany

c. 1510

oil on wood

Albrecht Durer

The Fall of Man

1500

engraving

Hans Holbein the Younger

The French Ambassadors

1530

oil and tempera on wood

Pieter Aertsen

Butcher's Stall

1550

oil on wood

Caterina van Hemessen

Self-Portrait

1550

oil on wood

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Netherlandish Proverbs

1560

oil on wood

Gianlorenzo Bernini

Baldacchino

St. Peter's, Vatican City, Rome, Italy

1630

Gianlorenzo Bernini

Ecstacy of St. Teresa

Cornaro hapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy

1650

marble

Francesco Borromini

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Rome, Italy

1640

San Carlo Groundplan

Annibale Carracci

Loves of the Gods

Palazzo Farnese, Rome, Italy ceiling frescos

1600

Caravaggio

Calling of St. Matthew

Contarelli chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome 

1600

oil on canvas

Caravaggio

Conversion of Saint Paul

Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

c. 1600

oil on canvas

Artemisia Gentileschi

Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting

c. 1640

oil on canvas

Fra Andrea Pozzo

Glorification of Saint Ignatius

nave ceiling of Sant'Ignazio, Rome, Italy

1690

Francisco de Zurbaran

Saint Serapion

1630

oil on canvas

Diego Velazquez

Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)

1660

oil on canvas

Peter Paul Rubens

Elevation of the Cross

1610

oil on canvas

Peter Paul Rubens

Arrival of Marie de' Medici at Versailles

1620

oil on canvas

Anthony van Dyck

Charles I Dismounted

c. 1630

oil on canvas

Frans Hals

Archers Guild of Saint Hadrian

c. 1630

oil on canvas

Judith Leyster

Self-Portrait

c. 1630

oil on canvas

Rembrandt van Rijn

The Company of Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch)

1640

oil on canvas

Rembrandt van Rijn

Christ with the Sick Around Him, Receiving Children (Hundred Guilder Print)

c. 1650

etching

Jan Vermeer

Allegory of the Art of Painting

1670

oil on canvas

Pieter Claesz

Vanitas Still Life

1630

oil on panel

Nicolas Poussin

Et in Arcadia Ego

c. 1650

oil on canvas

Hyacinthe Rigaud

Louis XIV

1700

oil on canvas

Jules Hardouin-Masart and Charles Le Brun

Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors)

palace of Versailles, Versailles, France

c. 1680

Germain Boffrand

Salon de la Princesse

Hotel de Soubise, Paris, France

1740

Antoine Watteau

Pilgrimage to Cythera

1720

oil on canvas

Jean-Honore Fragonard

The Swing

1770

oil on canvas

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

Saying Grace

1740

oil on canvas

Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun

Self-Portrait

1790

oil on canvas

William Hogarth

Breakfast Scene, from Marriage à la Mode

c. 1740

oil on canvas

Benjamin West

Death of General Wolfe

1770

oil on canvas

John Singleton Copley

Portrait of Paul Revere

1770

oil on canvas

Antonio Canaletto

Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice

c. 1740

oil on canvas

Angelica Kauffmann

Cornelia Presenting Her Children As Her Treasures (Mother of the Gracchi)

c. 1780

oil on canvas

Jacques-Louis David

Oath of the Horatii

1780

oil on canvas

Jacques-Louis David

Death of Marat

1790

oil on canvas

Thomas Jefferson

Rotunda and Lawn

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

1820

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ignres

Grande Odalisque

1810

oil on canvas

Francisco Goya

Third of May, 1808

1810

oil on canvas

Theodore Gericault

Raft of the Medusa

1820

oil on canvas

Eugene Delacroix

Liberty Leading the People

1830

oil on canvas

Caspar David Friedrich

Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist

1820

oil on canvas

John Constable

The Haywain

1820

oil on canvas

Joseph Mallard William Turner

The Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On

1840

oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet

The Stone Breakers

1850

oil on canvas

Jean-Francois Millet

The Gleaners

1860

oil on canvas

Edouard Manet

Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)

1860

oil on canvas

Edouard Manet

Olympia

1860

oil on canvas

Thomas Eakins

The Gross Clinic

1870

oil on canvas

John Everett Millais

Ophelia

1850

oil on canvas

Joseph Paxton

Crystal Palace

London, England

1850

(lithograph by Martinet, c. 1862)

Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre

Still Life in a Studio

daguerreotype

1840

Timothy O'Sullivan

A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

photograph

1860