Stonehenge

[Megalith, Neolithic]

 Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial 

[Create places for some human purpose, nonobjective/nonrepresentational]

Kente cloth 

[Create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects, Ghana, Asante]

Manohar, Jahangir Receives a Cup from Khusrau 

[Record and commemorate, India]

Shiva Nataraja 

[Give tangible form to the unknown, India, cast bronze]

Masaccio, Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, and Donors 

[Italian Renaissance, open-point perspective, memento mori, Give tangible form to the unknown, Holy Spirit, fresco]

Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night 

[Give tangible form to feelings and ideas, Postimpressionism]

Ernst Haas, Peeling Paint on Iron Bench, Kyoto, 1981 

[Refresh our vision and help us see the world in new way]

Juan de Valdés Leal, Vanitas 

[vanitas, fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness, Ecclesiastes]

Andy Warhol, Thirty Are Better Than One 

[Pop Art, silkscreen]

 Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa 

[sfumato, atmospheric perspective, Italian Renaissance]

Claude Monet, Fisherman’s Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville 

[artist and audience, Impressionism, oil on canvas]

 Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise 

[artist and audience, Impressionism, oil on canvas]

Andrea del Verrocchio, David 

[artist and audience, cast bronze, apprenticeship, Early Italian Renaissance, youth]

James Hampton, Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly 

[artist and audience, outsider]

Matthias Grünewald. Isenheim Altarpiece (exterior)

[artist and audience, skin disease hospital, triptych, Northern Renaissance]

Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii 

[artist and audience, revolution, Neoclassicism, oil on canvas]

Diego Velázquez. Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor). 

[artist and audience, patronage, oil on canvas]

Female Figure from Willendorf 

[aesthetics, c. 23,000 BCE, Paleolithic, limestone, height 4⅜”]

Giovanni Bellini, Pietà 

[Italian Renaissance, aesthetics]

Francisco de Goya, Saturn Devouring One of His Children 

[Roman mythology, aesthetics, Chronos, Hesiod’s Theogony]

The Röttgen Pietà

[German tradition, grotesque]

Michelangelo, Pietà 

[Italian Renaissance, aesthetics]

Pablo Picasso, First Communion 

[representational, 1895–96, oil on canvas]

Pablo Picasso, Seated Woman Holding a Fan 

[abstract, 1908, oil on canvas]

Louise Bourgeois, Woman with Packages

[abstract, polychromed bronze]

Duane Hanson, Housepainter III.

[representational, trompe l’oeil]

Head of a King 

[Ife, Yoruba, casting]

Hathor and Sety, detail of a pillar from the tomb of Sety I

[Egypt, stylization, painted plaster on limestone]

Vasily Kandinsky, Melodious

[nonobjective/nonrepresentational]

Henri Matisse, Piano Lesson

[form and content, oil on canvas]

Henri Matisse, Music Lesson 

[form and content, oil on canvas]

Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Double Portrait 

[iconography] 

Titian, Assumption 

[oil on wood, Church of the Frari (Venice), context, in situ]

 Ann Hamilton. mantle. 

[installation]

Interior, upper chapel, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris

[The Sacred Realm, Gothic, crown of thorns]

Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South 

[The Sacred Realm, Tibet, opaque watercolor on cloth, halos]

Cimabue, Madonna Enthroned 

[The Sacred Realm, saint]

 The Great Pyramids, Giza, Egypt

[Politics and the Social Order, Pyramid of Menkaure (left), c. 2500 BCE; Pyramid of Khafre(center), c. 2530 BCE; Pyramid of Khufu (right), c. 2570 BCE]

Marcus Aurelius 

[Roman, glided bronze equestrian statue, Politics and the Social Order]

Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830 

[Politics and the Social Order, oil on canvas]

Pablo Picasso, Guernica 

[achromatic, restricted/closed color palette, Politics and the Social Order, Paris World’s Fair of 1937]

Sassetta, Saint Francis Giving His Mantle to a Poor Man and the Vision of the Heavenly City 

[oil on panel, Stories and Histories, episodic narrative]

 Edward Hopper, Gas 

[Looking Outward: The Here and Now, oil on canvas]

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks 

[Looking Outward: The Here and Now, oil on canvas]

Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait with Monkeys

[Looking Inward: The Human Experience, oil on canvas]

Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance 

[Looking Inward: The Human Experience, vanitas]

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, center section

[Invention and Fantasy, Fantasy, triptych]

Henri Rousseau, The Dream

[Invention and Fantasy, outsider, Fantasy]

Thomas Cole, The Oxbow 

[The Natural World, atmospheric perspective, oil on canvas]

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty 

[Art and Nature, earthwork]

Hokusai, Ejira in Suruga Province, from Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji

[polychrome woodblock print]

Jeff Wall, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)

[Art and Art, homage]