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What paintings say: 100 masterpieces in detail
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Fragment of a wall painting from the tomb of Nebamun : before 1350 BC / anonymous
The Empress Theodora with her retinue : c. 547 / anonymous
The night revels of Han Xizai : c. 960 / Gu Hongzhong
The Bayeux tapestry : after 1066 / anonymous
Two miniatures from the Maqamat of al-Hariri : 1237 / Al-Wasiti
Miniature from Christine de Pizan's "Book of the city of ladies" : c. 1405 / anonymous
The little garden of paradise : c. 1410 / Upper Rhenish master
The Mérode triptych : Annunciation triptych/Mérode altarpiece, in which Joseph is seen making mousetraps : c. 1422/1430 / Robert Campin
St. George : 1435/1438 / Antonio Pisano, called Pisanello
The Arnolfini marriage : 1434 / Jan van Eyck
The battle of San Romano : c. 1435 / Paolo Uccello
St. Nicholas of Bari : 1437 / Fra Angelico
The Melun diptych : c. 1456 / Jean Fouquet
Tobias and the angel : c. 1469 / Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo
Ludovico Gonzaga and his family : c. 1470 / Andrea Mantegna
The Passion : c. 1470/1471 / Hans Memling
Window miniature : 1470/1480 / Master of the Hours of Mary of Burgundy
The Portinari Altar : c. 1475 / Hugo van der Goes
The birth of Venus : c. 1486 / Sandro Botticelli
The haywain : 1485/1490 / Hieronymus Bosch
The ship of the Argonauts : c. 1480/1490 / Ercole de' Roberti/Lorenzo Costa
St. George and the dragon : 1502/1507 / Vittore Carpaccio
The knight, the maiden, and death : before 1503 / Hans Baldung Grien
Christ among the doctors : 1506 / Albrecht Dürer
The creation of Adam : 1508/1512 / Michelangelo Buonarotti
The Sistine Madonna : 1512/1513 / Raphael
The Isenheim Altar : 1512-1516 / Matthias Grünewald
The judgement of Paris : 1516/1528 / Niklaus Manuel Deutsch
Lot and his daughters : c. 1530 / unknown Netherlandish master
St. Christopher : between c. 1520/1562 / unknown southern German artist
The battle of Issus : 1529 / Albrecht Altdorfer
The ambassadors : 1533 / Hans Holbein the Younger
Witchcraft, or, Allegory of Hercules : 1540/1542 / Dosso Dossi
Pope Paul III and his grandsons : 1545 / Titian
The fountain of youth : 1546 / Lucas Cranach the Elder
Momus criticizes the works of the gods : 1561 / Maerten van Heemskerck
The marriage at Cana : 1562/1563 / Paolo Veronese
Hunters in the snow : 1565 / Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The massacre by the Triumvirate : 1566 / Antoine Caron
The origin of the Milky Way : c. 1580 / Tintoretto
The burial of the Count of Orgaz : 1586 / El Greco
Armada portrait of Elizabeth I : c. 1590 / George Gower
St. Elizabeth tending the sick : c. 1597 / Adam Elsheimer
Judith and Holofernes : c. 1599 / Caravaggio
Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters : c. 1600 / School of Fontainebleau
Judith and her maid : 1625/1627 / Artemisia Gentileschi
The fortune teller : after 1630 / Georges de La Tour
Seaport with the embarkation of the Queen of Sheba : 1648 / Claude Lorrain
The love garden : c. 1632/1634 / Peter Paul Rubens
The rape of the Sabine women : 1637/1639 / Nicolas Poussin
The night watch : 1642 / Rembrandt
The king drinks : 1640/1645 / Jacob Jordaens
The burgher of Delft and his daughter : 1655 / Jan Steen
Velázquez and the royal family (Las meninas) : 1656 / Diego de Silva y Velázquez
The art of painting : 1665/1666 / Jan Vermeer
The chancellor Séguier : after 1660 / Charles Le Brun
Pilgrimage to Cythera : c. 1719 / Antoine Watteau
The laundress : 1733 / Jean Siméon Chardin
The finding of Moses : c. 1738 / Giambattista Tiepolo
The breakfast : 1739 / François Boucher
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews : 1749 / Thomas Gainsborough
The ridotto : c. 1750 / Francesco Guardi
An election entertainment : 1754/1755 / William Hogarth
The tooth drawer : c. 1754 / Giandomenico Tiepolo
George Clive with his family and an Indian maidservant : c. 1765 / Sir Joshua Reynolds
The stolen kiss : 1787 / Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Goethe in the Roman campagna : 1786/1787 / Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
The meadow of St. Isidore : 1788 / Francisco de Goya
The death of Marat : 1793 / Jacques-Louis David
Cathedral overlooking a city : 1813 / Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Chalk cliffs on Rügen : c. 1818 / Caspar David Friedrich
The raft of the Medusa : 1819 / Théodore Géricault
Liberty leading the people : 1830 / Eugène Delacroix
Morning mist at Mishima : c. 1833 / Ando Hiroshige
The "Fighting Temeraire" tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 : 1839 / William Turner
The poor poet : 1839 / Carl Spitzweg
The flute concert of Frederick the Great at Sanssouci : 1850/1852 / Adolph Menzel
The studio : 1855 / Gustave Courbet
The Turkish bath : 1863 / Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The balcony : 1868/1869 / Édouard Manet
Medea : 1870 / Anselm Feuerbach
Camille Monet on a garden bench (The bench) : 1873 / Claude Monet
The rehearsal on the stage : 1873 / Edgar Degas
Paris street, rainy day : 1877 / Gustave Caillebotte
The entry of Charles V into Antwerp : 1878 / Hans Makart
The isle of the dead : 1880 / Arnold Böcklin
The mounring of the execution of the Streltsy : 1881 / Vasily Surikov
The luncheon of the boating party : 1881 / Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte : 1884/1886 / Georges Seurat
The entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 : 1888 / James Ensor
At the Moulin Rouge : c. 1893 / Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Large interior with six figures : 1897 / Édouard Vuillard
Potsdamer Platz : 1914 / Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Female textile workers : 1927 / Alexander Deineka
Metropolis (Triptych) : 1928 / Otto Dix
American Gothic : 1930 / Grant Wood
The passion of Sacco and Vanzetti : 1931/1932 / Ben Shahn
Birth : 1937 ; and, Death : 1938 / Max Beckmann
White crucifixion : 1938 / Marc Chagall
Dream of a Sunday afternoon in Alameda : 1948 / Diego Rivera.
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