What paintings say: 100 masterpieces in detail

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.