Artemisia Gentileschi
1593 – 1653
Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, c. 1623–5
Oil on canvas height 81 cm height 31 7/8 in
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Caravaggio
1571 - 1610
Ecce Homo
Oil on canvas, 86 cm × 111 cm (34 in × 44 in)
Private Collection
Joaquín Sorolla
1863 – 1923
The Water Jug
Oil on canvas 151 × 98 cm
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Manuel de Arellano
1662 – 1722
Portrait of a woman from Guadalajara
Oil on canvas 109 x 84.5 cm 42 7/8 x 33 1/4 in.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Manuel de Arellano
1662 – 1722
Portrait of a Man from Mexico City
Oil on canvas 109 x 84.5 cm 42 7/8 x 33 1/4 in.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Anonymous
18th century
Biombo with Views of Mexico City
Twelve adjoined wooden panels, oil on red makie lacquer 170 x 68 cm (each panel) 66 7/8 x 26 3/4 in (each panel) 170 x 760 cm (when opened) 66 7/8 x 299 1/4 in (when opened)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Anonymous
Imperial Period, 2nd century - 3rd century A.D.
Portrait Head of a Young Woman
Marble 6.25 x 7.75 x 12.75 inches 6.25 x 7.75 x 17.5 inches with base
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Luisa Roldán Called “La Roldana”
1652 – 1706
Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, c. 1690-1706
Terracotta, polychromed; on an octagonal parcel-gilt, polychrome wood base with scrolling feet 52 cm (20 ½ in.) high 73.7 cm (29 in.) high, overall
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Pedro de Mena
1628 - 1688
Saint Francis
Polychrome wood 78 x 29 x 35 cm. 30 3/4 x 11 3/8 x 13 3/4 in
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Francesco Boneri Known as “Cecco del Caravaggio”
1585/88 – after 1620
Christ on the road to Calvary
Oil on canvas, 186 x 120.5 cm
Private Collection
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi
1587 – 1625
Still Life with Quinces, Apples, Azeroles (Hawthorn berries), Black grapes, White grapes, Figs and Pomegranates
Oil on canvas, inscribed ‘463’ to the reverse of the original canvas 87.5 x 117.6 cm
Private Collection
Francisco Goya
1746 - 1828
Portrait of José Antonio Caballero, Second Marqués de Caballero, Secretary of Grace and Justice
Oil on canvas 105 × 84 cm; 41 1/3 × 33 in
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino
Jacob Jordaens
1593 – 1678
The Triumph of Minerva, circa 1655-1660
Red and black chalks, watercolour and opaque watercolour, over charcoal on a sheet composed of three subsidiary sheets on laid paper
Flemish Government
Leonardo da Vinci
1452–1519
Rider on a rearing horse, c.1482
Metalpoint, pen and brown ink, 141 × 119 mm
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Jan van Eyck
c.1390–1441
The Annunciation, c.1434–36
Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 92.7 × 36.7 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Titian
1485/90 - 1576
Portrait of a Lady and her Daughter
Oil on canvas 88.3 x 80.7 cm 34 3/4 x 31 3/4 in.
Private Collection
Antonio Susini, after Giambologna
1558 - 1624
Mercury
c. late 16th century bronze, on marble pedestal 76 x 32 x 19 cm 29 7/8 x 12 5/8 x 7 1/2 in
Private Collection
Fra Angelico
c.1390–1455
The Death and the Assumption of the Virgin, c.1432
Tempera and gold on panel, 61.8 × 38.5 cm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Jacopo Tintoretto
1518 - 1594
Portrait of Tommaso Rangone
Oil on canvas 108 × 94.6 cm; 42 1/2 × 37 1/4 in.
Private Collection
Domingos António de Sequeira
1768 - 1837
The Deposition from the Cross
Oil on canvas 100 × 135 cm; 39 3/8 × 53 1/8 in.
Private Foundation
Sebastiano Luciani, called Sebastiano del Piombo
1485 - 1547
Pope Clement VII (1478–1534) in Near Profile
Oil on paper, laid down and extended on slate 66 × 51.4 cm; 26 × 20¼ in.
Private Collection
Antonio del Pollaiuolo
1431–1498
Portrait of a lady in profile, c.1465
Oil on panel, 52.5 × 36.5 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Anonymous Roman
Roman, late 1st century BC – early 1st century AD
Head of Emperor Augustus (Prima Porta Type) Marble
Height: 47.5 cm
Private Collection
Rosso Fiorentino
1494 - 1540
Madonna and Child Enthroned, with St Julian and a Donor
Oil on panel 65.5 × 53 cm
Private Collection
Alonso Sánchez Coello
1531/32 - 1588
Portrait of a Young Noblewoman Wearing Fine Jewels and a Black Dress with Gold Embroidery in the Form of Wheatsheaves and a High White Ruff Collar
Oil on panel 35.2 × 25.3 cm; 13 7/8 × 10 in.
Private Collection
Juan de Juanes
Holy Family
Oil on panel 77 × 60 cm
Auckland Palace, Bishop Auckland
Sandro Botticelli
1445–1510
The Adoration of the Magi, 1472–82
Tempera and oil on panel, 70.1 × 104.2 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Juan van der Hamen
Still Life with Basket and Terracotta Jars
Private Collection
Juan van der Hamen
Still Life with Basket and Fruit
Private Collection
Valentin de Boulogne
Saint John the Baptist
51 15/16 × 38 9/16 in. (132 × 98 cm)
Private Collection
Carlo Crivelli
c.1430–c.1494
St. George slaying the dragon, c.1470
Gold and tempera on panel, 94.2 × 47.8 cm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Mattia Preti
1613 - 1699
Backgammon Party
Oil on canvas 108.3 × 146 cm; 42 5/8 × 57 1/2 in.
Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw
Neapolitan
mid-18th century to early 19th century
Presepe
Tempera on panel with carved and gilded frame 57.5 × 42.5 cm; 56.5 × 41.5 cm.
Auckland Palace, Bishop Auckland
Luis Egidio Meléndez
Still Life with Oysters, Plate of Eggs, Garlic and Receptacles
Oil on canvas 48 × 65 cm; 18 7/8 × 25 5/8 in.
Private Collection
Luis Egidio Meléndez
Still Life
Oil on canvas, 47.3 × 35.5 cm.
Private Collection
Giovanni Bellini
c.1424–1516
St. Francis in the desert, c.1476–78
Oil on panel, 124.6 × 142.1 cm
The Frick Collection, New York
Raphael
1483–1520
St. George and the dragon, c.1506
Oil on panel, 28.5 × 21.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Hans Holbein the Younger
c.1497–1543
Portrait of Edward VI as a child, c.1538
Oil on panel, 56.8 × 44.1 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Lucas Cranach the Elder
1472–1553
Melancholia, 1532
Oil on panel, 76.5 × 56.5 cm
Musée Unterlinden, Colmar
Gerard David
c.1460–1523
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c.1510
Oil on panel, 44.3 × 44.9 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Bartolomeo Veneto
active 1502–1531
Portrait of a lady in a green dress, 1530
Oil on panel, 85.9 × 67.6 cm
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego
Benvenuto Cellini
1500–1571
Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, c.1550
Bronze, 105.4 cm high
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
El Greco
1541–1614
Portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi, c.1575
Oil on canvas, 188.1 × 126.7 cm
The Frick Collection, New York
Agnolo Bronzino
1503–1572
Portrait of Lodovico Capponi, 1550–55
Oil on panel, 116.5 × 85.7 cm
The Frick Collection, New York
Michelangelo Buonarroti
1475–1564
The Dream of Life, c.1533
Black chalk, 396 × 279 mm
The Courtauld Gallery, London
Titian
c.1488–1576
The Rape of Europa, c.1560–62
Oil on canvas, 178.1 × 205.3 cm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Titian
c.1488–1576
Portrait of Pietro Aretino, c.1537
Oil on canvas, 101.9 × 85.7 cm
The Frick Collection, New York
Paolo Veronese
c.1528–1588
The choice between Virtue and Vice, c.1565
Oil on canvas, 219.1 × 169.5 cm
The Frick Collection, New York
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
1577–1640
Equestrian portrait of the Duke of Buckingham, 1625
Oil on panel, 46.6 × 51.7 cm
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
Dirck van Baburen
1595–1624
Christ crowned with thorns, 1621–22
Oil on canvas, 130.5 × 171.1 cm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Rembrandt van Rijn
1606–1669
The Denial of St. Peter, 1660
Oil on canvas, 154.2 × 169.1 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Guido Reni
1575–1642
Portrait of Cardinal Roberto Ubaldino, 1627
Oil on canvas, 196.9 × 149.2 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Guercino
1591–1666
Semiramis receiving word of the Revolt of Babylon, 1624
Oil on canvas, 112.4 × 154.6 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jusepe de Ribera
1591–1652
Portrait of a Knight of Santiago, mid-1630s
Oil on canvas, 144.9 × 105.4 cm
Meadows Museum, Dallas
Alessandro Algardi
1598–1654
Pietà, c.1630
Bronze, 32.4 × 30.8 cm
The Frick Collection, New York
Simon Vouet
1590–1649
The Entombment, c.1635–38
Oil on panel, 56.5 × 41.5 cm
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Sir Anthony van Dyck
1599–1641
The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, 1617
Oil on canvas, 151.1 × 229.2 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Georges de la Tour
1593–1652
A peasant couple eating, c.1620
Oil on canvas, 74.1 × 87.2 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Johannes Vermeer
1632–1675
A woman holding a balance, c.1664
Oil on panel, 42.5 × 38.1 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Rembrandt van Rijn
1606–1669
Self-Portrait, c.1659
Oil on canvas, 84.5 × 66.1 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Carlo Dolci
1616–1686
David with the head of Goliath, c.1680
Oil on canvas, 131.5 × 106.1 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mattia Preti
1613–1699
The Feast of Herod, 1656–61
Oil on canvas, 177.8 × 252.1 cm
Toledo Museum of Art
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
1598–1680
Bacchanal: a faun teased by children, c.1616–17
Marble, 132.1 cm high
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Guido Cagnacci
1601–1663
Martha rebuking Mary, after 1660
Oil on canvas, 222.9 × 261.1 cm
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
Jean Siméon Chardin
1699–1779
The house of cards, c.1737
Oil on canvas, 82.2 × 66.1 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Jean-Etienne Liotard
1702–1789
A Frankish woman and her servant, c.1750
Oil on canvas, 72.4 × 57.1 cm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Pompeo Batoni
1709–1787
Diana breaking Cupid's bow, 1761
Oil on canvas, 124.5 × 172.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Antonio Canova
1757–1822
Dancing girl with cymbals, c.1809–12
Marble, 187.1 cm high
Bode Museum, Berlin
Thomas Gainsborough
1727–1788
Portrait of James Christie, 1778
Oil on canvas, 127.6 × 102.2 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Elizabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun
1755–1842
Portrait of Mademoiselle Roland, 1791
Oil on canvas, 99.1 × 75.2 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Francisco de Goya
1746–1828
The Forge, c.1815–20
Oil on canvas, 181.6 × 125.1 cm
The Frick Collection, New York
Girodet de Roucy-Trioson
1767–1824
Portrait of the Mameluke Katchef Dahouth, 1804
Oil on canvas, 144.7 × 113.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago
Gustave Courbet
1819–1877
Portrait of H.J. van Wisselingh, 1846
Oil on panel, 57.2 × 46.6 cm
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
Edouard Manet
1832–1883
The bullfight, 1864
Oil on canvas, 47.9 × 108.9 cm
The Frick Collection, New York
Gustave Moreau
1826–1898
Dejanira (Autumn), c.1872–73
Oil on panel, 55.1 × 45.4 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
John Singer Sargent
1856–1925
Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade, 1886
Oil on canvas, 167.6 × 140.3 cm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Master of the Death of Saint Nicholas of Münster
active c.1460–1490
Calvary, c.1470–80
Oil on panel, 129.5 × 199.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Jusepe de Ribera
1591–1652
St. James the Greater, c.1614–15
Oil on canvas, 133.1 × 99.1 cm
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
Hendrick ter Brugghen
1588–1629
A bagpipe player, 1624
Oil on canvas, 100.7 × 82.9 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Frans Hals
1580–1666
St. Mark, c.1625
Oil on canvas, 68.5 × 52.5 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Balthasar van der Ast
1593/4–1657
A floral still life with shells, 1630s
Oil on panel, 52.1 × 42.2 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Luca Giordano
1634–1705
The Entombment, 1650–53
Oil on canvas, 303.2 × 202.1 cm
Memorial Art Gallery, Univ. of Rochester
Rachel Ruysch
1664–1750
Flowers in a glass vase, c.1704
Oil on canvas, 78.1 × 64.1 cm
Detroit Institute of Arts
Adriaen van der Werff
1659–1722
The Holy Family with the Infant St. John, 1715
Oil on panel, 58.1 × 44.3 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Jean-Étienne Liotard
1702–1789
An elegant young woman in Maltese costume, c.1744
Pastel on parchment, 82.9 × 53.8 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Maurice-Quentin de la Tour
1704–1788
Portrait of Monsieur Garnier d'Isle, c.1750
Pastel and gouache, 64.5 × 64.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bernardo Bellotto
1722–1780
The Fortress of Königstein, 1756–58
Oil on canvas, 133.1 × 235.7 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Joseph Siffred Duplessis
1725–1802
Portrait of Monsieur de Buissy, c.1780
Oil on canvas, 116.1 × 88.5 cm
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Fragonard & Gérard
1732–1806 / 1761–1837
Le Chat Angora, c.1783
Oil on canvas, 65.1 × 53.5 cm
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
Joseph Anton Koch
1768–1839
Heroic landscape with a rainbow, 1824
Oil on canvas, 108.5 × 96.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York