Artemisia Gentileschi

Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, c. 1623–5

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Caravaggio

Ecce Homo

Private Collection

Joaquín Sorolla

The Water Jug

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Manuel de Arellano

Portrait of a woman from Guadalajara

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Manuel de Arellano

Portrait of a Man from Mexico City

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Anonymous

Biombo with Views of Mexico City

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Anonymous

Portrait Head of a Young Woman

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Luisa Roldán Called “La Roldana”

Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, c. 1690-1706

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Pedro de Mena

Saint Francis

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Francesco Boneri Known as “Cecco del Caravaggio”

Christ on the road to Calvary

Private Collection

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

Still Life with Quinces, Apples, Azeroles (Hawthorn berries), Black grapes, White grapes, Figs and Pomegranates

Private Collection

Francisco Goya

Portrait of José Antonio Caballero, Second Marqués de Caballero, Secretary of Grace and Justice

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino

Jacob Jordaens

The Triumph of Minerva, circa 1655-1660

Flemish Government

Leonardo da Vinci

Rider on a rearing horse, c.1482

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Jan van Eyck

The Annunciation, c.1434–36

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Titian

Portrait of a Lady and her Daughter

Private Collection

Antonio Susini, after Giambologna

Mercury

Private Collection

Fra Angelico

The Death and the Assumption of the Virgin, c.1432

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Jacopo Tintoretto

Portrait of Tommaso Rangone

Private Collection

Domingos António de Sequeira

The Deposition from the Cross

Private Foundation

Sebastiano Luciani, called Sebastiano del Piombo

Pope Clement VII (1478–1534) in Near Profile

Private Collection

Antonio del Pollaiuolo

Portrait of a lady in profile, c.1465

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Anonymous Roman

Head of Emperor Augustus (Prima Porta Type) Marble

Private Collection

Rosso Fiorentino

Madonna and Child Enthroned, with St Julian and a Donor

Private Collection

Alonso Sánchez Coello

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

Private Collection

Juan de Juanes

Holy Family

Auckland Palace, Bishop Auckland

Sandro Botticelli

The Adoration of the Magi, 1472–82

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

Private Collection

Carlo Crivelli

St. George slaying the dragon, c.1470

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Mattia Preti

Backgammon Party

Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw

Neapolitan

Presepe

Auckland Palace, Bishop Auckland

Luis Egidio Meléndez

Still Life with Oysters, Plate of Eggs, Garlic and Receptacles

Private Collection

Luis Egidio Meléndez

Still Life

Private Collection

Giovanni Bellini

St. Francis in the desert, c.1476–78

The Frick Collection, New York

Raphael

St. George and the dragon, c.1506

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Hans Holbein the Younger

Portrait of Edward VI as a child, c.1538

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Melancholia, 1532

Musée Unterlinden, Colmar

Gerard David

Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c.1510

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Bartolomeo Veneto

Portrait of a lady in a green dress, 1530

Timken Museum of Art, San Diego

Benvenuto Cellini

Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, c.1550

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

El Greco

Portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi, c.1575

The Frick Collection, New York

Agnolo Bronzino

Portrait of Lodovico Capponi, 1550–55

The Frick Collection, New York

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Dream of Life, c.1533

The Courtauld Gallery, London

Titian

The Rape of Europa, c.1560–62

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Titian

Portrait of Pietro Aretino, c.1537

The Frick Collection, New York

Paolo Veronese

The choice between Virtue and Vice, c.1565

The Frick Collection, New York

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Equestrian portrait of the Duke of Buckingham, 1625

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

Dirck van Baburen

Christ crowned with thorns, 1621–22

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Rembrandt van Rijn

The Denial of St. Peter, 1660

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Guido Reni

Portrait of Cardinal Roberto Ubaldino, 1627

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Guercino

Semiramis receiving word of the Revolt of Babylon, 1624

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Jusepe de Ribera

Portrait of a Knight of Santiago, mid-1630s

Meadows Museum, Dallas

Alessandro Algardi

Pietà, c.1630

The Frick Collection, New York

Simon Vouet

The Entombment, c.1635–38

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Sir Anthony van Dyck

The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, 1617

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Georges de la Tour

A peasant couple eating, c.1620

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Johannes Vermeer

A woman holding a balance, c.1664

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Rembrandt van Rijn

Self-Portrait, c.1659

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Carlo Dolci

David with the head of Goliath, c.1680

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Mattia Preti

The Feast of Herod, 1656–61

Toledo Museum of Art

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bacchanal: a faun teased by children, c.1616–17

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Guido Cagnacci

Martha rebuking Mary, after 1660

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Jean Siméon Chardin

The house of cards, c.1737

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Jean-Etienne Liotard

A Frankish woman and her servant, c.1750

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Pompeo Batoni

Diana breaking Cupid's bow, 1761

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Antonio Canova

Dancing girl with cymbals, c.1809–12

Bode Museum, Berlin

Thomas Gainsborough

Portrait of James Christie, 1778

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Elizabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun

Portrait of Mademoiselle Roland, 1791

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Francisco de Goya

The Forge, c.1815–20

The Frick Collection, New York

Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

Portrait of the Mameluke Katchef Dahouth, 1804

Art Institute of Chicago

Gustave Courbet

Portrait of H.J. van Wisselingh, 1846

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

Edouard Manet

The bullfight, 1864

The Frick Collection, New York

Gustave Moreau

Dejanira (Autumn), c.1872–73

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

John Singer Sargent

Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade, 1886

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Master of the Death of Saint Nicholas of Münster

Calvary, c.1470–80

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Jusepe de Ribera

St. James the Greater, c.1614–15

Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

Hendrick ter Brugghen

A bagpipe player, 1624

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Frans Hals

St. Mark, c.1625

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Balthasar van der Ast

A floral still life with shells, 1630s

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Luca Giordano

The Entombment, 1650–53

Memorial Art Gallery, Univ. of Rochester

Rachel Ruysch

Flowers in a glass vase, c.1704

Detroit Institute of Arts

Adriaen van der Werff

The Holy Family with the Infant St. John, 1715

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Jean-Étienne Liotard

An elegant young woman in Maltese costume, c.1744

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Maurice-Quentin de la Tour

Portrait of Monsieur Garnier d'Isle, c.1750

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bernardo Bellotto

The Fortress of Königstein, 1756–58

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Portrait of Monsieur de Buissy, c.1780

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Fragonard & Gérard

Le Chat Angora, c.1783

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne

Joseph Anton Koch

Heroic landscape with a rainbow, 1824

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Artemisia Gentileschi

Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, c. 1623–5

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Caravaggio

Ecce Homo

Private Collection

Joaquín Sorolla

The Water Jug

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Manuel de Arellano

Portrait of a woman from Guadalajara

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Manuel de Arellano

Portrait of a Man from Mexico City

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Anonymous

Biombo with Views of Mexico City

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Anonymous

Portrait Head of a Young Woman

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Luisa Roldán Called “La Roldana”

Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, c. 1690-1706

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Pedro de Mena

Saint Francis

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Francesco Boneri Known as “Cecco del Caravaggio”

Christ on the road to Calvary

Private Collection

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

Still Life with Quinces, Apples, Azeroles (Hawthorn berries), Black grapes, White grapes, Figs and Pomegranates

Private Collection

Francisco Goya

Portrait of José Antonio Caballero, Second Marqués de Caballero, Secretary of Grace and Justice

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino

Jacob Jordaens

The Triumph of Minerva, circa 1655-1660

Flemish Government

Leonardo da Vinci

Rider on a rearing horse, c.1482

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Jan van Eyck

The Annunciation, c.1434–36

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Titian

Portrait of a Lady and her Daughter

Private Collection

Antonio Susini, after Giambologna

Mercury

Private Collection

Fra Angelico

The Death and the Assumption of the Virgin, c.1432

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Jacopo Tintoretto

Portrait of Tommaso Rangone

Private Collection

Domingos António de Sequeira

The Deposition from the Cross

Private Foundation

Sebastiano Luciani, called Sebastiano del Piombo

Pope Clement VII (1478–1534) in Near Profile

Private Collection

Antonio del Pollaiuolo

Portrait of a lady in profile, c.1465

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Anonymous Roman

Head of Emperor Augustus (Prima Porta Type) Marble

Private Collection

Rosso Fiorentino

Madonna and Child Enthroned, with St Julian and a Donor

Private Collection

Alonso Sánchez Coello

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

Private Collection

Juan de Juanes

Holy Family

Auckland Palace, Bishop Auckland

Sandro Botticelli

The Adoration of the Magi, 1472–82

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

Private Collection

Carlo Crivelli

St. George slaying the dragon, c.1470

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Mattia Preti

Backgammon Party

Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw

Neapolitan

Presepe

Auckland Palace, Bishop Auckland

Luis Egidio Meléndez

Still Life with Oysters, Plate of Eggs, Garlic and Receptacles

Private Collection

Luis Egidio Meléndez

Still Life

Private Collection

Giovanni Bellini

St. Francis in the desert, c.1476–78

The Frick Collection, New York

Raphael

St. George and the dragon, c.1506

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Hans Holbein the Younger

Portrait of Edward VI as a child, c.1538

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Melancholia, 1532

Musée Unterlinden, Colmar

Gerard David

Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c.1510

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Bartolomeo Veneto

Portrait of a lady in a green dress, 1530

Timken Museum of Art, San Diego

Benvenuto Cellini

Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, c.1550

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

El Greco

Portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi, c.1575

The Frick Collection, New York

Agnolo Bronzino

Portrait of Lodovico Capponi, 1550–55

The Frick Collection, New York

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Dream of Life, c.1533

The Courtauld Gallery, London

Titian

The Rape of Europa, c.1560–62

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Titian

Portrait of Pietro Aretino, c.1537

The Frick Collection, New York

Paolo Veronese

The choice between Virtue and Vice, c.1565

The Frick Collection, New York

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Equestrian portrait of the Duke of Buckingham, 1625

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

Dirck van Baburen

Christ crowned with thorns, 1621–22

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Rembrandt van Rijn

The Denial of St. Peter, 1660

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Guido Reni

Portrait of Cardinal Roberto Ubaldino, 1627

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Guercino

Semiramis receiving word of the Revolt of Babylon, 1624

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Jusepe de Ribera

Portrait of a Knight of Santiago, mid-1630s

Meadows Museum, Dallas

Alessandro Algardi

Pietà, c.1630

The Frick Collection, New York

Simon Vouet

The Entombment, c.1635–38

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Sir Anthony van Dyck

The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, 1617

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Georges de la Tour

A peasant couple eating, c.1620

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Johannes Vermeer

A woman holding a balance, c.1664

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Rembrandt van Rijn

Self-Portrait, c.1659

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Carlo Dolci

David with the head of Goliath, c.1680

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Mattia Preti

The Feast of Herod, 1656–61

Toledo Museum of Art

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bacchanal: a faun teased by children, c.1616–17

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Guido Cagnacci

Martha rebuking Mary, after 1660

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Jean Siméon Chardin

The house of cards, c.1737

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Jean-Etienne Liotard

A Frankish woman and her servant, c.1750

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Pompeo Batoni

Diana breaking Cupid's bow, 1761

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Antonio Canova

Dancing girl with cymbals, c.1809–12

Bode Museum, Berlin

Thomas Gainsborough

Portrait of James Christie, 1778

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Elizabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun

Portrait of Mademoiselle Roland, 1791

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Francisco de Goya

The Forge, c.1815–20

The Frick Collection, New York

Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

Portrait of the Mameluke Katchef Dahouth, 1804

Art Institute of Chicago

Gustave Courbet

Portrait of H.J. van Wisselingh, 1846

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

Edouard Manet

The bullfight, 1864

The Frick Collection, New York

Gustave Moreau

Dejanira (Autumn), c.1872–73

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

John Singer Sargent

Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade, 1886

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Master of the Death of Saint Nicholas of Münster

Calvary, c.1470–80

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Jusepe de Ribera

St. James the Greater, c.1614–15

Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

Hendrick ter Brugghen

A bagpipe player, 1624

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Frans Hals

St. Mark, c.1625

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Balthasar van der Ast

A floral still life with shells, 1630s

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Luca Giordano

The Entombment, 1650–53

Memorial Art Gallery, Univ. of Rochester

Rachel Ruysch

Flowers in a glass vase, c.1704

Detroit Institute of Arts

Adriaen van der Werff

The Holy Family with the Infant St. John, 1715

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Jean-Étienne Liotard

An elegant young woman in Maltese costume, c.1744

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Maurice-Quentin de la Tour

Portrait of Monsieur Garnier d'Isle, c.1750

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bernardo Bellotto

The Fortress of Königstein, 1756–58

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Portrait of Monsieur de Buissy, c.1780

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Fragonard & Gérard

Le Chat Angora, c.1783

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne

Joseph Anton Koch

Heroic landscape with a rainbow, 1824

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York