The Annunciation, fresco by Fra Angelico, 1438–45; in the Museum of San Marco, Florence.
SCALA/Art Resource, New YorkFlagellation of Christ, tempera on wood panel by Piero della Francesca, late 1450s; in the National Gallery of the Marches, Urbino, Italy.
Scala/Art Resource, New YorkThe Battle of the Nudes, engraving by Antonio Pollaiuolo, c. 1470; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
SuperStockPrimavera, tempera on wood by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1477–82; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Scala/Art Resource, New YorkArrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, fresco by Andrea Mantegna, completed 1474; in the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy.
Palzza Ducale, Mantua, Italy/SuperStockThe Last Supper, fresco by Leonardo da Vinci, 1495–98; in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan (in situ; prerestoration).
SuperStockMona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503–06; in the Louvre, Paris.
Scala/Art Resource, New YorkThe Grand-Duke’s Madonna, oil painting by Raphael, 1505; in the Pitti Palace, Florence.
Scala/Art Resource, New YorkThe Creation of Eve, marble relief on the central portal of the facade of San Petronio, Bologna, by Jacopo della Quercia, begun 1424.
Anderson—Alinari/Art Resource, New YorkThe Creation of Adam, detail of the ceiling fresco by Michelangelo, 1508–12; in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.
SuperStockSleeping Venus, oil on canvas by Giorgione, c. 1510, landscape background by Titian; in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Ger. 108.5 ×175 cm.
Sachsische Landesbibliothek/Abteilung Deutsche Fotothek; photograph, B. WaltherAssumption, oil painting by Titian, 1516–18; in Santa Maria dei Frari, Venice.
SCALA/Art Resource, New YorkThe Last Supper, oil painting by Tintoretto, 1592–94; in the chancel, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.
Scala/Art Resource, New York“Four Apostles,” oil on two wood panels by Albrecht Dürer, 1526; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Ger.
Scala/Art Resource, New YorkAnne of Cleves, portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1539; in the Louvre Museum, Paris.
© Giraudon/Art Resource, New YorkPeasant Dance, oil on wood by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1568; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Kunsthistoriches, Vienna, Austria/SuperStockThe Deposition of Christ, oil on canvas by Caravaggio, 1602–04; in the Pinacoteca, Vatican Museums, Vatican City.
SCALA/Art Resource, New YorkThe Attributes of Music, oil on canvas by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1765; in the Louvre, Paris.
Giraudon/Art Resource, New YorkOath of the Horatii, oil painting by Jacques-Louis David, 1784; in the Louvre, Paris.
Giraudon/Art Resource, New YorkThe Death of Marat, oil painting by Jacques-Louis David, 1793; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York“Pity,” colour print finished in pen and watercolour by William Blake, 1795; in the Tate Gallery, London
Tate Gallery, London/Art Resource, New YorkLa Grande Odalisque, oil on canvas by J.-A.-D. Ingres, 1814; in the Louvre, Paris.
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York“The Boyarin Morozova,” oil painting by Vasily Surikov, one of the Peredvizhniki, 1887; in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Novosti Press Agency“The Cradle,” oil painting by Berthe Morisot, 1873; in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
SuperStockLe Moulin de la galette, oil on canvas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876; in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Giraudon/Art Resource, New YorkMont Sainte-Victoire, Seen from the Bibemus Quarry, oil on canvas by Paul Cézanne, 1897; in the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New YorkYellow Wheat and Cypress, oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, 1889; in the National Gallery, London.
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New YorkJane Avril, lithograph poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893; in the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, Albi, France.
SuperStockThe Sunblind, Synthetic Cubist collage on canvas with crayon by Juan Gris, 1914; in the Tate Gallery, London.
Courtesy of the Tate Gallery, London, Rights Reserved A.D.A.G.P. Paris, 1972; photograph, G. Roberton/A.C. Cooper Ltd.St. Andrew, wall painting in the presbytery of Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome, 705–707.
Alinari/Art Resource, New YorkLamentation, fresco by Giotto, c. 1305–06; in the Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy.
SCALA/Art Resource, New YorkClick on image for enlargements of panels. “Garden of Earthly Delights” triptych, oil on wood by Hiëronymus Bosch, c. 1505–10; in the Prado, Madrid
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain/Giraudon, Paris/SuperStockClick on image for enlargements of panels. The Isenheim Altarpiece, closed view showing panels depicting the Crucifixion, the Lamentation, and portraits of SS. Sebastian and Anthony, oil on multiple panels by Matthias Grünewald, 1515; in the Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, France.
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York“The Tribute Money,” fresco by Masaccio, 1425; in the Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
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