Art history

Caravaggio The Cardsharps Rome ca. 1595 oil on canvas

Caravaggio The Calling of St. Matthew Contarelli Chapel San Luigi dei Francesi Rome 1600 oil on canvas

Artemisia Gentileschi Judith Beheading Holofernes Rome 1620-1621 oil on canvas

Annibale Carracci Triumph of Bacchus & Ariadne Farnese Gallery Rome 1597

Gian Lorenzo Bernini Apollo and Daphne Rome 1622-1625 marble

Gian Lorenzo Bernini Cornaro chapel Santa Maria della Vittoria Rome 1645-1652 marble, stucco, gold, paint

Gian Lorenzo Bernini Baldacchino St. Peter’s Basilica Rome 1624-1633 bronz

Gian Lorenzo Bernini Cathedra Petri (Throne of St. Peter) St. Peter’s Basilica Rome 1657-1666 bronze, gold, stucco

Peter Paul Rubens Raising of the Cross Antwerp Southern Netherlands 1610-1611 oil on canvas

Peter Paul Rubens Marriage Consummated in Lyon Antwerp painted for Paris 1621-1625 oil on canvas

Anthony van Dyck Charles I Dismounted London ca. 1635 oil on canvas

Dirk van Baburen The Procuress Utrecht 1622 oil on canvas

Frans Hals The Officers and Sergeant of the St. Hadrian Civic Guard Haarlem ca. 1633 oil on canvas

Harmen Steenwijck Vanitas still life Leiden 1640 oil on panel

Willem Kalf Still life with a Late Ming Jar Amsterdam 1669 oil on canvas

Johannes Vermeer Woman Seated at a Virginal Delft ca. 1670-1672 oil on canvas

Rembrandt van Rijn The Company of Frans Banning Cocq (The “Night Watch”) Amsterdam 1642 oil on canvas

Juan Martı́nez Montañ és and Francisco Pacheco Crucifixion Seville ca. 1603-1605 polychromed wood

Francisco Zurbarán St. Francis Seville ca. 1640 oil on canvas

Diego Velázquez Venus and Cupid Rome ca. 1651 oil on canvas

Diego Velázquez Las Meninas Madrid 1656 oil on canvas

Hyacinthe Rigaud Louis XIV Paris 1701 oil on canvas

Jean-Antoine Watteau Embarkation for the Island of Cythera Paris 1717 oil on canvas

François Boucher Triumph of Venus Paris 1740 oil on canvas

François Boucher Madame de Pompadour Paris 1756 oil on canvas

Germain Boffrand Salon de la Princesse Hô tel de Soubise Paris 1735-1740

Jean-Honoré Fragonard The Progress of Love The Meeting Paris 1771-1773 oil on canvas

Jean-Honoré Fragonard The Swing Paris 1767 oil on canvas

Joseph-Marie Vien The Cupid Seller Paris 1763 oil on canvas

Jacques-Louis David The Oath of the Horatii Paris 1784 oil on canvas