Story of Art

Simone Martini, Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus, 1333 Florence Italy

Giotto, The Lamentation of Christ, 1304 Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy

Massacio, The Holy Trinity, with the Virgin, Saint John and Donors, 1425 Church of Sanra Maria Novella, Florence Italy

Michelangelo, David, 1504 Florence Italy

Domenico Ghirlandaio, Birth of the Virgin, 1491 Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence Italy

Raphael, School of Athens, 1509-11 Apostolic Palace Vatican Italy

Raphael, Marriage of the Virgin, 1504

Pierro della Francesca, The Flagellation of Christ 1470

Leonardo Da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495 Refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan Italy

Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1485

Andrea Mantegna, Lamentation of Christ, 1480

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508

Limbourg brothers, The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry (June), 1412

Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434

Jan and Hubert van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece or Lamb of God Altarpiece, 1432

Rogier van Wyden, The Descent from the Cross, 1435

Hans Hollbein, The Ambassadors, 1533

Albrecht Dürer, Saint Michael’s Fight against the Dragon, 1498

Chartres Cathedral, 1190 Chartres France

Pantheon, 114 AD Rome

Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome of the Cathedral of Florence, 1420 Florence Italy

Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, 1460 Florence Italy

Leon Battista Alberti, facade of the Santa Maria Novella Church, 1456-1470 Florence Italy

Donato Bramante, The Tempieto, 1502 Rome Italy

Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotonda, 1550 Vicenza Italy

Parmigianino, Madonna with a Long Neck, 1534-40

Pantormo, Lamentation of Christ, 1525-1528

Titian, Diana and Actaeon, 1556

Tintoretto, Discovery of the Body of Saint Mark, 1526

Annibale Carracci, The Virgin Mourning Christ, 1599

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1614

Caravaggio, The Calling of St Matthew, 1599-1600

Caravaggio, Saint Matthew, 1602

Caravaggio, Doubting Thomas, 1602

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Vision of Saint Theresa, 1645

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Peasant Dancer, 1567

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish Proverbs or Flemish Proverbs, 1559

Johannes Vermeer, Mistress and Maid, 1666-67

Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid, 1660

Jan Steen, Feast of St Nicholas, 1665-68

Willem Claesz Heda, Still Life With Gilt Goblet, 1635

Peter Paul Rubens, Raising of the Cross, 1610

Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait with Two Circles, 1665-69

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Reconciliation of David Absalom, 1642

Frans Hals, The Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company, 1633

Jacques-Louis David, The Intervention of the Sabine Women, 1799

Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, 1793

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sarah Campbell, 1771

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Miss Bowels With her Dog, 1775

Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Saying Grace or Le Bénédicité, 1740

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque, 1814

John Constable, The Haywain, 1821

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea Fog, 1818

Caspar David Friedrich, Landscape in the Silesian Mountains, 1815

J.M. WIlliam Turner, Steamer in Snowstorm, 1842

Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, 1638

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Bather, 1808

Eugène Delacroix, Arabian Fantasy, 1832

Gustave Courbet, Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet, 1854

Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreaker, 1849

Édouard Manet, Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1893

Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872

Claude Monet, The Gare St-Lazare in Paris, 1877

Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard Montmarte (Spring), 1897

Auguste Renoir, Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876

Berthe Morisot, Woman at Her Toilette, 1875

Mary Cassatt, In the Lodge, 1878

Edgar Degas, Waiting, 1880

Éduard Manet, A Bar at Folies Bergére, 1882

Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves, 1902-06

Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Poster, 1892

Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, 1897-98

Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, 1888

Paul Signac, Opus 217, Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890, 1890

Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889

Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, 1885

Umberto Biccioni, States of Mind I: The Farewells, 1911

Georges Braque, La guitare, 1909-10

Pablo Picasso, Woman with a Violin, 1911

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, 1907

Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913

René Magritte, The Pilgrim, 1966

René Magritte, The Treachery of Images, 1928-29

Salvador Dalí, Apparition of Face and Fruitdish on a Beach, 1938

Salvador Dalí, Persistance of Memory, 1931

Carlo Carrá, Patriotic Celebration (Free-World Painting), 1914

Umberto Boccioni, The City Rises, 1910

Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (Leash in Motion), 1912

Marcel Duchamp, Node Descending a Staircase No. 2, 1912

Piet Mondrian, Tableau I, 1921

Gerrit Rietveld, The Red and Blue Chair, 1917

Andy Warhole, Marilyn Diptych, 1962

Jackson Pullock, One (Number 31, 1950), 1950

Barbara Kruger, I shop therefore I am, 1987

Tracey Emin, My Bed, 1998