The story of art

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

Michelangelo,
David,
1504

Giotto, The Lamentation of  Christ

c. 1304

Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy

Masaccio,

The Holy Trinity, with the Virgin, Saint John and Donors,

c. 1425

(Church of Santa Maria Novella, 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.

Raphael,

Marriage of the Virgin

c. 1504

Piero della Francesca, The Flagellation of Christ

c. 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, c. 1485

Andrea Mantegna,  Lamentation of Christ, c. 1480

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508

Limbourg brothers,

The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry

Jan van Eyck,

The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434

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

Rogier van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross, c. 1435

Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533

Albrecht Dürer,

Saint Michael’s Fight against the Dragon, 1498

Chartres Cathedral,

1190

Chartres, France

Pantheon, Rome (114 AD)

Pantheon, Rome (114 AD)

Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome of the Cathedral of Florence, c. 1420, Florence

Leon Battista Alberti,

Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, Italy

 c. 1460

Leon Battista Alberti, façade of the Santa Maria Novella Church, Florence, Italy   (façade dating to 1456-1470)

Donato Bramante,

The Tempietto, Rome, Italy

1502

Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotonda, near Vicenza, Italy, 1550

Parmigianino, Madonna with a Long Neck, 1534-40

Pontormo, Lamentation of Christ, 1525-1528

Titian, Diana and Actaeon, 1556

Tintoretto, Discovery of the Body of Saint Mark, c. 1562

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, c. 1602

Gian Lorenzo Bernini,

The Vision of Saint Theresa,

1645

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peasant Dance, c.1567

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish Proverbs (also called Flemish Proverbs), 1559

Johannes Vermeer,

Mistress and Maid (1666–67)

Johannes Vermeer,

The Milkmaid 

c. 1660

Jan Steen,

Feast of St. Nicholas, 1665 – 1668.

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, 1665-1669

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Reconciliation of David and 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 Bowles With her Dog,

1775

Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Saying Grace (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, c. 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 Stonebreakers, 1849

Édouard Manet, Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863.

Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872.

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

Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard Montmartre (Spring), 1897

Auguste Renoir, Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876

Berthe Morisot, Woman at Her Toilette, c. 1875.

Mary Cassatt, In the Loge, 1878

Edgar Degas, Waiting, 1880

Édouard  Manet, A Bar at Folies Bergère 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 Boccioni, States of Mind I: The Farewells, 1911.