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Ancient Egyptian 1
Roman Egypt 1
Chinese painting 10
Maya art 1
Orthodox icon 2
Islamic art 1
Japanese painting 7
Persian miniature 1
Mughal painting 2
Rajput painting 1
Korean painting 3
Tibetan art 1
Cusco School 1
Proto-Renaissance 1
Early Renaissance 7
High Renaissance 11
Northern Renaissance 13
Mannerism 6
Baroque 13
Dutch Golden Age 9
Rococo 8
Ukiyo-e 6
Neoclassicism 5
Romanticism 19
Hudson River School 2
Realism 18
Pre-Raphaelite 4
Academicism 2
Impressionism 17
Pointillism 1
Post-Impressionism 12
Naïve Art 1
Symbolism 11
Expressionism 1
Regionalism 1
To 400 CE 4 works
Fowling in the Marshes
Unknown (Ancient Egypt) · c. 1350 BCE
Ancient Egyptian
Fayum Mummy Portrait
Unknown (Roman Egypt) · c. 120 CE
Roman Egypt
Nymph of the Luo River
Gu Kaizhi (attributed) · c. 380 (later copy)
Chinese painting
Admonitions Scroll
Gu Kaizhi (attributed) · c. 380 (Tang copy)
Chinese painting
400 – 1300 12 works
Bonampak Murals
Unknown (Maya) · c. 790
Maya art
Night Revels of Han Xizai
Gu Hongzhong · 10th c. (Song copy)
Chinese painting
Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
Fan Kuan · c. 1000
Chinese painting
Early Spring
Guo Xi · 1072
Chinese painting
A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains
Wang Ximeng · 1113
Chinese painting
Along the River During the Qingming Festival
Zhang Zeduan · c. 1120
Chinese painting
The Tale of Genji Scroll
Unknown (Heian period) · c. 1130
Japanese painting
Theotokos of Vladimir
Unknown (Byzantine) · c. 1130
Orthodox icon
Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga
Toba Sōjō (attributed) · 12th century
Japanese painting
Maqamat of al-Hariri
Yahya al-Wasiti · 1237
Islamic art
Six Persimmons
Muqi · 13th century
Chinese painting
Night Attack on the Sanjō Palace
Unknown (Kamakura period) · late 13th c.
Japanese painting
1300 – 1450 8 works
Lamentation of Christ
Giotto · c. 1305
Proto-Renaissance
The Trinity
Andrei Rublev · c. 1411
Orthodox icon
Holy Trinity
Masaccio · c. 1427
Early Renaissance
The Ghent Altarpiece
Jan van Eyck · 1432
Northern Renaissance
The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck · 1434
Northern Renaissance
The Annunciation (Fra Angelico)
Fra Angelico · c. 1435
Early Renaissance
The Descent from the Cross
Rogier van der Weyden · c. 1435
Northern Renaissance
The Battle of San Romano
Paolo Uccello · c. 1440
Early Renaissance
1450 – 1599 35 works
Lofty Mount Lu
Shen Zhou · 1467
Chinese painting
The Annunciation (Leonardo)
Leonardo da Vinci · c. 1472
Early Renaissance
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Andrea Mantegna · c. 1480
Early Renaissance
Primavera
Sandro Botticelli · c. 1482
Early Renaissance
The Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli · c. 1485
Early Renaissance
Lady with an Ermine
Leonardo da Vinci · c. 1490
High Renaissance
The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci · c. 1495–98
High Renaissance
Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight
Albrecht Dürer · 1500
Northern Renaissance
Doge Leonardo Loredan
Giovanni Bellini · c. 1501
High Renaissance
Young Hare
Albrecht Dürer · 1502
Northern Renaissance
Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci · c. 1503–06
High Renaissance
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Hieronymus Bosch · c. 1490–1510
Northern Renaissance
The Tempest
Giorgione · c. 1508
High Renaissance
The School of Athens
Raphael · c. 1509–11
High Renaissance
The Creation of Adam
Michelangelo · c. 1512
High Renaissance
Sistine Madonna
Raphael · 1512
High Renaissance
The Haywain Triptych
Hieronymus Bosch · c. 1516
Northern Renaissance
Assumption of the Virgin
Titian · 1518
High Renaissance
The Transfiguration
Raphael · c. 1520
High Renaissance
The Court of Gayumars
Sultan Muhammad · c. 1525
Persian miniature
Adam and Eve
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1526
Northern Renaissance
The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1533
Northern Renaissance
Madonna with the Long Neck
Parmigianino · c. 1535
Mannerism
Portrait of Henry VIII
Hans Holbein the Younger · c. 1537
Northern Renaissance
Venus of Urbino
Titian · 1538
High Renaissance
The Last Judgment
Michelangelo · 1541
Mannerism
Netherlandish Proverbs
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1559
Northern Renaissance
The Wedding at Cana
Paolo Veronese · 1563
Mannerism
The Tower of Babel
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1563
Northern Renaissance
The Hunters in the Snow
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Northern Renaissance
Hamzanama
Unknown (Mughal workshop) · c. 1565
Mughal painting
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
El Greco · 1586
Mannerism
The Last Supper (Tintoretto)
Tintoretto · 1594
Mannerism
Pine Trees
Hasegawa Tōhaku · c. 1595
Japanese painting
Medusa
Caravaggio · 1597
Baroque
1600 – 1699 25 works
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Caravaggio · 1600
Baroque
View of Toledo
El Greco · c. 1600
Mannerism
Supper at Emmaus
Caravaggio · 1601
Baroque
The Descent from the Cross (Rubens)
Peter Paul Rubens · c. 1614
Baroque
Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
Bichitr · c. 1620
Mughal painting
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Artemisia Gentileschi · c. 1620
Baroque
The Laughing Cavalier
Frans Hals · 1624
Dutch Golden Age
Wind God and Thunder God
Tawaraya Sōtatsu · c. 1630
Japanese painting
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Rembrandt van Rijn · 1632
Dutch Golden Age
The Three Graces
Peter Paul Rubens · c. 1635
Baroque
Agnus Dei
Francisco de Zurbarán · c. 1638
Baroque
Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
Anthony van Dyck · c. 1638
Baroque
Magdalene with the Smoking Flame
Georges de La Tour · c. 1640
Baroque
The Night Watch
Rembrandt van Rijn · 1642
Dutch Golden Age
The Clubfoot
Jusepe de Ribera · 1642
Baroque
Portrait of Innocent X
Diego Velázquez · 1650
Baroque
Las Meninas
Diego Velázquez · 1656
Baroque
The Milkmaid
Johannes Vermeer · c. 1658
Dutch Golden Age
View of Delft
Johannes Vermeer · c. 1660
Dutch Golden Age
View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds
Jacob van Ruisdael · c. 1665
Dutch Golden Age
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer · c. 1665
Dutch Golden Age
The Return of the Prodigal Son
Rembrandt van Rijn · c. 1668
Dutch Golden Age
The Merry Family
Jan Steen · 1668
Dutch Golden Age
Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo · c. 1678
Baroque
Beauty Looking Back
Hishikawa Moronobu · c. 1690
Ukiyo-e
1700 – 1799 23 works
Tibetan Thangka
Unknown (Tibetan) · 18th century
Tibetan art
Cusco School Painting
Unknown (Cusco School) · c. 1700
Cusco School
Red and White Plum Blossoms
Ogata Kōrin · c. 1715
Japanese painting
The Embarkation for Cythera
Antoine Watteau · 1717
Rococo
One Hundred Horses
Giuseppe Castiglione · 1728
Chinese painting
The Ray
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin · c. 1728
Rococo
General View of Mount Geumgang
Jeong Seon · 1734
Korean painting
The Shrimp Girl
William Hogarth · c. 1745
Rococo
Inwangjesaekdo
Jeong Seon · 1751
Korean painting
Bani Thani
Nihal Chand · c. 1760
Rajput painting
Whistlejacket
George Stubbs · c. 1762
Rococo
Colorful Realm of Living Beings
Itō Jakuchū · c. 1765
Japanese painting
The Swing
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1767
Rococo
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Joseph Wright of Derby · 1768
Rococo
The Blue Boy
Thomas Gainsborough · c. 1770
Rococo
Watson and the Shark
John Singleton Copley · 1778
Romanticism
The Nightmare
Henry Fuseli · 1781
Romanticism
Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun · 1782
Rococo
Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David · 1784
Neoclassicism
The Death of Marat
Jacques-Louis David · 1793
Neoclassicism
Three Beauties of the Present Day
Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1793
Ukiyo-e
The Ancient of Days
William Blake · 1794
Romanticism
Ōtani Oniji III
Tōshūsai Sharaku · 1794
Ukiyo-e
1800 – 1849 21 works
The Nude Maja
Francisco Goya · c. 1800
Romanticism
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Jacques-Louis David · 1801
Neoclassicism
The Valpinçon Bather
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1808
Neoclassicism
The Abbey in the Oakwood
Caspar David Friedrich · c. 1810
Romanticism
The Second of May 1808
Francisco Goya · 1814
Romanticism
The Third of May 1808
Francisco Goya · 1814
Romanticism
Grande Odalisque
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1814
Neoclassicism
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich · c. 1818
Romanticism
The Raft of the Medusa
Théodore Géricault · 1819
Romanticism
Saturn Devouring His Son
Francisco Goya · c. 1819–23
Romanticism
The Hay Wain
John Constable · 1821
Romanticism
The Death of Sardanapalus
Eugène Delacroix · 1827
Romanticism
Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix · 1830
Romanticism
Fine Wind, Clear Morning
Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1831
Ukiyo-e
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1831
Ukiyo-e
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Paul Delaroche · 1833
Romanticism
The Oxbow
Thomas Cole · 1836
Hudson River School
The Fighting Temeraire
J. M. W. Turner · 1839
Romanticism
Rain, Steam and Speed
J. M. W. Turner · 1844
Romanticism
Sehando
Kim Jeong-hui · 1844
Korean painting
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
George Caleb Bingham · c. 1845
Realism
1850 – 1899 64 works
The Ninth Wave
Ivan Aivazovsky · 1850
Romanticism
A Burial at Ornans
Gustave Courbet · 1850
Realism
Ophelia
John Everett Millais · 1851–52
Pre-Raphaelite
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze · 1851
Romanticism
The Light of the World
William Holman Hunt · c. 1853
Pre-Raphaelite
The Gleaners
Jean-François Millet · 1857
Realism
Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake
Utagawa Hiroshige · 1857
Ukiyo-e
The Angelus
Jean-François Millet · 1859
Realism
The Heart of the Andes
Frederic Edwin Church · 1859
Hudson River School
The Luncheon on the Grass
Édouard Manet · 1863
Realism
Olympia
Édouard Manet · 1863
Realism
Souvenir de Mortefontaine
Camille Corot · 1864
Realism
Whistler's Mother
James McNeill Whistler · 1871
Realism
The Cradle
Berthe Morisot · 1872
Impressionism
Snap the Whip
Winslow Homer · 1872
Realism
Impression, Sunrise
Claude Monet · 1872
Impressionism
Barge Haulers on the Volga
Ilya Repin · 1873
Realism
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874
Impressionism
Proserpine
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1874
Pre-Raphaelite
Woman with a Parasol
Claude Monet · 1875
Impressionism
The Valley of Mexico
José María Velasco · c. 1875
Realism
The Gross Clinic
Thomas Eakins · 1875
Realism
Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket
James McNeill Whistler · c. 1875
Symbolism
The Floor Scrapers
Gustave Caillebotte · 1875
Impressionism
Bal du moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876
Impressionism
The Apparition
Gustave Moreau · c. 1876
Symbolism
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebotte · 1877
Impressionism
Snow at Louveciennes
Alfred Sisley · 1878
Impressionism
Isle of the Dead
Arnold Böcklin · 1880
Symbolism
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1880–81
Impressionism
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Édouard Manet · 1882
Impressionism
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Ivan Kramskoi · 1883
Realism
Portrait of Madame X
John Singer Sargent · 1884
Realism
The Potato Eaters
Vincent van Gogh · 1885
Post-Impressionism
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat · 1884–86
Pointillism
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
John Singer Sargent · 1886
Impressionism
Boyarynya Morozova
Vasily Surikov · 1887
Realism
Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh · 1888
Post-Impressionism
Café Terrace at Night
Vincent van Gogh · 1888
Post-Impressionism
The Bedroom
Vincent van Gogh · 1888
Post-Impressionism
The Lady of Shalott
John William Waterhouse · 1888
Pre-Raphaelite
The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Post-Impressionism
Irises
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Post-Impressionism
Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889
James Ensor · 1889
Symbolism
Morning in a Pine Forest
Ivan Shishkin · 1889
Realism
Galaxy of Musicians
Raja Ravi Varma · c. 1889
Academicism
The Yellow Christ
Paul Gauguin · 1889
Post-Impressionism
Demon Seated
Mikhail Vrubel · 1890
Symbolism
Wheatfield with Crows
Vincent van Gogh · 1890
Post-Impressionism
At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1892
Post-Impressionism
The Scream
Edvard Munch · 1893
Expressionism
The Banjo Lesson
Henry Ossawa Tanner · 1893
Realism
The Child's Bath
Mary Cassatt · 1893
Impressionism
The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · c. 1894
Post-Impressionism
Madonna
Edvard Munch · 1894
Symbolism
Rouen Cathedral
Claude Monet · c. 1894
Impressionism
Golden Autumn
Isaac Levitan · 1895
Impressionism
Flaming June
Frederic Leighton · c. 1895
Academicism
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Paul Gauguin · 1897
Post-Impressionism
The Sleeping Gypsy
Henri Rousseau · 1897
Naïve Art
The Boulevard Montmartre at Night
Camille Pissarro · 1897
Impressionism
Bogatyrs
Viktor Vasnetsov · 1898
Romanticism
The Gulf Stream
Winslow Homer · 1899
Realism
Interior
Vilhelm Hammershøi · c. 1899
Symbolism
1900 onward 8 works
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Paul Cézanne · c. 1902
Post-Impressionism
Lake Keitele
Akseli Gallen-Kallela · 1905
Symbolism
Water Lilies
Claude Monet · c. 1906
Impressionism
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Gustav Klimt · 1907
Symbolism
The Kiss
Gustav Klimt · 1907–08
Symbolism
Strolling along the Seashore
Joaquín Sorolla · 1909
Impressionism
The Cyclops
Odilon Redon · c. 1914
Symbolism
American Gothic
Grant Wood · 1930
Regionalism