From the Book - First Sterling edition.
Lascaux Cave paintings (c. 15,500 BCE)
Our story begins (an introduction)
The Lamentation (c. 1305) / by Giotto di Bondone
The Arnolfini Portrait (1434) / by Jan van Eyck
Appreciating Potted Chrysanthemum in Tranquility (c. 1465) / by Shen Zhou
The Hunt in the Forest (c. 1470) / by Paolo Uccello
The Birth of Venus (c. 1485) / by Sandro Botticelli
Mona Lisa (c. 1503-19) / by Leonardo da Vinci
The Sistine Chapel Ceiling (1508-12) by Michelangelo
The Ambassadors (1533) / by Hans Holbein the Younger
Hunters in the Snow (1565) / by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Vegetables in a Bowl or The Gardener (1587-90) / by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
The Card Sharps (c. 1595) / by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Self-Portrait as a Young Man (c. 1628) / by Rembrandt van Rijn
The Maids of Honor (1656) / by Diego Velázquez
The Love Letter (c. 1669) / by Johannes Vermeer
Still Life of Flowers on a Table Ledge (1700) / by Rachel Ruysch
An Elephant and Rider Trampling a Tiger (c. 1770) / by Mir Kalan Khan
Catfight (1786) / by Francisco Goya
The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (1822) / by Joh Martin
The great wave (c.1831) / by Katsushika Hokusai
The Fighting Temeraire (1839) / by J.M.W. Turner
The Starry Night (1889) /
Tiger in a Tropical Storm or Surprised! (1891) / by Henri Rousseau
The Scream (1893) / by Edvard Munch
The Water-Lily Pond (1899) / by Claude Monet
Dance in Gopsmor (1906) /
The Red-Checkered Tablecloth (1910) /
Goldfish (1911) / by Henri Matisse
The Birthday (1915) / by Marc Chagall
Autoportrait (Tamara in the green bugatti) (1929) /
The Persistence of Memory (1931) / by Salvador Dali
Summer Days (1936) / by Georgia O'Keeffe
Portrait of Dora Maar (1939) / by Pablo PIcasso
Take Off (1943) / by Dame Laura Knight
Self-Portrait with Portrait of Doctor Farill (1951) by Frida Kahlo
Blue Poles (Number 11, 1952) (1952) /
Fun Fair at Daisy Nook (1953) / by L.S. Lowry
In the Car (1963) / by Roy Lichtenstein
Furious Man (1982) / by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
