Giotto, Madonna
Enthroned, c. 1310,
Tempera on wood, 10ft
8in x 6ft 8in
Giotto, Crucifixion, Arena Chapel (Scrovegni Chapel) Padua, c
1305. Fresco.
Masaccio, The Tribute Money, Brancacci Chapel. c. 1425
Donatello, David (after restoration), c 1430-1440. Bronze; 5ft 2 ½
in. High. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.
Sandro Botticelli, Brith of Venus, c. 1480. Tempera on canvas; approx. 5ft 8in x 9ft 1in. Galleriea degli Uffizi,
Florence.
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus was made for a member of the Medici family. It reflects the
Medici interest in Classical themes and the revival of Plato’s philosophy that had led to the
founding of the Platonic Academy in Florence.
Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Wedding, or
Arnolfini Portrait, 1434. Oil on wood;
32 ¼ x 23 ½. National Gallery, London.
Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna and Child with Saint Anne,
c. 1503-1506. Oil on wood; 5ft 6 in x 3ft 8 in. Paris.
Michelangelo, Last
Judgment, fresco on the
altar wall of the Sistine
Chapel, Vatican, Rome,
1534-1541. Michelangelo
was 66 when he finished this
painting.
Raphael, School of Athens, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome, 1509-1511. Fresco 26 x 18 ft.
Titian, Venus of Urbino, c 1538. Oil on canvas; 3ft 11 in. x 5ft. 5 in. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
Parmigianino, Madonna and Child with Angels
(Madonna of the Long Neck), c 1535. Oil on
panel; approx. 7ft 1 in x 4ft. 4 in. Galleria degli
Uffizi, Florence.
Gianlorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Cornaro
Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1645-1652
Caravaggio, Calling of
Saint Matthew,
Contarelli Chapel,
Sain Luigi dei
Francesi, Rome 15991600. Oil on canvas;
10ft. 6 ¾ in x 11ft 1
7/8 in.
Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing,
1766. Oil on canvas; 35 x 32 in.
Wallace Collection, London.
Jacques-Louis David, Deaht of Marat,
1793. Oil on canvas; approx. 5ft 3in x
4ft. 1in. Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts
de Belgique, Brussels.
Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830. Oil on canvas; 8ft 6 in x 10ft 7 in. Louvre,
Paris.
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Chronos Devouring
One of his Children, c 1820-1822. Wall painting in Oil
detached on canvas; 4ft 9 7/8 in x 2 ft 8 5/8 in. Prado,
Madrid.
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Absinthe,
1876. Oil on canvas; 36 ¼ x 26 ¾ in.
Musee d’Orsay, Paris.
Paul Cezanne, Mon Sainte-Victoire, c. 1900. Oil on canvas; 30 ¾ x 39 in. Hermitage, Saint
Petersburg.
Vassily Kandinsky, Panel for Edwin R.
Campbell No. 4(formerly Painting No. 4
201, Winter), 1914. Oil on canvas; 5ft 4
¼ in. X 4 ft. ¼ in. Museum of Modern
Art, New York.
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. Oil on canvas; 11 ft. 5 1/2in. X 25 ft. 5 ¾. Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
Joan Miro, Spanish Dancer, 1945. Oil
on Canvas; 4 ft. 9 ½ in. X 3ft. 8 7/8
in. Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel.
Mark Rothko,
Number 15, 1957.
Oil on canvas; 103
x 116 ½ in.
Collection of
Christopher Rothko.
Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude No. 57, 1964. Synthetic polymer on composition
board; 4 ft x 5 ft 5 in. Whitney Museum of American Art. New York.
Chuck Close, Self Portrait, 1997. Oil
on Canvas; 8ft 6 in. X 7 ft.
PaceWildernstein, New York