Giorgio Vasari. The Art of Painting. 1542.

Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting. 1630.
35 1/4 x 29 in.

Mummy Portrait of a Man. c. 160 –170
CE .
14 x 18 in.

Still Life with Eggs and Thrushes, Villa of Julia Felix, Pompeii. before
79 CE .
35 x 48 in.

Bodhisattva from Cave I at Ajanta. c. 475 CE .

Giotto. Lamentation. c. 1305.
approximately 70 x 78 in.

Fra Andrea Pozzo. The Glorification of Saint Ignatius. 1691 –94.

Giotto. Madonna and Child Enthroned. c. 1310.
10 ft. 8 in. x 6 ft. 8 1/4 in.

Michelangelo Buonarroti. Study for the Libyan Sibyl. c. 1510.
11 3/8 x 8 7/16 in.

Michelangelo Buonarroti. The Libyan Sibyl. 1511 –12.
detail of the Sistine Ceiling.

Sandro Botticelli. Primavera. c. 1482.
80 x 123 1/4 in.

Andrew Wyeth. Braids. 1979.
16 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.

Diagram of a section of a fifteenth-century oil painting demonstrating the luminosity of the medium.

The Master of Flémalle (probably Robert Campin). The Annunciation
(The Mérode Altarpiece). c. 1425–30.
central panel: 25 1/4 x 24 7/8 in.; each wing: 25 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.

The Master of Flémalle (probably Robert Campin). Detail of The
Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece). c. 1425–30.
central panel: 25 1/4 x 24 7/8 in.; each wing: 25 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.

Jan de Heem. Still Life with Lobster. late 1640s.
25 1/8 x 33 1/4 in.

Antonio López Garciá. New Refrigerator. 1991–94.
94 1/2 x 74 13/16 in.

Pat Passlof. Dancing Shoes. 1998.
80 x 132 in.

Milton Resnick’s. U + Me in progress. 7/26/1995.

Milton Resnick’s. U + Me in progress. 7/26/1995.

Milton Resnick. U + Me. 1995.
93 1/4 x 104 1/2 in.

Xu Wei. Grapes. Ming dynasty, c. 1580 –93.
65 1/4 x 25 3/8 in.

Winslow Homer. A Wall, Nassau. 1898.
14 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.

Laurie Reid. Ruby Dew (Pink Melon Joy), detail. 1998.
192 x 240 in.

Laurie Reid. Ruby Dew (Pink Melon Joy). 1998.
192 x 240 in.

Jacob Lawrence. You can buy bootleg whiskey for twenty-five cents a
quart, from the Harlem Series. 1942 –43.
15 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.

Helen Frankenthaler. Flood. 1967.
124 x 140 in.

Judith F. Baca. The Great Wall of Los Angeles, detail, Division of the
Barrios and Chavez Ravine. 1976 –continuing.
height 13 ft. (whole mural more than 1 mile long).

Juan Gris. The Table. 1914.
23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.

Romare Bearden. The Dove. 1964.
13 3/8 x 18 3/4 in.

Hannah Höch. Study for Collage “Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada
through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany.” 1919.
10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.

Hannah Höch. Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last
Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany. 1919.
44 7/8 x 35 7/16 in.

Marcia Gygli King. Springs Upstate. 1990 –92.
6 ft. x 9 ft. x 10 ft. 6 in.; painting: 9 ft. x 5 ft. x 7 in.

Patricia Patterson. The Kitchen. 1985.
painting: 60 x 107 in; overall dimensions vary with each installation (as illustrated: 80 x 144 x 180 in.).

Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram. 1955 –59.
42 x 63 1/4 x 64 1/2 in.

Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram, First State.

Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram, Second State.

Fred Tomaselli. Airborne Event. 2003.
84 x 60 x 1 1/2 in.