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Name |
Artist/Origin |
Date |
Material |
 | The Sultan Mehmet II | Attr. to Gentile Bellini (Italian, ca. 1429–1507) | 1480 | Oil (19th-century repaint) on canvas, possibly transferred from wood |
 | Saltcellar with Portuguese Figures | Edo artist, Court of Benin, Nigeria | 15th–16th century | Ivory |
 | Namban (“Southern Barbarians” in Japan) | Kano School, Japan | Edo period, 17th century | Ink, color, and gold on paper |
 | Dish with Grape Design | Unknown artist, Iznik, Turkey | Ottoman period, late 16th century | Stone-paste painted under colorless glaze |
 | Human Races (Las Castas) | Unknown artist, Mexico | 18th century | Oil on canvas |
 | Pilgrim Flask | Unknown artist, Venice, Italy | ca. 1500–25 | Free-blown glass, enameled and gilded |
 | Portrait of East India Company Official (probably William Fullerton) | Dip Chand (Indian, active 18th c.) | 1760-63 | Opaque watercolor on paper |
 | Double-Sided Diptych | Gondar Workshops, Ethiopia | 17th–18th century | Tempera on wood |
 | Our Lady of Cocharcas Under the Baldachin | Unknown artist, Peru | 1765 | Oil on canvas |
 | Chûbon no zu (Picture of the Middle Class) | Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753–1806) | Edo period, ca. 1794–95 | Oban woodcut |
 | Black Stork in a Landscape | India, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh | ca. 1780 | Watercolor on European paper |
 | Bleaching Ground in the Countryside Near Haarlem | Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/9–82) | ca. 1670 | Oil on canvas |
 | Saint George and the Dragon | Albrecht Altdorfer (German, 1480–1538) | 1510 | Oil on parchment attached to a limewood panel |
 | The Penitence of St. Jerome (triptych) | Joachim Patinir (Netherlandish, d. 1524) | ca. 1518 | Oil on wood |
 | View of the gardens at Stourhead Estate | Henry Hoare II (1705–1785) and Henry Flitcroft (1687–1768) (designers) | 1741–1765 | Garden |
 | Bartolomeo Colleoni | Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian, 1435–1488) | 1480s | Bronze |
 | View of Delft | Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675) | ca. 1660–1661 | Oil on canvas |
 | St. Peter’s Basilica and St. Peter’s Square | Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564), Carlo Moderno (Italian, 1556–1629), Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680), et al. | ca. 1506–1667 | Travertine marble |
 | Fish and Rocks | Bada Shanren (Zhu Da) (Chinese, 1626–1705) | Qing Dynasty, 1699 | Hanging scroll; ink on paper |
 | Calvinist Iconoclasm | Franz Hogenberg (German, ca. 1540– ca. 1590) | ca. 1566 | Etching |
 | The Creation of Adam | Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564) | ca. 1510 | Fresco |
 | Vitruvian Man | Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519) | 1492 | Pen and ink |
 | Adam and Eve Banished from Paradise | Masaccio (Italian, 1401–28) | ca. 1427 | Fresco |
 | The Ecstasy of St. Teresa | Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680) | 1647–52 | Marble, stucco, and gilt bronze |
 | Garden of Earthly Delights | Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, ca. 1450–1516) | ca. 1500–1505 | Oil on wood panel |
 | The Night Journey of Muhammad on His Steed, Buraq from the Bustan of Sacdi | Unknown painter; Sultan Muhammad Nur (calligrapher) (Uzbekistani, active first half of 16th century) | 1514 | Colors, ink, and gold on paper |
 | St. Francis of Assisi | Francisco de Zurbaràn (Spanish, 1598–1644) | ca. 1640 | Oil on canvas |
 | Utatane soshi emaki (A Wakeful Sleep) | Tosa Mitsunobu (Japanese, 1434–1525) | Late 15th–early 16th century | Ink, color, and gold on paper |
 | Lienzo of Ihuitlan | Mexican School, Oaxaca | Mid-16th century | Cotton, dyed pigments, and ink |
 | Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons | Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825) | 1789 | Oil on canvas |
 | Surrender of Breda | Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660) | 1634–35 | Oil on canvas |
 | The Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I | Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) and others | 1515 (published 1517–18) | Woodcut |
 | The Triumph of Juliers from the Marie de’ Medici Cycle | Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) | 1622–25 | Oil on canvas |
 | Louis XIV | Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659–1743) | 1701 | Oil on canvas |
 | Feathered helmet (mahiole) | Hawaiian artist, Polynesia | Pre-19th century | Plant fiber, feather |
 | Court Dress | British artist | ca. 1750 | Blue silk taffeta brocaded with silver thread |
 | Shah Jahan Watching an Elephant Fight | Attributed to Bulaqi | Mughal Period, ca. 1639 | Opaque watercolor and gold on paper |
 | Power Figure (Nkisi nkondi) | Yombe artist and ritual specialist, Democratic Republic of Congo | 18th–19th century | Wood, metal, nails, mirrors, cloth, cordage, beads, and cowrie shells |
 | Isenheim Altarpiece (exterior) | Mathis Gothart Neithart (Matthias Grünewald) (German, 1480–1528) | ca. 1515 | Oil on wood panel |
 | Icon of the Virgin of Vladimir | Moscow School | Late 17th century | Gold leaf and tempera on panel |
 | Ka’ba | Unknown architect(s), Mecca | Rebuilt multiple times; latest 17th century | Granite and marble, covered with silk |
 | Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (The Ambassadors) | Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497–1543) | 1533 | Oil on oak |
 | Death leading a doctor holding a vial of urine. La Danse Macabre. | Unknown artist, France | Late 15th century | Tempera on parchment |
 | Triumph of Death | Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, c. 1525–1569) | ca. 1562 | Oil on panel |
 | A page from the Ars Moriendi | Unknown artist, Germany | ca. 1466 | Woodcut |
 | Grapevine in the Wind | Korean artist | Chosôn Dynasty, 16th century | Ink on silk |
 | Dutch Family in an Interior | Jan Olis (Dutch, ca.1610–76) | 1634 | Oil on panel |
 | Poems with Floral Decoration | Kojima Soshin (Japanese, 1580–ca. 1656) | Edo period, 1652 | Handscroll; ink and color on gold-decorated paper |
 | The Five Scrolls | Aaron Wolf Herlingen (Austrian, ca. 1700–ca. 1757) | 1748 | Ink and gold leaf on paper |
 | Biblia Latina (Latin Bible) | Johann Gutenberg (German, ca. 1400–1468) (publisher) | ca. 1455 | Type on vellum |
 | Portrait of Fath ‘Ali Shah | Mirza Baba (Persian, active 1789–1810) | 1798–99 | Oil on canvas |
 | James, Seventh Earl of Derby, His Lady and Child | Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641) | 1632–1641 | Oil on canvas |
 | Henry VIII, King of England | Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497–1543) or Workshop | ca. 1540 | Oil on panel |
 | Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares | Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660) | ca. 1635 | Oil on canvas |
 | Memorial Head | Akan artist, Twifo region, Hemang city, Ghana | 17th century | Terracotta, roots, quartz fragments |
