Branch of West Indian Cherry with Achilles Morpho Butterfly
Maria Sibylla Merian1702-1703Citron with Monkey Slug Moth and Harlequin Beetle
Maria Sibylla Merian1702-1703Branch of Genipapo with Long-Horned Beetle
Maria Sibylla Merian1702-1703Tropical White Morning Glory with two beetles
Maria Sibylla Merian1702-1703Turk's Cap Lily
Maria Sibylla Merian1705Allegories of Four Continents, Africa
Rosalba Carriera1712Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop
Rachel Ruysch1716Maria Sibylla Merian
A botanist gets a divorce and travels the world
1647-1717Wang Hui 王翚
An ambitious young artist unifies China's historical painting styles
1632-1717Piazza San Marco
Canaletto1720Louis XV of France as Dauphin
Rosalba Carriera1720-1721The Grand Canal from San Vio, Venice
Canaletto1723-1724The Piazza San Marco in Venice
Canaletto1723-1724Elector Clemens Augustus of Cologne
Rosalba Carriera1727One Hundred Horses — Detail 3
Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧1728One Hundred Horses — Detail 4
Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧1728One Hundred Horses — Detail 5
Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧1728One Hundred Horses
Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧1728One Hundred Horses — Detail 1
Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧1728One Hundred Horses — Detail 2
Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧1728The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice
Canaletto1730Self-Portrait as "Winter"
Rosalba Carriera1730-1731A Harlot's Progress Plate 1
William Hogarth1732Self Portrait
William Hogarth1735Portrait of Pisana Mocenigo
Rosalba Carriera1739Portrait of a Gentleman
Rosalba Carriera1730-1740A Venetian Lady from the House of Barbarigo
Rosalba Carriera1735-1740The sentiments of men often differ with regard to beauty and deformity of all kinds
Of the Standard of Taste
David Hume1742The Empire of Flora
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo1743The Square of St Mark's, Venice
Canaletto1742-1744Rinaldo Enchanted by Armida
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo1742-1745Arch of Titus
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1748Architecture, Perspectives, Grotesques, Antiquities
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1749The Grand Piazza
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1750Raja Balwant Singh Revering Krishna and Radha
The Family of Nainsukh1745-1750Rachel Ruysch
Paint flowers, make money
1664-1750Musicians playing a Raga for Balwant Dev Singh during the Rainy Season
The Family of Nainsukh1745-1750Rank Badge with Silver Pheasant
1750Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Miguel Cabrera1750Inkpot and Desk Clock
François-Thomas Germain1752Blind Man's Buff
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1750-1752Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo1752The Analysis of Beauty
William Hogarth, William HogarthThe infinite complexities of the theory of beauty, distilled into six perfect principles. You read it here first, folks.
1753Analysis of Beauty: Plate 1
William Hogarth1753Analysis of Beauty: Plate 2
William Hogarth1753The Death of Hyacinth
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo1752-1753The Pyramid of Caius Cestius
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1755Plan of a Tomb on the Appian Way in Vigna Buonamici
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1756Plan of Rome / From Le Antichità Romane
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1756Appian Way
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1756Elevation and Plan of Theater of Marcellus
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1756The Goddess Aurora Triumphing Over Night
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1755-1756Rosalba Carriera
Pastel portraits keep you looking young and fresh
1673-1757Coffeepot
François-Thomas Germain1757Peacock Spreading Its Tail Feathers
Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧1758The Qianlong Emperor in Ceremonial Armour
Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧1758Dish
François-Thomas Germain1757-1758Sketch for the Adoration of the Magi
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo1758-1759Candlesticks
François-Thomas Germain1757-1759Portrait of Consort Chunhui
Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧1760Portrait of Lady Hoja
Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧1760Imaginary Prisons: Title Plate
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1761The Man on the Rack
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1761Trevi Fountain
Nicola Salvi1762Ponte Molle
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1762Portrait of John Apthorp and His Daughters
Angelica Kauffmann1764William Hogarth
A printmaker analyzes taste — and beauty comes out on top
1697-1764Landscape with Shepherds and Flock of Sheep
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1763-1765Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de' Romani
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1765Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧
A Jesuit missionary paints the emperor of China
1688-1766Chocolate Pot
François-Thomas Germain1765-1766A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery
Joseph Wright of Derby1766The Swing
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1767Temple of Bacchus
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1767Canaletto
The spiritual inventor of the postcard
1697-1768Hadrian's Villa
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1768Interior Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1768Miguel Cabrera
Analyzing miracles and documenting mixed-race couples
1695-1768Caffè degli Inglesi
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1769Chimneypiece in Greek Style
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1769Portrait of Marie Antoinette
Joseph Ducreux1769Waterfalls at Tivoli
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1769Chimneypiece: Frieze of Trophies and Winged Victories
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1769Portrait of Marie-Joséphine Buron
Jacques-Louis David1769Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Spirit and fire, a quick and resolute style
1696-1770Portraits of Emperor Qianlong, the Empress, and Eleven Imperial Consorts
Giuseppe Castiglione, 郎世寧1736-1770A lighthouse on fire at night
Joseph Wright of Derby1770Portrait of Philip Tisdall with his Wife and Family
Angelica Kauffmann1770A Blacksmith's Shop
Joseph Wright of Derby1771The Alchemist
Joseph Wright of Derby1771The Progress of Love: Love Letters
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1771-1772The Progress of Love: Reverie
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1771-1772The Progress of Love - The Lover Crowned
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1771-1772The Progress of Love: The Meeting
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1771-1772The Goddess Minvera
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1772The Family of The Earl of Gower
Angelica Kauffmann1772Iron Forge Viewed from Without
Joseph Wright of Derby1773Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus
Angelica Kauffmann1774A Fisherman Pulling a Net
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1774Erasistratus Discovers the Cause of Antiochus's Disease
Jacques-Louis David1774Self Portrait
Angelica Kauffmann1770-1775View of St. Peter's and the Piazza
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1775Young Woman Reading
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1775Aqueduct of Nero
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1775A Young Woman of Frascati
Jacques-Louis David1775Compendium Rarissimum Totius Artis Magicae, Cover
1775We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson1776Hadrian's Villa: The Piazza d'Oro
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1776The Annual Girandola at the Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome
Joseph Wright of Derby1775-1776The Parasol
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes1777Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Making a solid living from Etchings
1720-1778The Family of Nainsukh
A dynasty of royal painters
1710-1778Christ on the Cross
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes1780Capture of a Wild Elephant
The Family of Nainsukh1775-1780Female Allegory
Angelica Kauffmann1780Self-portrait in a Straw Hat
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1782Madame Elisabeth de France
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1782Self-Portrait, Yawning
Joseph Ducreux1783Ferdinand IV King of Naples and his Family
Angelica Kauffmann1782-1783Marie-Antoinette with the Rose
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1783Portrait of Comtesse de Cérès
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1784Portrait of Charles-Alexandre de Calonne
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1784Portrait of Marie Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchesse de Caderousse
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1784The Stolen Kiss
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1785Portrait of Madame Molé-Reymond
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1786Portrait of Prince Stanislaus Poniatowski
Angelica Kauffmann1786Lake by Moonlight with Castle on Hill
Joseph Wright of Derby1787The Death of Socrates
Jacques-Louis David1787Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife, Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze.
Jacques-Louis David1788The Poetic Genius is the true Man and the body or outward form of Man is derived from the Poetic Genius.
All Religions are One
William Blake1788Fighting Cats
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes1786-1788Portrait of Comtesse de la Châtre
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1789The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
Jacques-Louis David1789And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs — Every child may joy to hear.
Songs of Innocence
William Blake1789The Aqueduct of Noain
Ventura Rodriguez1783-1790Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1790Self-Portrait
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1790Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil... Good is heaven. Evil is hell.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake1790Portrait of an Aristocrat in Uniform
Joseph Ducreux1785-1790François-Thomas Germain
A disgraced silversmith, last of a dynasty
1726-1791Self-portrait in the Guise of a Mockingbird
Joseph Ducreux1791Self Portrait at age 16
Joseph Mallord William Turner1791Le Discret
Joseph Ducreux1791Self-portrait in Surprise and Terror
Joseph Ducreux1791The Death of Marat
Jacques-Louis David1793Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucquoi, née Parr
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1793Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
Antonio Canova1787-1793Bacchus and Ariadne
Angelica Kauffmann1794Self Portrait
Jacques-Louis David1794Yard with Lunatics
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes1794Newton
William Blake1795The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy
William Blake1795Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Frontispiece)
William Blake1795Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Plate 4)
William Blake1795Psyche Abandoned
Jacques-Louis David1795Pity
William Blake1795Fishermen at Sea
Joseph Mallord William Turner1796The Witches Flight
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes1797Joseph Wright of Derby
The birth of science out of fire
1734-1797Portrait of Princess Belozersky
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1798The Witches Sabbath
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes1797-1798Portrait of a Young Woman in White
Jacques-Louis David1798Self Portrait
Joseph Mallord William Turner1799God Forgive Her, It Was Her Mother
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes1799The Intervention of the Sabine Women
Jacques-Louis David1795-1799The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes1799Portrait of Wojciech Męcinski
Angelica Kauffmann1800Portrait of Corisande de Gramont
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1800United States Capitol
William Thornton1993-1800Self Portrait
Angelica Kauffmann1800Anna von Escher van Muralt
Angelica Kauffmann1800Family Group
Joshua Johnson1800Courtesan Asleep
Katsushika Hokusai1800The Angel Appearing to Zacharias
William Blake1799-1800Formal Collar
1800The Clothed Maja
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes1800