The World According to Art

Alexander Roslin: The Lady with the Veil (1768); Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Pablo Picasso: The Weeping Woman (1937); Tate Gallery, Liverpool

Michelangelo: Moses (1513-1516); San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome

Anonymous: Cartoon on the Flight of William V (c. 1795); Collection Atlas van Stolk.

James Ensor: Les bains à Ostende (1890); Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent.

Vincent van Gogh: Pink Peach Tree in Blossom (Reminiscence of Mauve) (1888); Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

Franz von Stuck: Salome (1906); Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus

Sandro Botticelli: La Primavera (c. 1481); Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence (detail)

Sandro Botticelli: La Primavera (c. 1481); Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

H.N. Werkman: The Tale on the Market (1943); From The Hasidic Legends II; Groninger Museum

Unknown photographer: Young African American woman (ca. 1899); Library of Congress, from the album 'Types of American Negroes,' compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 74

B. Perat: Salon de Paris (1866)

H.N. Werkman e H.N. Werkman: The Tale on the Market (1943); From The Hasidic Legends II; Groninger Museum

Raphael: Transfiguration (1520); Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City

Félicien Rops: Pornocrates (1878); Musée Félicien Rops, Namur

Conrad Felixmüller: Death of the Poet Walter Rheiner (1925); Robert Gore Rifkind Collection and Foundation, Beverly Hills.

Exekias : Black-figured amphora (540-530 BC); British Museum, London

Hendrick Avercamp: Winter Landscape with Skaters (1608); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Paul Signac: Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Colours, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890 (1890); Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jan Gossaert called Mabuse: The Adoration of the Kings (ca. 1510); National Gallery, London