The World According to Art

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

Jean Fouquet: The Building of a Cathedral (c. 1465); Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Tomb of Pakal (615-683 AD); Pyramid of the Inscriptions, Palenque, Mexico

William Bouguereau: Nymphs and Satyr (1873); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA

Adriaen Brouwer: The Bitter Potion (ca. 1630); Städel Art Museum, Frankfurt

Ansel Adams: Richard Kobayashi, farmer with cabbages, Manzanar Relocation Center, California (1943); Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppprs-00453.

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Dangast Landscape (1910); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam