- Flying fox, Vincent van Gogh, 1885. Cobra Museum, Amstelveen.
- Apollo and Daphne, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1622-5), Galleria Borghese, Rome. Apollo and Daphne was Bernini’s response to the “Which is better: Painting or sculpture?” argument. This highly pictorialized sculpture was meant to be “read” from left to right and effectively recreated motion and direction, as well as a wide variety of different textures (i.e. human flesh, hair, fabric, leaves, the bark of a tree, and stone). It is widely considered to be one of the greatest sculptures of the 17th century. The sculpture is based on a story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Essentially, Apollo is chasing after Daphne so that he can rape her. At the moment Apollo catches up with her, Daphne cries out to her father, who turns her into a laurel tree.
- De kerk van Auvers, Vincent van Gogh, 1890. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
- Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer (c. 1665.), Mauritshuis, The Hague.
- Henri Matisse, Serviesgoed Stilleven met blauw tafelkleed, 1909. Hermitage, Amsterdam.
- Kees van Dongen, Lady in a Black Hat, 1908. Hermitage, Amsterdam.
- Self-portrait, Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
- Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette, Vincent van Gogh, c. 1885-86. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
- The Roofs of Paris, Vincent van Gogh (1886), Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
- Zonnebloemen, Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
- Albert Marquet, De haven van Hamburg, 1908. Hermitage, Amsterdam.
- Albert Marquet, Rainy Day in Paris (Nôtre-Dame Cathedral), 1910. Hermitage, Amsterdam.
- L'orchestre de l'Opéra, Edgar Degas, 1870. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
- Anatomische les van Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1632. Mauritshuis, Den Haag.
- Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is a large oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet. Created in 1862 and 1863, its juxtaposition of a female nude with fully dressed men sparked controversy when the work was first exhibited at the Salon des Refusés.
- Der Kuss, Gustav Klimt, 1907-08. Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
- Green Vineyard, Vincent van Gogh 1888, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
- House by the Railroad, Edward Hopper 1925, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Jour de pluie à Paris, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876/77. Art Institute of Chicago.
- La reproduction interdite, René Margritte, 1937. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
- Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, 1942. Art Institute of Chicago.
- Old Battersea Bridge: Nocturne in Blue and Gold, James Whistler c. 1872-75. Tate Gallery, London.
- Place de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde, Edgar Degas 1875, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
- Starry Night Over the Rhone, Vincent van Gogh 1888. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
- Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh 1889. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Summertime, Edward Hopper 1943, Delaware Art Museum.
- The Treachery of Images, René Magritte,1928-29. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
- Three Musicians, Pablo Picasso 1921, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Water Lilies, Claude Monet, 1906. Art Institute of Chicago.
- Wheat Field with Cypresses, Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Zonnebloemen, Vincent van Gogh, 1888. Neue Pinakothek, München.
- New York Movie, Edward Hopper (1939)
- Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, Gustav Klimt (1905)
- The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, William Orpen (1919)
- Gas, Edward Hopper (1940)
- Golconda, René Magritte (1953)
- Self-portrait with Dark Felt Hat, Vincent van Gogh (1886)
- The night café, Luigi Loir (1910)
- La Grasse Matinée, Ramon Casas i Carbó (1900)
- Lady with a corsage, Edmund Charles Tarbell
- Auditorium in old Burgtheater, Gustav Klimt (1888)
- The Large Plane Trees, Road Menders at Saint-Remy, Vincent van Gogh (1889). In 1889, after suffering a severe hallucinatory seizure, Van Gogh committed himself to an asylum near Saint-Remy. While walking through the town that fall, he was impressed by the sight of men repairing a road beneath immense plane trees. Rushing to capture the yellowing leaves, he painted this composition on an unusual cloth with a pattern of small red diamonds, visible in the picture’s many unpainted areas. “In spite of the cold,” he wrote to his brother, “I have gone on working outside till now, and I think it is doing me good and the work too.”
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