| Date | Painting | Artist | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1434 | The Arnolfini Portrait | Jan van Eyck | Northern Renaissance |
| c. 1474 to 1478 | Ginevra de' Benci | Leonardo da Vinci | Italian Renaissance |
| c. 1480 to 1485 | Primavera | Sandro Botticelli | Italian Renaissance |
| c. 1485 | The Birth of Venus | Sandro Botticelli | Italian Renaissance |
| c. 1490 to 1500 | The Garden of Earthly Delights | Hieronymus Bosch | Northern Renaissance |
| c. 1490 | Lady with an Ermine | Leonardo da Vinci | Italian Renaissance |
| c. 1490 | Vitruvian Man | Leonardo da Vinci | Italian Renaissance |
| c. 1495 to 1498 | The Last Supper | Leonardo da Vinci | Italian Renaissance |
| c. 1500 | Salvator Mundi | Leonardo da Vinci | Italian Renaissance |
| c. 1503 to 1506 | Mona Lisa | Leonardo da Vinci | Italian Renaissance |
| c. 1508 to 1512 | The Creation of Adam | Michelangelo | Italian Renaissance |
| 1509 to 1511 | The School of Athens | Raphael | Italian Renaissance |
| 1533 | The Ambassadors | Hans Holbein the Younger | Northern Renaissance |
| 1563 | The Tower of Babel | Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Northern Renaissance |
| 1565 | The Hunters in the Snow | Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Northern Renaissance |
| 1565 | The Harvesters | Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Northern Renaissance |
| 1597 | The Musicians | Caravaggio | Baroque |
| 1599 to 1600 | The Calling of Saint Matthew | Caravaggio | Baroque |
| c. 1599 to 1600 | View of Toledo | El Greco | Mannerism |
| c. 1612 to 1614 | Judith Slaying Holofernes | Artemisia Gentileschi | Baroque |
| 1632 | The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp | Rembrandt | Dutch Golden Age |
| 1642 | The Night Watch | Rembrandt | Dutch Golden Age |
| 1650 | Juan de Pareja | Diego Velázquez | Baroque |
| 1653 | Aristotle with a Bust of Homer | Rembrandt | Dutch Golden Age |
| 1654 | The Goldfinch | Carel Fabritius | Dutch Golden Age |
| 1656 | Las Meninas | Diego Velázquez | Baroque |
| c. 1660 | The Milkmaid | Johannes Vermeer | Dutch Golden Age |
| c. 1660 to 1661 | View of Delft | Johannes Vermeer | Dutch Golden Age |
| c. 1662 | Young Woman with a Water Pitcher | Johannes Vermeer | Dutch Golden Age |
| c. 1664 | Woman Holding a Balance | Johannes Vermeer | Dutch Golden Age |
| c. 1665 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Johannes Vermeer | Dutch Golden Age |
| c. 1665 to 1669 | The Jewish Bride | Rembrandt | Dutch Golden Age |
| c. 1669 | Girl with the Red Hat | Johannes Vermeer | Dutch Golden Age |
| c. 1767 | The Swing | Jean-Honoré Fragonard | Rococo |
| c. 1770 | The Blue Boy | Thomas Gainsborough | Rococo |
| 1778 | Watson and the Shark | John Singleton Copley | Romanticism |
| 1781 | The Nightmare | Henry Fuseli | Romanticism |
| 1784 to 1785 | The Oath of the Horatii | Jacques-Louis David | Neoclassicism |
| 1787 | The Death of Socrates | Jacques-Louis David | Neoclassicism |
| 1793 | The Death of Marat | Jacques-Louis David | Neoclassicism |
| 1801 | Napoleon Crossing the Alps | Jacques-Louis David | Neoclassicism |
| 1812 | Napoleon in His Study | Jacques-Louis David | Neoclassicism |
| 1814 | The Third of May 1808 | Francisco Goya | Romanticism |
| 1814 | Grande Odalisque | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | Neoclassicism |
| c. 1818 | Wanderer above the Sea of Fog | Caspar David Friedrich | Romanticism |
| 1818 to 1819 | The Raft of the Medusa | Théodore Géricault | Romanticism |
| c. 1819 to 1823 | Saturn Devouring His Son | Francisco Goya | Romanticism |
| 1821 | The Hay Wain | John Constable | Romanticism |
| c. 1830 to 1832 | The Great Wave off Kanagawa | Katsushika Hokusai | Japanese ukiyo-e |
| 1830 | Liberty Leading the People | Eugène Delacroix | Romanticism |
| 1839 | The Fighting Temeraire | J. M. W. Turner | Romanticism |
| 1844 | Rain, Steam and Speed | J. M. W. Turner | Romanticism |
| 1851 | Washington Crossing the Delaware | Emanuel Leutze | Romanticism |
| 1851 to 1852 | Ophelia | John Everett Millais | Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian |
| 1852 to 1855 | The Horse Fair | Rosa Bonheur | Realism |
| 1857 | The Gleaners | Jean-François Millet | Realism |
| 1857 to 1859 | The Angelus | Jean-François Millet | Realism |
| 1860 | Twilight in the Wilderness | Frederic Edwin Church | Romanticism |
| 1863 | Olympia | Édouard Manet | Realism |
| 1863 | Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe | Édouard Manet | Realism |
| 1867 | Garden at Sainte-Adresse | Claude Monet | Impressionism |
| 1871 | Whistler's Mother | James McNeill Whistler | Realism |
| 1872 | Impression, Sunrise | Claude Monet | Impressionism |
| 1873 to 1876 | Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) | Winslow Homer | Realism |
| 1874 | The Dance Class | Edgar Degas | Impressionism |
| 1875 | The Gross Clinic | Thomas Eakins | Realism |
| 1875 | Woman with a Parasol | Claude Monet | Impressionism |
| 1876 | Bal du moulin de la Galette | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionism |
| 1877 | Paris Street; Rainy Day | Gustave Caillebotte | Impressionism |
| 1880 to 1881 | Luncheon of the Boating Party | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionism |
| 1882 | A Bar at the Folies-Bergère | Édouard Manet | Impressionism |
| 1883 to 1884 | Madame X | John Singer Sargent | Realism |
| 1884 to 1886 | A Sunday on La Grande Jatte | Georges Seurat | Post-Impressionism |
| 1885 | The Potato Eaters | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1887 | Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1888 | Café Terrace at Night | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1888 | The Lady of Shalott | John William Waterhouse | Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian |
| 1888 | The Night Café | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1888 | The Bedroom | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1888 | Sunflowers | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1888 | Starry Night Over the Rhône | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1889 | The Starry Night | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1889 | Wheat Field with Cypresses | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1889 | Irises | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1889 | Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1889 | Cypresses | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1890 | Almond Blossom | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1890 | Wheatfield with Crows | Vincent van Gogh | Post-Impressionism |
| 1893 | The Scream | Edvard Munch | Symbolism and Art Nouveau |
| c. 1893 | The Basket of Apples | Paul Cézanne | Post-Impressionism |
| 1893 | The Child's Bath | Mary Cassatt | Impressionism |
| 1895 | Flaming June | Frederic Leighton | Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian |
| 1897 | The Sleeping Gypsy | Henri Rousseau | Post-Impressionism |
| 1899 | Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies | Claude Monet | Impressionism |
| 1899 | The Gulf Stream | Winslow Homer | Realism |
| 1899 | The Japanese Footbridge | Claude Monet | Impressionism |
| 1903 to 1904 | The Old Guitarist | Pablo Picasso | Modern art |
| 1907 to 1908 | The Kiss | Gustav Klimt | Symbolism and Art Nouveau |
| 1907 | Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | Pablo Picasso | Modern art |
| 1907 | Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I | Gustav Klimt | Symbolism and Art Nouveau |
| 1929 | The Treachery of Images | René Magritte | Modern art |
| 1930 | American Gothic | Grant Wood | American realism |
| 1931 | The Persistence of Memory | Salvador Dalí | Modern art |
| 1937 | Guernica | Pablo Picasso | Modern art |
| 1939 | The Two Fridas | Frida Kahlo | Modern art |
| 1942 | Nighthawks | Edward Hopper | American realism |
| 1948 | Christina's World | Andrew Wyeth | American realism |
| 1964 | The Son of Man | René Magritte | Modern art |
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