Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656, Museo del Prado, Madrid. 

“Snake Goddess”. Ceramic from Knossos. circa 1600 BCE. Iraklion Museum, Crete. 

New York “kouros”. Marble, circa 600 BCE. 1.84 m (6 feet). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 

Nike Tying her Sandal (Personification of Victory). Marble, circa 410 – 405 BCE. Acropolis Museum, Athens. 

Polykleitos. Doryphoros. Roman marble copy of bronze Greek original, circa 440 BCE. National Museum, Naples. 

Masaccio. Tribute Money. Circa 1427. Fresco, Brancacci Chapel, Sta. Maria del Carmine, Florence. 

Paolo Uccello. Battle of San Romano. Circa 1438-40. Panel. National Gallery, London. 

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519). The Vitruvian Man, circa 1490. Pen, ink, and wash on paper. Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice. 

Leonardo da Vinci. Madonna and Child with Saint Anne. Circa 1508-19. Panel. Louvre, Paris. 

Raphael. School of Athens. 1510-11. Fresco, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome. 

Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475 – 1564). David, 1501 – 1504. Marble. Gallerie dell’Accademia, Florence. 

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1656). Allegory of Painting, 1630. Oil on canvas,

Windsor Castle, England. 

Sofonisba Anguissola (1532 – 1625). Self-Portrait, circa 1552. Oil on parchment, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 

Michel-Ange Houasse (French, 1680 – 1730). Drawing Academy, circa 1725. Oil on canvas. Royal Palace, Madrid. 

Titian. Rape of Europa. 1559-62. Canvas. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. 

Titian. Jacopo Strada. 1567-68. Canvas. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Peter Paul Rubens. The Duke of Lerma on Horseback. 1603. Oil on canvas, Museo del Prado, Madrid. 

Anonymous Artist. View of Seville. Oil on canvas, circa 1600. Museo de America, Madrid. 

Diego Velázquez. Juan de Pareja. 1650. Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum, New York. 

Ibn Shoshan Synagogue (Santa Maria la Blanca). Toledo, Spain. 13th century. 

Great Mosque at Córdoba. 785-86. Córdoba, Spain. 

Alonso López de Herrera. Portrait of Fray García Guerra. 1609. Oil on canvas, 215 x 125.5 cm. Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Mexico. 

Juan de Miranda. Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Circa 1713. Oil on canvas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City. 

Anonymous Mexican Artist. Young Woman with a Harpsichord. Mexico, 1720-35. Oil on canvas, Collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer, Denver Art Museum. 

Temple Mount, Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock. 685 – 691 CE. Jerusalem, Israel. 

Ise Grand Shrine, Ise, Mie prefecture, Japan. Original 4 BCE, rebuilt every 20 years. 

Cathedral of Santo Domingo. Completed 1654. Corincancha (Temple of the Sun) with Inca stonework, circa 1400-1500 CE. Cuzco, Peru. 

Great Pyramid at Cholula. Built in four stages between 3rd century BCE to 9th century CE. Church of the Virgin of Remedies (top) begun 1594 CE. State of Puebla, Mexico. 

Virgin of Guadalupe (Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), circa 1556. Attributed to Marcos Cípac de Aquino. Tempera (egg and pigment) on linen. Basilica de Guadalupe, Mexico City. 

“Pedro de Gante using engravings to instruct native converts to Christianity,” from Diego de Valadés Rhetorica Christiana (Perugia, 1579). Engraving. 

Anonymous Byzantine Painter. Mandylion (Holy Face of Jesus), circa 500 CE. Church of St. Bartholomew of the Armenians, Genoa (Italy). 

Hans Memling (German, 1433-94).Veronica with her Veil, circa 1470. Oil on panel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. 

José Juárez. Transfer of the Image of the Virgin of Guadalupe and a Representation of the First Miracle, Circa 1653. Oil on canvas, Museum of the Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico City. 

O Aleijadinho (Antonio Francisco Lisboa, Brazilian, c. 1738 - 1814). Saint George, 1780s (?). Insituto do Patrimonio Historico, Ouro Prêto, Brazil. 

Albert Eckhout (Dutch, c. 1610 – 65). African Man, and African Woman, 1641. Oil on canvas, National Museum of Denmark. 

Beaded Zemi. Dominican Republic, circa 1515. Wood, cotton, shell, glass beads, and mirrors. 32 cm height. Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini, Rome. 

Hélio Oiticica (Brazilian, 1937 – 80). Parangolé “From the Adversity We Live in,” 1964. Projeto Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro. 

Bosou Packet. Haiti, 20th century. Satin, fringe, ribbon, sequins, plastic. 25.5 cm height. Private collection. 

Sequined flag, St. Jacques Majeur (Sen Jak Majé); Ogoun Ferraille. 20th century. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA. 

Bizango Altar, 1970-80. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA.