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Annunciation (Angelico, 1438-1440) (Angelico (Fra Angelico), c.1400-1455)
Perspective, Alberti and the Annunciation of Fra Angelico
 
Annunciation (Giotto Arena) (Giotto (di Bondone), c.1266-1337)
Giotto and Dante
 
Ascending, Descending (Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972)
Escher and Impossible Spaces
 
Athena and Marsyas (Myron, fl. c. 480-450 BCE)
Ambivalent Imitation: Plato's Republic and Myron's Athena and Marsyas
 
Avenue des Gobelins (Atget, Jean-Eugene Auguste, 1857-1927)
Atget and Absolute Reality
 
Bacchus and Ariadne (Titian (Vecellio, Tiziano), c.1490-1576)
Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne
 
Battle of San Romano (Uccello, Paolo, 1397-1475)
Uccello, Machiavelli, and the Art of War
 
Betrayal of Christ (Giotto (di Bondone), c.1266-1337)
Giotto and the Betrayal of Christ
 
Capricho 43 (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters) (Goya (Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes), 1746-1828)
Goya and the Sleep of Reason
 
Carson Pirie Scott (Sullivan, Louis, 1856-1924)
Sullivan, Weber and Metaphors for Modernity
 
Chi-Rho Page Book of Kells (Anonymous, c. 750 )
The Book of Kells and Worship of Language
 
Commedia (Dante (Alighieri), 1265-1321)
Purgatorio, 28
 
Creation of Adam (Michelangelo (Buonarroti), 1475 - 1564)
Michelangelo and the Images of Man and God
 
Crucifixion (Crivelli 1480s) (Crivelli, Carlo, c.1435 - c.1495)
Learning to Look: Crucifixions by Perugino and Crivelli
 
Death of Socrates (David, Jacques-Louis, 1748-1825)
David and the Death of Socrates
 
Dejeuner sur l'herbe (Manet, Edouard, 1832-1883)
Figures in a Landscape: the Fete Champetre and Manet's Dejeuner sur l'herbe
 
Endymion (Girodet, (Anne-Louis) 1767-1824)
Girodet's Endymion and Barthes' S/Z
 
Etruscan Chariot (Anonymous, c. 550 BCE)
Homer's Shield of Achilles and the Etruscan Chariot
 
Fete Champetre (Pastoral Concert) (Titian (Vecellio, Tiziano), c.1490-1576)
Figures in a Landscape: the Fete Champetre and Manet's Dejeuner sur l'herbe
 
Great Wave off Kanagawa (Hokusai (Katsushika), 1760-1849)
Hokusai, Hiroshige and Views of Mt. Fuji
 
Hakone (Hiroshige (Utagawa), 1797-1858)
Hokusai, Hiroshige and Views of Mt. Fuji
 
Hampstead Heath with Rainbow (Constable, John, 1776-1837)
Light and Nature in Turner and Constable
 
Hunt by Moonlight (Uccello, Paolo, 1397-1475)
Perspective and the Hunt for Meaning in Uccello
 
Laokoon (Anonymous, (Maker of the Laokoon), c. 100 BCE)
Laokoön: Sculpture and Story
 
Las Meninas (Velazquez (Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez), 1599-1660)
Velazquez's Las Meninas and Foucault
 
Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) (Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519)
Perspective and Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper
 
Madonna and Child (Cimabue, c. 1280) (Cimabue, c. 1240-1302?)
Cimabue, Form and Movement
 
Narcissus (Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio), 1573-1610)
Caravaggio, Narcissus, and the Subject of Painting
 
Netherlandish Proverbs (Bruegel, Pieter, c.1525-1569)
Bruegel's Parables
 
Norham Castle, Sunrise (Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 1775-1851)
Light and Nature in Turner and Constable
 
Oath of the Horatii (David, Jacques-Louis, 1748-1825)
History Painting without a Source: David's Oath of the Horatii
 
Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind (Bruegel, Pieter, c.1525-1569)
Bruegel's Parables
 
Parthenon (Phidias, c. 490 BCE - after 430 BCE)
What the Parthenon Tells Us that Greek Literature Does Not
 
Perugino Crucifixion (c. 1485) (Perugino, Pietro, c. 1450-1523)
Learning to Look: Crucifixions by Perugino and Crivelli
 
Portrait of Gustave Geffroy (Cezanne, Paul, 1839-1906)
Cezanne's Portrait of Gustave Geffroy
 
Primavera (Botticelli, Sandro 1445-1510)
Ways to Read Botticelli's Primavera
 
Purgatorio 28 (Botticelli, Sandro 1445-1510)
Purgatorio, 28
 
Republic (Plato, c. 428-347 BCE)
Ambivalent Imitation: Plato's Republic and Myron's Athena and Marsyas
 
Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio 1601) (Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio), 1573-1610)
Caravaggio's Emmaus Paintings
 
The Prince (Machiavelli, Niccolo, 1469-1527)
Uccello, Machiavelli, and the Art of War
 
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Weber, Max, 1864-1920)
Sullivan, Weber and Metaphors for Modernity
 
The Ray (Chardin, Jean Baptiste Simeon, 1699-1779)
Chardin and the Still Life
 
Triptych: Three Studies for a Crucifixion (Bacon, Francis 1909-1992)
Francis Bacon's Triptych: the ugly and the beautiful