Southern Gardens
1936 (220 Kb); Oil on paper, mounted on cardboard, 10 3/8 x 12 1/4 in; Collection Norman Granz, Geneva

Rubens, c 1617-18: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon

Rubens are trei mari lucrari cu tema adoratiei magilor (icoane de Craciun). Pe langa cea din Lyon, mai exista un tablou aflat la Cambridge (in King’s Chapel) si unul la Anvers, in Muzeul Regal pentru Arte Frumoase.

The Sleeping Gypsy
1897 (70 Kb); Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 200.7 cm (51″ x 6’7″); The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Rousseau-Douanier este reprezentantul cel mai important al fovismului si picturii naive. El a facut parte din grupul modernist parizian care a lansat impresionismul. Fiind considerat retardat mintal, geniul sau plastic a fost insa larg apreciat atat in epoca, cat si dupa moartea sa. Teme si tehnici din creatia lui au fost ulterior reluate in pictura fauva, in suprarealism, precum si in opera unor pictori de dupa ultimul razboi mondial.

Number 8, 1949 (detail)
1949 (280 Kb); Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York

Pollock a inventat, in seria numerelor (utitled) o noua tehnica picturala, larg folosita de artistii contemporani: action paintingul, care consta in distribuirea aleatorie a culorii, prin aruncarea vopselei pe panza. Lucrarile din aceasta serie sunt cele mai bine primite opere ale lui Pollock in licitatii.

Andrea Mantegna are o serie de  trei sfinti Sebastian, unul in tempera, altul in ulei pe panza (cel de fata) si un altul ulei pe lemn.

St. Sebastian

Andrea Mantegna, 1456–1459

Panel, 68 × 30 cm

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Viena

St. Sebastian

Andrea Mantegna, 1490

Panel, 68 × 30 cm

Ca’ d’Oro, Venice

Titlu intreg: Dragostea imbratiseaza universul, Pamantul (Mexico), pe Diego [Rivera], pe mine si pe domnul Xolotl

Lucrarea dateaza din 1949

The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Diego, Me and Señor Xólotl (El abrazo de amor del universo, la tierra (México), Diego, yo y el señor Xólotl), 1949
Oil on Masonite; 27-9/16 x 23-13/16 inches
The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art: Courtesy The Vergel Foundation; Muros; Costco / Comercial Mexicana
© 2008 Banco de México, Trustee of the Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Av. Cinco de Mayo No. 2, Col. Centro, Del. Cuauhtémoc 06059, México, D.F.

Detaliu din tabloul Judecatii universale care decoreaza altarul Capelei Sixtine din Vatican. Intreaga lucrare, inclusiv tavanul capelei, a fost realizata de Michelangelo intre 1536-41.

Capela Sixtina se afla in actualul Muzeu Vatican si este unul dintre cele mai vizitate obiective turistice din Roma.

Altarul Judecatii cuprinde si o zona numita Infernul, detaliu din care este scana Caron.

The Two Fridas, 1939

Shortly after her divorce from Diego Rivera, Frida completed this self-portrait of two different personalities. In her diary, Frida writes that this painting originated from her memory of an imaginary childhood friend. Later she admitted it records the emotions surrounding her separation and martial crisis. On the right, the part of her person which was respected and loved by Diego, is the Mexican Frida in Tehuana costume. In her hand she holds an amulet bearing the portrait of Diego as a child. On the left, a more rather European Frida in a lacy white Victorian wedding dress, the Frida that Diego abandoned.