El Greco's The Burial of Count Orgaz, canvas, 1586.

Location: S. Tome, Toledo

Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Theresa

Mixed media, 1645-52.

Location: Cornaro Chapel,

S. Maria della Vittoria.

Patron: Cardinal Federico Cornaro.

Bernini,

Baldachin (Baldacchino), gilded bronze, 1624-33.

Location: Crossing of St. Peter's, Rome

Patron: Pope Urban VIII

Bernini's Cathedra Petri (St. Peter's Throne),

marble, gilded bronze, stucco, stained glass, 1657-66.

Location: Apse, St. Peter's, Rome.

Patron: Pope Alexander VII

Bernini's Colonnade of Piazza San Pietro,

beg. 1656.

Patron: Alexander VII 

      Caravaggio's Calling of St. Matthew,

Oil on canvas, c. 1599-1600.

Location: Contarelli Chapel, S. Luigi dei Francesi, Rome.

Caravaggio's Conversion of St. Paul, 

Oil on canvas, c. 1601.

Location: Cerasi chapel, S. Maria del Popolo, Rome

Caravaggio's Crucifixion of St. Peter

            Oil on canvas, c. 1601.

Location: Cerasi chapel, S. Maria del Popolo, Rome

Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith slaying Holofernes,

canvas, c. 1620 

Sofonisba Anguissola's 

Portrait of the Artist's 3 sisters with a servant.

No patron.

            Hung in artist's house. 1555

Bramante's Tempietto,

S. Pietro in Montorio, Rome, 1502-11.

Patron: King and Queen of Spain.

Bramante's Plan for St. Peter's,

Rome, 1506.

Patron: Pope Julius II.

Della Porta's facade,

c. 1575-84, Gesu, Rome. 

Comm. by the Jesuits;

financed by Card. Alessandro Farnese. 

Vignola (plan, beg. 1568) Gesu, Rome. 

Comm. by the Jesuits; financed by Card. Alessandro Farnese

Bramante's  Plan & Facade (as shown on medal),

St. Peter's, Vatican, Rome, 1506.

Patron: Pope Julius II.

Veronese's Last Supper, re-titled Feast in the House of Levi,

canvas, 1573.

Location: Refectory,(Dominican) Monastery

S. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

Unacceptable Presentation of Iconography

[on grounds of secularism]

Tintoretto's Last Supper,

canvas, 1592-94.

Location: Choir, S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.

Comm. by the Prior.

Velasquez's Surrender of the town of Breda,

oil on canvas, 1634-35 

Location: Hall of the Realms,

Buen Retiro Palace. Patron: Philip IV 

Rubens

      King Henry IV of France

Receiving the Portrait of Marie de Medici

oil on canvas, 1621-25.

From a cycle of 24 scenes of the life

of Marie de Medici, Queen of France.

Location: Luxembourg Palace.

Patron: Marie de Medici (i.e. female patron)

Van Dyck

Portrait of Charles I of England

in Hunting Dress,

oil on canvas, 1635.

Patron: King Charles I of England.

Rigaud,

      Portrait of King Louis XIV of France,

oil on canvas, 1701.

Patron: Louis XIV.  Palace of Versailles

  Velasquez      

Las Meninas (Maids of Honor) 1656

(Originally called The Household of Philip IV of Spain)        

Location:  Philip IV's private room

in the Alcazar Palace in 1666.

Patron: King Philip IV of Spain 

Durer      

Four Saints, so-called Four Apostles,

panel, c. 1526.

Patron: Artist.

Location: his gift to

Nuremburg Town Hall 

Holbein,

      Madonna of Burgomaster Meyer, panel, 1526.

Patron: Burgomaster Meyer.

Location: In chapel of his castle in Basel

Bruegel's Harvesters (August) 

Oil on panel, 1565.

Patron: Nicolaes Jonghelinck.

Location: his house in Antwerp

Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow (December).

Oil on panel, 1565.

Patron: Nicolaes Jonghelinck.

Location: his house in Antwerp

Hals' Laughing Cavalier,

oil on canvas, 1624  

Location: Middle-Class Homes Patron: the sitters

Hals' Regentesses of the Old Men's Almshouse,

oil on canvas, c. 1664

Location: Boardroom

Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp,

canvas, 1632.

Patrons: Surgeons' Guild for their hall.

Location: Boardroom

Rembrandt's Night Watch

(Militia Company of Captain Cocq),

oil on canvas, 1642.

Patrons: Members of the company for their hall.

Location: Boardroom

Rembrant's

Return of the Prodigal Son,

oil on canvas, c. 1669

Cellini, Perseus and Medusa,

bronze, 1545-54. 

Location, loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. 

Patron: Duke Cosimo I de' Medici

Giovanni da Bologna, Rape of the Sabine Women,

marble, 1583.

Location: Loggia de' Lanzi, Florence.

Patron: Duke Francesco de' Medici

1 block

Bernini, David, marble, 1623.

Location: Villa Borghese, Rome.

Patron: Cardinal Scipione Borghese

Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece

Open: Temptation of St. Anthony (illus. Chambers, p. 433)

Oil on panel, 1515.

Location: Main altar, monastery church,

Hospital of St. Anthony Isenheim.

Patron: preceptor 

Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece

Half Open: Annunciation, Virgin and Child with Angels, Ressurection, Oil on panel, 1515.

Location: Main altar, monastery church, Hospital of St. Anthony Isenheim

Patron: preceptor 

Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece

Closed: Crucifixion, Lamentation, and

Saints Anthony

and Sebastian, Oil on panel, 1515.

Location: Main altar, monastery church,

Hospital of St. Anthony Isenheim.

Patron: preceptor  

Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights Secular Triptych.

Oil on panel, c.1505-10

Patron: Secular member of aristocracy.

Location: (In 1517 hanging in palace of Hendrik III of Nassau, Brussels)

Durer's Adam and Eve,

engraving, 1504

No patron, many locations

Durer's Melencolia I,

engraving, 1514

No patron Many locations 

Durer's Self Portrait,

panel, 1498

No patron Many locations

      Ruisdael

            ***View of Haarlem, oil on canvas, c. 1670

Townscape:

      Vermeer

            ***View of Delft, oil on canvas, c. 1662

Churchscape (Church Interior):

      Saenredam

            ***Church of St. Bavo, oil on panel, 1660

Hals

            ***Malle Babbe, oil on canvas, c. 1630-33

      de Hooch

            ***Linen Cupboard, oil on canvas, 1663

      Judith Leyster

            ***The Proposition, oil on canvas, 1631

Vermeer

            ***Kitchen Maid, oil on canvas, c. 1658