1.      Jan van Eyck (active 1422, died 1441), The Arnolfini portrait, 1434, oil, perhaps some egg tempera on oak panel.

1.      Joseph Wright of Derby, The Corinthian maid Dibutades tracing the outline of her lover’s face, 1782-4, oil on canvas.

1.      Prometheus making man from clay, Roman sarcophagus relief, ca. 150 AD

1.      Claude Mellan, The veil of Veronica, 1649, engraving.

1.      Nude woman (‘Venus of Willendorf’), Willendorf, Germany, 30,000-27,000 BP, limestone.

1.      Hall of the Bulls (left wall), Lascaux, Dordogne, France, ca.15,000–13,000 BCE

1.      Dynamic figure (running with boomerangs), Kakadu National Park, 25,000-10,000 BP.

1.      Kouros. Archaic Greek from Anavysos, c. 530 BC, marble.

1.      Riace Bronze, warrior A. c. 460-450 BC, classical Greek bronze.

1.      View of the temple of Athena Parthenos (The Parthenon) on the Acropolis in Athens.  Icthinus and Kallikrates (architects), Phidias (sculptor), 447-432 BC, view from the north east.

1.      Johann Zoffany, The tribuna of the Uffizi, c.1772-78, oil.

1.      Belvedere Torso, 1st century BC, marble.

1.      Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Barrière de la Villette, Paris, 1785-9.

1.      Christian symbol. (Chi Rho monogram with alpha and omega). 3rd century AD.

1.      Christ as the good shepherd. 425-450 AD, mosaic.

1.      Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus. 359 AD. Marble. Rome.

1.      Chi Rho page from the Book of Kells.  c. 800. Ink on vellum.

1.      The Nativity. Mosaic in one of the squinches under the dome. Church of the Katholikon. Monastery of Hosios Loukas, Phocis (Greece). c. 1000.

1.      The prophet Isaiah. c. 1125. Jamb sculpture from the Church of Sainte-Marie, Souillac (southern France).

1.      Dome of the Rock (Al Qubbat al Sakhra), 688-692, built by Ummayyad calif, Abd al-Malik

1.      Domenico del Ghirlandaio, The adoration of the shepherds, 1485, tempera (& oil?) on panel.

1.      Botticelli, The ‘Calumny’ of Apelles, 1497-8?, panel.

1.      Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I, 1514, engraving.

1.      View of an ideal city, Central Italian (? possibly by Luciano Laurana and/or Piero della Francesca), third quarter of the 15th century, panel.

1.      Leonardo da Vinci, Anatomical studies, c. 1500, drawing.

1.      Raphael, The Transfiguration, 1518-1520, oil on panel.

1.      Albrecht Durer, Four Apostles, 1526. oil on two panels.

1.      Caravaggio, The calling of Saint Matthew, 1599-1600, oil on canvas,

1.      Stefano Maderno, Saint Cecilia, 1600, marble.

1.      Caravaggio, The Entombment, c. 1602, oil on canvas

1.      Gianlorenzo Bernini, David, 1623-24, marble.

1.      Gianlorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1622-25, marble.

1.      Dome in front of the mihrab of the Great Mosque, 784-810, Córdoba, Spain, built by Abd-al-Raham I.

1.      Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Allegory of Peace, 1629, oil on canvas.

1.      Sir Anthony Van Dyck, The lords John and Bernard Stuart, c 1630, oil.

1.      Lapita fragments (in situ), c. 1200 BC, Talepakemalai site, Mussau Islands, Bismarck Achipelago

1.      Ahu Tongariki, 1000-1500 AD, Rapanui

1.      Chen Hongshou, Enjoying a painting, late Ming, second quarter of 17^th C, hanging scroll, ink and colours on silk

1.      Dong Qichang, The Qingbian Mountains, 1617, hanging scroll, ink on paper.

1.      Unknown Mughal artist, Deposition from the cross, c 1598, gouache and gold on paper, 19.4 x 11.3 cm, London: V & A Museum

1.      Taj Mahal, Agra, 1642-54, dawn view

1.      David Teniers, The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his gallery of paintings in Brussels, c.1651, oil on copper.

1.      Wenzel Jamnitzer, Daphne, c. 1550, silver and coral.

1.      Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Winter, 1563, oil on panel

1.      Nicolas Poussin, The judgment of Solomon, 1649, oil on canvas.

1.      Pietro Antonio Martini, View of the Salon of 1785, etching.

1.      Roman effigy group of a husband and wife, 1st c BC, marble.

1.      Pedro Berruguete, Portrait of Federigo da Montefeltro and his son, c 1475, originally mounted in the studiolo.

1.      Domenico del Ghirlandaio, Giovanna Tornabuoni, 1488, oil on panel.

1.      Johannes Vermeer, Woman weighing pearls, c. 1664, oil on canvas.

1.      Jean-Siméon Chardin, Saying grace, 1740, oil on canvas.

1.      William Hogarth, The marriage contract, from the series ‘Marriage à la mode’, 1743, oil on canvas.

1.      Giorgione, The tempest, c. 1505-1510, oil on canvas.

1.      Claude Lorrain. Landscape with the marriage of Issac and Rebekah 'The mill', 1648

1.      Pieter Bruegel, Hunters in the snow, 1565, oil on panel

1.      Sydney Parkinson, Portrait of a New Zealand man, 1769, pen and wash.

1.      William Hodges, Cascade Cove, Dusky Bay, 1775.

1.      William Hodges, Landing at Mallicolo [Malakula], one of the New Hebrides, c.1776, oil on panel.

1.      Albert Eckhout, Black woman and child, 1641, oil on canvas.

1.      Joseph Wright of Derby, The Indian Widow, 1783-85, oil on canvas.

1.      Nicolas-Martin Petit, Portrait of Bara Ourou, an Aborigine from Van Diemen’s Land, 1802, watercolour.

1.      Jacques-Louis David, The oath of the Horatii, 1785.

1.      Hubert Robert, The demolition of the Bastille in 1789, 1789

1.      Carlo Maratti, An academy of painting, c. 1680, drawing.