French

Jacques-Louis David. Oath of the Horatii. 1784-1785.

Theodore Gericault. The Raft of the “Medusa.” 1818-1819.

Jean-Francois Millet. The Gleaners. 1857.

Edouard Manet. The Luncheon on the Grass. 1863.

Claude Monet. Water Lilies (triptych). 1914-26.

Raymond Duchamp. Villon. Horse. 1914.

Paul Cezanne. Still Life with Basket of Apples. 1890-1894.

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec. Jane Avril. 1893.

Fernand Leger. Divers on a Yellow Background. 1941.

Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. 1950.

Italy

Commodus as Hercules, Rome. c. 191-192 CE.

Giotto di Bondone. Marriage at Cana, Raising of Lazarus, Lamentation, and Resurrection. 1305-1306.

Donatello. David. 1450s or 1460s.

Lorenco Ghiberti. Jacob and Esau. c. 1435.

Fra Angelico. Annunciation. c. 1438-1445.

Paolo Uccello. The Battle of San Romano. 1438-1440.

Michelangelo. Pieta. c. 1500.

Jacopo da Pontormo. Deposition. 1525-1527.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini. David. 1623.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Saint Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy. 1647-1652.

Caravaggio. The Taking of Christ. C. 1602.

Umberto Boccioni. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.

It seems that most art coming out of Italy was created in accordance with political, religious, or social ideas.

Norway

Edvard Munch. The Scream. 1893.

Africa

Horseman, from Old Jenne, Mali. 13^th-15^th century CE.

Hip mask representing an Iyoba (“queen mother”), from Benin, Nigeria. Middle Period, c. 1550 CE.

I really like the materials used in African art. The material always seems to further the sculptural form.

Netherlands

Robert Campin. Triptych of the Annunciation. c. 1425-1428

Hieronymus Bosch. Farden of Earthly Delights. c. 1505-1515

What I enjoy in such works from the Netherlands is the way the viewer willingly accepts the reality portrayed in the piece.

Switzerland

Crucifixion with Angels and Mourning Figures, outer cover of the Lindau Gospels. c. 870-880.

Japan

Kano Eitoku. Fusuma. c. 1563-1573.

In Fusuma, there is a beauty in the unity achieved by the piece occupying two compositions.

Fan Kuan. Travelers Among Mountains and Streams. Northern Song Dynasty

Japanese artists took mundane asymmetrical and disconnected reality and created extremely stylized and abstracted portrayals of nature.