Includes index.

1100-1500. The Qingming scroll / Zhang Zeduan ; The lamentation of Christ / Giotto di Bondone ; The Madonna enthroned / Duccio di Buoninsegna ; The annunciation / Fra Angelico ; The Arnolfini portrait / Jan Van Eyck ; The baptism of Christ / Piero della Francesca ; The hunt in the forest / Paolo Uccello ; The birth of Venus / Sandro Botticelli

1500-1600. The garden of earthly delights / Hieronymus Bosch l; The great piece of turf / Albrecht Düer ; Mona Lisa / Leonardo da Vinci ; The school of Athens / Raphael ; Sistine Chapel ceiling / Michelangelo ; Bacchus and Ariadne / Titian ; The ambassadors / Hans Holbein ; Spring morning in the Han Palace / Qiu Ying ; Netherlandish proverbs / Pieter Bruegel the Elder ; Spring / Giuseppe Arcimboldo ; Cypress tree / Kano Eitoku ; Akbar's adventures with the elephant Hawa'i in 1561 / Basawan and Chetar

1600-1700. David with the head of Goliath / Caravaggio ; The judgment of Paris / Peter Paul Rubens ; Charles I on horseback / Anthony van Dyck ; Self-portrait as "La Pittura" / Artemisia Gentileschi ; Las meninas / Diego Velázquez ; Self-portrait / Rembrandt van Rijn ; The art of painting / Johannes Vermeer

1700-1800. Still life with flowers and fruit / Jan van Huysum ; Marriage à-la-mode : the marriage settlement / William Hogarth ; Mr. and Mrs. Andrews / Thomas Gainsborough ; Allegory of the planets and continents / Giambattista Tiepolo ; An experiment on a bird in the air pump / Joseph Wright of Derby ; The death of Marat / Jacques-Louis David

1800-1900. The Valpinçon bather / Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres ; The third of May 1808 / Francisco de Goya ; Wanderer above the sea of fog / Caspar David Friedrich ; The hay wain / John Constable ; The fighting Temeraire / J.M.W. Turner ; The artist's studio / Gustave Courbet ; Olympia / Édouard Manet ; Arrangement in grey and black, no. 1 / James McNeill Whistler ; The dancing class / Edgar Degas ; A Sunday on La Grande Jatte / Georges Seurat ; Van Gogh's chair / Vincent van Gogh ; The child's bath / Mary Cassatt ; Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? / Paul Gauguin ; The waterlily pond / Claude Monet

1900 to present. Lake Keitele / Akseli Gallen-Kallela ; The large bathers / Paul Cézanne ; The kiss / Gustav Klimt ; Composition VII / Wassily Kandinsky ; Berlin street scene / Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ; Northern River / Tom Thomson ; Red balloon / Paul Klee ; Red canna / Georgia O'Keeffe ; The metamorphosis of Narcissus / Salvador Dalí ; Guernica / Pablo Picasso ; Nighthawks / Edward Hopper ; Without hope / Frida Kahlo ; Red interior, still life on a blue table / Henri Matisse ; Autumn rhythm (number 30) / Jackson Pollock ; Untitled / Mark Rothko ; Marilyn / Andy Warhol ; To a summer's day / Bridget Riley ; The dance / Paula Rego ; Athanor / Anselm Kiefer

Features works from great artists through the ages including Zhang Zeduan, Rothko, and Botticelli; examines the story behind each piece; and explores the social context of each.