— 4 — Contents 8 Anonymous Fragment of a wall painting from the tomb of Nebamun, before 1350 BC 14 Anonymous The Empress Theodora with her Retinue, c. 547 22 Gu Hongzhong The Night Revels of Han Xizai, c. 960 28 Anonymous The Bayeux Tapestry, after 1066 34 Al-Wasiti Two miniatures from the Maqamat of al-Hariri, 1237 42 Anonymous Miniature from Christine de Pizan’s “Book of the City of Ladies”, c. 1405 50 Upper Rhenish Master The Little Garden of Paradise, c. 1410 58 Robert Campin The Mérode Triptych (Annunciation Triptych/ Mérode Altarpiece, in which Joseph is seen making mousetraps), c. 1422/1430 66 Antonio Pisano, called Pisanello St George, 1435/1438 74 Jan van Eyck The Arnolfini Marriage, 1434 80 Paolo Uccello The Battle of San Romano, c. 1435 88 Fra Angelico St Nicholas of Bari, 1437 96 Jean Fouquet The Melun Diptych, c. 1456 104 Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo Tobias and the Angel, c. 1469 110 Andrea Mantegna Ludovico Gonzaga and His Family, c. 1470 118 Hans Memling The Passion, c. 1470/1471 126 Master of the Hours of Mary of Burgundy Window miniature, 1470/1480 132 Hugo van der Goes The Portinari Altar, c. 1475 140 Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus, c. 1486 150 Hieronymus Bosch The Haywain, 1485 / 1490 158 Ercole de’ Roberti / Lorenzo Costa The Ship of the Argonauts, c. 1480/1490 166 Vittore Carpaccio St George and the Dragon, 1502/1507 172 Hans Baldung Grien The Knight, the Maiden and Death, before 1503 178 Albrecht Dürer Christ among the Doctors, 1506 186 Michelangelo Buonarotti The Creation of Adam, 1508/1512 — 5 — 192 Raphael The Sistine Madonna, 1512/1513 198 Matthias Grünewald The Isenheim Altar, 1512–1516 212 Niklaus Manuel Deutsch The Judgement of Paris, 1516/1528 218 Unknown Netherlandish Master Lot and his Daughters, c. 1530 226 Unknown Southern German Artist St Christopher, between c. 1520/1562 232 Albrecht Altdorfer The Battle of Issus, 1529 238 Hans Holbein the Younger The Ambassadors, 1533 246 Dosso Dossi Witchcraft, or Allegory of Hercules, 1540/1542 252 Titian Pope Paul iii and his Grandsons, 1545 258 Lucas Cranach the Elder The Fountain of Youth, 1546 266 Maerten van Heemskerck Momus Criticizes the Works of the Gods, 1561 274 Paolo Veronese The Marriage at Cana, 1562/1563 282 Pieter Bruegel the Elder Hunters in the Snow, 1565 290 Antoine Caron The Massacre by the Triumvirate, 1566 298 Tintoretto The Origin of the Milky Way, c. 1580 306 El Greco The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, 1586 314 George Gower Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I, c. 1590 322 Adam Elsheimer St Elizabeth Tending the Sick, c. 1597 330 Caravaggio Judith and Holofernes, c. 1599 338 School of Fontainebleau Gabrielle d’Estrées and one of her sisters, c. 1600 348 Artemisia Gentileschi Judith and her Maid, 1625/1627 354 Georges de La Tour The Fortune Teller, after 1630 362 Claude Lorrain Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, 1648 370 Peter Paul Rubens The Love Garden, c. 1632/1634 378 Nicolas Poussin The Rape of the Sabine Women, 1637/1639 386 Rembrandt The Night Watch, 1642
