Chapter 1

Vincent Van Gogh, Self-Portrait
Chapter 2

Self-portrait of Albrecht Durer (Prado Museum, Madrid)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death (Prado Museum, Madrid)

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Prado Museum, Madrid)

Hans Memling, central panel of Polyptych of Calvary; also known as Altar of the Passion (Lubeck, St. Anne’s Museum)

Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna of the Rocks; also called The Virgin of the Rocks (National Gallery, London)

Peter Paul Rubens, Samson and Delila (National Gallery, London)

The Wilton Diptych (National Gallery, London)

Hans Memling, The Donne Triptych (National Gallery, London)

Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait (National Gallery, London)

Anthony van Dyck, Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (National Gallery, London)

Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors (National Gallery, London)
Chapter 3

Jan van Eyck, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb; also known as The Ghent Altarpiece (St. Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent)

Original Just Judges panel (now lost)

Michelangelo, The Madonna of Bruges (Church of Our Lady, Bruges)
Chapter 4

Leonardo da Vinci, Lady with an Ermine (Czartoryski Museum, Wawel Castle Krakow)

Rembrandt, Landscape with a Good Samaritan (Czartoryski Museum, Wawel Castle Krakow)

Raphael of Urbino, Portrait of a Young Man (now lost)

Statue of Adam Mickiewicz, Krakow

Veit Stoss Altar, Church of Our Lady, Krakow

Hans Memling, The Last Judgement (National Museum, Gdansk, Poland)
Chapter 6

Rembrandt, The Night Watch (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Rembrandt, Titus or Boy with a Red Beret (Wallace Collection, London)

Nike or Winged Victory of Samothrace (Louvre, Paris)

Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry (Bayeux, Normandy)

Peter Paul Rubens, Descent from the Cross (Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp)

Johannes Vermeer, The Astronomer (Louvre, Paris)

Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of Mrs. Thomas HIbbert (Neue Pinakothek, Munich)
Chapter 7

Italianate courtyard, Wawel Castle (Krakow)
Chapter 11

Louis XIV Visits the Gobelin factory–a Gobelin tapestry (Palace of Versailles)

Master of the Magdalene Mansi Legend, Mary Magdalene

Han van Meegeren, Christ with a Woman Taken in Adultery (sold to Hermann Goring as a Vermeer)
Chapter 13

Ruins of the Abbey of Monte Cassino, 1943

Rebuilt Abbey of Monte Cassino
Chapter 14

The Castle of Neuschwanstein, Bavaria
Chapter 15

The Vasari Corridor along the Arno/Ponte Vecchio, Florence

Domenico Ghirlandaio, The Adoration of the Magi (Hospital of the Innocents, Florence)

Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)

Michelangelo, Dawn (Medici Chapel, Florence)
Chapter 17

The Campo Santo at Pisa

Frescoes and sarcophagi at the Campo Santo, Pisa
Chapter 19

Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ (National Gallery, Dublin)

Caravaggio, Bacchus (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)

Lukas Cranach, Adam and Eve (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
Chapter 21

Edouard Manet, In the Conservatory (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
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