Le Chinois Galant
François Boucher
1742 CE
Cornelia, Pointing to her Children as her Treasures
Angelica Kauffman
c. 1785 CE
The Death of Marat
David
1793 CE
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
1770-1806 CE
Saturn Devouring One of His Sons
Goya
1820-1822 CE
Odalisque
Eugène Delacroix
1845-1850 CE
Grand Odalisque
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
1814 CE
The Raft of the Medusa
Théodore Géricault
1819 CE
Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
1830 CE
Monk by the Sea
Casper David Friedrich
1809-1810 CE
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the Sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the Sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.
Immanuel Kant,
Critique of Pure Reason, 1781
Frederic Edwin Church
The Heart of the Andes
1859 CE
Ernest Meissonier
The Barricade (Memory of Civil War)
1850 CE
Gustave Courbet
Burial at Ornans
1849 CE
Honoré Daumier
Fight between Schools
1855 CE
Edouard Manet
Olympia
1863 CE
L.H.O.O.Q.
Duchamp
1919 CE
Fountain
Duchamp
1917 CE
Sold in 1964 at Sotheby's auction house to the Tate Britain museum...
...for $1.7 million
That's equal to $13.4 million in 2017.
One and Three Chairs
Joseph Kosuth | 1965 CE
Invasion
Damien Hirst
2009 CE
Stubbed Out Love
Damien Hirst
1993 CE
For the Love of God
Damien Hirst
2007 CE
Work No. 88
Martin Creed
1995 CE
Work No. 338
Martin Creed
2004 CE
Work No. 944
Martin Creed
2008 CE
Sunflower Seeds
Ai Weiwei
2010 CE
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn
Ai Weiwei
1995 CE