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The Western Canon
The Hebrew Bible
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Works and Days
Theogony
"Hymn to Aphrodite"
"Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice"
"Dancing Revelers"
"She-Wolf"
"Victory Odes"
"Kritios Boy"
Histories
The Oresteia
"Doryphoros"
The Parthenon
"Antigone"
History of the Peloponnesian War
"Medea"
"Oedipus the King"
"The Clouds"
"The Trojan Women"
"The Birds"
"Lysistrata"
"Oedipus at Colonus"
"The Frogs"
"The Bacchae"
The Complete Dialogues of Plato
Cyropaedia
The Organon of Aristotle
Politics
Metaphysics
"Aphrodite of Knidos"
Nicomachean Ethics
"Apoxyomenos"
"The Azara Herm"
"The Grouch" ("Dyskolos")
Elements
Hymns and Epigrams of Callimachus
Hippocratic Corpus
"Nike of Samothrace"
The Writings of Cicero
De Rerum Natura
Poems of Catullus
Complete Works of Horace
De architectura
Aeneid
History of Rome
Ab Urbe Condita Libri
Geographica
Metamorphoses
On the Nature of Things
The New Testament
Essay and Letters of Seneca the Younger
Satires
Satyricon
Parallel Lives
Arch of Titus
Histories
Column of Trajan
Annals
The Pantheon
Almagest
Geographia
The Golden Ass
Column Base of Antoninus Pius
Meditations
The Talmud
Enneads
Confessions
The City of God
Mosaics, Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
Rule of Saint Benedict
Hagia Sophia
Mosaics of Basilica at San Vitale
The Christ Pantocrator
The Quran
Dome of the Rock
Lindisfarne Gospels
Beowulf
Great Mosque of Cordoba
Palace Chapel of Charlemagne
The Compendious Book on Calculation
Collected Works of al-Kindi
De Divisione Naturae/Periphyseon
Musica Enchiriadis
Great Book of Music
One Thousand and One Nights
Joshua Roll
Gero Crucifix
Harbaville Triptych
Virgin of Essen
Christ Blessing Emperor Otto II
The Gospel Book of Otto III
Abbey Church of St. Michael's
Book of Optics
The Book of Healing
Bronze Doors of Bishop Bernward
Church of Sant Vicenç
Song of Roland
Mosaics, Church of the Dormition
Pisa Cathedral
Baptistery of San Giovanni
St. Mark's Basiilica
Bayeux Tapestry
Santiago de Compostela Cathedral
Speyer Cathedral
Abbey Church of Cluny
Durham Cathedral
"Alleluia Justus ut Palma"
Taghribat Bani Hilal
Mass for Christmas Day
Tristan and Iseult
"Jubilemus Exultemus"
Priory of Saint-Pierre
Sarcophagus of Doña Sancha
Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
Fossanova Abbey
Abbey Church of St. Denis
Chartres Cathedral
The Four Books of Sentences
Ordo Virtutum
Averroes's Treatises on Aristotle
"Can Vei la Lauzeta"
Commentary on the Mishna
"Viderunt Omnes"
Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris
"Ave Virgo Virginum"
"A Chantar M'er De So"
"Nu Alrest Lebe Ich Mir Werde"
Cantar de Mio Cid
Salisbury Cathedral
Cantigas de Santa Maria
Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
Basilica of San Francesco
The Romance of the Rose
Psalter of Blanche of Castile
Sainte-Chapelle
La Quarte Estampie Royal
"Factum Est Salutare Dominus"
Baptistery Pulpit
Pulpit, Pisa Baptistery
Summa Theologica
Opus Majus
Madonna Enthroned
Madonna Enthroned
"Jeu de Robin et Marion"
Saint Francis Preaching to the Birds
Ordinatio
Florence Cathedral
Palazza della Signoria
Roettgen Pieta
Maesta
The Travels of Marco Polo
Christ Entering Jerusalem
The Divine Comedy
Roman de Fauvel
Madonna Enthroned
Heiligenkreuz, Schwabish-Gmund
"Tuba sacre fidei" and other motets
Summa of Logic
Complete Works of Petrarch
Defensor Pacis
Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux
"Foy Porter"
Baptistery Doors [Pisano Set]
The Allegory of Good Government
Doge's Palace
"Tosto Che l'Alba"
The Decameron
"Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure"
"Non Al Suo Amante"
"Non Avra Ma Pieta"
Messe de Nostre Dame
"En Remirant Vo Douce Pourtraiture"
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Canterbury Tales
Milan Cathedral
Infancy of Christ
The Well of Moses
Baptistery Doors [Ghiberti Set]
The Book of the City of Ladies
Quattro Coronati
St. George Tabernacle
Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
The Imitation of Christ
The Tribute Money
Dome of the Florence Cathedral
David
Ca' D'Oro
Ospedale degli Innocenti
Resvellies Vois
Merod Triptych
De plus en plus
Alleluia: A Newe Work
Mary Magdalen
Ghent Altarpiece
The "Arnolfini Portrait"
Saint-Maclou at Rouen
Veni Creator Spiritus
The Resurrection
De Re Aedificatoria
Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata
Je ne puis vivre
St. Sebastian
Santa Maria Novella (Facade)
Double Portrait of Battista Sforza...
Missa prolationum
An Old Man and a Young Boy
Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen
The Garden of Earthly Delights
St. Francis in Ecstasy
Primavera
The Virgin of the Rocks
The Birth of Venus
The Last Supper
Pieta
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Io non compro piu speranza
Oy comamos y bebamos
Self-Portrait
Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae
The Unicorn in Captivity
David
Chapel of Henry VII
Mona Lisa
School of Athens
Ceiling, Sistine Chapel
Virgin Among Virgins
Isenheim Altarpiece
The Praise of Folly
Death and the Maiden
Utopia
Ninety-five Theses
Bacchanal
Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici
Chateau of Chambord
Mille Regretz
Landscape with St. Jerome
The Descent from the Cross
The Assumption of the Virgin
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
The Entombment
Palazzo del Te
Danae
Cour du Cheval Blanc
The Battle of Issus
An Allegory of Law and Grace
The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Prince
The Last Judgment
Venice Mint
The Madonna with the Long Neck
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Library of San Marco
Venus of Urbino
Henry VIII
Stucco Figures
The Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
Campidoglio
The Louvre
Pope Paul III and His Grandsons
St. Peter's
Allegory of Venus
Psalm 134/100 ("Old Hundredth")
Portrait of Eleanora of Toledo Her Son
The Meat Stall
The Danserye
Palazzo Pitti
Uffizi
Antwerp Town Hall
Tomb of Henry II & Catherine de Medici
El Escorial
San Giorgio Maggiore
Pope Marcellus Mass
Vite
The Return of the Hunters
The Four Books of Architecture
Perseus and Andromeda
Essays
The Feast in the House of Levi
Il Gesu
Jerusalem Delivered
The Rape of the Sabine Woman
The Burial of Count Orgaz
Tamburlaine the Great
A Young Man Among the Roses
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Jew of Malta
Doctor Faustus
My bonny lass she smileth
Farnese Hercules
The Last Supper
The Musicians
Loves of the Gods
Contarelli Chapel
Solo e pensoso
Santa Cecilia
The Conversion of St. Paul
Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber
Don Quixote
Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria
Astronomia Nova
Starry Message
The Raising of the Cross
Fuenteovejuna
Aurora
Market Stall
Allegory of Sight
Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace
The Great Instauration
Aurora
Marie de Medici Cycle
David
Singing Lute Player
Rudolphine Tables
St. Serapion
The Jolly Toper
Rinaldo and Armida
Santa Maria della Salute
The Great Miseries of War
Allegory of Divine Providence
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Surrender at Breda
La vida es sueño
The Toilet of Venus
Meditations on First Philosophy
The Night Watch
Vestibule of the Chateau de Maisons
The Club-Footed Boy
Pelkus Gate Near Utrecht
The Meeting of Pope Leo I and Attila
A Pastoral Landscape
Juan de Pareja
The Jewish Cemetery
Tartuffe
Woman Holding a Balance
The Feast of St. Nicholas
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
The Misanthrope
Paradise Lost
Andromaque
Dome of the Chapel of the Holy Shroud
Versailles
Pensées
Milo of Crotona
Triumph of the Name of Jesus
St. Paul's Cathedral
Charles Le Brun
Phèdre
Church of the Invalides
Portrait of Louis XIV
Melk Monastery Church
St. Charles Borromaeus (Karlskirche)
The Embarkation for Cythera
Gersaint's Signboard
The Bucintoro at the Molo
The Rake's Progress
The Toilet of Venus
Kaisersaal Residenz
Interior, "Die Wies"
The Swing
Mrs. Siddons