Giorgio Vasari. The Art of Painting. 1542.

Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting. 1630.35 1/4 x 29 in.

Mummy Portrait of a Man. c. 160–170 CE.14 x 18 in.

Still Life with Eggs and Thrushes, Villa of Julia Felix, Pompeii. before 79 CE.

35 x 48 in.

Bodhisattva from Cave I at Ajanta. c. 475 CE.

Giotto. Lamentation. c. 1305.approximately 70 x 78 in.

Fra Andrea Pozzo. The Glorification of Saint Ignatius. 1691–94.

Giotto. Madonna and Child Enthroned. c. 1310.10 ft. 8 in. x 6 ft. 8 1/4 in.

Michelangelo Buonarroti. Study for the Libyan Sibyl. c. 1510.11 3/8 x 8 7/16 in.

Michelangelo Buonarroti. The Libyan Sibyl. 1511–12.detail of the Sistine Ceiling.

Sandro Botticelli. Primavera. c. 1482.80 x 123 1/4 in.

Andrew Wyeth. Braids. 1979.16 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.

Diagram of a section of a fifteenth-century oil painting demonstrating the luminosity of the medium.

The Master of Flémalle (probably Robert Campin). The Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece). c. 1425–30.

central panel: 25 1/4 x 24 7/8 in.; each wing: 25 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.

The Master of Flémalle (probably Robert Campin). Detail of The Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece). c. 1425–30.

central panel: 25 1/4 x 24 7/8 in.; each wing: 25 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.

Jan de Heem. Still Life with Lobster. late 1640s.25 1/8 x 33 1/4 in.

Antonio López Garciá. New Refrigerator. 1991–94.94 1/2 x 74 13/16 in.

Pat Passlof. Dancing Shoes. 1998.80 x 132 in.

Milton Resnick’s. U + Me in progress. 7/26/1995.

Milton Resnick’s. U + Me in progress. 7/26/1995.

Milton Resnick. U + Me. 1995.93 1/4 x 104 1/2 in.

Xu Wei. Grapes. Ming dynasty, c. 1580–93.65 1/4 x 25 3/8 in.

Winslow Homer. A Wall, Nassau. 1898.14 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.

Laurie Reid. Ruby Dew (Pink Melon Joy), detail. 1998.192 x 240 in.

Laurie Reid. Ruby Dew (Pink Melon Joy). 1998.192 x 240 in.

Jacob Lawrence. You can buy bootleg whiskey for twenty-five cents a quart, from the Harlem Series. 1942–43.

15 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.

Helen Frankenthaler. Flood. 1967.124 x 140 in.

Judith F. Baca. The Great Wall of Los Angeles, detail, Division of the Barrios and Chavez Ravine. 1976–continuing.height 13 ft. (whole mural more than 1 mile long).

Juan Gris. The Table. 1914.23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.

Romare Bearden. The Dove. 1964.13 3/8 x 18 3/4 in.

Hannah Höch. Study for Collage “Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany.” 1919.

10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.

Hannah Höch. Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany. 1919.

44 7/8 x 35 7/16 in.

Marcia Gygli King. Springs Upstate. 1990–92.6 ft. x 9 ft. x 10 ft. 6 in.; painting: 9 ft. x 5 ft. x 7 in.

Patricia Patterson. The Kitchen. 1985.painting: 60 x 107 in; overall dimensions vary with each installation (as

illustrated: 80 x 144 x 180 in.).

Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram. 1955–59.42 x 63 1/4 x 64 1/2 in.

Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram, First State.

Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram, Second State.

Fred Tomaselli. Airborne Event. 2003.84 x 60 x 1 1/2 in.