The face that launched a thousand ships ... Ancient Egypt: Great Sphinx, Giza (c2500BC)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryThe trees glisten with tics and flecks ... John Constable: A Study for The Leaping Horse (c1825)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryA woman is embraced by a cloud ... Correggio: Jupiter and Io (early 1530s)Photograph: Bridgeman Art Library
Poised on the edge of a deep darkness ... Sanchez Cotan: Still life with Poultry, Vegetables and Fruit (1602)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryStrange and stark ... Honore Daumier: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (c1855)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryUnbending revolutionary courage ... Jacques-Louis David: The Death of Marat (1793)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibrarySensual shock ... Eugene Delacroix: Women of Algiers (1834)Photograph: CorbisSavage force and strength ... Donatello: St George (c1415-1417)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryAn altarpiece that glows with sensitive humanity ... Duccio: Maesta (1308-1311)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryMore than merely medical matters ... Thomas Eakins: The Gross Clinic (1875)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryDetractors said it was disgusting ... Tracey Emin: My Bed (1998)Photograph: David LeveneLuminous and delicate ... English or French: Wilton Diptych (c1395-1399)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryHypnotic miniaturist detail ... Jan van Eyck: The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (1435)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryErotic masterpiece ... Henry Fuseli: The Nightmare (1781)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryHere's to you, Mrs Robinson ... Thomas Gainsborough: Mrs Robinson, 'Perdita' (1781)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryAll the myths about Vincent are true ... Vincent van Gogh: Sunflowers (1888)Photograph: Bridgeman Art LibraryAncient China: Terracotta warriors from the tomb complex of the First Emperor of Qin (221-206BC)Photograph: Press Association
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