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Leonardo da Vinci, St John the Baptist (detail), c. 1513-1516.
Anonymous, A Crowd of Hands, c. 9000-7000 BCE
Anonymous, Greek Painting Depicting a Couple, 480 BCE
Euaion Painter (attributed to), Banquet Scene: Man Reclining on a Bench and Youth Playing the Aulos, c. 460 BCE
Myron, Discobolus the Discus Thrower, c. 450 BCE
Hagesandros, Athenedoros, and Polydoros (copy after), Laocoön and His Sons, c. 150 BCE
Heliodorus of Rhodes (copy after), Pan Teaching Daphnis to Play the Flute, 1st century BCE
Praxiteles (copy after), Aphrodite, known as “Venus of Arles”, end of 1st century BCE
Anonymous, Venus and Cupid, 1st-2nd century CE
Anonymous, The Baptism of Christ, c. 520
Anonymous, Leo VI Prostrate Before Christ in Majesty, 9th-10th century
Anonymous, Arm Reliquary of St Lawrence, c. 1175
Anonymous, Arm Reliquary of St Luke of Toulouse, c. 1337-1338
Anonymous, The “Cosmic Buddha” Vairocana, Tibet, 14th century
Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434
Piero del Pollaiuolo, Apollo and Daphne, probably 1470-1480
Sandro Botticelli, Primavera, c. 1482
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, c. 1484
Giovanni Santi, Christ Supported by Two Angels, vers 1490
Leonardo da Vinci, A Study of a Woman’s Hands, c. 1490
Albrecht Dürer, Study of Three Hands, 1493-1494
Leonardo da Vinci, The Hands of St John in “The Last Supper”, c. 1495
Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), c. 1503-1506
Raphael, The Three Graces, c. 1504
Albrecht Dürer, Jesus Among the Doctors, 1506
Albrecht Dürer, Two Pairs of Hands Holding Books, 1506
Albrecht Dürer, Praying Hands (detail from Heller Altar), 1508
Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam (Sixth Ceiling Panel), 1508-1512
Raphael, Madonna of Loreto, 1509-1510
Titian, The Temptation of Christ, c. 1516-1525
Leonardo da Vinci (copy after), The Pointing Hand of the Angel in “The Virgin of the Rocks”, c. 1517-1520
Raphael, La Fornarina, c. 1520
Titian, Man with a Glove, c. 1520
Hans Holbein the Younger, Erasmus, c. 1523
Titian, Penitent Magdalene, 1533
Caravaggio, The Chess Players, c. 1562
El Greco, A Boy Blowing on an Ember to Light a Candle, 1570-1572
Caravaggio, The Cardsharps, c. 1595
Caravaggio, Deposition from the Cross, c. 1600-1604
Caravaggio, The Tooth Puller, 1608-1610
Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower, c. 1609
Peter Paul Rubens, Jupiter and Callisto, 1613
Rembrandt, The Raising of Lazarus, c. 1630-1632
Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, 1632
Rembrandt, Sacrifice of Isaac (detail), 1635
Anonymous, Infant Buddha, China, Ming Dynasty, 17th century
Anonymous, Baths and Dressing No. 10, 18th century
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, A Philosopher Reading, c. 1764
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Bolt, 1777
Jacques - Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787
Antonio Canova, Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, 1787-1793
William Blake, Plague, 1794
William Blake, The Red Limb’d Angel, 1794
William Blake, The Ancient of Days, 1794
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Dead Bird, 1800
William Blake, The Lord Answering Job out of the Whirlwind, 1805-1810
Achille Devéria, Untitled, c. 1830
Achille Devéria, Untitled, c. 1830
Achille Devéria, Untitled, c. 1830
Anonymous, Necklace, forepart, after 1838
Hokusai, Self-Portrait of Hokusai at Eighty-Three, 1842
William Holman Hunt, Rienzi Vowing to Obtain Justice for the Death of His Young Brother, Slain in a Skirmish Between the Colonna and the Orsini, 1849
Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-1852
Sir John Everett Millais, The Order of Release 1746, 1852-1853
Jean Bein (after Raphael), Various studies for the figure of Bramante in the “Disputation of the Holy Sacrament”, 1855
Francesco Hayez, The Kiss, 1859
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Study for “The Turkish Bath”, c. 1862
Edgar Degas, Young Spartans Exercising, c. 1860
Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Autumn, 1864
Edgar Degas, Study for the “War Scene in the Middle Ages”, c. 1865
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Beloved (The Bride), 1865-1866
Gustave Courbet, Woman with a Parrot, 1866
Mary Cassatt, Two Women Throwing Flowers During Carnival, 1872
Thomas Couture, The Thorny Path, 1873
Édouard Manet, In the Conservatory, 1878-1879
Edgar Degas, The Morning Bath, 1879-1883
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, A Young Girl Defending Herself against Eros, c. 1880
Vincent van Gogh, Three Hands, Two with Knives, 1884-1885
Vincent van Gogh, Two Hands, 1884-1885
Auguste Rodin, Large Hand of a Pianist, 1885
Auguste Rodin, Large Clenched Left Hand, c. 1885
Camille Claudel, The Hand, c. 1885
Paul Cézanne, The Bather, 1885
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The First Mourning, 1888
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Young Woman Bathing, 1888
Georges Mouton, Untitled, 1890
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Woman Combing her Hair, 1891
Paul Gauguin, Parau na te Varua ino (Words of the Devil), 1892
Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893
Eugène Grasset, Salon des Cent, 1894
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Confetti, 1894
Edvard Munch, Ashes, 1894
Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1895
François-Rupert Carabin, Group of Four Naked and Seated Women, between 1895 and 1910
Ferdinand Hodler, Day, 1899
Paul Gauguin, Woman with a Fan, 1902
Gustav Klimt, The Beethoven Frieze (left panel), 1901-1902
Félix Édouard Vallotton, The Five Painters: Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel, Cottet, and Vallotton, 1902-1903
Jules Pascin, Young Girl with a Blue Ribbon, c. 1904
Franz von Stuck, Fighting for a Woman, 1905
André Derain, Woman in a Chemise or Dancer, 1906
Egon Schiele, Portrait of Arthur Roessler, 1910
Attila Sassy, Untitled, 1910
Giovanni Zuid, The Seated Nude
Arnoldo Bonzagni, Untitled, 1910
Egon Schiele, Nude (Self-Portrait), 1910
Max Beckmann, Self-Portrait, 1915
Egon Schiele, Reclining Woman with Green Stockings, 1917
Amedeo Modigliani, Seated Nude with Necklace, 1917
Amedeo Modigliani, Venus (Standing Nude), 1917
Alphonse Mucha, Hearst’s International, Cover for January 1922, 1921
Ernst Hildebrandt, Homoerotic drawing, before 1924
Anonymous, Untitled, 1930
Studio Biederer, Ostra edition, No. B301, c. 1935
Michel Fingesten, Untitled, 1938
Anonymous, Pendant Representing a (Male) Hand Clutching a Phallus
Veretta Cobler, Untitled
Veretta Cobler, Untitled
Veretta Cobler, Untitled
Veretta Cobler, Untitled
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