1. The Long Shadow of Italy: Painting in Seventeenth Century Europe

2. Peter Paul Rubens, after Leonardo Da Vinci, The Battle of Anghiari, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence,1505

3. Michelangelo Buonarroti, David, Florence,1501 - 04

4. Michelangelo Buonarroti,, Sistine Chapel, Rome, 1537

5. Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Dephic Sybil, Sistine Chapel, Rome, 1512

6. Raphael, St. Catherine of Alexandiria, Florence, 1507

7. Raphael, Philosophy (The School of Athens), Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican,1512

8. Titian, The Assumption of the Virgin, Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, 1516-18

9. Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, Venice, 1524

10. Titian, Venus of Urbino, Venice,1535

11. Mannerism

12. Correggio, Dome of Parma Cathedral, Parma, 1524

13. Parmigianino, Madonna with the Long Neck, Rome, 1540

14. Bronzino, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, Florence, 1540 - 45

15. The Seventeenth Century The Baroque

16. Annibale Carracci, The Assumption of the Virgin Mary, 1590

17. Annibale Carracci, The Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome 1601

18. Caravaggio, The Crucifixion of St. Peter, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, 1601

19. Caravaggio, The Calling of St Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, St Luigi dei, Francesi Rome, 1599

20. Caravaggio, The Martyrdom of St Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, St Luigi dei, Francesi Rome, 1599

21. Caravaggio, The Death of the Virgin, 1609

22. Caravaggio The Incredulity of St. Thomas, 1602

24. Peter Paul Rubens The Elevation of the Cross, 1610

25. Peter Paul Rubens, Venus at her Mirror, 1614

26. Peter Paul Rubens, Castor and Pollux Abducting the Daughters of Leucippus, 1618

27. Peter Paul Rubens, The Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseilles, 1622

28. Peter Paul Rubens, The Negotiations at Angoulême, 1622

29. Peter Paul Rubens, The Feast of Herod, 1635

30. Peter Paul Rubens, The Apotheosis of James I, London, 1635

31. Hobbema, The Avenue at Middelharnis, 1648

32. Rembrandt van Rijn, Andromeda, Chained to the Rocks, 1630

33. Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632

34. Rembrandt van Rijn, The Three Crosses, State III, 1653

35. Rembrandt van Rijn, The Blinding of Samson, 1636

36. Rembrandt van Rijn, Self Portrait, 1659

37. Nicholas Poussin, Nymph and Satyrs, Rome, 1627

38. Nicholas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, Rome,1630

39. Nicholas Poussin, The Dance to the Music of Time, 1630

40. Nicholas Poussin, The Holy Family on the Stepz,, 1630

42. Claude Lorrain, The Embarkation of St. Ursula, Rome, 1637

43. Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Dancing Figures (The Mill), Rome, 1648

44. Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, Rome, 1672