Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519), Mona Lisa (1479 - d. before 1550) also known as La Gioconda, 1503-1506, oil on wood panel, 0.77 x 0.53 m, Louvre. Leonardo may well be the most highly regarded artist of all time, and this portrait the most famous painting in the world. Not only does she bear an enigmatic smile, the way Leonardo slightly blurred her features gives the impression of movement, and the way he depicted the landscape behind her was revolutionary in its time.
Other works by Leonardo:

Ginevra de' Benci, c. 1474, [150 k,] oil on wood, 15 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (38.2 x 36.7 cm), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

The Adoration of the Magi, 1481-82 (200 k,] yellow ochre and brown ink on panel, 8 x 8 feet (246 x 243 cm), Uffizi, Florence.

Lady with an Ermine, 1483-90, [150 k,] oil on wood, 21 x 15 1/2 inches (53.4 x 39.3 cm), Czartoryski Museum, Cracow.

Study of proportions, from Vitruvius's De Architectura, [60 k,] red crayon with pen and ink on paper, 13 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (34.3 x 24.5 cm), Accademia, Venice.

Skull, 1489, red crayon with pen and ink on paper. This is a lateral view of a human skull with the left half of the calvaria removed to expose the interior. This is one of a huge number of anatomical drawings Leonardo made, to most of which he added written notes. He said he had dissected over thirty human bodies-- men and women of varied ages.

Womb, or "The Foetus in Utero," 1489, red crayon with pen and ink on paper, Collection of Queen Elizabeth II, Windsor Castle.

Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna Litta, c. 1490-91, [150 k,] tempera on canvas, transferred from panel, 16 1/2 x 13 inches (42 x 33 cm), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

The Last Supper, 1498, [180 k,] fresco, 15 x 29 feet (460 x 880 cm), Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (Refectory), Milan.

The Virgin of the Rocks, 1503-06, [140 k,] oil on wood, 6 x 4 feet (189.5 x 120 cm); National Gallery, London.

Daniel Chester French (American, 1850-1931), Abraham Lincoln, 1909-12, bronze, 38 x 10 x 12 inches, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, U of Nebraska, Lincoln. Among his most successful works are the gigantic seated figure of Abraham Lincoln in the The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, and standing Lincoln at the west entrance of the Nebraska State Capitol, for which this maquette was a model.

Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954), Green Stripe (Madame Matisse), 1905, [165 k,] oil and tempera on canvas, 15 7/8 x 12 7/8 inches (40.5 x 32.5 cm), Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. This is one of Matisse's greatest Fauvist achievements. Fauvism was an early twentieth century style of painting in France. The name Fauves, French for "Wild Beasts," was given to artists adhering to this style because it was felt that they used brilliant colors in a violent, uncontrolled way. Henri Matisse was the leader of the Fauves.

Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659-1743), Portrait of Louis XIV (1638-1715), 1701, oil on canvas, 2.77 x 1.84 m, Louvre. This portrait epitomizes the style of the Baroque -- the art style of the Counter-Reformation in the seventeenth century. Although some features appear in Dutch art, the Baroque style was limited mainly to Catholic countries. It is a style in which painters, sculptors, and architects sought emotion, movement, and variety in their works.

Raymond Duchamp-Villon (French, 1876-1918), Portrait of Baudelaire, 1911, bronze, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL. If you chose either of the first two possibilities, your confusion is understandable. Although the simplified manner in which Duchamp-Villon has portrayed this great French poet is a hallmark of modernism, it also presents a decidedly timeless quality.

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669), Self-Portrait, 1658, oil on canvas, 52 5/8 x 40 7/8 inches (133.7 x 103.8 cm), Frick Collection, NY. One of the most important painters of the Baroque period, Rembrandt painted numerous portraits, including many of himself. He typically portrayed his subjects bathed in a warm light, while surrounded by darkness.

Mathew Brady Studio, Walt Whitman (1819-1892), c. 1870, albumen silver print, 9 7/16 x 7 3/8 inches (23.9 x 18.7 cm), National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Mathew Brady is most reknowned for his Civil War documentary photographs and for his photographic portraits of leading Americans of that period. Walt Whitman was perhaps the greatest of American poets.

Egyptian, c. 1303-1290 BC (19th Dynasty), The Goddess Hathor and King Sethi I, Tomb of Sethi I in the Valley of Kings, painted limestone bas-relief, 2.265 x 1.05 m, Louvre. These figures take poses which follow the long dominant rules Egyptian artists followed in representing human forms.

Constantin Brancusi (Romanian, 1876-1957), Mademoiselle Pogany II, 1925, burnished brass on limestone base, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL. Brancusi is a monumentally important figure in the development of European modernist sculpture. Typical of his works, this portrait displays a highly reductive means of representation -- greatly simplified, and reduced to an elegant, almost geometric ideal.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903, active in England), Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1871, [50 k,] oil on canvas, 56 3/4 x 63 3/4 inches, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Whistler was a flamboyant and transitional figure in the beginnings of modernist art. He spoke of "art for art's sake" and often referred to his paintings as "arrangements of form" rather than as representations of certain subjects. Whistler was an outstanding etcher too. Here is his portrait of Drouet, 1859, etching and drypoint, 8 7/8 x 6 inches (22.5 x 15.2 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Roman copy after a Greek original created c. 150 BC, Portrait of Homer, Pentelic marble, height 55 cm, Louvre. Homer was the legendary author of the great epic poems called The Iliad and The Odessey. This likeness of him was speculative even for the ancient Greek sculptor whose work is bust emulates.

John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815), Paul Revere, c. 1768-1770, [50 k,] oil on canvas, 35 x 28 1/2 inches, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Copley was the finest painter of America's colonial era.

Copley also painted:

John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815), Hugh Hall, 1758, pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 15 1/2 x 13 inches (39.4 x 33 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.

Boy with Squirrel (Henry Pelham), 1765, oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 90 1/4 inches, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

Portrait of a Lady, 1771, oil on canvas, 49 7/8 x 39 1/2 inches (126.7 x 100.3 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

John Singleton Copley, Daniel Crommelin Verplanck, 1771, oil on canvas, 49 1/2 x 40 inches (127.3 x 101.6 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Born and raised in New York City, Daniel was nine years old when Copley painted this portrait of him.

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