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Leonardo da Vinci (Italy, 1452–1519) Salvator Mundi oil on panel 65.7 x 45.7 cm. (25 7/8 x 18 in.) Painted circa 1500. Price Realised USD 450,312,500 at Christie’s New York, 15 November 2017 Detail of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi

Diego Velázquez (Spain, baptised 1599 - 1660) Las Meninas (The Ladies in waiting) oil on canvas 318 x 276 cm. (125.2 x 108.7 in.) painted in 1656 Collection of Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

Sandro Botticelli (Italy, c. 1445 - 1510) Nascita di Venere (The Birth of Venus) tempera on canvas 172.5 x 278.9 cm. (67.9 x 109.6 in.) painted circa 1484 - 1486 Collection of Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy

Jan Vermeer (Dutch, 1632-1675) Girl with a Pearl Earring oil on canvas 44.5 x 39 cm. (17.5 x 15 in.) painted circa 1665 Collection of Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands

Gustav Klimt (Austria, 1862-1918) Der Kuss (The Kiss) oil and gold leaf on canvas 180 x 180 cm. (71 x 71 in.) painted around 1907-1908 Collection of Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria

Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973) Guernica oil on canvas 349.3 x 776.6 cm. (137.4 x 305.5 in.) painted in 1937 Collection of Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

Leonardo da Vinci (Italy, 1452–1519) L'Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) tempera on gesso, pitch, and mastic 460 x 880 cm. (181 x 346 in.) painted circa 1495-1498 Collection of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Leonardo da Vinci (Italy, 1452–1519) Joconde (Mona Lisa) oil on poplar panel 77 x 53 cm. (30 x 21 in.) painted circa 1503-1519 Collection of Louvre Museum, Paris, France Mai Trung Thu's La Joconde (Mona Lisa) In Vietnamese art history, Mai Trung Thu discovering and visiting often the original Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci ...

V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life magazine in 1945 with the caption, "In New York's Times Square, a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers" Portrait of Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (German, 1898-1995) This photograph, taken by Alfred ...

In this 15th-century ensemble commissioned by the Le Viste family of Lyon, each tapestry represents one of the five senses: smell, sight, hearing, touch and taste. La Dame à la licorne (The Lady and the Unicorn) tapestry 377 x 473 cm. Painted between 1484 and 1500 Each sense is portrayed through the recurrence of a ...