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Benczúr Gyula: The Baptism of Stephen I, King of Hungary (1875)

Unknown: Lintel 16 from Yaxchilan (A.D. 755-779)

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi: Christ in the Desert (1872)

Jan Willem Pieneman: The Self-Sacrifice of Pastor Antonius Hambroek on Formosa (1810)

François-Pascal-Simon Gérard: Portrait of Queen Joséphine of France in coronation costume (1807-1808)

Unknown: The Sarcophagus lid of King K'inich Janaab' Pakal of B'aakal (A.D. 684)

Unknown: The Aztec Calendar Stone (1479)

'Cookie Cutter Master': Lintel 24 in Yaxchilán (A.D. 725)

Unknown: The Vase of the 7 Gods (K2796), (A.D. 600-900)

Unknown: Codex Borgia, page 56 - the gods of Life, Death and the 260-day ritual calendar (13th-15th Century)

Frederic Remington: The Mier Expedition, The Drawing of the Black Bean (1896)

Totoya Hokkei: Monkey as a Sanbasô dancer (1824)

Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn: The City council of The Hague (1636)

Mari ten Kate: Distribution of the Lombok cross by Queen Wilhelmina on the Malieveld in The Hague, July 6, 1895 (1895)

Vasily Surikov: The Morning of the Streltsy's execution (1881)

Bartholomeus van der Helst: Two regents and two regentesses of the Spinhouse of Amsterdam (1650)

Federico de Madrazo y Küntz: The battle of Cerignola (April 28, 1503), Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba finds the corpse of Louis d'Armagnac (1835)

Ernest Meissonier: The battle of Friedland (June 14, 1807), The Charge of the French Cuirassiers (1861-1875)

Gustave Doré: The Neophyte (First Experience of the Monastery), (1866-1868)

Léon Bonnat: Job (1880)

Théodore Géricault: Officer of the Chasseurs-à-Cheval commanding a charge (1812)