The Great Sphinx : beyond human understanding
The Tomb of Tutankhamun : politics, ethnic pride, hornets, a dead canary, and a curse
The Parthenon sculptures : Lord Elgin and how Greece lost its marbles
"Apollo Belvedere" : the rise and fall of the "Apollo Belvedere"
"Nike of Samothrace" : the victory of the staircase
"The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli : nothing is forever, not even neglect
"Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci : you never know what a smile can do
"Sistine Madonna" by Raphael : the most perfect picture in the world
"The Burial of Count Orgaz" by El Greco : a touch of madness goes a long way
"Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer" by Rembrandt : fame available for a price
"Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Leutze : or perhaps, "Washington Crossing the Rhine"
"Luncheon on the Grass" by Édouard Manet : success through scandal
"The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin : fame has its consequences
"The Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh : lost in a starry night
"The Scream" by Edvard Munch : scream, indeed
"American Gothic" by Grant Wood : all-American gothic
"Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange : the power of the press
"Guernica" by Pablo Picasso : travels with "Guernica"
"Campbell's Soup" by Andy Warhol : Mmm Mmm Good
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin : The triumph of abstraction.