Take a closer look at our selection of the world's greatest artworks, including Rousseau's The Snake Charmer, Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring and Rodin's The Burghers of Calais
Pieter Saenredam - Interior of the St Odolphus Church in Assendelft (c1649)An inscription carved into theg rey floorstones reads upside down, and a grey box like a minimalist sculpture stands beneath paintings hung at an angle that make you think of lozenge-shaped works by the modernist de Stijl ..
Rock art - read more hereAleksandr Rodchenko - Non-Objective Painting No 80 (Black on Black) (1918)Painted in response to Kasimir Malevich's celebrated White on White, Rodchenko's series of geometric paintings known as Black on Black were an attempt at objective, impersonal art devoid of ..
Jeff Wall - A Sudden Gust of Wind (1993)Nature's uncanny tendency to upset the most well-prepared plans of human business are transcribed by Wall from the early 19th century of Hokusai's Japan to the late 20th-century outskirts of Vancouver. A petrified lightbox montage of over 100 photographs. ..