Jean-Michel Basquiat first achieved notoriety as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally.

Hans von Aachen (1552-1615) was a German artist, one of the leading painters of Northern Mannerism. He was successful as a painter of princely and aristocratic portraits, and was also able to turn his hand to religious and mythological subjects, as well as the eroticized allegories enjoyed by the patron of his last years, Emperor Rudolph II.

Francisco Goya is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His late period culminates with the "Black Paintings", applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house the "Quinta del Sordo" (house of the deaf man) where, disillusioned by political and social developments in Spain, he lived in near isolation.

On 29 May 1606, Caravaggio killed (possibly unintentionally) a young man named Ranuccio Tomassoni. The circumstances of the brawl remain shrouded in mystery, although several contemporary newspapers referred to a quarrel over a gambling debt and a tennis game.

Tichenor considered her work to be of a spiritual nature, reflecting ancient occult religions, magic, alchemy, and Mesoamerican mythology in her Italian Renaissance style of painting.

Claus Bergen (1885-1964) developed a specialty of painting naval subjects, as well as fishing scenes and coastal views.

A proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, Rubens is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.

The Persistence of Memory, sometimes reffered to as The Melting Watches, is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí, and is one of his most recognizable works.

In 1964, a 15 foot by 12 foot stained glass window by Marc Chagall was donated to the United Nations to commemorate Dag Hammarskjöld, who served as United Nations Secretary-General from 1953 until his death in 1961. The stained glass memorial contains many symbols representing themes of love and peace.

Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker associated with Abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Pop art. His early works were composed using simple schema such as flags, maps, targets, letters and numbers. In 1980, the Whitney Museum of American Art paid $1 million for Three Flags (1958), then the highest price ever paid for the work of a living artist.