Famous works of art in popular culture: a reference guide

1. Ancient monuments and monuments to wealth: travel and tourism

Stonehenge

The Great Sphinx and the Great Pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu

The second coffin of Tutankhamun

The Great Wall of China

The Taj Mahal

2. Renaissance masters: scholarship and museums

Sandro Botticelli, "La Primavera"

Leonardo da Vinci, "The Mona Lisa"

Raphael Sanzio, "The School of Athens"

Michelangelo Buonarroti, "The Creation of Adam"

Titian, "Venus of Urbino"

3. Monuments to and of the modern world: money and memory

Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, "Liberty Enlightening the World" (The Statue of Liberty)

Gustave Eiffel, "The Eiffel Tower"

Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, "The Empire State Building"

Frank Lloyd Wright, "The Guggenheim Museum"

Maya Lin, "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial"

4. Nineteenth century art: the advertising age of artists

James A.M. Whistler, "Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of a Painter's Mother"

Georges Seurat, "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"

Edgar Degas, "The Little Dancer, Age 14"

Vincent Van Gogh, "Starry Night"

Auguste Rodin, "The Thinker"

Claude Monet, "Nympheas" (Waterlilies)

5. The twentieth century: art and / into popular culture

Grant Wood, "American Gothic"

Salvador Dali, "The Persistence of Memory"

Edward Hopper, "Nighthawks"

Jackson Pollock, "Autumn Rhythm"

Andy Warhol, "Marilyn"

Alexander Calder, untitled mobile

Keith Haring, untitled (Winged Baby)

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, "Wrapped Reichstag".