Kelly Grovier is a feature writer for BBC Culture and the author of several acclaimed studies of art, including 100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age, Art Since 1989 and A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works, all published by Thames & Hudson. His writings have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the RA Magazine and Wired magazine. His history of London's Newgate Prison, The Gaol, was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'. He is co-founder of the scholarly journal European Romantic Review.

Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions (c. 645-635 bce)
Ishtar Gate (c. 575 bc)
Parthenon Sculptures (c. 444 bc)
Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210 bc)
Murals, Villa of the Mysteries (c60-50 bc)
Laocoön and His Sons (c.27 bc and 68 ad)
Apollodorus of Damascus (?): Trajan's Column (113 ce)
The Book of Kells (c. ad 800)
Travellers among Mountains and Streams (c1000), Fan Kuan
Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1077 or after), likely the work of women embroiderers
Universal Man (1165), Hildegard of Bingen
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (c. 1427), Masaccio
Ghent Altarpiece (1430-32), Jan van Eyck
The Descent from the Cross (1436), Rogier Van der Weyden
The Annunciation (c. 1438-47), Fra Angelico
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c.1480), Andrea Mantegna
The Birth of Venus (c.1480s), Sandro Botticelli
The Mona Lisa (c.1503-6), Leonardo da Vinci
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510), Hieronymous Bosch
Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes (1508-1512), Michelangelo
The School of Athens (1510-1511), Raphael
The Isenheim Altarpiece (1509-1515), Matthias Grünewald
Bacchus and Ariadne (c.1525), Titian
Self-portrait (1548), Catharina van Hemessen
Crucifixion (1565-87), Tintoretto
The Supper at Emmaus (1601), Caravaggio
The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Cornaro Chapel (1647-52), Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez
Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), Johannes Vermeer
Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c 1665-9), Rembrandt Van Rijn
Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
The Nightmare (1781), Henry Fuseli
The Third of May 1808 (1814), Francisco Goya
The Hay Wain (1821), John Constable
Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (exhibited 1844), JMW Turner
Whistler's Mother (1871), James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Thinker (1880-1904), Auguste Rodin
A Bar at The Folies-Bergère (1882), Edouard Manet
Bathers at Asnieres (1884), Georges Seurat
The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch
Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves (1904-1906), Paul Cézanne
Primordial Chaos (1906), Hilma af Klint
The Kiss (1907), Gustav Klimt
The Dance (1909), Henri Matisse
Nymphéas (1914-1926), Claude Monet
Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp
American Gothic (1930), Grant Wood
The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí
Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Humming-bird (1940), Frida Khalo
One: Number 31 (1950), Jackson Pollock
Study after Velasquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Francis Bacon
Brillo Boxes (1964), Andy Warhol
The Rothko Chapel (paintings 1965-66; chapel opened 1971), Mark Rothko
Betty (1977), Gerhard Richter
Backs and Fronts (1981), Sean Scully
Maman (1999), Louise Bourgeois