George Nelson, one of the leading industrial designers of the twentieth century, was particularly known for his interest in novel structural solutions to furniture design, reflective of his study of architecture and interest in European modernism.

Ettore Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer, born in Austria in 1917 but raised in Milan, Italy, where his father was an architect. He graduated from the Politechnico di Torino in 1939 with a degree in architecture and then served in the Italian military in WWII, with a significant amount of time spent in a concentration camp in Yugoslavia.

Among the ruins recalling the Roman Colosseum, a monk prays at an unadorned makeshift altar. To the left, two village girls sneak into the sanctuary to steal flowers placed before a small picture of the Virgin Mary, while an older woman tries to discourage their mischievousness.

The depiction of female bathers without the framework of an established story became a new feature in French painting in the 1720s. In an idyllic, hilly landscape, a group of sixteen women is assembled around a small pond in front of an elaborate pavilion.

This is a rare example of an early landscape by Boucher, the painter whose style of painting is synonymous with the French rococo. The son of an obscure guild painter, little is known of Boucher's artistic development.

This is the type of composition that established Franҫois Lemoyne's reputation as one of the greatest French painters of his generation.

This monumental canvas is an excellent example of the kind of animal painting by which Jean-Baptiste Oudry secured his reputation during the early part of his career. Although a prolific artist, who treated subjects that included history painting, portraiture,&

As a young woman shows off her portrait, an older man examines it—or possibly the woman herself—through the lens of his glasses. Louis Léopold Boilly was a prolific portraitist, and he also frequently included portraits within his genre scenes, as he does here.