From the Book - Regular Print
1 Great Sphinx: Beyond Human Understanding 1 --
2 Tomb of Tutankhamun: Politics, Ethnic Pride, Hornets, a Dead Canary, and a Curse 15 --
3 Parthenon Sculptures: Lord Elgin and How Greece Lost Its Marbles 33 --
4 Apollo Belvedere: The Rise and Fall of the Apollo Belvedere 49 --
5 Nike of Samothrace: The Victory of the Staircase 61 --
6 Birth of Venus by Botticelli: Nothing Is Forever, Not Even Neglect 73 --
7 Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci: You Never Know What a Smile Can Do 85 --
8 Sistine Madonna by Raphael: The Most Perfect Picture in the World 101 --
9 Burial of Count Orgaz by El Greco: A Touch of Madness Goes a Long Way 119 --
10 Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer by Rembrandt: Fame Available for a Price 131 --
11 Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze: Or Perhaps, Washington Crossing the Rhine 141 --
12 Luncheon on the Grass by Edouard Manet: Success through Scandal 151 --
13 Thinker by Auguste Rodin: Fame Has Its Consequences 161 --
14 Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh: Lost in a Starry Night 173 --
15 Scream by Edvard Munch: Scream, Indeed 185 --
16 American Gothic by Grant Wood: All-American Gothic 195 --
17 Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange: The Power of the Press 205 --
18 Guernica by Pablo Picasso: Travels with Guernica 215 --
19 Campbells Soup by Andy Warhol: Mmm Mmm Good 229 --
20 Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin: The Triumph of Abstraction 241.