Arai, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42

Utagawa Hiroshige

Iris, Georgetown, Maine, from "Portfolio Three" (1980), 1928, printed 1980

Paul Strand

Saint Paul Preaching at Athens, 1517/20

Marcantonio Raimondi

Fujisawa, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)", c. 1806

Katsushika Hokusai

Bust of an Old Bearded Man, Looking Down, Three Quarters Right, 1631

Rembrandt van Rijn

Frieze with Tritons and Nymphs, 1515/20

Girolamo Mocetto

Racehorse: Morning Work - Breezing Out a Three-Year Old, c. 1957

Robert Riger

Kambara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)", c. 1806

Katsushika Hokusai

New York, Times Square at Night 20-23 p.m., 2003

Thomas Kellner

Yoshiwara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)", c. 1806

Katsushika Hokusai

Landscape with a Waterfall, from Four Small Landscapes, 1597/1600, printed 1605/20

Hendrick Goltzius

Geisha (Geigi), from the series “Three Amusements of Contemporary Beauties" ("Tosei bijin san’yu"), c. 1800

Kitagawa Utamaro

Lion Attacking a Stallion, 1600/20

Antonio Susini

Close Helmet, 1610/20

The Three Graces, 1910

Anders Zorn

Apparition, plate three from Poesies de Mallarmé, 1932

Henri Matisse

thaw, 2001

Doug Aitken

Three Views of a Nude Woman, Sketches of Hands, 1965

George Woehrl

Shono, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)", c. 1806

Katsushika Hokusai

Beauties of the Three Capitals: Shimabara in Kyoto (right), Yoshiwara in Edo (center), and Shinmachi in Osaka (left), c. 1755

Torii Kiyohiro