Artworks are listed by page in the order they appear.
- The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles (1919), William Orpen
- The Congress of Berlin (1881), Anton von Werner
- The Great Day of His Wrath (1851), John Martin
- An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
- Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), Frederic Edwin Church
- Gassed (1919), John Singer Sargent
- The Ninth Wave (1850), Ivan Aivazovsky
- Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648), Claude Lorrain
- The Consummation of Empire (1836), Thomas Cole