Art and Psychological Well-Being: Linking the Brain to the Aesthetic Emotion. Empirical studies suggest that art improves health and well-being among individuals. However, how aesthetic appreciation affects our cognitive and emotional states to promote physical and psychological well-being is still unclear.

2.  Cave painting, Hall of Bulls (Lascaux, France c15,000
BC)

3.  Egyptian Tomb paintings. The Queen playing
chess, (Tomb Nefertari, Thebes, c1255BC)

4.  Myrons Discus Thrower (c.450BC) replica

5.  Colosseum, (70-80 AD, Temple of Peace, Rome)

6.  Icon The Virgin Orans, (1037-61 mosaic, Saint Sophia
Cathedral, Kiev)

7.  Chatres Cathedral, (1193-1250, central portal, France)

8.  Giotto, The Deposition, (c1304, fresco, Arena Chapel,
Padua, Italy)

9.  Jan Van Eyke, The Arnolfini Wedding, (1434, oil
on wood panel, National Gallery London)

10.  Vitruvian Man, Leonardo Da Vinci, (c.1485-90, pen
and ink with wash over metal point on paper, Venice, Italy)

11.  Pontormo, Deposition from the Cross, (c.1526-8,oil on
panel, Church of Santa Felicita, Florence)

12.  Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus, (1600-01, oil on
canvas, National Gallery London)

13.  Johannes Vermeer, The Pearl Earring, (1666-67, The
Hague, oil on canvas)

14.  Francois Boucher, Diane Bathing, (1742, oil on canvas,
Louvre, Paris)

15.  Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii,
(1784, Oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris)

16.  Eugene Delacroix, Jacob Wrestling with the
Angel, (1861, oil on canvas)

17.  Ando Hiroshige, The Great Wave off
Kanagawa, (1823-29, woodblock print, copies in MOMA and
British Museum, London)

18.  Millais, Ophelia, (1851-52, Tate London, Oil on canvas)

19.  Millet, The Angelus (1857-59, oil on canvas, Musee D’Orsay
Paris)

20.  Claude Monet, Poppies, (c.1876, Musee D’Orsay Paris, oil
on canvas)

21.  Van Gogh, Starry Night, (1889, MOMA New York, oil on
canvas)

22.  Georges Seurat, La Grande Jatte, (1884-86, oil on
canvas, The Art Institute, Chicago.)

23.  Gustave Klimt, The Kiss, (1907-08,oil and gold leaf on
canvas, Osterreichische Galerie, Vienna)

24.  Henri Matisse, The Dance, (1909 MOMA, New York, oil
on canvas)

25.  Edvard Munch, The Scream, (1893, oil tempera and
pastel on cardboard, National Gallery Oslo)

26.  Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, (1907, oil
on canvas, MOMA, New York)