Louise Nicholson is a freelance arts writer and Apollo contributor

The south facade of the original building of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which opened in 1924
Late Maharaja of Benaras (1986), Raghu Rai
Self-portrait (c. 1865), James Tissot. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Weeping Crabapple (2009), Helen Frankenthaler.
Photograph of Baltimore waterfront in c. 1910/15.
Daniel in the Lions’ Den (c. 1614–16), Peter Paul Rubens. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
View of The Shed, from Hudson Yards.
Seed Pushing (1961), Krishna Reddy.
Devi in the Form of Bhadrakali Adored by the Gods (detail; c. 1660–70), folio from a dispersed Tantric Devi series, attributed to the Master of the Early Rasamanjari
Three Angles (2018), El Anatsui. Installation view at the Carnegie Museum of Art for the 57th Carnegie International in 2018.
Aerial view of the Pavilions and Michael Heizer’s Compression Line (1968/2016).
Fog x Hill (2018), Fujiko Nakaya. Installation view at the Arnold Arboretum, Boston.
Shah Jahan receives his three eldest sons and Asaf Khan during his accession ceremonies from the Padshahnama manuscript (detail; c. 1630–40), Bichitr and Ramdas, Mughal.
Exterior of the Stony Island Arts Bank
Pectoral disc (19th century), Ghana, Asante peoples
The Paston Treasure (c. 1663), unknown artist (Dutch School). Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, UK.
The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, 2017.
The Gale, Winslow Homer, Worcester Art Museum
He Kills Me (1987), Donald Moffett
Portrait of John G. Johnson (1917), Conrad F. Haeseler. Philadelphia Museum of Art, gift of Miss Julia W. Frick and Sidney W. Frick
Self-Portrait (detail; c. 1650–55), Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. © The Frick Collection