Hatshepsut

Egypt

Makeda

Egypt

Song of Songs

Isreal

Yau Ywe-Hwa

China (Tang Dynasty)

Sappho

Lesbos [Lesvos], Greece | Sappho

Princess Le-Chang

China (Late Six Dynasties period)

Wang Chang-Ling

China (Tang Dynasty) | Taiyuan (present-day Shanxi province) or Jianging (present-day Nanjing), scholarship varies

1001 Nights

Syria | Various Authors

Li Bai

China (Tang Dynasty) | Suyab (present-day Kyrgyzstan)/ later moved to Jiangyou (modern-day Chengdu, Sichuan)

Du Fu

China (Tang Dynasty) | Chang'an (present-day Xi'an)

Du Mu

China (Tang Dynasty) | Chang'an (present-day Xi'an)/later sent to Yangzhou

Nammalvar

Northern India | Nammalvar

Le-Ching Jau

China (Southern Sung period)

Rumi

Konya, Turkey | Rumi

Sundiata

West Africa

Matsukaze “Wind in the Pines”

Japan | Kan’ami

Petrarch

Italy | Petrarch

Lorenzetti’s​ ​​The​ ​Allegory​ ​of​ ​Good​ ​Government

Sala della Pace (Hall of Peace), Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy | Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Boccaccio’s Decameron

Tuscany, Italy | Giovanni Boccaccio

Christine de Pisan

Venice, Italy | Cristina da Pizzano

Forbidden City

China | Ming Dynasty

Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise”

Florence, Italy | Ghiberti

Alberti’s On the Family

Italy | Leon Batista Alberti

Machu Picchu

Peru | Inca Civilization

Dufay’s​ ​Missa​ ​L’homme​ ​armé

Cambrai, Northern France | Guillaume Du Fay

Mirabai

Northern India | Mirabai

Michelangelo’s Pietà

Vatican City | Michelangelo

Bosch’s​ ​​Garden​ ​of​ ​Earthly​ ​Delights

The Netherlands (currently held in Spain) | Bosch

Raphael’s​ ​​The​ ​School​ ​of​ ​Athens

Vatican City | Raphael

Queen Elizabeth I

London, England | Queen Elizabeth I of England

Marinella’s The Nobility and Excellence of Women

Venice, Italy | Lucrezia Marinella

Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West

China | Wu Cheng’en

Cervantes’ Don Quixote

Spain | Miguel de Cervantes