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Top Ten Paintings

Mona Lisa​
Mona Lisa​

The Mona Lisa (/ ˌ m oʊ n ə ˈ l iː s ə /; Italian: Monna Lisa [ˈmɔnna ˈliːza] or La Gioconda [la dʒoˈkonda], French: La Joconde [la ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world".

The Starry ​Night​
The Starry ​Night​

Vincent van Gogh: Starry Night. Starry Night is one of the most recognized pieces of art in the world. It is absolutely everywhere, too. It can be seen on coffee, mugs, t-shirts, towels, magnets, etc. Honestly, it sometimes feels as if the painting’s fame has exceeded that of its creator. It is a magnificent piece of art. That Starry Night resonates with so many people is a testament to how its beauty is timeless and universal.

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The Last ​Supper​
The Last ​Supper​

The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo [il tʃeˈnaːkolo] or L'Ultima Cena [ˈlultima ˈtʃeːna]) is a late 15th-century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci housed by the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It is one of the world's most recognizable paintings.

Guernica​
Guernica​

Guernica is to painting what Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is to music: a cultural icon that speaks to mankind not only against war but also of hope and peace. It is a reference when speaking about genocide from El Salvador to Bosnia.

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Girl With a ​Pearl Earring​
Girl With a ​Pearl Earring​

Painting by top Dutch master Vermeer entitled Girl With A Pearl Earring. Photograph: Corbis Johannes Vermeer's The Girl with The Pearl Earring, otherwise known as The "Mona Lisa of the North" – one of the most famous and mysterious marvels of the art world – is back in the US for the first time ...

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The Creation ​of Adam​
The Creation ​of Adam​

The Creation of Adam (Italian: Creazione di Adamo) is a fresco painting by Michelangelo, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, painted c. 1508–1512. It illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God gives life to Adam, the first man.

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Sistine ​Chapel Ceiling​
Sistine ​Chapel Ceiling​

The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. The ceiling is that of the Sistine Chapel, the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV, for whom the chapel is named.

The Night ​Watch​
The Night ​Watch​

Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, also known as The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, but commonly referred to as The Night Watch (Dutch: De Nachtwacht), is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn.

Water Lilies​
Water Lilies​

Water Lilies (or Nymphéas, French: ) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life.

The Birth of ​Venus​
The Birth of ​Venus​

Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c. 1484-86, tempera on canvas Aside from his painting of the Primavera, Sandro Botticelli’s other greatest work, done for the Medici family, is the Birth of Venus.

Las Meninas​
Las Meninas​

Las Meninas gives its audience access to the king's point of view ... Whether the king is watching or posing, these theories posit Velázquez intentionally framed the painting so that its audience would be looking from the viewpoint of the royalty reflected in that mirror.

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Bal du Moulin ​de la Galette​
Bal du Moulin ​de la Galette​

Bal du moulin de la Galette (commonly known as Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces.

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No. 5, 1948​
No. 5, 1948​

No.5, 1948, painted by Jackson Pollock, is currently the world’s most expensive painting ever sold. It was priced at $140 million in 2006, when it changed hands from one collector to another. Here’s my attempt at explaining what the buyer could have seen in Jackson Pollock’s painting that could justify the price tag.

The ​Persistence of Memory​
The ​Persistence of Memory​

The Persistence of Memory is by far Salvador Dali’s most recognizable painting, and there are many references to it in popular culture.

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The Kiss​
The Kiss​

The Kiss is arguably blasphemous. Klimt's use of gold calls back to the kinds of religious art found in churches. Using gold leaf here to celebrate the earthly pleasures and sensuality of sexuality was considered by some profane. 14. Klimt and The Kiss were minted.

Whistler's ​Mother​
Whistler's ​Mother​

Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, best known under its colloquial name Whistler's Mother, is a painting in oils on canvas created by the American-born painter James McNeill Whistler in 1871. The subject of the painting is Whistler's mother, Anna McNeill Whistler.

Café Terrace ​at Night​
Café Terrace ​at Night​

Café Terrace at Night is a 1888 oil painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in 1888. It is also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, and, when first exhibited in 1891, was entitled Coffeehouse, in the evening (Café, le soir).

Arnolfini ​Portrait​
Arnolfini ​Portrait​

More paintings in this room This work is a portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, but is not intended as a record of their wedding. His wife is not pregnant, as is often thought, but holding up her full-skirted dress in the contemporary fashion.

Self-Portrait ​Without Beard​
Self-Portrait ​Without Beard​

This self-portrait executed in 1889, was the last self-portrait by the artist. After that he majorly focused upon the cypresses and wheat fields. Moreover, this is the only painting depicting the artist without beard.

The School of ​Athens​
The School of ​Athens​

The School of Athens (Italian: Scuola di Atene) is one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.

Les ​Demoiselles d'Avignon​
Les ​Demoiselles d'Avignon​

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, and originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and now on exhibit in New York's Museum of Modern Art.

American ​Gothic​
American ​Gothic​

American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.Wood's inspiration came in his decision to paint what is known as the American Gothic House along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house."

Impression, ​Sunrise​
Impression, ​Sunrise​

Impression, Sunrise (French: Impression, soleil levant) is a painting by Claude Monet. Shown at what would later be known as the "Exhibition of the Impressionists" in April 1874, the painting is attributed to giving rise to the name of the Impressionist movement.

Van Gogh ​Self-Portrait​
Van Gogh ​Self-Portrait​

Vincent van Gogh painted over 30 self-portraits between the years 1886 and 1889. His collection of self-portraits places him among the most prolific self-portraitists of all time. Van Gogh used portrait painting as a method of introspection, a method to make money and a method of developing his skills as an artist.

Portrait of ​Adele Bloch-Bauer I​
Portrait of ​Adele Bloch-Bauer I​

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is a painting by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer , a Jewish banker and sugar producer.

The Raft of ​the Medusa​
The Raft of ​the Medusa​

The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism.

Massacre of ​the Innocents​
Massacre of ​the Innocents​

Massacre of the Innocents, 1636–38 (Alte Pinakothek). The Massacre of the Innocents is the subject of two paintings by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem, as related in the Gospel of Matthew, Ch.2, vs.13-18.

Saturn ​Devouring His Son​
Saturn ​Devouring His Son​

Saturn Devouring his Son is a history painting that illustrates the myth of the Roman god Saturn, who, haunted by a prophecy that he would be overthrown by one of his sons, ate each of them moments after they were born.

The Last ​Judgement​
The Last ​Judgement​

The Last Judgment (Italian: Il Giudizio Universale) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo covering the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It is a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgment by God of all humanity.

Arrangement ​in Grey and Black, No
Arrangement ​in Grey and Black, No

Arrangement en gris et noir n°1, also called Portrait de la mère de l'artiste [Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, also called Portrait of the Artist's Mother] Although an American by nationality, Whistler divided his career between London and Paris.

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Le Rêve​
Le Rêve​

Le Rêve (French, "The Dream") is a 1932 oil painting (130 × 97 cm) by Pablo Picasso, then 50 years old, portraying his 22-year-old mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. It is said to have been painted in one afternoon, on 24 January 1932.

Salvator ​Mundi​
Salvator ​Mundi​

Salvator Mundi is a painting of Christ as Salvator Mundi (Latin for "Savior of the World") by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1500.

Woman III​
Woman III​

Woman III is a painting by abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. Woman III is one of a series of six paintings by de Kooning done between 1951 and 1953 in which the central theme was a woman. It measures 68 by 48 1 ⁄ 2 inches (1.73 by 1.23 m) and was completed in 1953.

Olympia​
Olympia​

Olympia is a painting by Édouard Manet, ... Most paintings that were this size depicted historical or mythological events, so the size of the work, ...

The Third of ​May 1808​
The Third of ​May 1808​

Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808 in Madrid, 1808, 1814-15, oil on canvas, 8' 9" x 13' 4" (Museo del Prado, Madrid) Napoleon puts his brother on the throne of Spain In 1807, Napoleon, bent on conquering the world, brought Spain’s king, Charles IV, into alliance with him in order to conquer Portugal.

Three Studies ​of Lucian Freud​
Three Studies ​of Lucian Freud​

Three Studies of Lucian Freud is a 1969 oil-on-canvas triptych by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, depicting artist Lucian Freud. It was sold in November 2013 for US$ 142.4 million, which at the time was the highest price attained at auction for a work of art when not factoring in inflation.

The Sistine ​Madonna​
The Sistine ​Madonna​

Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520). The Sistine Madonna, ca. 1512-14. Oil on canvas. 270 x 201 cm (106 1/4 x 79 1/8 in.). Gemäldegalerie, Dresden About the Sistine Madonna. The first fact to know is that the proper art-historical title of the painting is The Madonna Standing on Clouds with SS.

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The Storm on ​the Sea of Galilee​
The Storm on ​the Sea of Galilee​

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is a painting from 1633 by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn that was in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, prior to being stolen in 1990.

The Hay Wain​
The Hay Wain​

The Hay Wain is situated near Flatford in Suffolk, England, a site which is still very much as Constable's portrayed it. This artwork is another example of Constable illustrating an idealistic English countryside, in which hardworking but happy farm workers go about their everyday business.

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The Fighting ​Temeraire​
The Fighting ​Temeraire​

The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. It was painted in 1838 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839.

When Will ​You Marry?​
When Will ​You Marry?​

Everyone has their price, so the saying goes, and it appears that almost $300m (£200m) was the right price for one Swiss art collector. Rudolf Staechelin was the owner of the painting Nafea Faa Ipoipo? or When Will You Marry? by Paul Gauguin, but it is now thought to have become the most expensive artwork he sold it.

Liberty ​Leading the People​
Liberty ​Leading the People​

Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple [la libɛʁte ɡidɑ̃ lə pœpl]) is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France.

Reclining ​Nude​
Reclining ​Nude​

Reclining Nude recalls the long-standing tradition of associating the female body with the timeless ideals of beauty. The stark nature of the model’s pose and distorted form, however, are more modern updates on this classical idea.

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No 1​
No 1​

If Diana Ong World No 1 is printed by machine on textured canvas, it takes about 5 working days to your address; if you choose it as hand painted reproduction, it takes about 18 working days to your address.

Garçon à la ​Pipe​
Garçon à la ​Pipe​

Garçon à la Pipe (Boy with a Pipe) is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was painted in 1905 when Picasso was 24 years old, during his Rose Period, soon after he settled in the Montmartre section of Paris, France. The oil on canvas painting depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland or wreath of flowers.

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The Garden of ​Earthly Delights​
The Garden of ​Earthly Delights​

The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. It dates from between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old.

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Nude, Green ​Leaves and Bust​
Nude, Green ​Leaves and Bust​

In purely economic terms Picasso's painting Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust, 1932, is extraordinary for its value, having sold at auction for $106.5 million in 2010, making it one of the most expensive works ever sold at auction.

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One: Number ​31, 1950​
One: Number ​31, 1950​

One: Number 31, 1950 is one of Pollock's largest paintings and a masterpiece of the "drip" technique.

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The Son of ​Man​
The Son of ​Man​

The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his most well-known artwork. It is perhaps his most well-known artwork.

No. 6​
No. 6​

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