Painting↕ | Artist↕ | Year↕ | Museum↕ | Style/Movement↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mona Lisa | Leonardo da Vinci | 1503-1519 | Louvre, Paris | Renaissance |
Starry Night | Vincent van Gogh | 1889 | MoMA, New York | Post-Impressionism |
The Persistence of Memory | Salvador Dali | 1931 | MoMA, New York | Surrealism |
Girl with a Pearl Earring | Johannes Vermeer | 1665 | Mauritshuis, The Hague | Baroque |
The Scream | Edvard Munch | 1893 | National Gallery, Oslo | Expressionism |
Guernica | Pablo Picasso | 1937 | Reina Sofia, Madrid | Cubism |
The Birth of Venus | Sandro Botticelli | 1485 | Uffizi, Florence | Renaissance |
The Night Watch | Rembrandt | 1642 | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam | Baroque |
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte | Georges Seurat | 1886 | Art Institute of Chicago | Pointillism |
The Kiss | Gustav Klimt | 1907-08 | Belvedere, Vienna | Art Nouveau / Symbolism |
Water Lilies (series) | Claude Monet | 1896-1926 | Various worldwide | Impressionism |
The Great Wave off Kanagawa | Katsushika Hokusai | 1831 | Various (print) | Ukiyo-e |
American Gothic | Grant Wood | 1930 | Art Institute of Chicago | Regionalism |
Las Meninas | Diego Velazquez | 1656 | Prado, Madrid | Baroque |
The Creation of Adam | Michelangelo | 1512 | Sistine Chapel, Vatican | Renaissance |
The Last Supper | Leonardo da Vinci | 1498 | Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan | Renaissance |
Nighthawks | Edward Hopper | 1942 | Art Institute of Chicago | Realism |
The Son of Man | Rene Magritte | 1964 | Private Collection | Surrealism |
Campbell's Soup Cans | Andy Warhol | 1962 | MoMA, New York | Pop Art |
Liberty Leading the People | Eugene Delacroix | 1830 | Louvre, Paris | Romanticism |
The Arnolfini Portrait | Jan van Eyck | 1434 | National Gallery, London | Northern Renaissance |
Saturn Devouring His Son | Francisco Goya | 1823 | Prado, Madrid | Romanticism / Dark |
Whistler's Mother | James McNeill Whistler | 1871 | Musee d'Orsay, Paris | Realism |
The Garden of Earthly Delights | Hieronymus Bosch | 1510 | Prado, Madrid | Northern Renaissance |
No. 5, 1948 | Jackson Pollock | 1948 | Private Collection | Abstract Expressionism |
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