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1. Bosch: The Garden of Delights (1504) - Prado, MadridThis famous painting was made by Bosch, this painting is his best known and most ambitious complete work.This painting is painted in oil on oak and is formed from a square middle panel flanked by two other oak rectangular wings that close over the centre as shutters. The outer wings, when folded, show a grisaille painting of the earth during the biblical narrative of Creation. More Paintings .. .....

Universal Judgement

2. Michelangelo: Universal Judgement (1541) - Cappella Sistina, RomaThe "Universal Judgment" is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo executed on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. The work took four years to complete and is a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgment by God of all humanity. The souls of humans rise and descend to their fates, as judged by Christ surrounded by pr .....

Europe After the Rain II

3. Ernst: Europe After the Rain II (1942) - Sumner Collection, HartfordThis painting was made by Ernst. He invented the technique of rubbings of textured surfaces and working with the forms that emerged. This painting makes extensive use of the techniques Ernst invented, portraying a ravaged landscape reminiscent of both twisted wreckage and rotting organic proliferation. More Paintings ..... .....

Beethovenfries

4. Klimt: Beethovenfries (1902) - Sezession, WienIn 1902, Klimt painted the Beethoven Frieze for the 14th Vienna Secessionist exhibition.This painting was painted directly on the walls with light materials. The Beethoven Frieze is now on permanent display in the Vienna Secession Building. The frieze illustrates human desire for happiness in a suffering and tempestuous world in which one contends not only with external evil forces but also with inter .....

Persistence of Memory

5. Dali: Persistence of Memory (1931) - Museum of Modern Art, New YorkThe well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. It epitomizes Dal?'s theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time. This interpretation suggests that Dal? was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. The figure in the middle of the picture ca .....

The Virgin

6. Klimt: The Virgin (1913) - National Gallery, PragueThis painting was made by Gustav Klimt. It is triumphed over childhood poverty to significantly influence the Viennese Secession and Art Nouveau movement. This art print displays sharp, vivid images with a high degree of color accuracy. A member of the versatile family of art prints, this high-quality reproduction represents the best of both worlds: quality and affordability. More Paintings .... .....

The Last Judgement

7. Bosch: The Last Judgement (1505) - Gemaldegalerie der Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, WienThe Last Judgment is a triptych by Hieronymus Bosch, created after 1482. The triptych currently resides at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. The outside of the shutters panel are painted in grisaille on panel, while the inside shutters and the center panel are painted in oil.The left panel shows the Garden of Eden, at the top God is shown seated in .....

The Kiss

8. Klimt: The Kiss (1908) - Belvedere, WienThe Kiss (In German: Der Kuss) was painted by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt between 1907 and 1908, the highpoint of his "Golden Period", when he painted a number of works in a similar gilded style. A perfect square, the canvas depicts a couple embracing, their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by both linear constructs of the contemporary Art Nouveau style and .....

Allegoria della Primavera

9. Botticelli: Allegoria della Primavera (1478) - Uffizi, FirenzeThe Primavera is a painting tempera on panel of Sandro Botticelli, dating back to 1482 or so and kept in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence .This is the masterpiece of the artist, as well as one of the most famous works of the Italian Renaissance . The pride of the gallery, was perhaps formerly pendant with the equally famous Birth of Venus , with which it shares the historical provenance .....

Nimphee

10. Monet: Nimphee (1926) - Orangerie, ParisThis painting was made by Nimphee. He uses a series of slow and steady brushes to get the realistic images of the tree?s and wild life around the bridge. More Paintings ..... .....

Metamorphose de Narcisse

11. Dali: Metamorphose de Narcisse (1937) - Tate Gallery, LondonMetamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dal?. This painting is from Dal?'s Paranoiac-critical period. According to Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool.Dali completed this painting in 1937 on his long awaited return to Paris after having had great success in the United States.The painting shows .....

The Last Supper

12. Leonardo: Il Cenacolo/ The Last Supper (1497) - S.Maria delle Grazie, MilanoThe Last Supper is a late 15th century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The work is presumed to have been commenced around 1495 and was commissioned as part of a scheme of renovations to the church and its convent buildings by Leonardo's patron Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. The painting represents the scene of The Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, as it is to .....

Fall of the Damned

13. Rubens: Fall of the Damned/ Der Hollensturz der VerdammtenThe Descent into Hell of the Damned is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich . It was built around 1620 during the Thirty Years' War. The painting has a hell fall on, a traditional motif of Christian art. Of a light beam between the dark clouds of crashes Archangel Michael hurls forth and large amounts of naked bodies down. More Paintings ..... .....

Battaglia di San Romano

14. Uccello: Battaglia di San Romano/Part I (1456) - Uffizi, FirenzeThe Battle of San Romano is a triptych of Paolo Uccello mixed technique on wood , dating back to 1438 or so. The painting tells the historic battle between Florence and Siena, the latter allied with the Milanese, of 1 June 1432 . More Paintings ..... .....

Starry Night

15. Van Gogh: Starry Night (1889) - Museum of Modern Art, New YorkStarry Night is a painting by the Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view outside of his sanitarium room window at Saint-R?my-de-Provence (located in southern France) at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum in New York City, part of the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest .....

Sposalizio della Vergine

16. Raffaello: Sposalizio della Vergine (1504) - Piancoteca di Brera, MilanoThe Marriage of the Virgin, also known as Lo Sposalizio, is an oil painting by Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. Completed in 1504 for a Franciscan church in Citt? di Castello, the painting depicts a marriage ceremony between Mary and Joseph. It changed hands several times before settling in 1806 at the Pinacoteca di Brera. More Paintings ..... .....

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans

17. Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (1936) - Museum of Art, PhiladelphiaSoft Construction with Boiled Beans (1936) is a painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dal?. Dali made this painting to represent the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Dali painted this work six months before the Spanish Civil War had even begun and then claimed that he had known the war was going to happen in order to appear to have prophet-like abilities due to "the .....

Triumph of Death

18. Bruegel: Triumph of Death (1562) - Prado, MadridThe painting shows a panorama of an army of skeletons wreaking havoc across a blackened, desolate landscape.The painting shows aspects of everyday life in the mid-sixteenth century. Clothes are clearly depicted, as are pastimes such as playing cards and backgammon. It shows objects such as musical instruments, an early mechanical clock, scenes including a funeral service, and various methods of exec .....

Nascita di Venere

19. Botticelli: Nascita di Venere (1485) - Uffizi, FirenzeThe Birth of Venus, painting by Sandro Botticelli, he was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence, specifically Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici under the influence of his cousin Lorenzo de' Medici, close friend to Botticelli . It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore (which is related to the Venus An .....

The Adoration of the Magi

20. Rubens: The Adoration of the Magi, Prado, MadridThe Adoration of the Magi is the name traditionally given to the Christian subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worship him. More Paintings ..... .....

Sprinkling Horses

21. MF Husain: Sprinkling HorsesM.F. Husain?s ?Sprinkling Horses? was sold for $1.14 million in an auction. The subject of ?Sprinkling Horses?? a dynamic depiction of horses paired with a human figure ? is one of the hallmarks of Mr. Husain?s art. The high price for the 'Sprinkling Horses', an oil on canvas signed 'Husain' in Hindi and Urdu, is a sign that his work continues to be a hot favourite among art connoisseurs across the world, More Paintin .....

Still Life

22. Paul C?zanne : Still LifeThis painting is considered the most expensive "still life" ever sold at an auction; it was sold at Sotheby's, New York on May 10, 1999, for US$60.5 million More Paintings ..... .....

Water Lilies

23. Claude Monet : Water LiliesMonet is perhaps the most famous of the Impressionists, especially for his paintings of the reflections in the lily pond at his Giverny garden. This particular painting, shows a tiny bit of cloud in the top right-hand corner, and the mottled blues of the sky as reflected in the water. More Paintings ..... .....

Painting Signature

24. Vincent van Gogh's : Painting SignatureVincent Gogh signed his paintings simply "Vincent", not "Vincent van Gogh" nor "Van Gogh". In a letter to his brother Theo, written on 24 March 1888, he stipulated that "in the future my name ought to be put in the catalogue as I sign it on the canvas, namely Vincent and not Van Gogh, for the simple reason that they do not know how to pronounce the latter name here." ("Here" being Arles, in the south of Fran .....

Portrait of the Artist s Mother

25. Portrait of the Artist's Mother by WhistlerThis is possibly Whistler's most famous painting. It's full title is "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, Portrait of the Artist's Mother". Apparently his mother agreed to pose for the painting when the model Whistler had been using fell ill. He initially asked her to pose standing, but as you can see he gave in and let her sit down. More Paintings ..... .....

The Absinthe Drinker

26. The Absinthe Drinker" by PicassoThis painting was created by Picasso in 1903, during his Blue Period (a time when Picasso's paintings were dominated by tones of blue; when he was in his twenties). It features the artist Angel Fernandez de Soto, who was apparently more enthusiastic about partying and drinking than his painting1, and who shared a studio with Picasso in Barcelona on two occasions. More Paintings ..... .....

Guernica

27. Guernica by PicassoThis famous painting by Picasso is huge: 11 feet 6 inches high and 25 feet 8 inches wide (3,5 x 7,76 meters). Picasso painted it on commission for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 World Fair in Paris. It's in the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain. More Paintings ..... .....

The Red Studio

28. The Red Studio by Henri MatisseThis painting is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (Moma) in New York. It shows the interior of Matisse's painting studio, with flattened perspective or a single picture plane. The walls of his studio weren't actually red, they were white; he used red in his painting for effect. More Paintings ..... .....

The Dance

29. The Dance by Henri MatisseThe top photo shows Matisse's finished painting titled The Dance, completed in 1910 and now in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia. The bottom photo shows the full-size, compositional study he made for the painting, now in MOMA in New York, USA. Matisse painted it on commission from the Russian art collector Sergei Shchukin. More Paintings ..... .....

Bigger Trees Near Warter

30. Bigger Trees Near Warter by David HockneyDavid Hockney's oil painting "Bigger Trees Near Warter" (also called Peinture en Plein Air pour l'age Post-Photographique) depicts a scene near Bridlington in Yorkshire. The painting made from 50 canvases arranged alongside one another. Added together, the overall size of the painting is 40x15 feet (4.6x12 meters). At the time Hockney painted it, it was the largest piece he'd ever completed, though not the .....

Living Paintbrush

31. Living Paintbrush" by Yves KleinThis painting by the French artist Yves Klein (1928-1962) is one of the series he did using "living paintbrushes". He covered nude women models with his signature blue paint (International Klein Blue, IKB) and then in a piece of performance art in front of an audience "painted" with them on large sheets of paper by directing them verbally. More Paintings ..... .....

Requiem White Roses and Butterflies

32. Damien Hirst Oil Painting: "Requiem, White Roses and ButterfliesBritish artist Damien Hirst is most famous for his animals preserved in formaldehyde, but in his early 40s returned to oil painting. In October 2009 he exhibited paintings created between 2006 to 2008 for the first time in London. More Paintings ..... .....

Nelson s Ship in a Bottle

33. Nelson's Ship in a Bottle" by Yinka ShonibarNelson's Ship in a Bottle" by Yinka Shonibar is a ship of 2.35 metres tall inside an even taller bottle. It's a 1:29 scale replica of Vice Admiral Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle" appeared on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London on 24 May 2010. The Fourth Plinth stood empty from 1841 until 1999, when the first of an ongoing series of contemporary artworks, commissio .....