Great paintings can be found in small and large examples, varying in type and story. Some may transport you to a new place or celebrate cultural beauty. Each painting is subject to interpretation by the observer. the more you know about art the more you will enjoy paintings. Examining a work of art could be the beginning of a journey of discovery, which may be deeply rewarding.
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Painting The Annunciation The Arnolfini Portrait The Baptism of Christ |
Artist Fra Angelico Piero della Francesca |
year c. 1432 c. 1434 c 1450 |
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The Hunt in the Forest The Garden of Earthly Delights The Great Piece of Turf Mona Lisa The School of Athens Sistine Chapel Ceiling Bacchus and Ariadne The Ambassadors Spring Morning in the Han Palace Netherlandish Proverbs |
Paolo Uccello Hieronymus Bosch Raphael Michelangelo Titan Hans Holbein Qiu Ying Pieter Breughel the Elder |
c. 1470 c. 1485 c. 1500 1503 c. 1506 c. 1511 c. 1512 c. 1523 1533 c. 1542 1559 |
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Spring Cypress Tree Akbar's Adventures with the Elephant Hawa'i in 1561 |
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Kano Eitoku Basawan and Chetar |
1573 c. 1590 c. 1595 |
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David with the Head of Goliath The Judgement of Paris Charles I on Horseback Self-Portait as "La Pitturea" Las Meninas Self-Portrait The Art of Painting Still Life with Flowers and Fruit Marriage á-la-Mode Mr. and Mrs. Andrews |
Caravaggio Peter Paul Rubens Anthony van Dyck Artmisia Gentileschi Diego Velásquez Rembrandt van Rijn Johannes Vermeer Jan van Huysum William Hogarth Thomas Gainsborough |
c. 1610 c. 1632 c. 1637 c. 1639 1656 c. 1665 c. 1668 c. 1715 c. 1743 c. 1750 |
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Allegory of the Planets and Continents |
Giambattista Tiepolo |
c. 1753 |
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An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump |
Joseph Wright of Derby |
1768 |
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The Death of Marat The Valpinçon Bather |
Jacques-Louis David Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres |
1793 1808 |
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The Third of May 1808 Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog |
Francisco de Goya Caspar David Friedrich |
1814 c. 1818 |
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The Hay Wain The Fighting Temeraire The Artist's Studio Olympia |
John Constable J. M. W. Turner |
1821 1839 c. 1855 1863 |
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Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1 |
James McNeill Whistler |
1871 |
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The Dancing Class A Sunday on La Grande Jatte Van Gogh's Chair The Child's Bath |
Georges Seurat Vincent van Gogh |
c. 1874 c. 1886 1888 1893 |
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Where Do We Come From? What are We? Where Are We going? |
Paul Gaugin |
c. 1898 |
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The Waterlily Pond Lake Keitele The Large Bathers The Kiss Composition VII Berlin Street Scene |
Akseli Gallen-Kallela Paul Cézanne Gustav Klimt Ernst Ludwig Kirchner |
1899 1905 1906 c. 1908 1913 1913 |
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Northern River Red Balloon Red Canna The Metamorphosis of Narcissus Guernica Nighthawks |
Tom Tomson Paul Klée Edward Hopper |
c. 1915 1922 1924 1937 1937 1942 |
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Without Hope Red Interior, Still Life on a Blue Table |
Henri Matisse |
1945 1947 |
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Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) Untilted Marilyn To a Summer's Day The Dance Athanor |
Mark Rothko Bridget Riley Paul Rego Anselm Kiefer |
1950 c. 1952 1967 1980 1988 2007 |