Famous Paintings
Caravaggio’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
The Calling of Saint Matthew, Judith Beheading Holofernes, Medusa and more: the ten paintings that made Caravaggio the most influential — and most notorious — painter in Rome.
Art History
Famous Paintings
Raphael’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
The School of Athens, the Sistine Madonna, the Transfiguration and more: the ten works that made Raphael the most imitated painter in Europe for three hundred years.
Famous Paintings
Paul Gauguin’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Arearea, Ia Orana Maria, Two Tahitian Women and more: the ten works by the stockbroker who abandoned Europe and changed the color of modern painting.
Famous Paintings
Sandro Botticelli’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
The Birth of Venus, Primavera, Venus and Mars and more: the ten works by the painter of the Florentine Renaissance’s most beautiful and most puzzling pictures.
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John William Waterhouse’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
The Lady of Shalott, The Magic Circle, A Mermaid and more: the ten works by the last of the Pre-Raphaelites and the great painter of enchantresses.
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Camille Pissarro’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Boulevard Montmartre, Red Roofs, Jalais Hill and more: the ten works by the only painter who showed in all eight Impressionist exhibitions.
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Thomas Cole’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
The Course of Empire, The Voyage of Life, The Titan’s Goblet and more: the ten works by the painter who invented an American landscape tradition.
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Hilma af Klint’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
The Ten Largest, The Swan, Altarpiece No. 1 and more: the ten works by the Swedish painter who made abstract art years before anyone else — and hid it for a lifetime.
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Frederic Remington’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
A Dash for the Timber, A Cold Morning on the Range, On the Southern Plains and more: the ten works by the illustrator who fixed how America pictures its own West.
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Childe Hassam’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
The Avenue in the Rain, Allies Day, the Isles of Shoals gardens and more: ten works by the painter who brought Impressionism to American cities.
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Carl Larsson’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Flowers on the Windowsill, Mirror-image with Brita, Holiday Reading and more: ten works by the Swedish painter whose family home became a national idea of how to live.
Meaning & Story
Why Is the Mona Lisa So Famous?
A theft, a two-year manhunt and a century of parody turned a small poplar panel into the most looked-at object on earth.