Famous Paintings
John Trumbull’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
The soldier who became the painter of the American Revolution — ten works that gave the founding generation its face.
Art History
Famous Paintings
Leonetto Cappiello’s Ten Most Iconic Posters
A green devil, a red zebra and a woman in a dress of flames: the ten posters that made Cappiello the father of modern advertising.
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Théophile Alexandre Steinlen’s Ten Most Iconic Posters and Paintings
The black cat of Montmartre, the chocolate poster, the laundresses at night: ten works by the great chronicler of working Paris.
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Helen Hyde’s Ten Most Beautiful Prints
The American artist who learned Japanese woodblock printing in Tokyo — ten of her most charming and beautifully colored prints.
Famous Paintings
Archibald Thorburn’s Ten Most Beautiful Bird Paintings
Snipe in the rushes, peregrines above the sea, ptarmigan in the snow: ten watercolors by Britain’s greatest painter of birds.
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Maria Sibylla Merian’s Ten Most Beautiful Natural History Illustrations
Caterpillars, pineapples, and a caiman fighting a snake: ten plates from the naturalist who drew insects as living stories.
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Georg Dionysius Ehret’s Ten Most Beautiful Botanical Illustrations
A gardener’s son who became the greatest botanical artist of the eighteenth century: ten of Ehret’s most beautiful plant portraits.
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Francisco Fierro’s Ten Most Charming Watercolors of Old Lima
Water sellers, veiled ladies, dancers and bullfights: ten watercolors by the self-taught artist who painted nineteenth-century Lima into memory.
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Georges Pierre Seurat’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
La Grande Jatte and beyond: ten pointillist masterpieces from the artist who built paintings out of dots.
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
From the Mona Lisa to his anatomical studies, a tour of the ten works that define the Renaissance’s greatest polymath.
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Claude Monet’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Water lilies, haystacks, and the sunrise that named a movement — the ten essential paintings of Impressionism’s founder.
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Starry Night, Sunflowers, Café Terrace and more: the ten paintings that made Van Gogh the most beloved post-Impressionist.