The history of world painting has left hundreds of classic, timeless works. However, the popularity and fame of paintings are different. Therefore, the British magazine Time Out has voted for the 23 most famous paintings of all time. "We have our own opinions on what constitutes class and we present them here, in a list of the best paintings of all time. Let's debate the list," Time Out shared.
Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503 - 19
Where to see the painting: Louvre Museum in Paris
Painted between 1503 and 1517, Da Vinci's portrait has been haunted by two questions since the day it was made: Who is the figure and why is she smiling? As for that famous smile, the mystery has driven people "crazy" for centuries.
Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665
Where to see the painting: Mauritshuis Collection in The Hague, Netherlands
The painting depicts a girl who is so real and modern that it almost looks like a photograph. This has led to debate as to whether Vermeer used a pre-photography device called a camera obscura to create the image. Regardless, the sitter is unknown, although there is speculation that she may have been Vermeer's maid.
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889
Where to see the painting: Museum of Modern Art New York
Vincent Van Gogh's most famous painting was created by Van Gogh in the mental asylum in Saint-Rémy, where he had locked himself up in 1889. Starry Night seems to reflect his chaotic mental state at the time, as the night sky comes alive with swirls and balls of wildly painted brushstrokes...
Gustav Klimt, The Kiss, 1907 - 1908
Where to see the painting: Belvedere Palace in Vienna
Gilded and lavishly textured, The Kiss , Gustav Klimt's turn-of-the-century depiction of intimacy, is a fusion of Symbolism and Vienna Jugendstil, a variant of Austrian New Art.
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1484 - 1486
Where to see the painting: Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy
Botticelli's The Birth of Venus was the first non-religious full-length nude since antiquity and was painted for Lorenzo de Medici. The painting itself was scheduled to be burned due to contemporary reactions, but somehow escaped destruction.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Gray and Black No.1, 1871
Where to see the painting? At the Musée d'Orsay in Paris
Whistler's Mother , or Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 was painted by James Abbott McNeill Whistler in his London studio in 1871, and in it the formality of the portrait becomes an essay in form. Whistler's mother, Anna, depicted in the painting has become an icon of motherhood.
Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434
Where can I see the painting? The National Gallery of Art in London
One of the most important works created during the Northern Renaissance, believed to be one of the first paintings done in oil. A full-length double portrait, it depicts an Italian merchant and a woman who may or may not be his bride. The work is one of the first paintings to depict an interior using orthogonal perspective to create a sense of space that seems to be adjacent to the viewer’s own space; it feels like you could step into the painting.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565
Where you can see the painting: Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
The painting is considered one of the most iconic works of Western art. A group of peasants on the left are cutting and shedding wheat, while on the right, another group is having lunch. A figure lounges under a tree. This attention to detail continues throughout the painting as a parade of detailed observations gradually narrows in space.
Claude Monet, Dawn, 1874
Where you can see the painting: Usually on display at the Musée Marmottan Monet but occasionally touring around the world
The iconic figure of Impressionism, Monet, actually gave the movement its name with this painting of a sunrise over the port of Le Havre, his hometown. Monet was famous for his studies of light and color, and this painting is a great example with his brushstrokes depicting the sun as an orange orb through a blend of hazy blue water and sky.
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1819
Where to see the painting: At the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany
The iconic image of the Romantic style in art, depicting a lone hiker on a mountaintop, stopping on a rocky outcrop to look around. His back is turned to the viewer as if too engrossed in the landscape to turn back...
The remaining 13 paintings on the list include: Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1503 - 1515; Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884 - 1886; Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907; Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863; Piet Mondrian, Composition in Red Blue and Yellow, 1930; Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Las Meninas, or The Family of King Philip IV; Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937; Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Nude Maja, ca. 1797 - 1800; Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814; Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830; Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818 - 1819; Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942; Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912.
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