the most famous paintings
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MONA LISA
Leonardo da Vinci
Louvre museum in Paris
Painted from 1503 or 1504 till 1519
“The best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world"
THE LAST SUPPER Covers the back wall of the
dining hall at Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan
Painted in the late 15th century
Represents the scene of The Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples
Leonardo da Vinci
THE CREATION OF ADAM
Michelangelo
Located on the ceiling of The Sistine Chapel in Vatican City
Painted between 1508 and 1512
STARRY NIGHT Vincent van Gogh
Painted in 1889
Part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York
Vincent van Gogh
THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
Salvador Dali
Painted in 1931
Inspired by Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
Johannes Vermeer
The “Dutch Mona Lisa”
Completed around 1665
On display in the Mauritshuis Gallery in the Hague
THE NIGHT WATCH
Rembrandt van Rijn
Completed in 1642
On display at the Rijks museum in Amsterdam
Rembrandt van Rijn
GUERNICA Pablo Picasso
Completed in 1937
Inspired by the bombing of Guernica in Spain during the Spanish Civil War
On permanent display in Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
Pablo Picasso
Self-Portrait without Beard Vincent van Gogh
The most notable portrait because it's one of the few that depicts him without a beard
One of the most expensive paintings ever sold
THE BIRTH OF VENUS Sandro Botticelli
Created around 1485–87
The painting is held in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence
WATER LILIES Claude Monet
A series of approximately 250 oil paintings
The paintings depict Monet’s own flower garden at Giverny
THREE MUSICIANS Pablo Picasso
Two similar collage and oil paintings
Completed in 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris
One version is currently owned by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York Citythe other is found in the Philadelphia Museum of Art