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Famous Works of Art

Which undeniably famous works of art have you seen in person in the location where it is housed (i.e., museum, private collection, etc.)?
1.
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 Mona Lisa
by Leonardo Da Vinci (Louvre, Paris)
  
2.
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 The Night Watch
by Rembrandt Van Rijn (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
  
3.
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 Las Meninas
by Diego Velázquez (Prado, Madrid, Spain)
  
4.
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 The Shootings of May Third 1808
by Francisco de Goya (Prado, Madrid, Spain)
  
5.
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 The Last Supper
by Leonardo Da Vinci (Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy)
  
6.
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 Sistine Chapel Ceiling
by Michelangelo (Vatican City)
  
7.
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 The Starry Night
by Vincent van Gogh (MoMA, NYC)
  
8.
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 The Persistence of Memory
by Salvador Dali (MoMA, NYC)
  
9.
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 The Laughing Cavalier
by Frans Hals (The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, London)
  
10.
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 The Great Wave off Kanagawa (from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji)
by Katsushika Hokusai (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC or Art Institute of Chicago)
  
11.
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 American Gothic
by Grant Wood (The Art Institute of Chicago)
  
12.
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 Nighthawks
by Edward Hopper (The Art Institute of Chicago)
  
13.
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 Porträt der Adele Bloch-Bauer I
by Gustav Klimt (Neue Galerie, NYC)
  
14.
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 The Massacre of the Innocents
by Peter Paul Rubens (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada)
  
15.
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 The Kiss
by Auguste Rodin (Tate Collection, London, England)
  
16.
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 Self-Portrait With Monkey
by Frida Kahlo (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York)
  
17.
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 Girl With A Pearl Earring
by Jan Vermeer (Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands)
  
18.
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 The Garden of Earthly Delights
by Hieronymus Bosch (Prado, Madrid, Spain)
  
19.
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 The Lady of Shalott (study)
by John William Waterhouse (Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall, England)
  
20.
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 Christina's World
by Andrew Wyeth (MOMA, NYC)
  
21.
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 Guernica
by Pablo Picasso (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain)
  
22.
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 Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)
by Jackson Pollock (The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
  
23.
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 The Birth of Venus
by Sandro Botticelli (Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy)
  
24.
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 Aphrodite of Milos (Venus de Milo)
by Alexandros of Antioch? (The Louvre, Paris)
  
25.
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 The Fountain
by Marcel Duchamp (Tate Modern, London)
  
26.
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 Venus of Willendorf
by unknown paleolithic sculptor (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria)
  
27.
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 La Danse (I)
by Henri Matisse (MOMA, NYC)
  
28.
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 Detroit Industry (North & South Walls)
by Diego Rivera (Detroit Institute of Arts)
  
29.
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 Impression, Sunrise
by Claude Monet (Musee Marmottan, Paris)
  
30.
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 Olympia
by Edouard Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  
31.
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 Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
by Paul Gauguin (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
  
32.
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 Poppies, near Argenteuil
by Claude Monet (Musee d'Orsay, Paris)
  
33.
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 David
by Michelangelo (Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence)
  
34.
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 The Scream
by Edvard Munch (National Gallery, Oslo)
  
35.
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 Winged Victory
by (Louvre, Paris)
  
36.
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 Daughters of Revolution
by Grant Wood (Cincinnati Art Museum)
  
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Created by Megan on Aug 22, 2006.