Lists of Bests: Famous Works of Art

Mona Lisa

by Leonardo Da Vinci (Louvre, Paris)

The Night Watch

by Rembrandt Van Rijn (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Las Meninas

by Diego Velázquez (Prado, Madrid, Spain)

The Shootings of May Third 1808

by Francisco de Goya (Prado, Madrid, Spain)

The Last Supper

by Leonardo Da Vinci (Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy)

Sistine Chapel Ceiling

by Michelangelo (Vatican City)

The Starry Night

by Vincent van Gogh (MoMA, NYC)

The Persistence of Memory

by Salvador Dali (MoMA, NYC)

The Laughing Cavalier

by Frans Hals (The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, London)

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)

American Gothic

by Grant Wood (The Art Institute of Chicago)

Nighthawks

by Edward Hopper (The Art Institute of Chicago)

Porträt der Adele Bloch-Bauer I

by Gustav Klimt (Neue Galerie, NYC)

The Massacre of the Innocents

by Peter Paul Rubens (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada)

The Kiss

by Auguste Rodin (Tate Collection, London, England)

Self-Portrait With Monkey

by Frida Kahlo (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York)

Girl With A Pearl Earring

by Jan Vermeer (Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands)

The Garden of Earthly Delights

by Hieronymus Bosch (Prado, Madrid, Spain)

The Lady of Shalott (study)

by John William Waterhouse (Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall, England)

Christina's World

by Andrew Wyeth (MOMA, NYC)

Guernica

by Pablo Picasso (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain)

Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)

by Jackson Pollock (The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

The Birth of Venus

by Sandro Botticelli (Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy)

Aphrodite of Milos (Venus de Milo)

by Alexandros of Antioch? (The Louvre, Paris)

The Fountain

by Marcel Duchamp (Tate Modern, London)

Venus of Willendorf

by unknown paleolithic sculptor (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria)

La Danse (I)

by Henri Matisse (MOMA, NYC)

Detroit Industry (North & South Walls)

by Diego Rivera (Detroit Institute of Arts)

Impression, Sunrise

by Claude Monet (Musee Marmottan, Paris)

Olympia

by Edouard Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

by Paul Gauguin (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Poppies, near Argenteuil

by Claude Monet (Musee d'Orsay, Paris)

David

by Michelangelo (Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence)

The Scream

by Edvard Munch (National Gallery, Oslo)

Winged Victory

by (Louvre, Paris)

Daughters of Revolution

by Grant Wood (Cincinnati Art Museum)