The 50 Greatest Paintings in the History of Art

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A List of The Most Important Masterpieces in Western Art History

A List of The 50 Greatest Paintings in the History of Art.

The Fall of the Rebel Angels c.1562 Pieter Bruegel the Elder Northern Renaissance Flemish

Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx c.1519
Joachim Patinir (1480 –1524) Northern Renaissance Flemish

The Ninth Wave c.1850 Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900) Russian, Academic

The Annunciation c.1432 Fra Angelico (1395 - 1455) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance

Tiger on the Watch c.1888. Jean Leon Gerome 1824-1904) French, Academic

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece) c.1375–1444
Robert Campin 1375-1444

The Last Judgement c. 1505 Hieronymus Bosch (1453 - 1516) Dutch, Northern Renaissance

Garden of Earthly Delights c.1500 Hieronymus Bosch (1453 - 1516) Dutch, Northern Renaissance

Watson and the Shark, c. 1777 John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) American Colonial Era Portraitist and Historical Painter

The Birth of Venus c.1486 Alessandro Botticelli (1445 - 1510) Italian, Florentine, Renaissance

The Tower of Babel c.1563 Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525 - 1569) Flemish, Northern Renaissance

The Thankful Poor c.1894 Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) American Realist

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus c. 1558 Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525 - 1569) Flemish, Northern Renaissance

Boy Bitten by a Lizard. c.1594 Caravaggio (1573 - 1610) Italian, Baroque

Les grandes baigneuses, c 1900 Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906) French, Post-Impressionist

Deposition from the Cross c.1525 Antonio Allegri da Correggio (1489 – 1534) Italian, Renaissance

The Dream c. 1910 by Henri Rousseau

The Desperate Man c. 1845 Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877) French, Realist

Mona Lisa c. 1503 Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian, Renaissance

Adam and Eve c. 1533 Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 - 1553) German, Northern Renaissance

Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 c. 1888 James Ensor (1860 - 1949) Belgian Expressionist

Virgin and Child c.1340 Bernardo Daddi (1290-1348) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance

The Death of Marat French c.1793 Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1824) French, Neoclassical

The Gross Clinic c.1875 Thomas Eakins (1844 - 1916) American, Realist

The Resurrection, 1460 Piero della Francesca (1422-1492) Italian, Renaissance

Dante Illuminating Florence with his Poem c.1465 Domenico Di Michelino, (1417 - 1491) Italian, Florentine, High Renaissance

War Cripples c.1920 Otto Dix (1891 - 1969) German, Expressionist

Self-Portrait at 26 c.1498 Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) German, Northern Renaissance

Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels Jean Fouquet (1420 - 1481) French, Early Renaissance

Mary, Countess Howe c.1763 Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) English, Rococo

Vision after the Sermon; Jacob Wrestling with the Angel c. 1888 Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) French, Post-Impressionist

The Yellow Christ c.1889 Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) French, Post-Impressionist

Sleeping Venus, 1501 Giorgione (1477-1510) Italian, Venetian, High Renaissance

The Tempest c.1508 Giorgione (1477-1510) Italian, Venetian, High Renaissance

The Lamentation of Christ c.1305 Giotto (1267 - 1337) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance

The City c.1917 George Grosz (1893–1959) German, Expressionist

Suicide c.1916 George Grosz (1893–1959) German, Expressionist

The Third of May, 1808 c.1814 Francisco Goya (1746 - 1828) Spanish, Rococo

The Temptation of St. Anthony c.1513 Matthias Grünewald (1434-1494) Flemish, Northern Renaissance

The Peaceable Kingdom c.1826 Edward Hicks (1780-1849) American

Wooded Landscape with Water Mill c.1662 Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709) Dutch, Baroque

The Ambassadors c.1533 Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) German, Northern Renaissance

Grande Odalisque c. 1814 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867) French, Neoclassical

Fish Magic c. 1925 Paul Klee (1879 - 1940) Swiss, Expressionist

Le Moulin de la Gallette c. 1876. Pierre August Renoir (1841-1919) French Impressionist

The Girlfriends c.1916 Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) Austrian, Art Nouveau
Moulin Rouge c.1895 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 - 1897) French, Art Nouveau/Post-Impressionist
Allegory and Effects of Good and Bad Government Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290-1348) Italian, Sienese, Early Renaissance
The Fate of the Animals c. 1913 Franz Marc (1880 - 1916) German, Fauvist
Olympia c.1863 Édouard Manet (1832 - 1833) French, Impressionist
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ c. 1490 Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) Italian, Renaissance
The Moneylender and His Wife c. 1514 Quentin Massys (1466–1530 Flemish, Northern Renaissance, Antwerp school Allegory of Chastity c. 1475 Hans Memling (1434-1494) German, Flemish
Harlequin's Carnival c. 1925 Joan Miro (1893 - 1983) Spanish Nude Sitting on a Divan c.1917 Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920) Italian, Expressionist Woman with a Parasol c. 1875 Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) French, Impressionist
The Apparition c.1876 Gustave Moreau (1826 - 1898) French, Symbolist
Baptism of Christ, 1568 Juan Fernandez Navarrete (1526-1579) Spanish, Mannerist


Lady Lilith c. 1868 Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882) English, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
The Sleeping Gypsy c.1897 Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) French Daniel in the Lion's Den, c.1615 Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640) Flemish, Baroque
The Artists Wife c.1917 Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918) Austrian, Expressionist
Bathers at Asnieres, 1884 Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891) French, Pointillist
Finding of the Body of St Mark c. 1562 Tintoretto (1518 - 1594) Italian, Venetian, High Renaissance
Bacchus and Ariadne c.1525 Titian (1477 - 1576) Italian, Venetian, High Renaissance
Ancient Italy Ovid Banished From Rome c. 1838 Joseph Mallord Turner (1775-1851) English
Niagara Gorge 1891 John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902) American, Tonalist
Portrait of a Woman with a Winged Bonnet c. 1435 Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464) Flemish

Adoration of the Mystic Lamb c. 1434 Jan van Eyck (1385 - 1441) Flemish, Northern Renaissance

Girl with a Pearl Earring c. 1665 Jan Vermeer (1632 - 1675) Dutch, Baroque

The Baptism of Christ, Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1475 Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance
Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888, Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) Dutch, Post-Impressionist
The Maids of Honor c. 1656 Diego Velazquez (1599 - 1660) Spanish, Baroque
The Embarkation for Cythera Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721) French, Rococo,
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 c. 1920 Marcel Duchamp (1887- 1968) French Dadaist
Leda and the Swan c. 1513 Pontormo (1494-1557) Italian, Mannerist
,The Cyclops c.1914 Odilon Redon (1840-1916) French, Symbolist The Night Watch c.1642 Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch Baroque

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