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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

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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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