Meet the paintings that have shaped the history of art, inspired generations and added a unique aesthetic to your walls. The world’s most famous paintings are not only a visual feast, they also add historical depth and cultural richness to your living spaces.
From Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” to Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”, from Klimt’s golden glittering “The Kiss” to Monet’s misty “Water Lilies”, this collection brings together the most exquisite examples of art from around the world. Each painting reflects the spirit of its period and adds a classic and impressive atmosphere to your home or office.
These works by Michelangelo, Botticelli, Vermeer, Frida Kahlo, Picasso and many more are the perfect choice for anyone who wants to bring an artistic stance to their wall decoration. Whether you prefer a detailed oil reproduction or a more modern canvas prints, each brings you closer to the atmosphere of an art gallery.
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New York, Museum of Modern Art Van Gogh painted this celebrated ‘Starry Night’ in June of 1889 while confined to an asylum in the monastery of Saint Paul de Mausole near St-Rémy-de-Provence. He had come to Provence a year and a half earlier, looking for artistic inspiration and solace for his already troubled mind. He … Read more
Paris, Musée d’Orsay At the tender age of seventeen Paul Signac dropped out of school and immersed himself in the avant-garde life of Montmartre where his family had been living. He soon came into contact with the literary and artistic circles that frequented this hedonistic area of belle époque Paris. Painting emerged as his passion … Read more
Paris, Musée du Louvre This masterpiece by Veronese has perhaps the worse location in the Louvre: it hangs opposite the Mona Lisa. Yet this huge, delightful canvas with its brilliant colour and merry atmosphere can still entice spectators away from the most famous painting in the world; a bit like a particularly good party next … Read more
New York, Frick Collection Although you wouldn’t immediately know it from his proud, aristocratic air, at about the time this portrait was painted Lodovico Capponi (b. 1533) was madly in love. A page at the Medici court in Florence, in the mid–1550s Lodovico fell in love with a girl whom Duke Cosimo de Medici had … Read more
London, National Gallery This painting was probably commissioned by Federigo II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua. He is known to have commissioned similar mythological scenes from Correggio, in particular an erotic series of the Loves of Jupiter, and although The School of Love is not recorded as part of the Gonzaga collection until 1627, over a century after its … Read more
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art El Greco has always had a curiously modern appeal. In the early 20th century critic Robert Fry, watching a crowd before an El Greco, noted that they talked as ‘they might talk about some contemporary picture,’ as if El Greco was ‘an old master who is not merely modern, … Read more
New York, Frick Collection Though Reynolds portrays him as the consummate military leader, John Burgoyne (1722–92) has the misfortune to be primarily remembered as the British commander who surrendered to American forces in 1777 at Saratoga, a loss many consider the turning point of the American Revolution. But Burgoyne was a multifaceted character; a Member … Read more
New York, Museum of Modern Art Andrew Wyeth is the fifth child of a well known American illustrator and artist Newell Convers Wyeth who illustrated well loved editions of Treasure Island, Robin Hood and the Last of the Mohicans among many other books. Andrew was a sickly child who was educated at home and his father, to whom he was … Read more
Paris, Musée d’Orsay When this painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1872, it created a scandal. Not for its style or subject but simply because of its title. Called Arrangement in Grey and Black no. 1, it is a portrait of a 67-year-old American named Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler (1804–81), who … Read more
New York, Museum of Modern Art Kokoschka was a classic ‘angry young man’. He stormed into the rarefied artistic world of haute bourgeois Vienna and set out to shock; a goal he achieved in 1908 when he was expelled from the Vienna School of Fine Arts for his explicit contributions to the Vienna Kunstschau. However, … Read more