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.
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Vienna, Leopold Museum It was not until relatively late in his career that Gustav Klimt started to paint landscapes. However, during the first sixteen years of the 20th century Gustav Klimt spent his summers with his companion Emilie Flöge and the rest of the Flöge family in the scenic Salzkammergut area east of Salzburg. There … Read more
Florence, Uffizi Gallery In the 1470s a number of artists and their patrons became interested in moving away from art as a purely representational exercise – a mirror to nature – towards the use of a symbolic vocabulary using pagan mythology based on the writings of the Neoplatonist philosophers (Plotinus, c. 204/5 – 271 AD, being … Read more
Paris, Musée du Louvre Antoine Watteau was born in the northern French town of Valenciennes, the son of a roofer. Little is known about his early life but he appears to have been working in Paris by 1702. From 1705 he was employed painting theatre scenery, including scenes from the commedia dell’arte: the troupe of … Read more
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum The five extant panels featuring the Seasons of the Year are among Bruegel’s finest works. Originally commissioned by the Antwerp banker Nicolaes Jongelinck, three hang in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. One, The Harvesters, is held by the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the other is in Prague. Art historians did not identify the five … Read more
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum The five extant panels featuring the Seasons of the Year are among Bruegel’s finest works. Originally commissioned by the Antwerp banker Nicolaes Jongelinck, three hang in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. One, The Harvesters, is held by the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the other is in Prague. Art historians did not identify the five … Read more
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum According to the Book of Genesis the generations after the Great Flood spoke a single language. They migrated to a land called Shinar where they built a city with a tower tall enough to reach heaven. However, God, observing this project, decides to “confound their language, that they may not understand one … Read more
Munich, Neue Pinakothek In the 1890’s Khnopff regularly visited Britain and established friendships with G.F. Watts, Edward Burne-Jones and their circle. The title of the painting is a quotation from a Christina Rossetti poem. God strengthen me to bear myself;That heaviest weight of all to bear,Inalienable weight of care. All others are outside myself;I lock … Read more
Art Institute, Chicago This monumental painting (over 2 metres by 3 metres) depicts a newly developed area of the city – part of the transformation of Paris planned by Baron Haussmann. This complex intersection is in the 8th arrondissement, known as the Quartier d’lEurope as all the streets are named after major European cities: it … Read more
Museum of Modern Art, New York This extraordinary profile of Signac’s friend, the writer and critic Félix Fénéon is set against a swirl of spiralling, sinuous abstract designs. These background patterns were inspired by a Japanese wood block print, possibly a design for a kimono, which Signac kept in his studio, but the startling vortex … Read more
Vienna, Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Though 20th-century Surrealists have claimed him as a predecessor, Bosch must be understood in context of his own time. His fascinatingly gruesome paintings reflect the world he knew. No, he did not inhabit a demon-filled hell, but he did live in the late medieval world where war and … Read more