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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Chicago, Art Institute It is possible that as early as 1883 Seurat was formulating his ideas for large painting, complementary to the Bathers at Asnières (which had been exhibited in 1884) but according to a letter to Félix Fénéon written some years later, he started work on A Sunday on the Island of the Grande Jatte in May 1884. He worked … Read more
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi Gentile was born in Fabriano near Perugia. After a number of years working in Venice and the northern Italian city of Brescia, by late 1419 Gentile was working in Florence. His masterpiece, the Adoration of the Magi was commissioned by Palla Strozzi, a cultured Banker and a quintessential Florentine patron who … Read more
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art This large canvas, well over six feet (two meters) tall, presents us with a near life-size full length portrait of a man in a dark suit, feet set squarely apart standing in an unadorned and unexplained space. No extraneous object is allowed to deflect us from our contemplation of … Read more
Sir John Soane’s Museum In 1732 William Hogarth published a set of engravings based on a series of paintings he had recently completed entitled The Harlot’s Progress. He had originally painted a single picture showing a prostitute in her room, counting her takings. He then hit on the idea of expanding the story by adding paintings, … Read more
Otterlo, Netherlands, Kröller-Müller Museum Exhibited in 1887, The Dining Room depicts a scene from bourgeois life. At a large round table covered in a white tablecloth (which takes up more than a third of the painting) sits an old man with grey hair and prominent sideburns and a woman who is somewhat younger. Coffee is being taken … Read more
Paris, Musée d’Orsay This picture was exhibited in an unfinished state at the seventh Salon des Indépendants which opened on 20 March 1891. Nine days later Seurat died aged thirty-one. In his short career, spanning from perhaps 1882 to his death he was responsible for the development of an innovative painting technique which he called … Read more
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art Joan of Arc was born in the village of Domrémy in northeast France in 1412. From about the age of 12 or 13 Joan began to hear voices. Three years later the voices of St Michael, St Catherine and St Margaret entreated her to go to the aid of … Read more
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier married Georges Charpentier in 1872 and very soon the couple were blessed with a daughter, Georgette-Berthe, followed three years later by a son, Paul-Émile-Charles. Georges was a wealthy publisher who counted Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant and the Goncourt brothers among his authors. They both became keen supporters of … Read more
London, Kenwood House This is one of the most extraordinary examples from the greatest series of self portraits ever painted — perhaps the crowning achievement of one of the most celebrated artists of the European tradition. An encounter with this painting is a spiritual experience; to engage with those eyes is somehow to share in … Read more
New York, Museum of Modern Art Swiss-born Paul Klee’s Twittering Machine was one of many artworks confiscated by the Nazis from the Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 1937 and labeled as ‘degenerate art.’ The picture, much like Klee himself, was everything the Nazi’s hated: subtle, cerebral, avant-garde. Luckily, while the Nazi’s could not see its artistic worth, they … Read more