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THE MOST FAMOUS PAINTINGS

Una Sabljaković

MONA LISA

Leonardo da Vinci

 Louvre museum in Paris

Painted from 1503 or 1504 till 1519

“The best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world"

THE LAST SUPPER Covers the back wall of the

dining hall at Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan

Painted in the late 15th century

Represents the scene of The Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples

Leonardo da Vinci

THE CREATION OF ADAM

Michelangelo

Located on the ceiling of The Sistine Chapel in Vatican City

Painted between 1508 and 1512

STARRY NIGHT Vincent van Gogh

Painted in 1889

Part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York

Vincent van Gogh

THE SCREAM

Edvard Munch

Painted around 1893

On display at The National Gallery, Oslo

THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY

Salvador Dali

Painted in 1931

Inspired by Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

Johannes Vermeer

The “Dutch Mona Lisa”

Completed around 1665

On display in the Mauritshuis Gallery in the Hague

THE NIGHT WATCH

Rembrandt van Rijn

Completed in 1642

On display at the Rijks museum in Amsterdam

Rembrandt van Rijn

GUERNICA Pablo Picasso

Completed in 1937

Inspired by the bombing of Guernica in Spain during the Spanish Civil War

On permanent display in Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid

Pablo Picasso

Self-Portrait without Beard Vincent van Gogh

The most notable portrait because it's one of the few that depicts him without a beard

One of the most expensive paintings ever sold

THE BIRTH OF VENUS Sandro Botticelli

Created around 1485–87

The painting is held in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence

WATER LILIES Claude Monet

A series of approximately 250 oil paintings

The paintings depict Monet’s own flower garden at Giverny

THREE MUSICIANS Pablo Picasso

Two similar collage and oil paintings

Completed in 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris

One version is currently owned by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York Citythe other is found in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

THE KISS Gustav

Klimtbetween

Painted between 1907 and 1908

Belvedere museum in the Belvedere palace, Vienna