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An English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolorist. He is known for his expressive colorizations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent maritime paintings.

A technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ('wet') lime plaster. Frescoes are often seen in the Renaissance period, such as the works found in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo.

A founder of French Impressionist painting, Monet is best known for his landscape paintings and series depicting the same scene in different lighting conditions, such as 'Water Lilies'.

A towering marble statue that embodies the Renaissance's celebration of human anatomy and form. This work of Michelangelo was revolutionary for its time and remains a symbol of Florence.

A bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, originally conceived as representing Dante reflecting on 'The Divine Comedy'. It has become a symbol of philosophy and intellectual activity.

An American pop artist known for his comic strip-style works that often parodied American popular culture and the art world itself.

A Serbian performance artist. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. She has been described as the 'grandmother of performance art'.

A painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, depicting an army of skeletons wreaking havoc across a blackened, desolate landscape. It reflects the social upheavals and terror of the plague that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.

Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and poet, known for co-founding the Cubist movement. His works are known for their innovative forms and exploration of different historical themes.

A 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn, is famous for its size, the dramatic use of light and shadow (tenebrism), and for portraying the motion in what would traditionally be a static military group portrait.

A leading figure in the Pop Art movement, Warhol's works explore the relationship between artistic expression, culture, and advertisement. He's known for his works featuring Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans.

Painted by Diego Velázquez, this complex and enigmatic painting is a masterpiece of Western art. It blurs the lines between reality and art, featuring a reflection of the Spanish king and queen.

Hieronymus Bosch's triptych painting is a vividly detailed work that depicts paradise, Earth, and hell. It's renowned for its imaginative, and often phantasmagorical artwork.

Designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, this museum in Spain is one of the most admired works of contemporary architecture. Its unique, curvaceous, titanium-clad form has made it an iconic building.

A painting by Edgar Degas, which he created in 1873. Part of a series of similar subjects, it depicts dancers in rehearsal, portraying the daily life of ballerinas of the Paris Opera.

An American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, he is best known for his unique style of drip painting.

An Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include 'The Kiss' and 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I'.

A Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy.

A painting by Claude Monet which gave the name to the entire Impressionist movement. It shows a sunrise over the harbor of Le Havre and is notable for its loose brushwork and light colors.

A famous painting by Salvador Dali known for its surrealistic depiction of melting clocks in a desolate landscape, which challenges the viewer's perception of time.

An anonymous England-based street artist, vandal, political activist, and film director. His distinctive stenciling technique. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humor with graffiti.

A painting by Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784. It depicts a scene from a Roman legend about a dispute between two warring cities, and is seen as a prime example of Neoclassicism.

An Italian painter known for his dramatic use of lighting and his realistic approach to the human state, both physical and emotional. He is considered a pioneer of Baroque painting.

An ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. Created sometime between 130 and 100 BC, it is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty (Venus to the Romans).

Painted by Leonardo da Vinci, the Mona Lisa is renowned for its enigmatic smile. It's a prime example of High Renaissance art and a masterpiece of portraiture.

This painting by Vincent van Gogh depicts the view from his asylum window at night. It's celebrated for its swirling, vibrant night sky and its emotional depth.

A French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. He was instrumental in the development of the use of everyday objects as art, such as his work 'Fountain'.

A painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood's inspiration came from what is now known as the American Gothic House, and his decision to paint the house along with 'the kind of people I fancied should live in that house'.

An Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was recognized early in his own lifetime as a supremely talented painter, and his reputation has in the intervening centuries never suffered a decline.

A Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter, and printmaker of the Edo period. Best known for the woodblock print series 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji' which includes the internationally iconic print 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa'.

A fresco by Raphael that depicts the greatest mathematicians, philosophers and scientists from classical antiquity sharing ideas and learning from each other, located in the Apostolic Palace, in the Vatican.

A 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins.

A monumental painting by Pablo Picasso. This work was Picasso's response to the bombing of Guernica, Spain, by Nazi warplanes during the Spanish Civil War, symbolizing the horrors of war.

Painted by Jan van Eyck, this portrait is a unique document of its time, showing a wealthy merchant and his wife and is renowned for its intricate detail and use of light.

An American painter known for his abstract paintings characterized by a rigorous attention to formal elements such as color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and scale.

A French post-Impressionist painter known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism as well as pointillism. His most famous work is 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'.

An Early Netherlandish painter. His work is known for its fantastic imagery, detailed landscapes, and illustrations of religious concepts and narratives.

Edvard Munch's The Scream is a haunting expressionist painting that captures the anxiety of the modern world. Its iconic image has been widely reproduced.

An American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has 'become a widely recognized visual language'.

A Spanish surrealist painter known for his striking and bizarre images. His painting, The Persistence of Memory, with its melting clocks, is emblematic of his work.

An American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly the painting 'American Gothic,' which has become an iconic image of rural Americana.

A Dutch master and one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art. Known for his self-portraits and his use of light and shadow, which is known as 'chiaroscuro'.

A German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Known for his woodcut print 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' and his master engravings.

An Italian sculptor and architect. A leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque sculpture, he is also famous for his marble figures such as 'Ecstasy of Saint Teresa'.

Painted by Sandro Botticelli, this work is an emblem of the Italian Renaissance. It depicts Venus emerging from the sea, symbolizing both love and beauty.

Johannes Vermeer's famous work is considered a masterpiece of the Dutch Golden Age. Known for its subtle color and gradations of light.

An art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. It was a protest against the barbarism of World War I, conventional aesthetics and culture, and a rejection of traditional artistic values.

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is an iconic Renaissance fresco. It depicts Jesus Christ's last meal with his apostles before his crucifixion.

Painted by Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel ceiling in Vatican City is considered a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art and is famous for its grandeur and its complex iconography.