The Starry Night
The Persistence of Memory
An oil on canvas by the Dutch post-
impressionist painter Vincent van Artist: Salvador Dali
Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts
Dimensions: 0′ 9″ x 1′ 1″
the view from the east-facing
Medium: Oil on canvas
window of his asylum room at Saint-
Rémy-de-Provence. Created: 1931
Artist: Vincent van Gogh Periods: Surrealism, Avant-garde
Dimensions: 2′ 5″ x 3′ 0″
Location: Museum of Modern Art
Created: June 1889
Genre: Landscape painting
Periods: Post-Impressionism,
Modern art
The Last Supper
The Last Supper is a late 15th-
century mural painting by Leonardo
da Vinci housed by the refectory of
the Convent of Santa Maria delle
Grazie in Milan.
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Dimensions: 15′ 1″ x 29′ 0″
Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie
Created: 1495–1498
Medium: fresco-secco
Periods: Renaissance, Italian
Renaissance, High Renaissance
The Kiss
The Birth of Venus
The Kiss is an oil painting, with
It depicts the goddess Venus
added silver and gold leaf by the
arriving at the shore after her birth,
Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav
when she had emerged from the sea
Klimt, and was painted between 1907
fully-grown.
and 1908 during the height of Klimt's
"Golden Period". Artist: Sandro Botticelli
Artist: Gustav Klimt Dimensions: 5′ 8″ x 9′ 2″
Dimensions: 5′ 11″ x 5′ 11″ Location: Uffizi Gallery
Created: 1907–1908 Created: 1484–1486
Genre: Genre art Genre: History painting
Periods: Art Nouveau, Modern art, Periods: Renaissance
Symbolism, Vienna Secession
David American Gothic
Masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture A painting by Grant Wood in the
created in marble between 1501 and collection of the Art Institute of
1504 by Michelangelo. David is a 5.17- Chicago. Wood's inspiration came in
metre marble statue of a standing his decision to paint what is known
male nude. as the American Gothic House.
Artist: Michelangelo Artist: Grant Wood
Created: 1501–1504 Dimensions: 2′ 5″ x 2′ 1″
Medium: Carrara marble Created: 1930–1930
Period: Modernism
The Thinker The Great Wave
A bronze sculpture by Auguste Also known as The Great Wave off
Rodin, usually placed on a stone Kanagawa or simply The Wave, is a
pedestal. woodblock print by the Japanese
ukiyo-e artist Hokusai.
Artist: Auguste Rodin
Artist: Hokusai
Created: 1902
Dimensions: 0′ 10″ x 1′ 3″
Media: Bronze, Marble
Created: 1829–1832
Period: Ukiyo-e
Subject: Mount Fuji
Medium: Ink
The Son of Man The Creation of Adam
A 1964 painting by the Belgian A fresco painting by Michelangelo,
surrealist painter René Magritte which forms part of the Sistine
Chapel's ceiling, painted c. 1508–1512.
Artist: René Magritte
Artist: Michelangelo
Location: Private collection
Dimensions: 9′ 2″ x 18′ 8″
Subject: René Magritte
Year: 1512
Created: 1964
Location: Sistine Chapel
Period: Surrealism
Genres: Christian art, History
Medium: Oil paint
painting
Media: Paint, Plaster
Periods: Italian Renaissance, High
Renaissance, Renaissance
Soleil levant The Scream
Impression, Sunrise is a painting by The popular name given to each of
Claude Monet. Shown at what would four versions of a composition,
later be known as the "Exhibition of created as both paintings and pastels,
the Impressionists" in April 1874, the by Norwegian Expressionist artist
painting is attributed to giving rise to Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910.
the name of the Impressionist
Location: National Gallery and Munch
movement.
Museum, Oslo, Norway
Artist: Claude Monet Artist: Edvard Munch
Dimensions: 1′ 7″ x 2′ 1″ Year: 1893
Created: 1872–1872 Dimensions: 91 cm × 73.5 cm (36 in ×
Period: Impressionism 28.9 in)
Subject: Le Havre
The Parthenon Campbell's Soup Cans,
A former temple, on the Athenian Sometimes referred to as 32
Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the Campbell's Soup Cans, is a work of art
goddess Athena, whom the people of produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol.
Athens considered their patron.
Artist: Andy Warhol
Construction began in 447 BC when
the Athenian Empire was at the peak Dimensions: 1′ 8″ x 1′ 4″
of its power. Medium: Synthetic polymer paint
Construction started: 447 BC Created: 1962
Architects: Phidias, Ictinus, Periods: Pop art, Modern art
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