Masterpiece Painting Rankings
Fifty of the most iconic paintings with artist, year, and current gallery or museum.
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▲ Top 5
#1
The Starry Night – Vincent van Gogh (1889, Museum of Modern Art)
+5
#2
The Birth of Venus – Sandro Botticelli (1486, Uffizi Gallery)
+4
#3
The Creation of Adam – Michelangelo (1512, Sistine Chapel)
+3
#4
Water Lilies – Claude Monet (1916, Musée de l'Orangerie)
+2
#5
The Persistence of Memory – Salvador Dalí (1931, Museum of Modern Art)
+1
▼ Bottom 5
#1
The Arnolfini Portrait – Jan van Eyck (1434, National Gallery London)
-5
#2
The Kiss – Gustav Klimt (1908, Belvedere Museum)
-4
#3
Black Square – Kazimir Malevich (1915, Tretyakov Gallery)
-3
#4
Campbell’s Soup Cans – Andy Warhol (1962, Museum of Modern Art)
-2
#5
No. 5, 1948 – Jackson Pollock (1948, Private Collection)
-1
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The Starry Night – Vincent van Gogh (1889, Museum of Modern Art)+5
The Birth of Venus – Sandro Botticelli (1486, Uffizi Gallery)+4
The Creation of Adam – Michelangelo (1512, Sistine Chapel)+3
Water Lilies – Claude Monet (1916, Musée de l'Orangerie)+2
The Persistence of Memory – Salvador Dalí (1931, Museum of Modern Art)+1
Mona Lisa – Leonardo da Vinci (1503, Louvre Museum)—
The Last Supper – Leonardo da Vinci (1498, Santa Maria delle Grazie)—
Girl with a Pearl Earring – Johannes Vermeer (1665, Mauritshuis)—
The Night Watch – Rembrandt (1642, Rijksmuseum)—
Guernica – Pablo Picasso (1937, Museo Reina Sofía)—
American Gothic – Grant Wood (1930, Art Institute of Chicago)—
Las Meninas – Diego Velázquez (1656, Prado Museum)—
Liberty Leading the People – Eugène Delacroix (1830, Louvre Museum)—
The School of Athens – Raphael (1511, Vatican Museums)—
Whistler’s Mother – James McNeill Whistler (1871, Musée d'Orsay)—
Impression, Sunrise – Claude Monet (1872, Musée Marmottan Monet)—
The Scream – Edvard Munch (1893, National Museum Oslo)—
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – Georges Seurat (1886, Art Institute of Chicago)—
The Garden of Earthly Delights – Hieronymus Bosch (1505, Prado Museum)—
The Hay Wain – John Constable (1821, National Gallery London)—
The Swing – Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1767, Wallace Collection)—
The Third of May 1808 – Francisco Goya (1814, Prado Museum)—
Saturn Devouring His Son – Francisco Goya (1823, Prado Museum)—
The Sleeping Gypsy – Henri Rousseau (1897, Museum of Modern Art)—
The Card Players – Paul Cézanne (1895, Musée d'Orsay)—
Bal du moulin de la Galette – Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1876, Musée d'Orsay)—
Olympia – Édouard Manet (1863, Musée d'Orsay)—
The Luncheon on the Grass – Édouard Manet (1863, Musée d'Orsay)—
The Death of Marat – Jacques-Louis David (1793, Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium)—
Napoleon Crossing the Alps – Jacques-Louis David (1801, Château de Malmaison)—
The Fighting Temeraire – J.M.W. Turner (1839, National Gallery London)—
Nighthawks – Edward Hopper (1942, Art Institute of Chicago)—
The Gross Clinic – Thomas Eakins (1875, Philadelphia Museum of Art)—
Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 – James McNeill Whistler (1871, Musée d'Orsay)—
The Blue Boy – Thomas Gainsborough (1770, Huntington Library)—
Las Hilanderas – Diego Velázquez (1657, Prado Museum)—
The Milkmaid – Johannes Vermeer (1658, Rijksmuseum)—
The Hunters in the Snow – Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum)—
Christina’s World – Andrew Wyeth (1948, Museum of Modern Art)—
The Son of Man – René Magritte (1964, Private Collection)—
Broadway Boogie Woogie – Piet Mondrian (1943, Museum of Modern Art)—
Composition VIII – Wassily Kandinsky (1923, Guggenheim Museum)—
The Red Vineyard – Vincent van Gogh (1888, Pushkin Museum)—
The Sleeping Venus – Giorgione (1510, Gemäldegalerie Dresden)—
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee – Rembrandt (1633, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)—
No. 5, 1948 – Jackson Pollock (1948, Private Collection)-1
Campbell’s Soup Cans – Andy Warhol (1962, Museum of Modern Art)-2
Black Square – Kazimir Malevich (1915, Tretyakov Gallery)-3
The Kiss – Gustav Klimt (1908, Belvedere Museum)-4
The Arnolfini Portrait – Jan van Eyck (1434, National Gallery London)-5