Top famous paintings: works, artists and museums

Reclining nude by Amedeo Modigliani
School of Paris: 100 essential paintings
One hundred paintings to understand the School of Paris, from Modigliani and Soutine to Valadon, Utrillo, Pascin, Matisse, Gris, Delaunay and Léger. Read more...
The Kiss, painting by Gustav Klimt
The 100 most famous square paintings
One hundred famous square paintings, from Holbein, Goya and Turner to Klimt, Kahlo, Malevich, Mondrian and Kandinsky. Read more...
Mona Lisa, painting by Leonardo da Vinci
The 100 most famous vertical paintings
One hundred paintings where height constructs portraits, standing figures, sacred visions and landscapes, from Van Eyck and Leonardo to Munch, Kahlo and Pollock. Read more...
Impression, Sunrise, a painting by Claude Monet
The 100 most famous orange paintings
One hundred paintings where orange becomes sun, flesh, fruit, fire, autumn or modern energy, from Monet and Turner to Van Gogh, Munch, Matisse, Klimt and Rothko. Read more...
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, painting by Pablo Picasso
The 100 most famous pink paintings
One hundred paintings where pink becomes flesh, fabric, sky, flower or modern manifesto, from Fragonard and Lawrence to Picasso, Matisse, Klimt and Sorolla. Read more...
Las Meninas, Diego Velazquez, 1656
The 100 paintings in earth and brown tones
An illustrated classification of 100 oil paintings dominated by ocher, Siena, umber, beige and warm browns. Read more...
The Cradle, painting by Berthe Morisot
The 100 paintings in pastel colors
One hundred paintings with powder pinks, pale blues, colored whites and luminous mauves, from Fragonard and Ingres to Morisot, Monet, Cassatt, Renoir and Sorolla. Read more...
The Kiss, Gustav Klimt, 1907 -1908
The 100 most famous golden paintings
An illustrated classification of 100 paintings actually using gold, now opened with six masterpieces by Gustav Klimt and without any Indian works. Read more...
Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh
The 100 most famous yellow paintings
One hundred paintings where yellow becomes gold, sun, clothing, harvest or abstraction, from Van Gogh and Klimt to Gauguin, Turner, Matisse and Kandinsky. Read more...
The Green Stripe by Henri Matisse
The 100 Most Famous Green Paintings
One hundred paintings in which green becomes face, forest, light or abstraction, from Van Eyck, Millais and Constable to Matisse, Rousseau, Van Gogh and Klimt. Read more...
The Red Studio by Henri Matisse
The 100 most famous red paintings
One hundred paintings where red becomes power, passion, landscape or abstract space, from Matisse and Munch to Van Gogh, Vermeer, Picasso, Newman and Rothko. Read more...
Black square, monochrome work by Kasimir Malevich
The 100 Monochromes That Changed Art
From Malevich to Klein, Rauschenberg, Soulages and Mary Corse: 100 major monochromes, with dates, museums and techniques. Read more...
The Last Supper, tempera painting by Leonardo da Vinci
The 100 Most Famous Tempera Paintings
From Botticelli to Munch, Wyeth and Tooker: 100 famous tempera paintings, with technique, date, museum, dimensions. Read more...
Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emanuel Leutze
Top 100 paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
One hundred essential paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with French titles, specific historical notices and direct links to the museum's official records. Read more...
Les 100 tableaux essentiels de Piet Mondrian
The 100 essential paintings of Piet Mondrian
A Top 100 dedicated to Piet Mondrian: masterpieces, major images, museum landmarks, dimensions and a ranking to read without breaking the dusty conference tone. Read more...
The Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci
100 paintings stolen, lost or destroyed
One hundred masterpieces whose history involves theft, war, restitution, rediscovery or destruction. Read more...
Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh
The 100 essential paintings of the 19th century
From Goya to Van Gogh, 100 masterpieces that tell the story of revolutions, modern life, light and the emancipation of color. Read more...
Las Meninas - Diego Velazquez
The 100 essential paintings of the 17th century
From Caravaggio to Vermeer, 100 masterpieces that tell the story of light, power, everyday life and the landscape in the 17th century. Read more...
The Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci
100 paintings that changed the history of art
From Giotto to Pollock, 100 paintings that have shifted the rules of space, portrait, color and gesture. Read more...
The Dance Class - Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas: 100 Paintings to Discover
Explore 100 paintings by Edgar Degas: The Dance Class, L’Absinthe, dancers and scenes of modern life, with descriptions and reproductions. Read more...
Olympia - Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet: 100 Paintings to Discover
Discover 100 paintings by Édouard Manet, from Olympia to Luncheon on the Grass and A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, with entries and links to reproductions. Read more...
Liberty Leading the People - Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix: 100 paintings to discover
From Liberty Leading the People to the Massacres at Chios and Women of Algiers, explore 100 paintings by Delacroix with entries and reproductions. Read more...
The flood in Port-Marly - Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley: 100 paintings to discover
Discover 100 paintings by Alfred Sisley, from Port-Marly to Moret-sur-Loing: major landscapes, snow, rivers, bridges, museum references and analyses. Read more...
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? -Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin: 100 paintings to discover
Discover 100 paintings by Paul Gauguin, from Vision after the Sermon to The Yellow Christ and his works from Tahiti, with entries and reproductions. Read more...