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Donatello's bronze statue of David is notable as the first unsupported standing work in bronze cast during the Renaissance period, and the first freestanding nude male sculpture made...
Mona Lisa is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the French government and...
Guernica is a monumental painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain, by twenty-eight bombers, on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. The attack...
The Starry Night is a painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window at night, although it was...
Drawing Hands is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was first printed in January 1948. It shows a sheet of paper out of which rise, from the wrists which remain flat on the...
No. 5, 1948 is an abstract painting by Jackson Pollock , an American painter known for his contributions to the abstract expressionist movement. The painting was...
The Portrait is a painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. This painting is a classic example of the technique that often set Magritte apart from other surrealists. Artists like...
Forest is a painting by French painter Paul Cézanne. An oil on canvas, it represents a wooded area close to Aix-en-Provence. It is currently in the collection of the National Gallery of...
The Kiss was painted by Gustav Klimt, during his ‘golden period’, and is probably his most famous work. It depicts a couple, in various shades of gold and symbols, sharing a kiss...
The Musicians is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio . It is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Caravaggio entered the...
The Mill is a painting by Dutch baroque artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. It is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and according to the Guinness...
The Lady of Shalott is an 1888 oil-on-canvas painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse. The work is a representation of a scene from Lord Alfred Tennyson's 1832...
Starry Night Over the Rhone is one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings of Arles at night; it was painted at a spot on the banks of river which was only a minute or two's walk from the Yellow...
Woman III is a painting by abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. Woman III is one of a series of six paintings by de Kooning done between 1951 and 1953 in which the central theme...
The Young Man with an Apple is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael . It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The small portrait has been associated with the...
The Blind Girl is a painting by John Everett Millais which depicts two itinerant beggars, presumed to be sisters, one of whom is a blind musician, her accordion on her lap. They are resting...
The Death of the Virgin is a painting completed by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio. It is a near contemporary with the Madonna with Saint Anne now at the Galleria Borghese. It was...
Large Interior Form is a sculpture by Henry Moore. There are six productions of the work including the one pictured in the Art Institute of Chicago North Stanley McCormick Memorial Court...
Snakes is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was first printed in July, 1969. It depicts a disc made up of interlocking circles which grow progressively smaller towards...
A Lady Writing a Letter is an oil painting attributed to 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is believed to have been completed...
The Works of Art category provides information on over 3,500 famous and influential works of two- and three-dimensional art. The complete list can be filtered by first name, century, art form, or artistic period. Each piece is represented by a small thumbnail and short description of the work. Pages for each individual work include statistical data (such as the name of the artist, year completed, dimensions, etc.), a short biography of the artist, the period or movement in which the art was created, and frequently asked questions about the piece. If the piece is on any "best-of" or "top" lists, that information is also included. In some cases, additional information, such as the current owner, and other works by the same artist is provided as well.