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Paintings Listed A-Z by Artist

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New paintings are added continually.

• For more details, see: Index of Famous Paintings Analyzed (1200-1800).
• For later works, see: Analysis of Modern Paintings (1800-2000).

A

Angelico, Fra
The Annunciation (c.1450)

Anonymous Artists
Chi Rho Monogram Page (c.800) from the Book of Kells
Wilton Diptych (1395-99)

Antonello da Messina
Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo) (1470)

B

Bazille, Frederic
Family Reunion (1867)
Bazille's Studio (1870)

Beckmann, Max
The Beginning (1949)

Bellini, Giovanni
The Ecstasy of St. Francis (1480)
Doge Leonardo Loredan (1502)
The San Zaccaria Altarpiece (1505)

Bonnard, Pierre
The Green Blouse (1919)
The Terrace at Vernon (1939)

Botticelli
La Primavera (1482-3)
Birth of Venus (1484-6)

Bosch, Hieronymus
Garden of Earthly Delights (1500-05)
Haywain Triptych (1516)

Broederlam, Melchior
Dijon Altarpiece (1394-99)

Bronzino, Agnolo
An Allegory with Venus and Cupid (1540-50)

Bruegel, Pieter (The Elder)
Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)
Mad Meg (Dulle Griet) (1562)
Tower of Babel (1563)
Hunters in the Snow (1565)
Massacre of the Innocents (c.1565-7)
Peasant Wedding Feast (1568)
Parable of the Blind (1568)

C

Caillebotte, Gustave
The Floor Scrapers (1875)
Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877)

Campin, Robert
Seilern (Entombment) Triptych (1410)
Merode Altarpiece (Annunciation Triptych) (c.1425)

Caravaggio
The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599-1600)
The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (1599-1600)
Conversion on the way to Damascus (1601)
Supper at Emmaus (1601)
Crucifixion of Saint Peter (1601)
Death of the Virgin (1601-6)
The Entombment of Christ (1601-3)
Amor Vincit Omnia (1602)

Carra, Carlo
The Drunken Gentleman (1916)

Carracci, Annibale
Farnese Gallery frescoes "The Loves of the Gods" (1597-1608)

Cassat, Mary
Young Woman Sewing (1886)

Cezanne, Paul
The House of the Hanged Man (1873)
The Bridge at Maincy (1879)
Mont Sainte-Victoire Paintings (1882-1906)
The Boy in the Red Vest (1889-90)
Man Smoking a Pipe (1890-2)
Woman with a Coffee Pot (1890-5)
The Card Players (1892-6)
The Large Bathers (1894-1906)
Lady in Blue (c.1900)
Young Italian Woman Leaning on her Elbow (1900)

Petrus Christus
Portrait of a Young Girl (1470)

Correggio
Assumption of the Virgin (Parma Cathedral) (1526-30)
Jupiter and Io (1531-2)

Cortona, Pietro da
Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power (1633-39)

Courbet, Gustave
A Burial at Ornans (1850)
The Artist's Studio (1855)

D

David, Jacques-Louis
The Oath of the Horatii (1785)
The Death of Marat (1793)

De Chirico, Giorgio
The Uncertainty of the Poet (1913)
Song of Love (1914)
The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914)

Degas
The Bellelli Family (1858-67)
Race Horses in front of the Stands (1866-8)
The Ballet Class (1871-4)
Absinthe (1876)
Portraits at the Bourse (1879)
Women Ironing (1884)
Woman Combing Her Hair (1887-90)

De Kooning, Willem
Seated Woman (1944)

Delacroix
The Death of Sardanapalus (1827)
Liberty Leading the People (1830)

Duccio di Buoninsegna
Stroganoff Madonna and Child (1300)
Maesta Altarpiece (1308-1311)

Durer
Self Portrait with Fur Collar (1500)
A Young Hare (1502)
Great Piece of Turf (1503)

E

El Greco

The Disrobing of Christ (1577)
The Burial of Count Orgaz (1586-88)
View of Toledo (1595-1600)
Portrait of a Cardinal (1600)
Christ driving the Traders from the Temple (1600)
Portrait of Felix Hortensio Paravicino (c.1605)

F

Fouquet, Jean
Portrait of Charles VII of France (1445-1450)
Melun Diptych (1450-55)

Fragonard, Jean-Honore
The Swing (1767)

Fuseli, Henry
The Nightmare (1781)

G

Gentileschi, Artemisia
Judith Beheading Holofernes (1620)

Ghirlandaio, Domenico
Old Man with a Young Boy (1490)

Giorgione
The Tempest (1506-8)
The Sleeping Venus (1510)

Giotto
Scrovegni Chapel Frescoes (1303-10)
- The Betrayal of Christ (Kiss of Judas) (1305)
- The Lamentation of Christ (1305)

Goes, Hugo Van der
The Portinari Altarpiece (1476-9)

Goya
The Third of May, 1808 (1814)
The Colossus (1808-12)
Saturn Devouring his Son (1819-23)

Grunewald, Matthias
The Isenheim Altarpiece (c.1515)

H

Hals, Frans
The Laughing Cavalier (1624)

Holbein, Hans
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam (1523)
Portrait of Sir Thomas More (1527)
Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (1527–28)
Portrait of the Merchant Georg Giese (1532)
Portrait of Thomas Cromwell (1532-4)
The Ambassadors (1533)
Portrait of Henry VIII (1536)

Hopper, Edward
The Lighthouse at Two Lights (1929)
Nighthawks (1942)

I

Ingres, J.A.D.
The Valpincon Bather (1808)
La Grand Odalisque (1814)
Portrait of Monsieur Bertin (1832)
Portrait of Madame Moitessier (1844-56)

J-K

Jan Van Eyck
Ghent Altarpiece (1425-32)
Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban (1433)
Arnolfini Portrait (1434)

L

Fernand Leger
Soldiers Playing at Cards (1917)
The Mechanic (1920)
Three Women (Le Grand Dejeuner) (1921)
Nudes against a Red Background (1923)
Two Sisters (1935)

Leonardo
Virgin of the Rocks (Madonna of the Rocks) (1483-5)
Lady with an Ermine (1490)
The Last Supper (1495–98)
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) (1503-06)

Limbourg Brothers (Pol, Herman, Jean)
Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1413)

Lorenzetti, Ambrogio
Allegory of Good and Bad Government (1338-9)

M

Manet, Edouard
Dejeuner sur l'herbe (1863)
Olympia (1863)
The Balcony (1868)
Portrait of Emile Zola (1868)
Portrait of Berthe Morisot (1872)
The Road-Menders, Rue de Berne (1878)
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere (1882)

Mantegna, Andrea
Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c.1470-80)
Camera degli Sposi frescoes (1465-74)

Martini, Simone
Annunciation Triptych (with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus) (1333)

Masaccio, Tommaso
Brancacci Chapel frescoes (1424-8)
Expulsion From the Garden of Eden (1425)
The Tribute Money (1426)
Holy Trinity (1428)

Matisse, Henri
Nasturtiums and the 'Dance' (1912)

Memling, Hans
The Last Judgment Triptych (c.1471)
Donne Triptych (1477-80)

Michelangelo
Genesis Fresco (1508-12)
Creation of Adam (1511-12)
Last Judgment Fresco (1536-41)

Millet, Jean-Francois
The Gleaners (1857)
The Angelus (1859)
Man with a Hoe (1862)

Modigliani
Portrait of Juan Gris (1915)
Portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne (1918)

Monet
Women in the Garden (1866-7)
La Grenouilliere (1869) Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Beach at Trouville (1870)
Poppy Field (Argenteuil) (1873)
Impression, Sunrise (1873)
Gare Saint-Lazare (1877)
Rouen Cathedral Paintings (1892-4)
Water Lilies (Nymphéas) (1897-1926)
The Water Lily Pond: Green Harmony (1899)

Morisot, Berthe
The Cradle (1873)

N

 

O

O'Keeffe, Georgia
Black Abstraction (1927)
Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue (1931)

P-Q

Parmigianino
Madonna With the Long Neck (1535)

Perugino
Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter (1481-2)

Picasso
La Vie (Life) (1903)
Boy with a Pipe (Garcon à la Pipe) (1905)
Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906)
Two Nudes (1906)
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
Seated Woman (1920)
Large Bather (1921)
Two Women Running on the Beach (The Race) (1922)
Woman in White (1923)
Guernica (1937)
Weeping Woman (1937)

Piero Della Francesca
Flagellation of Christ (1450-60)

Pissarro, Camille
The Red Roofs (1877)
Vegetable Garden with Trees in Blossom, Spring, Pontoise (1877)
Boulevard Montmartre (1897-8)

Pollock, Jackson
Pasiphae (1943)
Jackson Pollock's Paintings (1940-56)

Poussin, Nicolas
Abduction of the Sabine Women (1634-5)
Et in Arcadia Ego (1637)

Pozzo, Andrea
Apotheosis of St Ignatius (1688-94)

Pucelle, Jean
The Belleville Breviary (1323-26)
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux (1324-28)

Quarton, Enguerrand (de Charenton)
The Avignon Pieta (Pieta de Villeneuve-les-Avignon) (1454-6)

R

Raphael
School of Athens (Scuola di Atene) (1509-11)
Sistine Madonna (1513-14)
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (1514-15)
Pope Leo X with Cardinals (1518)
The Transfiguration (1518-20)

Rembrandt
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632)
The Night Watch (1642)
Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653)
Bathsheba Holding King David's Letter (1654)
Portrait of Jan Six (1654)
The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis (1661)
Syndics of the Cloth-Makers Guild (The Staalmeesters) (1662)
Suicide of Lucretia (c.1666)
The Jewish Bride (c.1665-8)
Return of the Prodigal Son (1666-69)

Renoir
Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876)
The Swing (La Balancoire) (1876)
Path Leading Through Tall Grass (1877)
Luncheon Of the Boating Party (1880-81)

Rublev, Andrei
Holy Trinity Icon (1411-25)

Rothko, Marc
• See: Mark Rothko's Paintings (1938-70)

Rousseau, Henri 'Le Douanier'
The Sleeping Gypsy (1897)
The Dream (1910)

Rubens
Samson and Delilah (1609-10)
Descent from the Cross (Rubens) (1612-14)
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1618)
The Judgement of Paris (1632-6)

S

Sargent, John Singer
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882)
Portrait of Madame X (1884)
El Jaleo (1882)

Seurat, Georges
Bathers at Asnieres (1883-4)
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-6)

Sisley, Alfred
Canal St Martin (1870)
Chemin de la Machine, Louveciennes (1873)
Misty Morning (Fog, Voisins) (1874)
Snow at Louveciennes (1878)

Soutine, Chaim
Portrait of Madeleine Castaing (1928)

T

Tiepolo, Giambattista
Wurzburg Residence Frescoes (1750-53)

Tintoretto
The Crucifixion (1565)

Titian
Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-23)
Bacchanal of the Andrians (1523-5)
Venus of Urbino (1538)
Assumption of the Virgin (1516-18)
Pope Paul III with his Grandsons (1546)

U-Z

Uccello, Paolo
Battle of San Romano (1438-55)
Hunt in the Forest (1470)

Velazquez
Waterseller of Seville (1618-22)
Christ Crucified (Christ on the Cross) (1632)
The Surrender of Breda (Las Lanzas) (1634-5)
The Rokeby Venus (1647-51)
Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1650)
Las Meninas (1656)

Vermeer, Jan
The Little Street (Street in Delft) (c.1657-58)
Soldier and a Laughing Girl (c.1658)
The Milkmaid (c.1658-1660)
Woman Holding a Balance (1662-3)
Young Woman with a Water Jug/Pitcher (c.1662)
Woman with a Pearl Necklace (c.1663)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Head of a Girl with a Turban) (1665)
Girl with a Red Hat (c.1666-1667)
The Art of Painting: An Allegory (c.1666-73)
The Lacemaker (c.1669-1670)

Veronese, Paolo
Wedding Feast at Cana (1563)
Feast in the House of Levi (1573)

Warhol, Andy
• See: Andy Warhol's Pop Art (1959-73)

Watteau, Jean-Antoine
Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717)

Weyden, Roger Van der
Descent From the Cross (Deposition) (c.1435-40)

Wood, Grant
American Gothic (1930)
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1931)

Wright of Derby, Joseph
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768)

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