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Top 100 greatest paintings of all time

The greatest paintings of all time, ranked by everyone, one head-to-head pick at a time. Build your own Top 10 and see it next to the world's.

130 paintings, from Rublev's Trinity and the Mona Lisa to The Starry Night, The Scream and Nighthawks; The Great Wave off Kanagawa, a woodblock print, is here too. Most later 20th-century works are still under copyright and have no free picture, so they are not.

  1. Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci · 1503
  2. The Starry Night Vincent van Gogh · 1889
  3. The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli · 1485
  4. The Scream Edvard Munch · 1893
  5. Girl with a Pearl Earring Johannes Vermeer · 1665
  6. Guernica Pablo Picasso · 1937
  7. The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci · 1490
  8. The Garden of Earthly Delights Hieronymus Bosch · 1490
  9. The Kiss Gustav Klimt · 1907
  10. The Creation of Adam Michelangelo · 1511
  11. Arnolfini Portrait Jan van Eyck · 1434
  12. The Great Wave off Kanagawa Katsushika Hokusai · 1830
  13. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Georges Seurat · 1884
  14. The Raft of the Medusa Théodore Géricault · 1819
  15. Las Meninas Diego Velázquez · 1656
  16. Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix · 1830
  17. The School of Athens Raphael · 1512
  18. Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog Caspar David Friedrich · 1818
  19. Ghent Altarpiece Jan van Eyck · 1432
  20. Impression, Sunrise Claude Monet · 1872
  21. Water Lilies Claude Monet · 1899
  22. The Night Watch Rembrandt · 1642
  23. Whistler's Mother James McNeill Whistler · 1871
  24. Sunflowers Vincent van Gogh · 1888
  25. La maja desnuda Francisco Goya · 1795
  26. Saturn Devouring His Son Francisco Goya · 1820
  27. Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks Ilya Repin · 1890
  28. Grande Odalisque Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1814
  29. Nighthawks Edward Hopper · 1942
  30. The Last Judgment Michelangelo · 1541
  31. American Gothic Grant Wood · 1930
  32. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe Édouard Manet · 1863
  33. Lady with an Ermine Leonardo da Vinci · 1490
  34. Primavera Sandro Botticelli · 1480
  35. Virgin of the Rocks Leonardo da Vinci
  36. Sistine Chapel ceiling Michelangelo · 1508
  37. Trinity Andrei Rublev · 1412
  38. A Bar at the Folies-Bergère Édouard Manet · 1882
  39. The Tower of Babel Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1563
  40. The Death of Socrates Jacques-Louis David · 1787
  41. The Third of May 1808 Francisco Goya · 1814
  42. Wheatfield with Crows Vincent van Gogh · 1890
  43. Irises Vincent van Gogh · 1889
  44. Café Terrace at Night Vincent van Gogh · 1888
  45. Bal du moulin de la Galette Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876
  46. The Death of Marat Jacques-Louis David · 1793
  47. Bedroom in Arles Vincent van Gogh · 1888
  48. Oath of the Horatii Jacques-Louis David · 1784
  49. The Treachery of Images René Magritte · 1929
  50. Netherlandish Proverbs Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1559
  51. The Storm on the Sea of Galilee Rembrandt · 1633
  52. Portrait of Dr. Gachet Vincent van Gogh · 1890
  53. The Potato Eaters Vincent van Gogh · 1885
  54. Venus of Urbino Titian · 1538
  55. Black Paintings Francisco Goya · 1820
  56. Salvator Mundi Leonardo da Vinci · 1500
  57. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp Rembrandt · 1632
  58. Starry Night Over the Rhône Vincent van Gogh · 1888
  59. Portrait of Madame X John Singer Sargent · 1884
  60. Madonna Edvard Munch · 1894
  61. The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne Leonardo da Vinci · 1511
  62. Olympia Édouard Manet · 1863
  63. Ginevra de' Benci Leonardo da Vinci · 1476
  64. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I Gustav Klimt · 1907
  65. Black Madonna of Częstochowa 1382
  66. The Card Players Paul Cézanne · 1893
  67. The Swing Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1767
  68. The Triumph of Death Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1560
  69. Ophelia John Everett Millais · 1851
  70. Napoleon Crossing the Alps Jacques-Louis David · 1801
  71. The Wedding at Cana Paolo Veronese · 1562
  72. Rokeby Venus Diego Velázquez · 1644
  73. Amor Vincit Omnia Caravaggio · 1601
  74. At Eternity's Gate Vincent van Gogh · 1890
  75. Adoration of the Magi Leonardo da Vinci · 1482
  76. Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan Ilya Repin · 1883
  77. The Ambassadors Hans Holbein the Younger · 1533
  78. Black Square Kazimir Malevich · 1915
  79. The Calling of Saint Matthew Caravaggio · 1609
  80. Sleeping Venus Giorgione · 1509
  81. The Milkmaid Johannes Vermeer · 1660
  82. The Hunters in the Snow Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1565
  83. The Return of the Prodigal Son Rembrandt · 1668
  84. The Nightmare Henry Fuseli · 1781
  85. Barge Haulers on the Volga Ilya Repin · 1870
  86. The Fallen Angel Alexandre Cabanel · 1847
  87. Campbell's Soup Cans Andy Warhol · 1962
  88. Saint John the Baptist Leonardo da Vinci · 1514
  89. The Surrender of Breda Diego Velázquez · 1634
  90. Judith Slaying Holofernes Artemisia Gentileschi · 1613
  91. The Coronation of Napoleon Jacques-Louis David · 1807
  92. Luncheon of the Boating Party Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1880
  93. The Hay Wain John Constable · 1821
  94. The Ninth Wave Ivan Aivazovsky · 1850
  95. La Belle Ferronnière Leonardo da Vinci · 1495
  96. Dogs Playing Poker Cassius Marcellus Coolidge · 1894
  97. Sistine Madonna Raphael · 1512
  98. The Wounded Angel Hugo Simberg · 1903
  99. The Night Café Vincent van Gogh · 1888
  100. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1560

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