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Michelangelo
100
Mona Lisa
Leonardo Da Vinci made this woman with a perfect smile.
100
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. The ceiling is that of the large Chapel built within the Vatican in Rome. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis.
The Creation of Adam
100
This unfinished painting shows Christ's body being carried to his tomb. There is some disagreement over the identity of the various figures represented.
The Entombment
200
jeune fille endormie
Pablo Picasso made a girl with head down asleep
200
one of Pablo Picasso most famous paintings, showing the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians
guernica
200
also known as the Doni Madonna, or the Holy Family. It is a panel painting in a round frame and holds the distinction of being the only such painting that is indisputably Michelangelo’s work. The painting was done as a commissioned work for Agnolo Doni to mark the occasion of his marriage to Maddalena Strozzi.
Doni Tondo
300
Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil painting
Claude Monet
300
a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci and covers the back wall of the dining hall at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It represents the scene of ___ ____ ______ when Jesus announces that one of his Twelve Apostles would betray him.
The Last Supper
300
When Michelangelo had finished sculpting David, it was clear that this was quite possibly the most beautiful figure ever created – exceeding the beauty even of Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures. Word of David reached Pope Julius II in Rome, and he asked Michelangelo to come to Rome to work for him. The first work Pope Julius II commissioned from Michelangelo was to sculpt his tomb (Pope Julius II's tomb that is).
Moses
400
The Scream is a series of expressionist paintings and prints by , showing an agonized figure against a blood red sky
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch
400
was painted by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Although Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life, the aftermath of his work is enormousone of his most famous paintings and has become one of the most well known images in modern culture. The painting shows the village of Saint-Rémy under a swirling sky, in a view from the asylum towards north. The cypress tree to the left was added into the composition.
Starry Night
400
This is Michelangelo's last work of primarily political significance. The bust of it was fashioned for Cardinal Niccolò Ridolfi, who, in 1530, had fled Florence for Rome like many other Florentines; although Michelangelo might well have been thinking of Lorenzino Medici, the well-known "Modern ______" who had killed Duke Alessandro de' Medici in 1537, this is clearly an idealized portrait of the patron. In the head, which shows strength of will in the way it is turned to the right, a cold tranquillity and great energy blend fascinatingly with hatred, wrath and bitter contempt.
Brutus
500
Sometimes referred to as “the Dutch Mona Lisa”, the Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer.
500
This painting represents man's indifference to the suffering of others. Icarus was the main character in a Greek legend.Pieter Bruegel created wings made of feather & wax but flew too close to the sun. In the painting, Icarus is hard to find (he's just below the big boat) and the main character in the painting is going about his work without noticing
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
500
depicts the famous Biblical scene of the Apostle Paul being struck from the heavens by the golden energy of God – an event which transformed him from a cruel persecutor of Christians into one of its foremost advocates. Before his magnificent conversion, Paul was known as Saul of Tarsus. He was a cruel and brutal man in the business of persecuting Christians. In fact, he was on the road to Damascus under orders to arrest Christians when God seized upon him for a blast of spiritual transformation.
The Conversion of Saul