10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

10 Famous Paintings - Ranked as Greatest Paintings

It is said that poetry and painting are sisters. A poet expresses his feelings and emotions by his words in the form of poetry. In case of painting an artist keeps silent but his work speaks to the people. Painting is an art of delivering an open ended message to the viewers. A painting does not talk but in deep it speak loudly to those who could understand it. It is an art which is more interesting than others, so everyone has an interest in this art. Thousands of the good artists can be found in the world. But some has done really fantastic work that is really appreciable. Here the article below explores ten of the most famous paintings in history. These paintings got a lot of fame and popularity infect. Have a look on these incredible paints by the greatest artists.

10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

10. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da vinci – 1503-19

10 Famous Paintings - Ranked as Greatest Paintings
10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by an Italian famous artist Leonardo da Vinci. The artist has been acclaimed as “the best known, the most liked, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world”.
The painting is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini who was the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. The painting is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between the years 1503 and 1506. Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. It was acquired by King Francis I of France. The painting is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris since 1797.

09. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer – 1665

10 Famous Paintings - Ranked as Greatest Paintings
10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

Girl with a Pearl Earring is an oil painting by one of the most famous 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The painting is a tronie of a girl with a headscarf and a pearl earring. The painting has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902.
This painting is a tronie which is the Dutch 17th-century description of a ‘head’ that was not meant to be a portrait. It depicts beautifully a European girl wearing an exotic dress, an oriental turban, and an improbably large pearl earring. In 2014, Dutch astrophysicist Vincent Icke raised doubts about the material of the earring and argued that it looks more like polished tin than pearl on the basis of the specular reflection, the pear shape and the large size of the earring.
This work is oil on canvas and is 44.5 cm (17.5 in) high and 39 cm (15 in) wide. It is signed “IVMeer” but not dated. It is estimated to have been painted around 1665.

08. The starry Night – Vincent Gogh – 1889

10 Famous Paintings - Ranked as Greatest Paintings
10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

This incredible painting was painted in June 1889. it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise. It is a dipiction of also an idealized village. This painting has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941. It is known as among Van Gogh’s finest works, and is one of the most recognized paintings in the history of Western culture.
The Starry Night was painted during the day in Van Gogh’s ground-floor studio. It would be inaccurate to state that the picture was painted from memory. The view of the painting has been identified as the one from his bedroom window, facing east, a view which Van Gogh painted variations of no fewer than twenty-one times, including The Starry Night.

07. Whistler’s Mother by James Abbott McNeill Whistler – 1871

10 Famous Paintings - Ranked as Greatest Paintings
10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

Whistler’s Mother is a painting in oils on canvas created by the American-born painter James McNeill Whistler in 1871. The painting is 56.81 by 63.94 inches (144.3 cm × 162.4 cm), displayed in a frame of Whistler’s own design. It is exhibited in and held by the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, having been bought by the French state in 1891. It is one of the most famous and remarkable works by an American artist outside the United States. It has been described as an American icon and a Victorian Mona Lisa.
Anna McNeill Whistler posed for the painting while living in London with her son at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
Many unverifiable stories are also relate to the painting of the work. One is that Anna Whistler acted as a replacement for another model who couldn’t make the appointment. It is also said that Whistler originally envisioned painting the model standing up, but that his mother was too uncomfortable to pose standing for an extended period.

06. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli 1484 -1486

10 Famous Paintings - Ranked as Greatest Paintings
10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

The Birth of Venus is a painting by Sandro Botticelli. The painting has been painted in the mid 1480s. It has long been suggested that Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence. More specifically Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici under the influence of his cousin Lorenzo de’ Medici. Who was the close patron to Botticelli.

There are no documents associated with the painting. Its first identification with the Medici family only comes in the 1550 edition of Vasari’s Lives. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as an adult woman arriving at the shore. The painting is now on display at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

05. The Kiss by Gustav Klimt 1907-1908

10 Famous Paintings - Ranked as Greatest Paintings
10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

The Kiss (Lovers) was painted by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt between 1907 and 1908. This painting is one of the most celebrated painting in the history. The highpoint of his “Golden Period”, when he painted a number of works in a similar gilded style. It is a perfect square which depicts a couple embracing. Their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by both linear constructs of the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of the earlier Arts and Crafts movement. This remarkable work is composed of oil paint with applied layers of gold leaf. It is an aspect that gives it its strikingly modern, yet evocative appearance. The painting is now in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere museum in the Belvedere palace. It is one of the best modern paintings.

04. The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck – 1434

10 Famous Paintings - Ranked as Greatest Paintings
10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

The Arnolfini Portrait was painted in 1434. This is an oil painting on oak panel by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. It forms a full-length double portrait. It is believed to depict the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, presumably in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges.
This painting is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art. According to Ernst Gombrich “in its own way it was as new and revolutionary as Donatello’s or Masaccio’s work in Italy. This painting was bought by the National Gallery in London in 1842.

03. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat 1884-1886

10 Famous Paintings - Ranked as Greatest Paintings
10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was painted in 1884. It is one of Georges Seurat’s most famous works, and is an example of pointillism.
In the year 1879 Georges Seurat enlisted as a soldier in the French army and was back home by 1880. He ran a small painter’s studio in Paris after that in 1883 showed his work publicly for the first time.
Seurat’s painting was a mirror impression of his own painting, Bathers at Asnières wich was completed shortly before in 1884. For Parisians, Sunday was the day to escape from the heat of the city and head for the shade of the trees and the cool breezes. All these could be found came off the river. And at first sight the viewer sees many different people relaxing in a park by the river. This is really a master piece by the great painter.

02. The Garden of Mundane Delights by Hieronymus Bosch – 1503-1515

10 Famous Paintings - Ranked as Greatest Paintings
10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title which is given to a triptych painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch. It was painted when Bosch was between about 40 and 60 years old. It is his best-known and most ambitious surviving work.
This is painted in oil on oak and is formed from a square middle panel flanked by two other oak rectangular wings that close over the center as shutters. This painting is also considered one of the best and most rewarded painting art work in history.

01. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso – 1907

10 Famous Paintings - Ranked as Greatest Paintings
10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is a large oil painting which was created in 1907 by a famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Carrer d’Avinyó in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting manner and none are conventionally feminine. The women seem as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disturbed body shapes. The racial primitivism evoked in these masks, according to Picasso, moved him to “liberate an utterly original artistic style of compelling, even savage force.
Picasso was an important artist during the first decade of the 20th century. He was one of the most famous artist of his time and in history as well.  He arrived in Paris from Spain around the turn of the century as a young and ambitious painter out to make a name for himself. Although he eventually left most of his friends,he continued to live and paint in Spain while making regular trips back to France. His above prescribed work is considered the best ever and most amazing art in the art gallery of the history.

10 Famous Paintings – Ranked as Greatest Paintings

01. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso – 1907
02. The Garden of Mundane Delights by Hieronymus Bosch – 1503-1515
03. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat 1884-1886
04. The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck – 1434
05. The Kiss by Gustav Klimt 1907-1908
06. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli 1484 -1486
07. Whistler’s Mother by James Abbott McNeill Whistler – 1871
08. The starry Night – Vincent Gogh – 1889
09. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer – 1665
10. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da vinci – 1503-19

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