The Starry Night

The Persistence of Memory

An oil on canvas by the Dutch post-
impressionist painter Vincent van Artist: Salvador Dali
Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts
Dimensions: 0′ 9″ x 1′ 1″
the view from the east-facing
Medium: Oil on canvas
window of his asylum room at Saint-
Rémy-de-Provence. Created: 1931

Artist: Vincent van Gogh Periods: Surrealism, Avant-garde

Dimensions: 2′ 5″ x 3′ 0″
Location: Museum of Modern Art
Created: June 1889
Genre: Landscape painting
Periods: Post-Impressionism,
Modern art

The Last Supper

The Last Supper is a late 15th-

century mural painting by Leonardo
da Vinci housed by the refectory of
the Convent of Santa Maria delle
Grazie in Milan.

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci

Dimensions: 15′ 1″ x 29′ 0″
Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie
Created: 1495–1498
Medium: fresco-secco
Periods: Renaissance, Italian
Renaissance, High Renaissance
 The Kiss
The Birth of Venus
The Kiss is an oil painting, with
It depicts the goddess Venus
added silver and gold leaf by the
arriving at the shore after her birth,
Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav
when she had emerged from the sea
Klimt, and was painted between 1907
fully-grown.
and 1908 during the height of Klimt's
"Golden Period". Artist: Sandro Botticelli

Artist: Gustav Klimt Dimensions: 5′ 8″ x 9′ 2″

Dimensions: 5′ 11″ x 5′ 11″ Location: Uffizi Gallery

Created: 1907–1908 Created: 1484–1486

Genre: Genre art Genre: History painting

Periods: Art Nouveau, Modern art, Periods: Renaissance

Symbolism, Vienna Secession
 David American Gothic

Masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture A painting by Grant Wood in the

created in marble between 1501 and collection of the Art Institute of
1504 by Michelangelo. David is a 5.17- Chicago. Wood's inspiration came in
metre marble statue of a standing his decision to paint what is known
male nude. as the American Gothic House.

Artist: Michelangelo Artist: Grant Wood

Created: 1501–1504 Dimensions: 2′ 5″ x 2′ 1″
Medium: Carrara marble Created: 1930–1930
Period: Modernism

The Thinker The Great Wave

A bronze sculpture by Auguste Also known as The Great Wave off

Rodin, usually placed on a stone Kanagawa or simply The Wave, is a
pedestal. woodblock print by the Japanese
ukiyo-e artist Hokusai.
Artist: Auguste Rodin
Artist: Hokusai
Created: 1902
Dimensions: 0′ 10″ x 1′ 3″
Media: Bronze, Marble
Created: 1829–1832
Period: Ukiyo-e
Subject: Mount Fuji
Medium: Ink
 The Son of Man
A 1964 painting by the Belgian
surrealist painter René Magritte
Artist: René Magritte
Location: Private collection
Subject: René Magritte
Created: 1964
Period: Surrealism
Medium: Oil paint
Soleil levant
Impression, Sunrise is a painting by
Claude Monet. Shown at what would
later be known as the "Exhibition of
the Impressionists" in April 1874, the
painting is attributed to giving rise to
the name of the Impressionist
movement.
Artist: Claude Monet
The Creation of Adam
A fresco painting by Michelangelo,
which forms part of the Sistine
Chapel's ceiling, painted c. 1508–1512.
Artist: Michelangelo
Dimensions: 9′ 2″ x 18′ 8″
Year: 1512
Location: Sistine Chapel
Genres: Christian art, History
painting
Media: Paint, Plaster
Periods: Italian Renaissance, High
Renaissance, Renaissance
The Scream
The popular name given to each of
four versions of a composition,
created as both paintings and pastels,
by Norwegian Expressionist artist
Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910.
Location: National Gallery and Munch
Museum, Oslo, Norway
Artist: Edvard Munch
Dimensions: 1′ 7″ x 2′ 1″
Created: 1872–1872
Period: Impressionism
Subject: Le Havre
The Parthenon
A former temple, on the Athenian
Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the
goddess Athena, whom the people of
Athens considered their patron.
Construction began in 447 BC when
the Athenian Empire was at the peak
of its power.
Construction started: 447 BC
Architects: Phidias, Ictinus,
Callicrates
Year: 1893
Dimensions: 91 cm × 73.5 cm (36 in ×
28.9 in)
Campbell's Soup Cans,
Sometimes referred to as 32
Campbell's Soup Cans, is a work of art
produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol.
Artist: Andy Warhol
Dimensions: 1′ 8″ x 1′ 4″
Medium: Synthetic polymer paint
Created: 1962
Periods: Pop art, Modern art