- Timeless paintings endure because they express universal human emotions and experiences.
- A compelling story or historical context significantly increases a painting's fame and longevity.
- Technical mastery in composition, light, and perspective sets iconic artworks apart.
- Major art movements shape how masterpieces are created, interpreted, and remembered.
- Continued exposure through museums, media, and reinterpretations keeps famous paintings relevant.
Table of Contents
- Key Takeaways
- Introduction
- What Makes a Painting "Famous"?
- Most Famous Paintings of All Time
- Famous Paintings by the Most Iconic Artists
- Famous Paintings by Art Movement
- Where Can You See These Famous Paintings?
- Bring a Famous Masterpiece to Life with Paint by Numbers
- Frequently Asked Questions
What is it that makes a work of art stay with us for the long haul?
How do some paintings acquire a seemingly primal aesthetic staying power that generations of art lovers can't seem to get enough of?
The world's most famous paintings have earned their status by capturing universal human emotions, revolutionary artistic techniques, or key historical moments.
These works remain relevant because they address timeless themes of love, fear, beauty, mortality, and even war; themes that resonate across centuries. They also captivate our attention and imagination, beckoning us back to take another look, decade after decade.
In this guide, we explore over 50 of the most famous paintings in the world. From Renaissance masterpieces to contemporary classics, the following famous paintings have held their place in the public imagination for centuries and continue to do so.
Whether you're discovering them for the first time or revisiting old favorites, these iconic images reflect some of humanity's greatest achievements, and a few of our flaws.
What Makes a Painting "Famous"?
Not every great painting achieves legendary status. But there tends to be a cluster of qualities that the most famous paintings of all time share, which elevate them above the rest and embed them in the public consciousness.
These include:
- Story behind a picture: If a painting comes with a high quotient of myth, drama, or scandal, it is more likely to stick around. When Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911, international headlines ran for years. Upon recovery, the painting had become a global celebrity.
- Technical mastery: Paintings like The Creation of Adam or Las Meninas are stunning to look at, but they also contain some of the most advanced and subtle art techniques that artists continue to learn from even today. The brushwork, composition, and use of light in these paintings represent, literally, the best work humanity has been able to produce.
- Cultural resonance: The greatest iconic paintings capture a moment in history or human experience so perfectly that they have an enduring relevance over the centuries. Guernica feels relevant if you've experienced violence, no matter when or where. The Scream feels relevant if you've ever felt overwhelmed by the trauma of modern life.
- Era it captured: The great paintings somehow capture something timeless about the era in which they are painted. They manage to lock into the feeling or identity of a place at that particular point in history. This largely explains why the greatest Famous Masterpieces continue to resonate across generations.
Most Famous Paintings of All Time
Here are the most famous paintings and their artists, organized by era.
1. Renaissance Masterpieces 1400s–1600s
Mona Lisa — Leonardo da Vinci, 1503–1519. Louvre, Paris
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, painted sometime between 1503 and 1519, is arguably the most famous painting in the world. Currently residing in the Louvre Museum in Paris, it simply smiles back at the viewer with its enigmatic smile.
The painting became even more famous after it was stolen in 1911 and then recovered two years later. Napoleon once had it hanging in his bedroom; today, its insured value is quoted as upwards of $700 million to $3 billion.
To date, Mona Lisa remains one of the most Famous Oil Paintings ever made.
The Last Supper — Leonardo da Vinci, 1495–1498. Milan
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, between 1495 and 1498, depicts the moment when Christ tells his disciples that one of them will betray him. Admired for its emotional depth and technical perfection, the enigmatic tableaux continue to both inspire and baffle viewers.
Layers of hidden symbols and secret messages have been analyzed and dissected for centuries. Despite significant deterioration, it has been restored five times to save this masterpiece from oblivion.
The Birth of Venus — Botticelli, mid-1480s. Uffizi, Florence
Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, from the mid-1480s, remains one of the most beloved images of the Italian Renaissance. It shows the goddess Venus rising from the sea on a shell. An unusual egg tempera on a panel painting helped protect its glowing surface, so it is little wonder this work has survived and glows alluringly six centuries later.
The Creation of Adam — Michelangelo, 1512
The Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the greatest single artistic achievements in human history, and at its center is The Creation of Adam. This painting depicts the moment God's finger reaches toward the outstretched hand of man.
What makes this image extraordinary is not just its scale or technical brilliance, but the fact that it was one of the first paintings in the Western tradition to depict God himself as a visible, physical presence in the frame. Michelangelo painted the ceiling for four years while lying on scaffolding, suffering neck and back pain that he documented in his own poetry.
The School of Athens — Raphael, 1509–1511
Painted in the Vatican Museums as part of a series of frescoes for Pope Julius II, The School of Athens is Raphael's tribute to the great thinkers of ancient Greece. Plato and Aristotle stand at the center, surrounded by Pythagoras, Socrates, Euclid, and dozens of others.
In this painting, Michelangelo appears as the brooding Heraclitus, sitting alone on a step in the foreground. The painting is a masterclass in perspective and architectural composition, and it remains one of the most spectacular rooms in the world.
Girl with a Pearl Earring — Vermeer, 1665
Often called the "Northern Mona Lisa," Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring shares something essential with its Italian counterpart: the subject is gazing directly at you with an expression that is impossible to interpret with certainty.
Now housed in the Mauritshuis in The Hague, it was purchased for just 2 guilders in 1881. Few paintings demonstrate the quiet power of light and expression as beautifully as these.
Las Meninas — Velázquez, 1656
Las Meninas hangs in the Prado in Madrid, and art historians have been arguing about it ever since it was completed. The painting appears to show the young Infanta Margarita surrounded by her ladies-in-waiting. However, Velázquez himself appears in the frame, brush in hand, apparently painting a large canvas whose subject we cannot see.
It is widely considered the most philosophically complex composition in Western art, blurring the line between subject and viewer, painter and painted. Michel Foucault wrote extensively about it. Pablo Picasso made 58 variations of it. Its influence has never stopped.
The Arnolfini Portrait — Jan van Eyck, 1434
This is one of the earliest and most celebrated oil paintings ever made. The level of detail is insane; the mirror on the back wall reflects two tiny figures, one likely to be van Eyck himself; the chandelier contains individual lit candles; even the dog's fur is shown strand by strand.
Van Eyck was one of the earliest painters to really get to grips with oil paint as a medium, and this painting, which you'll find hanging in London's National Gallery, is what that looks like taken to its extreme.
The Garden of Earthly Delights — Hieronymus Bosch, 1490–1510
The Garden of Earthly Delights was painted by Hieronymus Bosch sometime between 1490 and his death in 1516. The lush, fantastical triptych, filled with surreal landscapes, soaring towers, and creatures both great and small, is unsettlingly modern.
Today, housed in the Prado Museum, the masterpiece is often hailed as a precursor to Surrealism. But no painting quite rewards sustained looking as much as this one.
2. Baroque & Classical Paintings (1600s–1700s)
The Night Watch by Rembrandt (1642)
The Night Watch is the painting that catapulted Rembrandt to fame, and it remains, 400 years later, one of the most famous Baroque artworks. It shows a militia in the act of shooting, led by Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, but what's breathtaking is its dynamism: these are not people posing for a portrait. They are in motion and about to move out into the world.
The painting hangs in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and is enormous — over 11 feet tall and nearly 14 feet wide. It has been attacked three times, each time carefully restored.
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp — Rembrandt, 1632
A decade before The Night Watch, Rembrandt created this equally fascinating group portrait. The Anatomy Lesson depicts a public dissection, a common practice in 17th-century Amsterdam.
By then, the anatomy lessons were social events, with Dr. Nicolaes Tulp demonstrating the muscles of a forearm to a ring of fascinated observers.
The figures lean in, their faces expressing a range of reactions from clinical interest to quiet wonder. It is one of the most compelling depictions of scientific curiosity in the history of art.
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window — Vermeer
Vermeer's genius lay in capturing the private world of ordinary life. Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window is a masterwork of stillness: a woman absorbed in reading, her face reflected in the glass, the room around her bathed in cool northern light. Vermeer's painting gives the impression of depicting not just one moment but several unfolding at once.
Judith Slaying Holofernes — Caravaggio, 1598–1599
Caravaggio's Judith Slaying Holofernes isn't for the fainthearted. It depicts the biblical heroine sawing off the Assyrian general Holofernes's head, and Caravaggio renders the scene with his signature brutal realism. There is no idealization nor graceful distance here.
Judith's face is set and determined. The violence is discouragingly real. And it provides one of many examples of what made Caravaggio so new and shocking: he used ordinary people, even some straight from Rome's streets, as models for sacred figures.
The Calling of Saint Matthew — Caravaggio
In a dim chapel of Rome, Caravaggio painted the saint's calling with a beam of light upon a group of men around a table. In that ray, Christ is seen calling a tax collector to become an apostle. The painting redefined European art as the dramatic use of light and shadow, the contemporary setting, and the ordinary faces had a radical theme to them.
3. Romanticism & Realism (Late 1700s–1800s)
Liberty Leading the People — Eugène Delacroix, 1830
Liberty Leading the People is the ultimate image of revolution. It's a bare-breasted allegorical figure of Liberty, striding over a barricade of corpses, holding a French flag.
Delacroix painted it in response to the July Revolution of 1830, and it captures both the romantic idealism and the bloody human reality of political turmoil. It now hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris, its central figure having provided a template for political iconography ever since.
The Raft of the Medusa — Théodore Géricault, 1818–1819
In 1816, a French naval frigate foundered off the west coast of Africa, leaving more than 150 survivors to drift on a hastily constructed raft. When they were rescued two weeks later, there were only 15 left; their mates had succumbed to starvation, violence, and cannibalism.
A searing indictment of official incompetence in the post-Napoleonic era, Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa caused an international sensation when it was unveiled in Paris in 1819; today it hangs splendidly alongside his other major works at the Louvre.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog — Caspar David Friedrich, 1818
A lone figure stands on a precipice, his face obscured by a hat, his suit jacket pulled tight against the wind. He stares out over an ocean of cloud towards a range of mountains, the peaks barely visible through the murk.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich is Romanticism distilled, showing a man dwarfed by nature's overwhelming, awe-inspiring power. He's thrown back upon himself and the abyss of time, with space opening up to infinity. It is also one of the most instantly familiar and loved paintings to have emerged from that era.
The Third of May 1808 — Francisco Goya, 1814
Francisco Goya painted The Third of May 1808 six years after the mass execution of Spanish civilians by Napoleon's forces in Madrid. The central figure, arms thrown open in a Christ-like gesture, illuminated by a lantern against the darkness, faces a firing squad.
It is one of the most powerful anti-war statements in the history of art. Picasso cited it as a direct inspiration for Guernica, over a century later.
Whistler's Mother — James Whistler, 1871
Formally titled Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, Whistler's Mother is the unofficial portrait of maternal dignity in Western art. Whistler painted his mother, Anne, seated in profile against a grey wall, calm and contained. The painting now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and has been reproduced on postage stamps, in films, and in advertisements.
4. Impressionism (1860s–1890s)
Impression, Sunrise — Claude Monet, 1872
Impression, Sunrise is the painting that accidentally gave a movement its name. When it was shown in 1874, a critic mocked it, saying it was nothing more than an "impression". The artists embraced the insult, and the rest is history.
Monet's hazy rendering of Le Havre harbor at dawn, with its glowing orange sun and loose, visible brushstrokes, announced the arrival of a new era of painting.
Water Lilies — Claude Monet (series)
Late in his life, nearly blind from cataracts, Monet created the Water Lilies series, which has over 250 large-scale paintings of the pond in his garden at Giverny. Several of these enormous canvases wrap around the walls of the Orangerie museum in Paris, creating an immersive environment that feels less like viewing paintings and more like standing inside one.
The series and the examples held at MoMA in New York are considered forerunners of abstract expressionism.
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte — Georges Seurat, 1886
Georges Seurat spent two years creating this monumental painting using a technique he called pointillism. The technique involves thousands of tiny dots of pure color that the eye blends into a single color from a distance.
The painting depicts Parisians relaxing along the Seine on a summer afternoon, rendered with a stillness and formality that contrasts oddly with the casual subject. It hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago and remains one of the most technically extraordinary paintings in existence.
Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876
Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette is Renoir at his most joyful. It presents a scene of Parisians dancing and socializing in a garden café, with dappled sunlight filtering through the trees and catching the surfaces of hats, glasses, and smiling faces. The painting makes you feel happy simply by looking at it. It now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay.
The Luncheon of the Boating Party — Renoir, 1881
A companion piece in spirit to the Moulin de la Galette, The Luncheon of the Boating Party captures a group of Renoir's friends (artists, writers, and socialites) gathered around a table after a morning on the water. It is one of the most celebratory paintings in history and one of the finest examples of Impressionist art.
Luncheon on the Grass — Édouard Manet, 1862–1863
Luncheon on the Grass caused a scandal when it was first shown. A naked woman sits casually with two fully dressed men in a park, looking directly at the viewer without embarrassment. The academic establishment was outraged.
But Manet wasn't interested in mythology or allegory; he just wanted to paint real modern life, in all its strange social complexity. The painting is now recognized as one of the pivotal works in the transition from classical to modern art.
In the Café L'Absinthe — Edgar Degas, 1876
Degas had a gift for capturing the melancholy of modern life, and In the Café L'Absinthe is perhaps his most haunting work. A woman sits at a café table, a glass of absinthe in front of her, staring into the middle distance with a look of absolute disconnection.
The composition is deliberately awkward, with figures pushed to one side and the table floating at an odd angle, creating a feeling of unease that feels very contemporary.
5. Post-Impressionism & Expressionism
The Starry Night — Vincent van Gogh, 1889. MoMA, New York
Vincent van Gogh painted this moonlit medley of his daytime view in 1889, during his stay at a mental asylum in Saint Rémy. Visible to the right is part of the building, beyond which he had a walled view of wheat fields. The Starry Night is one of Western art history's most iconic works for its powerful emotional and psychological dynamism and vibrant coloration.
Sunflowers — Van Gogh, 1888
Van Gogh's vibrant sunflower series, painted in 1888, exalts color, life, and artistic camaraderie. They are among his most iconic works.
A Large Piece of Turf — Albrecht Dürer
Though from an earlier era, Albrecht Dürer's A Large Piece of Turf deserves mention among the Post-Impressionist spirit of looking at nature with obsessive intensity. Painted in 1503, it depicts a clump of grass, weeds, and a dandelion, rendered in microscopic detail.
It is one of the earliest pure landscape studies in Western art, and its scientific attention to the natural world placed Dürer centuries ahead of his time.
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear — Van Gogh, 1889
Van Gogh painted this work in 1889 following his famous breakdown, and it shows his resilience and vulnerability with remarkable candidness.
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? — Paul Gauguin, 1897
Gauguin painted this enormous work in Tahiti after abandoning Europe, and considered it his masterpiece. The title reads as a meditation on human existence — birth at one end of the canvas, old age at the other, and in the center a figure reaching up to pick fruit from a tree.
Mont Sainte-Victoire — Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire, the mountain near his hometown of Aix-en-Provence, over sixty times in the last decade of his life. In each version, he pushed the landscape's geometry further, breaking the mountain into planes of color that prefigured Cubism. Cézanne famously said he wanted to "redo Poussin from nature," and these paintings represent his most sustained investigation of how the eye actually perceives depth and form.
6. Modern & 20th Century Masterpieces
Guernica — Pablo Picasso, 1937
Guernica is the most politically powerful painting in modern art. Picasso created it in response to the Nazi bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The painting is a cacophony of screaming figures, a dying horse, a wailing mother, and fragments of bodies.
It hangs in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, where it spent decades under special conditions: for many years, Picasso refused to allow it to return to Spain while Franco was in power.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon — Picasso, 1907
If Guernica is Picasso's moral testament, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is his artistic earthquake. The painting depicts five nude women rendered in a fractured, angular style that broke completely with every Western tradition of the nude.
African and Iberian masks influenced Picasso, and the result was a work so radical that even his closest friends were shocked. It is widely considered the founding document of Cubism and one of the most famous paintings in history. It hangs in MoMA in New York.
The Persistence of Memory (Melting Clocks) — Salvador Dalí, 1931
On a small canvas barely larger than a sheet of paper, Salvador Dalí created one of the most immediately recognizable artworks of the 20th century. He claimed to have painted it after staring at a melting piece of Camembert cheese. Whether or not that's true, the image lodged itself in the global imagination and never left. It hangs in MoMA in New York.
The Son of Man — René Magritte, 1964
René Magritte was fascinated by concealment, and The Son of Man is his most famous meditation on the idea. A man in a bowler hat and coat stands before a low wall; a hovering green apple entirely obscures his face. It is funny, strange, and philosophically sharp.
American Gothic — Grant Wood, 1930
American Gothic is one of the most recognized paintings in American art. A stern man holding a pitchfork and a woman stand in front of a farmhouse with a distinctive Gothic window. The expressions have been debated ever since. Are they a farmer and his wife? Or a father and daughter? The painting is in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Nighthawks — Edward Hopper, 1942
Nighthawks is the quintessential painting of American loneliness. Four figures in a diner late at night (a couple, a lone man with his back to the window, and a server behind the counter) are illuminated by harsh fluorescent light against the darkened city street outside.
Hopper captured the isolation at the heart of modern urban life with a clarity that has made this image one of the most reproduced in American art. It hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Campbell's Soup Cans — Andy Warhol, 1962
Andy Warhol's 1962 series elevated everyday consumer products into fine art, redefining the relationship between art and popular culture. In the artwork, Warhol was asking what made "art" art, and why a soup can was any less worthy of contemplation than a Renaissance Madonna. The works are now at MoMA, and the question they raised has never been fully answered.
No. 31 — Jackson Pollock, 1950
Jackson Pollock's No. 31 is one of the defining works of Abstract Expressionism. Pollock laid his canvases on the floor and dripped, poured, and flung paint across the surface in a process he described as pure gesture. The result is a dense, layered web of lines that rewards sustained looking. It hangs in MoMA in New York.
Christina's World — Andrew Wyeth, 1948
Christina's World is simultaneously one of the most beloved and most haunting paintings in American art. The painting combines realism and mystery, and the figure reaching across the field has become an icon of longing and determination. The painting is in MoMA, and its combination of beauty and melancholy is unforgettable.
The Kiss — Gustav Klimt, 1907–1908
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt is encrusted with gold leaf, decorative patterns, and swirling forms that hover between the figurative and the abstract. It hangs in the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, and reproductions of it can be found in apartments and student dormitories around the world.
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird — Frida Kahlo, 1940
Frida Kahlo painted Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird during one of the most painful periods of her life. A black cat sits on one shoulder, a monkey on the other; a thorn necklace draws blood from her neck. Kahlo turned her pain into art with a directness that continues to resonate deeply with audiences worldwide.
Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow — Mondrian, 1930
Piet Mondrian's Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow looks simple: a white canvas divided by black lines into rectangular fields, three of which are filled with red, blue, and yellow.
But Mondrian spent years working out the precise balance of this composition, believing he was searching for a universal visual harmony beneath the surface of the visible world. The influence of this and similar works on graphic design, fashion, and architecture is incalculable.
7. Iconic Portraits Worth Knowing
Portrait of Henry VIII
Hans Holbein the Younger created the definitive image of Tudor power in 1537 with this mural, which depicted Henry flanked by his father and son. Destroyed soon after it was completed, the mural's cartoon became so iconic that it still defines Henry's image today.
Madame X — John Singer Sargent, 1884. Met Museum, New York
John Singer Sargent's 1884 portrait of Madame X caused a scandal in Paris. Today, it is celebrated for its cool elegance, high finish, and masterful brushwork.
Napoleon Crossing the Alps — Jacques-Louis David, 1801. Palace of Versailles
Jacques-Louis David turned a routine military crossing into heroic propaganda in this 1801 masterpiece.
The Blue Boy — Thomas Gainsborough, 1770
The 1770 portrait by Thomas Gainsborough is a masterpiece of British art, celebrated for its glowing color and confident composure.
Dogs Playing Poker — Cassius Coolidge, 1894–1903
Cassius Coolidge's series of humorous paintings, created between 1894 and 1903, is known more for its sheer ubiquity than for any particular artistic merit. And the fact that they've remained so wildly popular to this day shows that art history does carry a sense of humor.
Famous Paintings by the Most Iconic Artists
Some artists have created art so stunning that they eventually become household names. Their entire body of work contains masterpieces. They fall into the genius category, and when we talk about history, we tend to use their work as our timeline.
- Famous Leonardo da Vinci paintings: Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Vitruvian Man, Lady with an Ermine, and Salvator Mundi
- Famous Vincent van Gogh paintings: The Starry Night, Sunflowers, Irises, Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and The Bedroom.
- Famous Pablo Picasso art: Guernica, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, The Weeping Woman, Girl before a Mirror, Three Musicians
- Famous Claude Monet paintings: Impression, Sunrise, Water Lilies, Woman with a Parasol, Rouen Cathedral series, Haystacks.
- Famous Johannes Vermeer's paintings: Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Milkmaid, View of Delft, Woman Holding a Balance, and Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window.
- Famous Rembrandt's paintings: The Night Watch, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Self Portrait with Two Circles
Famous Paintings by Art Movement
| Art Movement | Era | Key Painting | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | 1400s–1600s | Mona Lisa | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Baroque | 1600s | The Night Watch | Rembrandt |
| Romanticism | Early 1800s | Liberty Leading the People | Eugène Delacroix |
| Impressionism | Late 1800s | Impression, Sunrise | Claude Monet |
| Post Impressionism | Late 1800s | The Starry Night | Vincent van Gogh |
| Surrealism | Early 1900s | The Persistence of Memory | Salvador Dalí |
| Modern Art | 1900s | Guernica | Pablo Picasso |
Where Can You See These Famous Paintings?
Many of the world's best masterpieces–that we're told to "go see"–are housed in museums that are worth a visit in their own right. Not only do you see the scale, texture, and color of a painting in person, but you'll often find other works within the museum that you'll love just as much.
The Louvre in Paris is home to the Mona Lisa, Liberty Leading the People and treasure upon treasure from antiquity to the nineteenth century.
New York's Museum of Modern Art is home to The Starry Night, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Campbell's Soup Cans, and so many more of modernity's defining works. It is a must-visit for anyone interested in modern art.
Florence's Uffizi Gallery takes you on a trip through the Renaissance with The Birth of Venus and works by Botticelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo.
Madrid's Prado Museum is home to Las Meninas, The Garden of Earthly Delights, plus masterworks by Goya, Velázquez, and El Greco.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is where you'll find The Night Watch and other works from the Dutch Golden Age. Sunflowers, The Arnolfini Portrait, and one of the most extensive collections of European art on the planet are at London's National Gallery.
And the Musée d'Orsay in Paris has an exceptional collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by artists including Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Van Gogh.
Together, these institutions protect many of the most important Paintings in History.
Bring a Famous Masterpiece to Life with Paint by Numbers
Admiring these masterpieces from behind a museum rope is one thing, but you gain a whole new appreciation for a celebrated work of art when you recreate it yourself. As you paint, you'll start noticing all the decisions that went into making the masterpiece what it is, whether it's color relationships, composition, or brushwork.
Canvas by Numbers makes kits inspired by some of the greatest works of art, including The Starry Night, Water Lilies, The Kiss, and The Strawberry Thief. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced painter, these kits make art history come to life in a wonderfully hands-on way.
It's also truly therapeutic to take out a bit of time every day to work on making something beautiful with your own hands. After a few days, you'll step back and be amazed at what you're capable of creating.
