Discover the Finest Artworks: Top 200 Paintings Worldwide
Explore our meticulously researched compilation showcasing the 200 greatest paintings globally.
Each painting is accompanied by thorough information, encompassing its dimensions, whereabouts, materials employed, its recurrence in experts' compilations, and our personal evaluation.
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ToggleOur list is carefully curated through an in-depth analysis of over 20 influential art books in various languages and multiple other reputable sources. For each painting, we disclose its frequency of mention across these sources (Experts’ Choice) and the rating assigned by our panel of experts (Our Score).
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200 Best Painting in the World
Part 1 #200–176,
Part 2 #175–151,
Part 3 #150–126,
Part 4 #125–101,Â
Part 5 #100–76,
Part 6 #75–51,
Part 7 #50–26,
Part 8 #25–1.
Here you can see an overview of the complete list:
Best Paintings #200–176 (part 1 – click here)
#200 | Wassily Kandinsky, “Yellow, Red, Blue”
#199 | Sir Anthony van Dyck, “Charles I in Three Positions”
#198 | Ivan Aivazovsky, “The Ninth Wave”
#197 | Edgar Degas, “The Star (Dancer on Stage)”
#196 | Arnold Böcklin, “The Island of the Dead” (Berlin Version)
#195 | Franz Marc, “Tiger”
#194 | Vincent van Gogh, “The Bedroom at Arles”
#193 | Piero di Cosimo, “The Death of Procris (A Satyr mourning over a Nymph)”
#192 | Johannes Vermeer van Delft, “The Astronomer”
#191 | Ilya Repin, “Barge Haulers on the Volga”
#190 | Georges de la Tour, “The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds”
#189 | Frederic Leighton, “Flaming June”
#188 | Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, “The Colossus”
#187 | Fra Filippo Lippi, “Virgin with the Child and Scenes from the Life of St Anne”
#186 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Proserpine (8. and Final Version)”
#185 | Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, “King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid”
#184 | Piero di Cosimo, “Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci”
#183 | Luca Signorelli, “The Last Judgement”
#182 | John Singer, “Sargent Madame X”
#181 | Gustave Moreau, “Orpheus”
#180 | Berthe Morisot, “The Cradle”
#179 | Pietro Perugino, “Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter”
#178 | Paolo Veronese, “Feast in the House of Levi”
#177 | Hieronymus Bosch, “The Hay Wain”
#176 | Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), “Transfiguration”
Best Paintings #175–151 (part 2 – click here)
#175 | Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), “Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione”
#174 | Piet Mondrian, “Broadway Boogie Woogie”
#173 | John Singleton Copley, “Watson and the Shark (Washington Version)”
#172 | Giorgione and Titian, “Sleeping Venus”
#171 | Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, “Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp”
#170 | Quentin Massys, “The Money Changer and His Wife”
#169 | Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “Netherlandish Proverbs”
#168 | Nicolas Poussin, “The Arcadian Shepherds (Et in Arcadia ego) (second version)”
#167 | Masaccio, “Tribute Money”
#166 | José de Ribera, “The Clubfoot”
#165 | Joan Miró, “The Harlequin’s Carnival”
#164 | James McNeill Whistler, “Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: The Artist’s Mother”
#163 | Giuseppe Arcimboldo, “Spring (Paris Version)”
#162 | Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, “Saturn (Saturn Devouring His Son)”
#161 | Thomas Gainsborough, “Mr. and Mrs. Andrews”
#160 | Leonardo Da Vinci, “Virgin of the Rocks (Louvre Version)”
#159 | Johannes Vermeer van Delft, “View of Delft”
#158 | Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, “Goethe in the Campagna”
#157 | Gustave Courbet, “A Burial at Ornans”
#156 | Frans Hals, “The Laughing Cavalier”
#155 | Masaccio, “The Holy Trinity”
#154 | Correggio (Antonio Allegri), “Jupiter and Io (Zeus and Me)”
#153 | Canaletto, “The Stonemason’s Yard”
#152 | Giotto, “Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ)”
#151 | Marcel Duchamp, “Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2”
Best Paintings #150–126 (part 3 – click here)
#150 | Gustave Courbet, “The Studio of the Painter, a Real Allegory”
#149 | Jean-Antoine Watteau, “The Pilgrimage to Cythera” (Louvre Version)
#148 | Claude Monet Gare Saint-Lazare, “Arrival of a Train” (Boston Version)
#147 | Claude Monet, “The Japanese Bridge (Princeton Version)”
#146 | Paul Klee, “Red Balloon”
#145 | Giuseppe Arcimboldo, “The Librarian”
#144 | Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto), “St George and the Dragon”
#143 | Katsushika Hokusai, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”
#142 | John William Waterhouse, “The Lady of Shalott”
#141 | Hugo van der Goes, “The Adoration of the Kings (Monforte Altarpiece)”
#140 | Henri Matisse, “Harmony in Red (The Red Room)”
#139 | Winslow Homer, “Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)”
#138 | Sir Anthony van Dyck, “Charles I: King of England at the Hunt”
#137 | Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, “Family of Carlos IV”
#136 | Piero della Francesca, “The Flagellation of Christ”
#135 | Joseph Wright of Derby, “Experiment with a Bird in an Air Pump”
#134 | Edvard Munch, “Madonna” (Munch Museum Version)
#133 | Sandro Botticelli, “Lamentation over the Dead Christ”
#132 | Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee”
#131 | William Hogarth, “Marriage A-la-Mode: The Tête à Tête”
#130 | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, “Bather of Valpincon”
#129 | Gentile da Fabriano, “Adoration of the Magi”
#128 | Jean-Francois Millet, “The Gleaners”
#127 | Jean-Léon Gérôme, “Pollice Verso (Thumbs Down)”
#126 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “The Umbrellas”
Best Paintings #125–101 (part 4 – click here)
#125 | Pablo Picasso, “Boy with a Pipe”
#124 | William-Adolphe Bouguereau, “Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros”
#123 | Francesco Hayez, “The Kiss”
#122 | Diego Velázquez, “Rokeby Venus”
#121 | Caravaggio, “Bachus”
#120 | Paul Cézanne, “The Card Players” (Paris Version)
#119 | Thomas Gainsborough, “The Blue Boy”
#118 | Jan van Eyck, “Madonna of Chancellor Rolin”
#117 | Henry Fuseli, “The Nightmare” (Detroit Version)
#116 | Giovanni Bellini, “The Doge Leonardo Loredan”
#115 | Paolo Veronese, “The Wedding at Cana”
#114 | Hugo van der Goes, “The Fall and Redemption of Man” (Dyptich)
#113 | Parmigianino, “Madonna and Child with Angels” (Madonna with the Long Neck)
#112 | Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, “The Death of Sardanapalus” (Louvre Version)
#111 | Edgar Degas, “L’Absinthe (in a Cafe)”
#110 | Albrecht Altdorfer, “The Battle of Alexander at Issus”
#109 | Peter Paul Rubens, “Samson and Delilah”
#108 | Paul Signac, “Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon”
#107 | Marc Chagall, “I and the Village”
#105 | Valentin Serov, “The Girl with Peaches”
#104 | Fra Filippo Lippi, “Madonna and Child (Lippina)
#103 | Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, “Washington Crossing the Delaware”
#102 | Titian (Titiano Vecellio), “Sacred and Profane Love”
#101 | Paolo Uccello, “The Battle of San Romano”
Best Paintings #100–75 (part 5 – click here)
#100 | Rogier van der Weyden, “Portrait of a Lady”
#98 | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, “The Turkish Bath”
#97 | Jacques-Louis David, “Portrait of Madame Recamier”
#96 | Paul Cézanne, “The Bathers (The Large Bathers)”
#95 | Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The (Great) Tower Of Babel” (Vienna Version)
#94 | John Constable, “The Hay Wain”
#93 | J. M. W. Turner, “The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up”
#92 | Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci), “The Deposition of Christ”
#91 | Giorgione, “The Tempest”
#90 | Matthias Grünewald, “Isenheim Altarpiece, closed: Crucifixion”
#89 | Vincent van Gogh, “Starry Night over the Rhone”
#88 | Vincent van Gogh, “Wheatfield with Crows”
#87 | Benozzo Gozzoli, “Journey of the Magi (East Wall), Procession of the Youngest King”
#86 | Andrea Mantegna, “The Lamentation over the Dead Christ”
#85 | Grant Wood, “American Gothic”
#84 | Giovanni Battista Moroni, “The Tailor”
#83 | Frida Kahlo, “The Two Fridas”
#82 | Georges Seurat, “The Circus”
#81 | Michelangelo Buonarroti, “The Last Judgement”
#80 | Michelangelo Buonarroti, “Doni Tondo (Doni Madonna)”
#79 | Albrecht Dürer, “Self Portrait with Gloves”
#78 | Diego Velázquez, “The Surrender of Breda”
#77 | Caravaggio, “Supper at Emmaus”
#76 | Salvador Dali, “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)“
Best Paintings #75–51 (part 6 – click here)
#74 | Vincent van Gogh, “Self-portrait (1889, mintgreen)”
#73 | Carlo Crivelli, “The Annunciation, with St, Emidius”
#72 | Titian (Titiano Vecellio), “Bacchus and Ariadne”
#71 | Gustave Caillebotte, “The Floor Strippers”
#70 | Petrus Christus, “Portrait of a Young Girl”
#69 | Théodore Géricault, “Raft of the Medusa”
#68 | Caravaggio, “Judith Beheading Holofernes” (Rome Version)
#67 | Peter Paul Rubens, “The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus”
#66 | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance”
#65 | Paolo Uccello, “St. George and the Dragon”
#64 | Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, “The Third of May 1808”
#63 | Vincent van Gogh, “Café Terrace at Night”
#62 | Edgar Degas, “The Dance Class”
#61 | Titian (Titiano Vecellio), “Assumption of the Virgin”
#60 | Leonardo Da Vinci, “The Annunciation”
#59 | Artemisia Gentileschi, “Judith Beheading Holofernes” (Uffizi Version)
#58 | Salvador Dali, “The Persistence of Memory”
#57 | Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), “Sistine Madonna”
#56 | Edward Hopper, “Nighthawks”
#55 | Oskar Kokoschka, “Bride of the Wind”
#54 | Paul Gauguin, “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”
#53 | Antonello da Messina, “Virgin Annunciate”
#52 | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, “Grande Odalisque”
#51 | Claude Monet, “Impression, Sunrise”
Best Paintings #50–26 (part 7 – click here)
#50 | Pablo Picasso, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”
#49 | Édouard Manet, "The Luncheon on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe)"
#48 | El Greco (Doménikos Theotokopoulos), "View Of Toledo"
#47 | Jan van Eyck, “Man in Red Turban”
#46 | Georges Seurat, “Bathers of Asnières”
#45 | Titian (Titiano Vecellio), “Venus of Urbino”
#44 | Leonardo Da Vinci, “Lady with an Ermine”
#43 | Jean-Honoré Fragonard, “The Swing”
#42 | Caravaggio, “The Head of Medusa” (Uffizi Version)
#41 | Henri Rousseau, “The Sleeping Gypsy”
#40 | Domenico Ghirlandaio, “Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni”
#39 | Albrecht Dürer, “Self-Portrait at 28 (Ecce Homo)”
#38 | Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog”
#37 | Jean Fouquet, “The Melun Madonna (Virgin with Child)”
#36 | Johannes Vermeer van Delft, “The Milkmaid (The Kitchen Maid)”
#35 | Gustave Caillebotte, “Paris Street; Rainy Day”
#34 | El Greco (Doménikos Theotokopoulos), “The Burial of Count Orgaz”
#33 | Johannes Vermeer van Delft, “The Art of Painting”
#32 | Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People”
#31 | Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “Hunters in the Snow”
#30 | Jacques-Louis David, “Napoleon Crossing the Alps” (Versailles Version)
#29 | Vincent van Gogh, “Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers (London Version)”
#28 | Sandro Botticelli, “La Primavera”
#27 | Georges Seurat, “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte”
#26 | Agnolo Bronzino, “An Allegory with Venus and Cupid (Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time)”
Best Paintings #25–1 (part 8 – click here)
#25 | Jacques-Louis David, “Oath of the Horatii”
#24 | Sir John Everett Millais, “Ophelia”
#23 | Leonardo Da Vinci, “The Last Supper”
#22 | Jacques-Louis David, “Death of Marat”
#21 | Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, “The Night Watch”
#20 | Édouard Manet, “Olympia”
#19 | Michelangelo Buonarroti, “The Creation of Adam”
#18 | Michelangelo Buonarroti, “The Sistine Chapel Ceiling”
#17 | Édouard Manet, “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère“
#16 | Hans Holbein the Younger, “The Ambassadors”
#15 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Luncheon of the Boating Party”
#14 | Gustav Klimt, “The Kiss”
#13 | Rogier van der Weyden, “The Descent from the Cross”
#12 | Diego Velázquez, “Las Meninas”
#11 | Jan van Eyck, “The Arnolfini Portrait”
#10 | Pablo Picasso, “Guernica”
#9 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Dance at Moulin de la Galette”
#8 | Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), “School of Athens”
#7 | Vincent van Gogh, “The Starry Night”
#6 | Jan and Hubert van Eyck, “Ghent Altarpiece”
#5 | Sandro Botticelli, “Birth of Venus”
#4 | Johannes Vermeer van Delft, “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
#3 | Edvard Munch, “The Scream” (Nasjonalmuseet Version)
#2 | Hieronymus Bosch, “The Garden of Earthly Delights”
#1 | Leonardo Da Vinci, “Mona Lisa”
🌊 Click on the following links to discover #200–176, #175–151, #150–126, #125–101, #100–76, #75–51, #50–26, #25–1.
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