Still Life with Applesby Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne painted the same objects – the green vase, the rum bottle, the ginger pot, and the apples – over and over again. His interest was not in the objects themselves but in using them to experiment with shape,...
WheatstacksBy Claude Monét Stacks of Wheat (also known as End of Summer) by Claude Monet is part of a series of stacks of harvested wheat. The impressionist Haystack series is famous for how Monet repeated the same theme to show the different light and atmosphere at...
Mona LisaBy Leonardo da Vinci The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as “the best known, the most visited, the most written...
Starry NightBy Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before...