50 paintings you should know

The Arena Chapel / Giotto di Bondone The tribute money / Tommaso Masaccio The Arnolfini portrait / Jan van Eyck The annunciation / Fra Angelico The dead Christ / Andrea Mantegna The birth of Venus / Sandro Botticelli Self-portrait at twenty-eight / Albrecht Dürer The garden of earthly delights / Hieronymus Bosch Mona Lisa / Leonardo da Vinci La tempest / Giorgione The creation of Adam / Michelangelo School of Athens / Raphael The Isenheim altarpiece / Mattias Grünewald The Venus of Urbino / Titian The wedding at Cana / Paolo Veronese The tower of Babel / Pieter Bruegel the Elder View of Toledo / El Greco The death of the virgin / Caravaggio The night watch / Rembrandt van Rijn Las meninas / Diego Velázquez Girl with a pearl earring / Jan Vermeer Death of Marat / Jacques-Louis David The skating minister / Henry Raeburn The third of May, 1808 / Francisco de Goya Grande Odalisque / Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The wanderer above the sea of fog / Caspar David Friedrich

The raft of the medusa / Théodore Géricault

Liberty leading the people / Eugène Delacroix

Rain, steam and speed / William Turner

Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe / Edouard Manet

The artist's mother / James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Impression-sunrise / Claude Monet

The starry night / Vincent van Gogh

The child's bath / Mary Stevenson Cassatt

The scream / Edvard Munch

Mont Sainte-Victoire / Paul Cézanne

Les demoiselles d'Avignon / Pablo Picasso

The kiss / Gustav Klimt

La danse / Henri Matisse

The dream / Henri Rousseau

Impression III (concert) / Wassily Kandinsky

Black square / Kasimir Malevich

Petunia No. 2 / Georgia O'Keeffe

American gothic / Grant Wood

The persistence of memory / Salvador Dalí

The two Fridas / Frida Kahlo

Nighthawks / Edward Hopper

Autumn rhythm no. 30 / Jackson Pollock

Black on maroon / Mark Rothko

Campbell's soup cans / Andy Warhol

Glossary

Portrait illustrations.