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A blue night landscape with a swirling sky, bright stars, a crescent moon, and a tall dark cypress.

The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh, 1889

The Museum of Modern Art

Portrait of a seated woman with folded hands before a hazy river and mountain landscape.

Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503–1519

Musée du Louvre

A young woman in a blue and yellow head covering looks over her shoulder, wearing a large pearl earring.

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665

Mauritshuis

A towering blue wave curls over three boats with snowcapped Mount Fuji in the distance.

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830–1832

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A close view of a pond filled with blue reflections and pale pink and white water lilies.

Water Lilies

Claude Monet, 1906

Art Institute of Chicago

A large park scene of people relaxing beside the Seine, painted from countless small color marks.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

Georges Seurat, 1884–1886

Art Institute of Chicago

An embracing couple wrapped in richly patterned gold robes kneels in a flower-filled meadow.

The Kiss

Gustav Klimt, 1908–1909

Belvedere

Venus stands on a shell at the shore while winds blow from the left and an attendant approaches with a floral cloak.

The Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485

Uffizi Galleries

A large civic guard company emerges from shadow as two central officers stride forward.

The Night Watch

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642

Rijksmuseum

A woman in a blue apron pours milk beside bread on a table in a sunlit room.

The Milkmaid

Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660

Rijksmuseum

The young Infanta stands among attendants in a palace studio while Velázquez paints at a large canvas.

Las Meninas

Diego Velázquez, 1656

Museo Nacional del Prado

A man in a white shirt raises his arms before a firing squad at night as bodies lie nearby.

The Third of May 1808

Francisco de Goya, 1814

Museo Nacional del Prado