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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 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

A man with a walking stick stands on a rocky summit above a vast landscape filled with fog.

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1818

Hamburger Kunsthalle