Art history paintings

List of the Ten Most Famous Paintings in the World. The most sought after paintings and art work in the world.

Paintings can be far more complicated than they appear at first glance. The stories told by works of art are the stuff of novels. Here are a few of the stories behind famous masterpieces.

Antonietta Brandeis - Marco Gozzi - Carlo Bossoli - Giovanni Grubas - Carlo Grubas - Jacques François Carabain - Carlo Grubas

Over the centuries, artists from Artemisia Gentileschi to Pipilotti Rist have given form to powerful expressions of women’s anger.

hands, appreciating art. Holbein, art museums, Orozco, Rembrandt, Vincent Van Gogh, Anne of Cleves, judging the quality of art, hands

Painting of an extremely surprised man, styled after Caravaggio's old master Baroque oil paintings.

Katy Hessel’s ambitious, weighty corrective to an art history canon that sidelines (or erases) women is ‘impressive and overdue’, writes Edwina Preston.