The last supper is a late 15th-century mural painting painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 14 for the Dominican monastery Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milan. Location: Convent of Santa Maria Delle Grazia, Milan.According to Patricia Failing, an art historian, the bull and the horse are important characters in Spanish culture and the painter has used these characters to play many different roles. This work has gained a monumental status, a reminder of the tragedies of war, and an embodiment of peace. Guernica was painted on canvas using matte house paint. After completion of the painting, it was exhibited at the Spanish display at the 1937 Paris International Exposition and displayed around the world which brought worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War. Guernica was painted in his home in Paris in reaction to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country town in northern Spain. This best known Picasso painting is considered as one of the most powerful anti-war paintings in history. It portrays the suffering of people and animals caused due to violence and chaos.

It is grey, black, and white 3.50 meters tall, and 7.76 meters wide painting. Guernica is a large oil painting in the year 1937 by Pablo Picasso, a Spanish artist. Its beauty, complex iconography, rich details, and the use of the mirror makes it one of the finest works of art history. In 1842, the painting was bought by the National Gallery in London. Some art historians have spent their whole career attempting to decode the symbols, the hands, and the couple and considered it as a unique form of a marriage contract. The glowing colors highlight the realism of the painting. An odd convex mirror on the wall behind the couple reflects the whole scene back at the viewer. A couple stands in a wonderfully furnished room, the woman’s hand on top of the man’s left hand and they are dressed in heavy-looking fabrics and furs. It is considered as the most original painting in western art with the greatest riddles. It’s a full-length double portrait, representing the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, in their residence at the Flemish city of Bruges. The portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife is an oil painting on an oak panel painted by Jan van Eyck, the Early Netherland painter in the year 1434. In 1999, American Novelist Tracy Chevalier published a novel of the same name inspired by the famous painting. The Dutch public declared it the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands. This painting is not a portrait, but an example of the Dutch genre called a ‘Tronie’, a Dutch term for a character or type of person. She turns her head looking over her shoulder and locking the viewer’s gaze with her. The painting represents a young woman in a dark shallow space that draws the viewer’s attention to her. The work resides in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. This is the most renowned work of Vermeer, which depicts a European young woman wearing an exotic dress, an oriental turban, and a large pearl earring. Girl with a Pearl Earring is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, a Dutch Golden Age Painter in the year 1665.

Location: Mauritshuis Museum, Netherlands.

It seems like the women lacking eyebrows and eyelashes follow the viewer wherever they go! The painting now is the property of the French Republic and permanently displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The woman in the painting is thought to be Italian Nobel-woman Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco Del Giocondo. The painting is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel. It is described as best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world. It also holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known insurance valuation. It is an Italian Renaissance painting that is considered as a masterpiece. The painting of Mona Lisa is one of the most valuable paintings in the world. The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, he had begun working on this portrait by October 1503 and left it unfinished in 1516 because Leonardo da Vinci’s right hand was a paralytic circa in 1571.

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