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1. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (short version)

2020-05-29

The Mona Lisa is without doubt the most famous painting in the world, yet perhaps we are over familiar with her. Here I explain why I think it is not only a great painting but als…

2. Picasso’s Guernica

2020-06-26

Guernica is the most famous anti-war painting in history, and Picasso’s best-known work. It has gone from a piece that was created in protest at the horrific bombing of a small vi…

3. Michelangelo's David

2020-07-02

Michelangelo was the first superstar artist. He was a sculptor, a painter, an architect, a poet and an engineer. An outsider touched by genius. His statue of David, the most famo…

4. The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault

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This is the story about the painting of the raft that shook the world and scandalised high society. Not only for its anti-royalist statements but also for its choice of a black ma…

5. Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas"

2020-08-02

Frida Kahlo is the most famous female artist in history. She deviated from the traditional portrayal of female beauty in art, and instead chose to paint raw and honest experiences…

6. The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck

2020-08-30

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck has baffled art historians ever since it was painted in 1434. It has been dissected and analysed, maybe more than any other painting in hist…

7. Artemisia Gentileschi

2020-09-03

Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of the world's great art was created. And visual art was almost …

8. Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych

2020-10-08

Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immor…

9. Monet's Water Lilies

2020-11-06

Claude Monet is often criticised for being overexposed, too easy, too obvious, or worse, a chocolate box artist. His last works, the enormous water lily canvasses are among the mo…

10. Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals

2020-11-27

On the 25th February 1970, the Tate gallery in London received nine Mark Rothko canvasses, a generous donation from the artist himself. A few hours later, Rothko was found dead i…

11. The Thinker by Rodin

2020-12-29

The Thinker, captured in a moment of concentrated introspection has come to represent a multitude of ideas about the nature of man and his place in the world. For some it is a sym…