Famous Paintings & Artists

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Who painted the Mona Lisa?


Leonardo da Vinci, completed around 1517; housed in the Louvre, Paris

Who painted Starry Night?


Vincent van Gogh, painted in 1889 while at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum; housed at MoMA, New York

Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?


Michelangelo, painted between 1508 and 1512; located in Vatican City

Who painted The Persistence of Memory (melting clocks)?


Salvador Dali, painted in 1931; housed at MoMA, New York

Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?


Johannes Vermeer, painted around 1665; housed at the Mauritshuis, The Hague

Who painted Guernica?


Pablo Picasso, painted in 1937 as a response to the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War; housed at the Reina Sofia, Madrid

Who painted The Birth of Venus?


Sandro Botticelli, painted around 1485; housed at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Who painted A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte?


Georges Seurat, painted 1884-1886 using pointillism; housed at the Art Institute of Chicago

Who painted The Scream?


Edvard Munch, created in 1893; the most famous version is at the National Gallery of Norway, Oslo

Who painted Water Lilies (series)?


Claude Monet, painted approximately 250 oil paintings between 1896 and 1926; displayed in museums worldwide

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