What is the most significant painting in history?

By YouPickBest
200 votes

Dive into a vibrant clash of artistic expressions where timeless masterpieces meet bold innovations, each vying for the title of the ultimate painting in history. Discover the hidden gems, iconic marvels, and even the controversial picks that have shaped the art world—who will reign supreme in your eyes?

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci - ranking option ranked #1

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

Renaissance portrait, Louvre Museum, most famous painting in the world

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The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh - ranking option ranked #2

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

Post-Impressionist masterpiece, Museum of Modern Art

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The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci - ranking option ranked #3

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

Renaissance fresco in Milan, depicting Jesus and disciples

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Guernica by Pablo Picasso - ranking option ranked #4

Guernica by Pablo Picasso

Cubist anti-war painting, Museo Reina Sofía

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The Scream by Edvard Munch - ranking option ranked #5

The Scream by Edvard Munch

Expressionist painting symbolizing human anxiety

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Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer - ranking option ranked #6

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

Dutch Golden Age portrait, Mauritshuis

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The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli - ranking option ranked #7

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

Renaissance painting, Uffizi Gallery

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Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh - ranking option ranked #8

Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh

Series of still life paintings, Van Gogh Museum

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The Night Watch by Rembrandt - ranking option ranked #9

The Night Watch by Rembrandt

Dutch Golden Age group portrait, Rijksmuseum

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Water Lilies by Claude Monet - ranking option ranked #10

Water Lilies by Claude Monet

Impressionist series, Musée de l'Orangerie

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso - ranking option ranked #11

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso

Proto-Cubist painting, Museum of Modern Art

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The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí - ranking option ranked #12

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí

Surrealist painting with melting clocks

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American Gothic by Grant Wood - ranking option ranked #13

American Gothic by Grant Wood

American Regionalist painting, Art Institute of Chicago

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The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch - ranking option ranked #14

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch

Early Netherlandish triptych, Prado Museum

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Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez - ranking option ranked #15

Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez

Baroque painting, Prado Museum

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The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo - ranking option ranked #16

The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

Renaissance fresco on Sistine Chapel ceiling

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The School of Athens by Raphael - ranking option ranked #17

The School of Athens by Raphael

Renaissance fresco in Vatican, depicting philosophers

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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - ranking option ranked #18

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet

Painting that gave name to Impressionism movement

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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat - ranking option ranked #19

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

Pointillist masterpiece, Art Institute of Chicago

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai - ranking option ranked #20

The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai

Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print

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Nighthawks by Edward Hopper - ranking option ranked #21

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

American realist painting, Art Institute of Chicago

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The Kiss by Gustav Klimt - ranking option ranked #22

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

Art Nouveau painting, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

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Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler - ranking option ranked #23

Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler

Portrait painting, Musée d'Orsay

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The Hay Wain by John Constable - ranking option ranked #24

The Hay Wain by John Constable

Romantic landscape painting, National Gallery

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Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix - ranking option ranked #25

Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix

Romantic painting, Louvre Museum

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The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault - ranking option ranked #26

The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault

Romantic painting, Louvre Museum

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Olympia by Édouard Manet - ranking option ranked #27

Olympia by Édouard Manet

Realist painting that shocked Paris, Musée d'Orsay

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The Dance by Henri Matisse - ranking option ranked #28

The Dance by Henri Matisse

Fauvist painting, Hermitage Museum

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Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky - ranking option ranked #29

Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky

Abstract painting, Tretyakov Gallery

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No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock - ranking option ranked #30

No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock

Abstract Expressionist drip painting

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Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol - ranking option ranked #31

Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol

Pop art series, Museum of Modern Art

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Woman I by Willem de Kooning - ranking option ranked #32

Woman I by Willem de Kooning

Abstract Expressionist painting, Museum of Modern Art

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