The 50 Greatest Paintings of All Time

The following is an aggregate list based off of 18 different "Greatest Paintings of All Time" or "Greatest Works of Art of All Time" lists (updated as of 9/17/25)

1. Mona Lisa – Leonardo da Vinci (1503–1506)

2. Girl with a Pearl Earring – Johannes Vermeer (1665)

3. The Starry Night – Vincent van Gogh (1889)

4. The Birth of Venus – Sandro Botticelli (c.1485–1486)

5. The Scream – Edvard Munch (1893)

6. The Creation of Adam – Michelangelo (c.1511–1512)

7. The Last Supper – Leonardo da Vinci (1495–1498)

8. Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor) – Diego Velázquez (1656)

9. The Kiss – Gustav Klimt (1907–1908)

10. The Night Watch – Rembrandt van Rijn (1642)

11. The Arnolfini Portrait – Jan van Eyck (1434)

12. American Gothic – Grant Wood (1930)

13. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – Georges Seurat (1884–1886)

14. The Garden of Earthly Delights – Hieronymus Bosch (c.1490–1510)

15. The School of Athens – Raphael (1509–1511)

16. Liberty Leading the People – Eugène Delacroix (1830)

17. Impression, Sunrise – Claude Monet (1872)

18. Primavera – Sandro Botticelli (c.1477–1482)

19. The Swing – Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1767)

20. Bal du moulin de la Galette – Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1876)

21. Guernica – Pablo Picasso (1937)

22. Luncheon of the Boating Party – Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1880–1881)

23. Napoleon Crossing the Alps – Jacques-Louis David (1801–1805)

24. The Great Wave off Kanagawa – Katsushika Hokusai (1831)

25. Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog – Caspar David Friedrich (1818)

26. The Persistence of Memory – Salvador Dalí (1931)

27. The Gleaners – Jean-François Millet (1857)

28. Olympia – Édouard Manet (1863)

29. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – Pablo Picasso (1907)

30. Whistler’s Mother – James McNeill Whistler (1871)

31. Water Lilies – Claude Monet (1914–1926)

32. The Sleeping Gypsy – Henri Rousseau (1897)

33. The Grande Odalisque – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1814)

34. The Astronomer – Johannes Vermeer (1668)

35. The Ninth Wave – Ivan Aivazovsky (1850)

36. The Third of May 1808 – Francisco Goya (1814)

37. A Bar at the Folies-Bergère – Édouard Manet (1882)

38. The Lady of Shalott – John William Waterhouse (1888)

39. Nighthawks – Edward Hopper (1942)

40. View of Toledo – El Greco (c.1596–1600)

41. The Hunters in the Snow – Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)

42. Lady with an Ermine – Leonardo da Vinci (1489–1490)

43. The Luncheon on the Grass – Édouard Manet (1862–1863)

44. The Storm on the Sea of Galilee – Rembrandt van Rijn (1633)

45. The Raft of the Medusa – Théodore Géricault (1818–1819)

46. Flaming June – Frederic Leighton (1895)

47. Paris Street; Rainy Day – Gustave Caillebotte (1877)

48. The Laughing Cavalier – Frans Hals (1624)

49. The Tower of Babel – Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563)

50. The Oath of the Horatii – Jacques-Louis David (1784)