Grand Canal Venice
1905 · Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Gondolas on water that has shattered into pink, blue and gold. Signac took the divisionist dot to the most painted view in Europe.
★ 4.8
The Art canon
Sourced and hung.
Every work chosen by hand and annotated for why it matters.
Browse all 704 works or filter by movement, subject, place, and artist.
Browse all 704 works or filter by movement, subject, place, and artist.
San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk
1912 · National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff
Monet went to Venice late and found a city already doing what he had spent fifty years trying to paint.
★ 6.3
Rooms by the Sea
1951 · Private collection
A door opens straight onto the water with no shore in between, and the only other thing in the picture is sunlight on a wall.
★ 6.6
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
1867 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Monet's own father sits among the gladioli on a terrace, and the young painter tips the space up in flat bands like a Japanese print.
★ 6.6
Raft of the Medusa
1819 · Louvre, Paris
Survivors of a real shipwreck pile toward a speck of sail on the horizon. Géricault studied corpses and asylum patients before he began.
★ 9.0