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Famous Paintings, Explained

The stories behind famous paintings, the painters who made them, and the movements that shaped them. Every work here can be recreated by hand in oil on canvas.

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Painting story

Impression, Sunrise by Monet

Explore Monet’s Impression, Sunrise with detail crops, its 1874 naming story and comparisons with Turner’s sunsets and Jongkind’s Overschie.

Claude Monet1872
Painting story

Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh

Fifteen sunflowers in a yellow vase on a yellow wall, painted in August 1888 to decorate Gauguin’s room in the Yellow House.

Vincent van Gogh1888
Painting story

The Starry Night by Van Gogh

The Starry Night shows the night sky over Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, a spiral of wind and eleven haloed stars above a village and a flame-shaped…

Vincent van GoghJune 1889

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Man Writing a Letter by Gabriel Metsu, about 1664

Man Writing a Letter
Gabriel Metsu, c. 1664

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