MILAN – Art collectors from all over the world spend hundreds of dollars every year to grab some of the most famous and rare paintings on the market. In many cases, however, it is possible to grab only reproductions of paintings that are kept inside the museums. There are, however, many people who would like to have at home the works of the great artists who have made the history of art. We asked you, therefore, which great work of art you would like in your home, the answers were many. Let’s see together the 10 most dreamed paintings!
. 1) “The kiss” by Gustav Klimt
The kiss is a painting by Gustav Klimt, probably the best known of the Austrian painter, made between 1907-1908 and located at the Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna. It synthesizes his art of him. There are two figures in it: a man and a woman kneeling in the act of embracing. A meadow full of colored flowers acts as an indefinable plane of lay, while the gold background cancels the effect of spatial depth.
. 2) “The Birth of Venus” by Botticelli
It is a tempera painting on linen by Sandro Botticelli, datable to 1482-1485. Today it is kept in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. An iconic work of the Italian Renaissance, often assumed as a symbol of Florence itself and its art, perhaps in ancient times it was a companion to the equally famous “Primavera” also by Botticelli, with which it shares the format and some philosophical references.
. 3) “The starry night” by Vincent Van Gogh
“The Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh and datable to June 1889 and preserved in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Van Gogh stayed awake for three nights watching the countryside he saw from his window. The painting he creates is not, however, a faithful reproduction of the landscape he saw, but an imaginary vision in which the elements live on the artist’s feelings. (lwgg
. 4) “Gioconda” by Leonardo da Vinci
The Mona Lisa, also known as Mona Lisa, is a painting dating back to around 1503-1506, and preserved in the Louvre Museum in Paris.The painting, according to historical information, is the portrait of Lisa Gherardini wife of Francesco del Giocondo, hence his double title of Mona Lisa or Gioconda. X-ray analyzes have shown that what we see is only the third or fourth version of the painting, and this also reminds us of the great significance it had for the artist. We also know that he never considered it completely complete, even if it appears absolutely complete to us. All this has contributed to building an aura of mystery around this work, whose meanings, therefore, transcend from a purely historical-artistic discourse.
. 5) “Tondo Doni” by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Preserved in the Uffizi Gallery, this painting represents a Holy Family, and the only panel painting we know of by Michelangelo. The name “Tondo Doni” derives from the fact that it was probably commissioned by that Agnolo Doni. The painting has a circular shape that has a decisive influence on the composition of the scene. Michelangelo experiments with a completely new way of giving three-dimensionality to paintings.
, 6) “Girl with a turban” by Jan Vermeer
A painting that dates back to 1666 and is kept today in the Mauritshuis in The Hague. One of the greatest masterpieces of Johannes Vermeer, better known to the general public as the “Girl with a Pearl Earring” as from the book by Tracy Chevalier and from the film interpretation by Scarlett Johansson. She turns to the painter who portrays her in the light of an interior. A face so realistic as to reveal emotion.
. 7) “Le Ninfee” by Claude Monet
With “The water lilies” we mean a cycle of about 250 paintings, made by the French impressionist painter Claude Monet. the pond of Giverny, long dreamed of, planned by Claude Monet with the water lilies, aquatic plants, trees and flowers that surrounded the area, the Japanese bridge suspended between two willow cloisters, is not only the territorialization of an element biographical. When the artist decides to work around a closed space, the loose and open en plein air painting changes radically and Giverny becomes a real pictorial laboratory, in which the usual landscape. From close-ups to wide-ranging paintings, Monet’s art represents his nature in all its liveliness.
. 8) “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso
The painting was made in memory of April 26, 1937, for the aerial bombardment of the Basque city of the same name during the Spanish Civil War. The painting is made according to the stylistic features of Cubism: the space is canceled out to allow the simultaneous vision of the various fragments that Picasso intends to represent. Color is completely absent to accentuate the dramatic charge of what is represented. A unique testimony of a tragic event in history.
. 9) “Child with a basket of fruit” by Caravaggio
It is a painting by the Italian painter Caravaggio preserved in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. The painting was probably made in the period when Caravaggio was in Rome. The work represents a great demonstration of skill by Caravaggio, who manages to show every little detail present within the composition.
. 10) “Fort Vimieux” by William Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English painter and printmaker. Belonging to the romantic movement, it can be said that his style laid the foundations for the birth of Impressionism. Although he became famous for his oil works, Turner was also one of the greatest British masters in the making of watercolor landscapes. He is known by the nickname: “The painter of light”. In this painting, the final moments of a great battle, a stricken ship rests on the seabed, bringing death and despair with it.
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