Our top-50 favourite paintings

1 - Rogier van der Weyden. The Descent from the Cross, ca. 1435 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).


2 - Jheronimus/ Hieronymus Bosch. The Garden of Earthly Delights (triptych), ca. 1500 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).


3 - Pieter Bruegel the elder. The Tower of Babel, 1563 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).


4 - Sandro Botticelli. Calumny of Apelles, ca. 1494 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).


5 - Jan Brueghel the elder (w. Peter Paul Rubens). The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, ca. 1615 (Mauritshuis, The Hague).


6 - Johannes Vermeer. The Art of Painting, ca. 1667 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).


7- Agnolo Bronzino. An Allegory of Venus and Cupid, ca. 1545 (National Gallery, London).


8- Jacob van Ruisdael. View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, ca. 1675 (Mauritshuis, The Hague).


9 - Jean Fouquet. Virgin and Child surrounded by Angels (Melun diptych), ca. 1450 (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).


10 - Johannes Vermeer. View of Delft, ca. 1661 (Mauritshuis, The Hague).


11 - Pieter Bruegel the elder. The Blind leading the Blind, ca. 1568 (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples).


12 - Rembrandt van Rijn. Self-Portrait at the Age of 63, 1669 (National Gallery, London).


13 - Eugène Delacroix. July 28: Liberty leading the People, 1830 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).


14 - Joachim Patinir. Charon crossing the Styx, 1524 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).


15 - Peter Paul Rubens. The four Rivers of Paradise, ca. 1615 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).


16 - Jheronimus/ Hieronymus Bosch. Saint John the Baptist, ca. 1490 (Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid).


17 - Pieter Bruegel the elder. The Harvesters, 1565 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).


18 - El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos). View of Toledo, ca. 1596 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).


19 - Lucas Cranach the elder. The Golden Age, ca. 1530 (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo).


20 - Frans Hals. Portrait of a Couple, 1622 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).


21 - Hans Holbein the younger. A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling, 1528 (National Gallery, London).


22 - El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos). Laocoön, ca. 1614 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).


23 - Johannes Vermeer. The Milkmaid, ca. 1658 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).


24 - Pieter Bruegel the elder. Hunters in the Snow - Winter, 1565 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).


25 - Salomon de Bray. Jael, Deborah and Barak, 1635 (Catharijneconvent, Utrecht).


26 - Willem Claesz Heda. Still Life with a Gilt Cup, 1635 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).


27 - Albrecht Dürer. Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher, 1526 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).


28 - Edvard Munch. The Gangway, 1903 (KODE-3 Art Museums, Bergen).


29 - Hans Holbein. Portrait of Charles de Solier, ca. 1535 (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden).


30 - Meredith Frampton. Marguerite Kelsey, 1928 (Tate Britain, London).


31 - Edvard Munch. The Sun, 1916 (Oslo University Assembly Hall).


32 - Gerrit Dou. A sleeping Dog beside a Terra-Cotta Jug, 1650 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).


33 - Diego Velázquez. The Toilet of Venus (‘The Rokeby Venus’), ca. 1650 (National Gallery, London).


34 - Govert Flinck. Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap, 1645 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).


35 - Gustav Klimt. Danaë, 1908 (Galerie Würthle, Vienna).


36 - Akseli Gallen Kallela. Lake Keitele, 1905 (National Gallery, London).


37 - Susannah Martin. Bavaria, 2016 (artist’s portfolio).


38 - Abraham Mignon. Still Life with Fruit, Oysters, and a Porcelain Bowl, 1679 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).


39 - Anders Zorn. Portrait of Martha Dana, 1899 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).


40 - Frits Thaulow. Watermill, 1892 (Philadelphia Museum of Art).


41 - Amedeo Modigliani. Female Nude, ca. 1916 (Courtauld Gallery, London).


42 - Harmen Steenwijck. An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life, ca. 1640 (National Gallery, London).


43 - Michaël Borremans. The Angel, 2013 (artist’s portfolio).


44 - Wassily Kandinsky. Sky Blue, 1940 (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris).


45 - Jacobus van Looy. The Garden, 1893 (Teylers Museum, Haarlem).


46 - Gerrit Berckheyde. View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht, ca. 1672 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).


47 - Kazimir Malevich. Woman Worker, 1933 (State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg).


48 - Anton Mauve. Flock of Sheep with Shepherd in the Snow, 1888 (Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague).


49 - Edvard Munch. Moonlight, 1895 (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo).


50 - Amedeo Modigliani. Portrait of a Woman in a black Tie, 1917 (Collection Fujikawa Galleries Inc, Tokyo).