Famous Works Of Visual Art

This building, which began as a fortress in the 12th century, was renovated in 1546 by Francis I and Pierre Lescot.

The Parthenon, built in 447 BC by Ictinus and Callicrates, was built on the Acropolis of this famed Greek goddess.

Construction of this building, one of the first examples of the flying buttress in architecture, began during the reign of Louis VII in 1163.

During the French Revolution in 1793, Notre Dame Cathedral was plundered, and statues of her replaced those of the Virgin Mary on several altars.

This portrait, also known as La Gioconda, is remarkable for its imaginary background and the lack of any facial hair on its subject.

Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi created this famed structure, visible in New York Harbor.

Pablo Picasso painted this work to depict the chaos and destruction of a German bombing in Spain on April 26, 1937.

The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, was built by this Mughal Emperor in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

Michelangelo painted the ceiling, but this "sweet" man was the architect behind the construction of the Sistine Chapel.

This famed Botticelli work is said to have been painted as a celebration of love of Giuliana di Piero de Medici and Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci, who Botticelli also privately loved.

After "Old Saint Paul's" was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, this architect was given the task of building a replacement structure. He finished it on his 76th birthday in 1708.

This 1942 Edward Hopper paining, depicting patrons in a diner late at night, currently resides in the Art Institute of Chicago.

"The Persistance of Memory", Salvador Dali's most famous work, is an example of this cultural and artistic movement.

Although Daniel Chester French sculpted the seated Abraham Lincoln, this architect is renowned for the design of the exterior of the famed Lincoln Memorial.

Rodin's famed work, The Thinker, seen as an icon of philosophy and intellectual activity, is said to be depicting this man, pondering his poem in front of the Gates of Hell.

One of Rembrandt's most famous works, it's the shortened title of a painting titled "The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch".

Fallingwater, a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935, is about 50 miles to the southeast of this industrial U.S. city.

This painting, considered Raphael's masterpiece, is a fresco in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican depicting many famed Greek figures.

Da Vinci's famed mural The Last Supper covers the back wall of the dining hall at Santa Maria delle Grazie in this Italian city.

In his painting "American Gothic", the woman is said to be modeled after his sister, and the man on his dentist.

Unlike Michelangelo's sculpture of David, who is standing calmly, this man's interpretation of David seems to be moving and twisting.

The 1434 painting seen here, by this Netherlandish painter, is painted in oils on oak panel.

This Jacques-Louis David painting depicting the murder of a famed radical journalist of the French Revolution has been compared to works by Michelangelo and Caravaggio.

Located on the Upper East Side of New York City, this Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum is home to a renowned permanent collection of art.

This sculptor, famed for "The Thinker", also designed "The Gates of Hell", a set of doors adorning the Decorative Arts Museum.