A DIGITAL GALLERY
Paintings and their stories
Arkhip Kuindzhi · 1879
After the Rain
A sunlit clearing beneath a storm cloud9 min
Leonardo da Vinci · 1503–1519
Mona Lisa (Portrait of Lisa Gherardini)
Renaissance9 min
Vincent van Gogh · June 1889
The Starry Night
Post-Impressionism8 min
Mi Youren · 1130
Cloudy Mountains
Chinese painting8 min
Kano Sansetsu · 1646
Old Plum
Japanese painting9 min
Johannes Vermeer · c. 1665
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Baroque8 min
Unidentified Egyptian painters · c. 1350 BCE
Nebamun Fowling in the Marshes — original tomb-painting fragment
Ancient painting9 min
Sandro Botticelli · About 1480
Spring (Primavera)
Classical gods in a Medici home12 min
Gustave Caillebotte · 1877
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Impressionism9 min
Painting by Habiballah of Sava · ca. 1600
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Persian painting8 min
Andrei Rublev · Probably 1422–1427
The Trinity
How one painter’s image became a model for generations10 min
Judith Leyster · c. 1630
Self-Portrait
Baroque4 min
Frederic Edwin Church · 1859
Heart of the Andes
Romanticism9 min
Théodore Géricault · 1818–1819
The Raft of the Medusa
Romanticism9 min
Unidentified painters of Roman Egypt · 100–150 CE
Portrait of the Boy Eutyches
Roman Egyptian painting8 min
Henri Matisse · Fall 1911
The Red Studio
Modernism9 min
Unidentified Korean painters · first half of the 14th century
Water-moon Avalokiteshvara
Korean painting8 min
Mary Cassatt · 1893
The Child's Bath
Impressionism9 min
Leonardo da Vinci · 1495–1498
The Last Supper
Renaissance9 min
Yi Taek-gyun · late 1800s
Books and Scholars’ Accoutrements
Korean painting8 min
Francisco Goya · 1814
The Third of May 1808 in Madrid, or The Executions
Romanticism9 min
Sandro Botticelli · c. 1485
The Birth of Venus
Renaissance11 min
Katsushika Ōi · 1840s
Operating on Guan Yu's Arm
Japanese painting8 min
Unidentified Roman painters · 80–70 BCE
Dionysiac frieze, Villa of the Mysteries — photographic panorama
Ancient painting11 min