Most Frequently Asked Art Works
(according to Carleton College)
** All works are paintings unless otherwise noted**
Work Artist
Raft of the Medusa Gericault, Theodore
Birth of Venus Botticelli, Sandro (real name: Alessandro Filipepi)
The Scream Munch, Edvard
Garden of Earthly Delights Bosch, Hieronymus
The Oath of the Horatii David, Jacques-Louis
Burial of Count Orgaz El Greco (real name: Domenico Theotokopoulos)
School of Athens Raphael
Liberty Leading the People Delacroix, Eugene
The Maids of Honor
(“Las Meninas”) Velazquez, Diego
A Rake’s Progress Hogarth, William
Olympia Manet, Edouard
Primavera Botticelli, Sandro
Bird in Space [sculpture series] Brancusi, Constantin
Death of Marat David, Jacques-Louis
Nighthawks Hopper, Edward
Luncheon on the Grass
(“Dejeuner sur l’Herbe) Manet, Edouard
The Arnolfini Wedding Van Eyck, Jan
The Bar at the Folies Bergeres Manet, Edouard
The Night Watch Rembrandt (van Rijn)
The Massacre at Chios Delacroix, Eugene
Guernica Picasso, Pablo
Venus of Urbino Titian
The Third of May, 1808 Goya, Francisco de
The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci
The Sleeping Gypsy Rousseau, Henri
Embarkation for Cythera Watteau, Jean A.
Arrangement in Gray and Black
No.1: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother Whistler, James
Ecstasy of St. Theresa [sculpture] Bernini, Gianlorenzo
David [sculpture] Donatello
Nude Descending a Staircase Duchamp, Marcel
The Gross Clinic Eakins, Thomas
Impression: Sunrise Monet, Claude
The Death of Sardanapalus Delacroix, Eugene
The Blue Boy Gainsborough, Thomas
Mona Lisa
(“La Gioconda”) Leonardo da Vinci
Madonna of the Long Neck Parmigianino
The Persistence of Memory Dali, Salvador
The Disasters of war (series) Goya, Francisco
View of Toledo El Greco
Sunday Afternoon on the Island
of La Grande Jatte Seurat, Georges
Mont Sainte-Victoire Cezanne, Paul
The Hay Wain Constable, John
Gates of Paradise [set of bronze doors] Ghiberti, Lorenzo
Marriage a la Mode (series of paintings) Hogarth, William
Broadway Boogie-Woogie Mondrian, Piet
The Conversion of St. Paul Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
The Stone Breakers Courbet, Gustave
Woman (series of paintings) De Kooning, Willem
Rouen Cathedral (series of paintings) Monet, Claude
The Thinker [sculpture] Rodin, Auguste
The Potato Eaters Van Gogh, Vincent