Mona Lisa
The world's most famous enigmatic smile
Art & Sculpture
Masterworks of human creativity measured in cold, hard numbers. The Mona Lisa may be priceless, but she is exactly 0.77 meters tall.
David by Michelangelo
5.17 meters of marble confidence
The Starry Night
Van Gogh's swirling vision of the night sky
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Hokusai's iconic woodblock print of nature's fury
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Michelangelo's back-breaking masterpiece
Guernica by Picasso
The most powerful anti-war painting ever made
Terracotta Army (Complete Collection)
8,000 clay soldiers guarding a 2,200-year-old emperor
The Thinker by Rodin (Original)
The world's most famous thoughtful pose
The Scream (Edvard Munch)
The most anxious painting in art history
The Persistence of Memory (Salvador Dali)
Melting clocks that redefined how we picture time
The Birth of Venus (Sandro Botticelli)
A goddess on a giant shell, Renaissance style
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Johannes Vermeer)
The Mona Lisa of the North, staring over her shoulder
Bayeux Tapestry
A 70-metre embroidered chronicle of the Norman Conquest
Book of Kells
An illuminated Gospel manuscript from medieval Ireland
Winged Victory of Samothrace
The headless Nike that commands the Louvre staircase
Venus de Milo
The armless Greek goddess in the Louvre
Bust of Nefertiti
The 3,300-year-old painted limestone portrait of an Egyptian queen
Benin Bronze Plaque
Cast brass reliefs from the Kingdom of Benin
Elgin Marbles Metope
A carved marble panel from the Parthenon frieze
Rodin's The Kiss
A marble sculpture of two lovers in an embrace
Klimt's The Kiss
A gold-leafed Art Nouveau painting of an embracing couple
Van Gogh's Sunflowers
One of the most recognized still-life paintings in art history
Monet's Water Lilies (Orangerie)
The vast curved murals that wrap around two oval rooms
Degas's Little Dancer of Fourteen Years
A wax sculpture dressed in real fabric that scandalized Paris