Masterpieces Everyone Knows

24 works

Twenty-four masterpieces counted among the highlights of art textbooks and museum collections. Rembrandt's The Night Watch and Vermeer's The Milkmaid from the Rijksmuseum, Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte and American Gothic from the Art Institute of Chicago, Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci and Monet's Woman with a Parasol from the National Gallery of Art, Van Gogh's Sunflowers and Hokusai's wave from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: we gathered only paintings these four museums have released into the public domain. Pick one you know and start on Easy (about 24 pieces). Each work comes with a short commentary on what is in the picture and why it is famous.