Website design By BotEap.comThis is the list of the 100 Best Works of Art of the World Society of Museums. This list of the top 100 famous and important works of art was chosen from a large selection of the great works of the last five centuries. There is a true cross section of artwork listed here from many countries.

Website design By BotEap.comContemporary Art Gallery magazine asked the World Museums Society to create a list of famous works of art from the world’s great art museums based on their importance and influence on contemporary art. The top 100 selections of these important works of art were compiled by voting members of the WMS.

Website design By BotEap.com1) Bosch – The Garden of Earthly Delights (1504) – Prado, Madrid

Website design By BotEap.com2) Michelangelo: Il Giudizio Universale/ Universal Judgment (1541) – Cappella Sistina, Rome

Website design By BotEap.com3) Dali: Persistence of Memory (1931) – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com4) Klimt: The Virgin (1913) – National Gallery, Prague

Website design By BotEap.com5) Botticelli: Allegory of the Spring (1478) – Uffizi, Florence

Website design By BotEap.com6) Monet: Water Lilies (1926) – Orangerie, Paris

Website design By BotEap.com7) Leonardo: Il Cenacolo/ The Last Supper (1497) – S.Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Website design By BotEap.com8) Rubens: The Fall of the Damned / Der Hollensturz der Verdammten

Website design By BotEap.com9) Van Gogh: Starry Night (1889) – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com10) Raffaello: Sposalizio della Vergine (1504) – Piancoteca di Brera, Milan

Website design By BotEap.com11) Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (1936) – Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Website design By BotEap.com12) Bruegel: Triumph of Death (1562) – Prado, Madrid

Website design By BotEap.com13) Greco: Toledo (1599) – Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com14) Seurat: The Circus Parade (1888) – Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com15) Rembrandt: Militia Company (1642) – Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Website design By BotEap.com16) Van Eyck: Madonna in the Church (1425) – Gemaldegalerie, Berlin

Website design By BotEap.com17) Leonardo: Gioconda/ Mona Lisa (1505) – Louvre, Paris

Website design By BotEap.com18) Rousseau: Sleeping Gypsy (1897) – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com19) Greco: The Crucifixion (1594) – Prado, Madrid

Website design By BotEap.com20) Altdorfer: The Battle of Alexander the Great (1529) – Alte Pinakothek, Munchen

Website design By BotEap.com21) Klee: Ad Marginen (1930) – Kunstmuseum, Basel

Website design By BotEap.com22) Rembrandt: Belshazzar’s Banquet (1635) – National Gallery, London

Website design By BotEap.com23) Rubens: Saint Augustine, National Gallery, Prague

Website design By BotEap.com24) Renoir: Dance at the Moulin de la Galette (1876) – Musée National d’Orsay, Paris

Website design By BotEap.com25) Goya: Sabbath / Il Grande Caprone (1821) – Prado, Madrid

Website design By BotEap.com26) Chagall: I and the Village (1911) – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com27) Magritte: False Specchio (1928) – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com28) Millet: Harvesters Resting (1853)

Website design By BotEap.com29) Veronese: Nozze di Cana (1563) – Louvre, Paris

Website design By BotEap.com30) Velasquez: The Spinners (166?) – Prado, Madrid

Website design By BotEap.com31) Caravaggio: Davide/ Galea (1607) – Kunsthistorische Muzeum, Vienna

Website design By BotEap.com32) Rubens: Feast of Venus/ Vennsfest (1637) – Kunsthistorische Muzeum, Wien

Website design By BotEap.com33) Vermeer: ​​The Astronomer (1668) – Louvre, Paris

Website design By BotEap.com34) Schiele: Death and the Maiden (1915) – Belvedere, Wien

Website design By BotEap.com35) Cezanne: Mount Saint Victoire (1906) – Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Website design By BotEap.com36) Klee: Landschaft mit dem Gelben Kirchturm (1920) – Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munchen

Website design By BotEap.com37) Leonardo: Vergine delle Rocce I (1486) – Louvre, Paris

Website design By BotEap.com38) Rousseau: Virgin Forest at Sunset (1907) – Kunstmuseum, Basel

Website design By BotEap.com39) Tintoretto: Miracolo dello Schiavo (1548) – Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice

Website design By BotEap.com40) Ernst: Antipope (1942) – Guggenheim, New York

Website design By BotEap.com41) Botticelli: Miracolo di San Zenobio (1500) – National Gallery, London

Website design By BotEap.com42) Picasso: Three Musicians (1921) – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com43) Miro`: Hunter, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com44) Matisse: Dance (1909) – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com45) Braque: Violin and Palette (1910) – Guggenheim, New York

Website design By BotEap.com46) Klee: Fischzauber (1925) – Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Website design By BotEap.com47) Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase #3 (1916) – Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Website design By BotEap.com48) Van Gogh: Sunflowers (1888) – Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Website design By BotEap.com49) Kokoshka: Der Irrende Ritter (1915) – Guggenheim, New York

Website design By BotEap.com50) Murillo: Nascita di S. Giovanni Battista, Norton Simon, Pasadena

Website design By BotEap.com51) Renoir: Dance at Bougival (1883) – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Website design By BotEap.com52) Manet: Execuzione dell’Imperatore Massimiliano (1867) – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Website design By BotEap.com53) Manet: Olympia (1863) – Orsay National Museum, Paris

Website design By BotEap.com54) Monet: Water Lilies I (1905) – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Website design By BotEap.com55) Leger: Acrobat in the Circus, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel

Website design By BotEap.com56) Hodler: Der Tag (1899) – Kunstmuseum, Bern

Website design By BotEap.com57) Munch: The Scream (1893) – Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo

Website design By BotEap.com58) Altdorfer: Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1510) – Gemaldegalerie, Berlin

Website design By BotEap.com59) De Hooch: The Mother (1660) – Gemaldegalerie, Berlin

Website design By BotEap.com60) Steen: The Eve of Saint Nicholas (1660) – Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Website design By BotEap.com61) Rembrandt: Man in Oriental Costume (1635) – Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Website design By BotEap.com62) Rembrandt: The Betrayal of Peter (1660) – Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Website design By BotEap.com63) Rembrandt: Philemon and Baucis (1658) – Washington, National Gallery

Website design By BotEap.com64) Rembrandt: Landscape with a Bridge (1636) – Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Website design By BotEap.com65) Vermeer: ​​Kitchen Maid (1660) – Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Website design By BotEap.com66) Marc: Stables (1914) – Guggenheim, New York

Website design By BotEap.com67) Hals: I reggenti dell’Ospizio dei Poveri (1664) – Hals Museum, Harleem

Website design By BotEap.com68) Carpaccio: S. Giorgio in Lotta con il Drago (1507)

Website design By BotEap.com69) Bellini: Pala di San Giobbe (1487) – Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice

Website design By BotEap.com70) Pisanello: Partenza di San Giorgio (1438) – Sant’Anastasia, Verona

Website design By BotEap.com71) Boccioni: La Citta`che Sale (1910) – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com72) Chagall: Dedicated to my bride (1911) – Kunstmuseum, Bern

Website design By BotEap.com73) Chagall: The Soldier Drinks (1912) – Guggenheim, New York

Website design By BotEap.com74) Kandinskij: Einige Kreise (1926) – Guggenheim, New York

Website design By BotEap.com75) Rousseau: Soccer Players (1908) – Guggenheim, New York

Website design By BotEap.com76) Leger: Le Grand Dejeuner/ Three Women (1921) – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com77) Delaunay: St Severin (1909) – Guggenheim, New York

Website design By BotEap.com78) Ernst: The Great Forest (1927) – Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel

Website design By BotEap.com79) Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com80) Picasso: Night Fishing in Antibes (1939) – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com81) Van Dyck: Crowning with Thorns – Prado, Madrid

Website design By BotEap.com82) Titian: Venere, Amor and Organist – Prado, Madrid

Website design By BotEap.com83) Leonardo: Annunciazione (148?) – Uffizi, Firenze

Website design By BotEap.com84) Perugino: La Consegna delle Chiavi (1482) – Cappella Sistina, Rome

Website design By BotEap.com85) Giorgione: Tre Filosofi (1508) – Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Website design By BotEap.com86) Grunewald: Saint Erasmus and Saint Maurice (1523) – Alte Pinakothek, Munchen

Website design By BotEap.com87) Gauguin: Where We Come From (1897) – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Website design By BotEap.com88) Gauguin: Mahana No Atua/Day of the God (1894) – Art Institute, Chicago
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89) Greco: Baptism of Christ (1596) – Prado, Madrid

Website design By BotEap.com90) Van Eyck: The Fountain of Grace (1429) – Prado, Madrid

Website design By BotEap.com91) Picasso: Guernica (1937) – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Website design By BotEap.com92) Leonardo: Epiphany, Uffizi, Florence

Website design By BotEap.com93) Ghirlandaio: Old and Nipote, Louvre, Paris

Website design By BotEap.com94) Van Gogh: Self Portrait (1887) – Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Website design By BotEap.com95) Carpaccio: Dispute of the Synedrio (1514) – Brera, Milan

Website design By BotEap.com96) Pissarro: Orchard at Pontoise (1872) – Orsay National Museum, Paris

Website design By BotEap.com97) Toulouse-Lautrec: Moulin Rouge (1892) – Art Institute, Chicago

Website design By BotEap.com98) Delacroix: The Death of Sardanapal (1827) – Louvre, Paris

Website design By BotEap.com99) Degas: Dancing Class (1874) – Louvre, Paris

Website design By BotEap.com100) Gericault: The Raft of the Medusa (1819) – Louvre, Paris

Website design By BotEap.comThis list of 100 favorite works of art from the World Society of Museums has a cross-section of works of art from several centuries and many countries. If you are interested in contemporary art, check out the links below. The WMS voted them the best important and influential works of art from the world’s museums.