Top 100 Great Paintings Masterpieces

100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast on BBC 2, ranges from 12th-century China through the 1950s, with an emphasis on European paintings, deliberately avoided especially famous paintings, such as Mona Lisa.
Till today, there are many versions of Top list of great artists and great paintings, the selection is decided by the personal taste of editors, no standard rules.
Toperfect lists the best known paintings presented, ranking in no particular order, you're welcome to click the images to purchase hand painted oil reproductions.

1 Josef Albers: Homage to the Square: Against Deep Blue (1955)


2 Albrecht Altdorfer: The Battle of Alexander at Issus (1528–29)


3 Giuseppe Arcimboldo The Fire


4 Hendrick Avercamp: Winter Scene on a Canal (c. 1630)


5 Francis Bacon: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944)


6 Hans Baldung Grien: Death and the Maiden (1517)


7 Giacomo Balla: Abstract Speed + Sound (1913–14)


8 Georg Baselitz: Allegory of Art


9 Georg Baselitz: The Great Friends' (1965)


10 Max Beckmann: Actors - Triptych (1941–42)


11 Giovanni Bellini: Prayer of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (c. 1465)


12 Frits Van den Berghe: Sunday


13 Umberto Boccioni: The Farewells (1911)


14 Arnold Böcklin: Spring Awakening (1880)


15 Pierre Bonnard: Backlit Nude (1908)


16 Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1500)


17 Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus (1478–1487)


18 François Boucher: Marie-Louise O'Murphey (1751)


19 Georges Braque: The Female Musician (1917–1918)


20 Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus' (c. 1550)


21 Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Triumph of Death


22 Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Return of the Hunters (1565)


23 Gustave Caillebotte: Parisian Street, Rainy Day (1877)


24 Antonio Canaletto: Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day (1734)


25 Caravaggio: Supper at Emmaus (1596–1598)


26 Caravaggio: The Lute Player (c. 1596)


27 Vittore Carpaccio: Miracle of the Relic of the Cross at the Ponte di Rialto (1494)


28 Annibale Carracci: River Landscape (c. 1595)


29 Mary Cassatt: The Child's Bath (c. 1891)


30 Paul Cézanne: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (1897)


31 Paul Cézanne: Bathers (c. 1900)


32 Marc Chagall: I and the Village (1911)


33 Jean Siméon Chardin: The Young Schoolmistress (before 1740)


34 China: Clear Weather in the Valley (12th century)


35 John Constable: Salisbury Cathedral (1823)


36 Lovis Corinth: Self-portrait in Front of the Easel (1914)


37 Correggio: Leda and the Swan (c. 1530)


38 Gustave Courbet: Breakfast at the Hunt (1858)


39 Lucas Cranach the Elder: Adam and Eve in Paradise (1531)


40 Salvador Dalí: The Burning Giraffe (1936)


41 Honoré Daumier: Ecce Homo (c. 1849–1852)


42 Jacques-Louis David: The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789)


43 Edgar Degas: Woman in the Bath (1886)


44 Eugène Delacroix: The Massacre at Chios (1824)


45 Robert Delaunay: Eiffel Tower, Champs de Mars (1911)


46 Sonia Delaunay-Terk: Electric Prisms (1914)


47 Niklaus Manuel Deutsch: Pyramus and Thisbe (after 1523)


48 Otto Dix: Flanders (1934–1936)


49 Jean Dubuffet: Prosperous country (1944)


50 Duccio: Christ Healing a Blind Man (1308–1310)


51 Marcel Duchamp: Sad Young Man in a Train (1911)


52 Albrecht Dürer: Picture of a Young Venetian Woman


53 Albrecht Dürer: Self-portrait (1498)


54 Anthonis van Dyck: Samson and Delilah (c. 1628–1630)


55 Thomas Eakins: Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871)


56 James Ensor: Self-portrait with Masks (1899)


57 Max Ernst: Attirement of the Bride (1939)


58 Jan van Eyck: The Madonna of the Chancellor Rolin (1434)


59 Lyonel Feininger: Bird Cloud (1926)


60 Lucio Fontana: Concetto Spaziale (1957)


61 Piero della Francesca: Resurrection of Christ (c. 1460)


62 Piero della Francesca: The Birth of Christ (around 1480)


63 Helen Frankenthaler: Mountains and Sea (1952)


64 Caspar David Friedrich: Polar Sea (1822–1824)


65 Henry Fuseli: Titania Caressing Note with Donkey's Head (1793)


66 Thomas Gainsborough: Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748–1749)


67 Paul Gauguin: Mahana no atua (Day of God) (1894)


68 Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa (1819)


69 Alberto Giacometti: Portrait of Jean Genet (1955)


70 Giorgione: Sleeping Venus (1508)


71 Giorgione or Titian: Pastoral Concert (c. 1510)


72 Giotto: The Mourning of Christ (c. 1304–1306)


73 Hugo van der Goes: Adoration of the Kings (around 1470)


74 Vincent van Gogh: Self-portrait (1889)


75 Vincent van Gogh: Café Terrace at Night (1888)


76 Arshile Gorky: One Year the Milkweed (1944)


77 Francisco Goya: The Colossus (attribution uncertain)


78 Francisco Goya: The Naked Maja (c. 1800)


79 Francisco Goya: Carnival Scene (1793)


80 Benozzo Gozzoli: Procession of the Oldest King


81 Gotthard Graubner: Black Skin (1969)


82 El Greco: The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586)


83 El Greco: View of Toledo (1600–1610)


84 Juan Gris: The Breakfast Table (1915)


85 George Grosz: Untitled (1920)


86 Matthias Grünewald: Crucifixion from the Isenheim Altarpiece (1515)


87 Erich Heckel: Convalescing Woman (1912–1913)


88 Hannah Höch: Cut with the Kitchen Knife (1919–1920)


89 Ferdinand Hodler: Youth Amired by the Woman (1903)


90 Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of Mrs. Holbein with the Children, Katharina and Philipp (1528)


91 Winslow Homer: The Fox Hunt (1893)


92 Edward Hopper: Nighthawks (1942)


93 William Holman Hunt: The Hireling Shepherd (1851)


94 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: The Turkish Bath (1862)


95 Johannes Itten: The Encounter (1916)


96 Geertgen tot Sint Jans: John the Baptist in the Wilderness (c. 1485–1490)


97 Alexej von Jawlensky: Meditation (1918)


98 Jasper Johns: Flag (1954–1955)


99 Wassily Kandinsky: Improvisation 6 (1910)


100 Kangra-School: Radha and Krishna in the Garden (c. 1780)


101 Gustav Klimt: Kiss


102 Fernand Khnopff: The Caress


103 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Five Women on the Street (1913)


104 Konrad Klapheck: The War (1965)


105 Paul Klee: Embrace (1939)


106 Franz Kline: C & O (1958)


107 Wilhelm von Kobell: The Siege of Kosel (1808)


108 Oskar Kokoschka: Bride of the Wind (1914)


109 Jan Kupecky: Portrait of the Miniaturist Karl Bruni (1709)


110 Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus




111 Wilhelm Leibl: Three Women in Church (1878–1882)


112 Franz von Lenbach: Franz von Lenbach with Wife and Daughters (1903)


113 Roy Lichtenstein: Kiss


114 Max Liebermann: Flachsscheuer in Laren


115 Richard Lindner: The Meeting (1953)


116 Stefan Lochner: Madonna in the Rose Bower (around 1448)


117 Lorenzo Lotto: The Sleeping Child Jesus with the Madonna, St. Joseph and St. Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1533)


118 Morris Louis: Beta-Kappa (1961)


119 August Macke: The Hat Shop (1914)


120 René Magritte: The Empire of Light (1954)


121 Kazimir Malevich: An Englishman in Moskow


122 Édouard Manet: Olympia (1863)[25]


123 Andrea Mantegna: The Crucifixion of Christ (1457–1460)


124 Franz Marc: Tiger (1912)


125 Hans von Marées: Golden Age (1879–1885)


126 Reginald Marsh: Twenty Cent Movie


127 Masaccio: The Tribute Money (c. 1425)


128 Jan Matsys: Flora (1559)


129 Henri Matisse: Bather at the River (1916–1917)


130 Henri Matisse: Blue Nude (1907)


131 William McTaggart: The Storm (1890)


132 Hans Memling: St. John's Altarpiece (before 1494)


133 Adolph von Menzel: The Flute Concert (1850–1852)


134 Jean Metzinger: The Racing Cyclist (1914)


135 John Everett Millais: Ophelia (1851–1852)


136 Joan Miró: Dutch Interior I (1928)


137 László Moholy-Nagy: LIS (1922)


138 Claude Monet: Woman in a Garden (1867)


139 Piet Mondrian: Apple Tree in Bloom (1912)


140 Edvard Munch: Ashes


141 Edvard Munch: Four Girls on the Bridge (1905)


142 Gabriele Münter: Village Street in Winter (1911)


143 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: Rest on the Flight to Egypt


144 Louis or Antoine Le Nain: Peasant Family (1640–1645)


145 Paul Nash: Dream Landscape (1936–1938)


146 Ernst Wilhelm Nay: Grauzug (1960)


147 Mikhail Nesterov: The Great Consecration


148 Emil Nolde: St. Mary of Egypt (1912)


149 Georgia O'Keeffe: White Calico Flower


150 Richard Oelze: Daily Stress (1934)


151 Victor Pasmore: Inland Coastal Landscape (1950)


152 Joachim Patinir: The Baptism of Christ (c. 1515)


153 Constant Permeke: The Engaged Couple


154 Francis Picabia: Very Rare Picture of Earth (1915)


155 Pablo Picasso: Guernica (1937)


156 Pablo Picasso: La Vie (1903–1904)


157 Jackson Pollock: Autumn Rhythm (1950)


158 Nicolas Poussin: The Adoration of the Golden Calf (1635)


159 Nicolas Poussin: Sleeping Venus and Cupid


160 Henry Raeburn: Rev. Robert Walker Skating (1784)


161 Raffael: Madonna of the Meadow (1506)


162 Arnulf Rainer: Self-portrait Overpainted (1962–1963)


163 Rembrandt: The Jewish Bride (1666)


164 Rembrandt: Self-portrait as Paul (1661)


165 Auguste Renoir: Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880)


166 Ilya Repin: Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey (1880–1891)


167 Sebastiano Ricci: Bathsheba in her Bath (c. 1720)


168 Hyacinthe Rigaud: Portrait of Louis XIV. (1701)


169 Hubert Robert: Design for the Arrangement of the Great Gallery of the Louvre des Louvre (1796)


170 Giulio Romano: Virgin and Child and the Young John (c. 1518)


171 Mark Rothko: Red, Brown and Black (1958)


172 Carl Rottmann: From the Greek Cycle (1838–1850)


173 Henri Rousseau: The Sleeping Gypsy (1897)


174 Peter Paul Rubens: Château de Steen with Hunter (c. 1635–1637)


175 Peter Paul Rubens: Mercury and Argus (1638)


176 Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael: The Large Forest (c. 1655–1660)


177 Philipp Otto Runge: The Hülsenbeck Children (1805–1806)


178 Pieter Saenredam: Interior of Grote Kerk in Haarlem (1648)


179 Egon Schiele: Mother with Two Children (1915–1917)


180 Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Medieval City on a River (1815)


181 Oskar Schlemmer: Group on the Railings I (1931)


182 Kurt Schwitters: Merzbild 25A, Constellation (1920)


183 Georges Seurat: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886)


184 Luca Signorelli: Portrait of an Older Man (c. 1500)


185 Tawaraya Sōtatsu: Waves of Matsushima (c. 1630)


186 Stanley Spencer: The Resurrection, Cookham (1924–1927)


187 Carl Spitzweg: The Poor Poet (1839)


188 George Stubbs: Horse Attacked by a Lion


189 Franz von Stuck: Salome (1906)


190 Yves Tanguy: About Four O'clock in the Summer, the Hope (1929)


191 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Virtue and Nobility Putting Ignorance to Flight (c. 1745)


192 Jacopo Tintoretto: Bacchus, with Ariadne Crowned by Venus (after 1570)


193 Titian: Bacchanals


194 Titian: Diana and Callisto (1556–1559)


195 Georges de la Tour: The Dream of St. Joseph (c. 1640)


196 Georges de la Tour: The Fortune Teller (c. 1620–1621)


197 William Turner: The Burning of the Houses of Parliament (1834–1835)


198 William Turner: Venice - La Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute (1843)


199 Paolo Uccello: The Battle of San Romano (c. 1456)


200 Emilio Vedova: Picture of Time — Barrier (1951)


201 Diego Velázquez: Las Meninas


202 Diego Velázquez: Prince Balthasar Carlos (1635)


203 Diego Velázquez: The Surrender of Breda (1634)


204 Jan Vermeer: The Art of Painting


205 Jan Vermeer: View of Delft (c. 1660)


206 Paolo Veronese: The Wedding at Cana (1562–1563)


207 Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: Self-Portrait with Daughter (1789)


208 Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper


208 Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa


209 Wolf Vostell: Miss America (1968)


210 Andy Warhol: Marilyn Monroe


211 Antoine Watteau: Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717)


212 Rogier van der Weyden: Saint Johns Altarpiece (after 1450)


213 James McNeill Whistler: Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1877)


214 David Wilkie: William Bethune with Wife and Daughter (1804)


215 Michelangelo: Creation of Adam


216 Konrad Witz: The Knights Abisai, Sibbechai and Benaja Bring King David Water (c. 1435)


217 Grant Wood: American Gothic (1930)


218 Joseph Wright of Derby: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1767–1768)


219 Andrew Wyeth: Christina's World (1948)


220 Francisco de Zurbarán: Still Life: Lemons, Oranges and a Rose (1633)