A gallery of seventeen masterpieces
Best Pictures
of the World
Five centuries of paint, ink and light. The canvases people cross oceans to stand in front of, gathered in one quiet room.
Enter the gallery →Above: Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889
The Collection
Every work here is in the public domain and belongs, quite literally, to everyone. Click any painting to see it larger.
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt.”Leonardo da Vinci
Best Pictures of the World is a small personal project: a single page that holds the paintings we keep coming back to. No ads, no tracking, no accounts. Just the pictures.
The selection is unapologetically subjective. It runs from Renaissance Florence to fin-de-siècle Vienna, from a Dutch militia to a Japanese wave, and it will keep growing.
17Paintings
15Artists
423Years