The Most Amazing Pieces of Artwork Ever Made

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This is a CrowdRanked List of the most fantastic pieces of art ever made. While art is most definitely subjective, these are pieces that few can argue about and have withstood the test of time and changing cultural tastes. Make your own list and rank the artwork you think is the best, or just make a list to add an item you think is missing.

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Sistine Chapel ceiling

Michelangelo
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The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh
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Pietà

Michelangelo
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The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí
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David

Michelangelo
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The Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci
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Guernica

Pablo Picasso
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The Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli
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Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci
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The Scream

Edvard Munch
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Georges-Pierre Seurat
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The Thinker

Auguste Rodin
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Night Watch

Rembrandt
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Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer
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Water Lilies

Claude Monet
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Nighthawks

Edward Hopper
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The Kiss

Auguste Rodin
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The Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymus Bosch
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The Calling of St Matthew

Caravaggio
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American Gothic

Grant Wood
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Venus de Milo

Alexandros of Antioch
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The Creation of Adam

Michelangelo
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Ecstasy of St Theresa

Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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The Second of May 1808

Francisco Goya
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Las Meninas (after Velázquez)

Pablo Picasso
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Primavera

Sandro Botticelli
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Composition VIII

Wassily Kandinsky
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Laocoön and His Sons

Agesander of Rhodes, Polydorus of Rhodes, Athenodoros of Rhodes
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The Luncheon on the Grass

Édouard Manet
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At the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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The broken column
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The Kiss

Gustav Klimt
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Hades and Persephone by Bernini
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Adoration of the Magi

Leonardo da Vinci
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Las Meninas

Diego Velázquez
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Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers

Vincent van Gogh
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The Lady of Shalott

John William Waterhouse
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The Potato Eaters

Vincent van Gogh
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The School of Athens

Raphael
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Supper at Emmaus

Caravaggio
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The Rape of Proserpina

Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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Yellow, Red, Blue Wassily Kandinsky
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David

Donatello
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Whistler's Mother

James McNeill Whistler
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The Listening Room

René Magritte
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Arnolfini portrait

Jan van Eyck
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Galatea

Raphael
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Self Portrait 1953-1954
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Ballet Rehearsal

Edgar Degas
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The Mystical Nativity

Sandro Botticelli
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harty44
The Most Amazing Pieces of Artwork Ever Made at 11/25/2012 12:30 PM

Thanks for this. Incredible Pieces of Artwork.
R20X
Mona Lisa at 1/10/2012 8:14 AM

There is one made out of coffee!