Art Stories

A tour of the 50 most important painters in art history, from Basquiat to Giotto. Discover each master's contribution, key works and how they transformed painting forever.

A hand-painted oil painting that preserves a memory, a watch to mark a new chapter, and eight other gifts to enjoy long after Christmas. This 2026 selection brings together useful, personal, and lasting ideas, with reference prices or suggested budgets under $1,000.

From Judith Beheading Holofernes to her extraordinary self-portraits, we explore ten essential paintings that reveal Artemisia Gentileschi's talent, audacity, and legacy, marking her as one of the great figures of the European Baroque.

This selection gathers 50 of Salvador Dalí's most famous and important paintings. It isn't a strict ranking but an approximately chronological tour of his evolution: the young painter with extraordinary technique in the 1920s, the surrealist of melting clocks, the creator of the paranoid-critical method and, finally, the artist who tried to reconcile Freud with Velázquez, nuclear physics with Catholicism and Renaissance tradition with mass culture.

These are 50 of Andy Warhol's most famous and important works, arranged mostly in chronological order. Together they trace the journey by which a commercial illustrator from Pittsburgh came to turn even his own image into one of the most recognizable icons of the 20th century.

A chronological journey through 50 essential works by Pablo Picasso to understand his academic mastery, the Blue Period, the Rose Period, cubism, Guernica, his reinterpretations of the masters and the freedom of his last stage.