And the value of these paintings isn't just cultural! They are all worth huge amounts of money, sometimes selling for hundreds of millions. Have a look through the magnificent works of art.

More than $850 million — that’s the estimated value of the legendary Mona Lisa painting. Nevertheless, one of the most famous paintings and an iconic Renaissance art piece is not for sale.

For nearly 40 years, the British art gallery has defended the Flemish Baroque master’s authorship of ‘Samson and Delilah’ ...

The 8’ x 10‘ oil painting was made in Ohio by Archibald McNeal Willard (1836-1918) for our country’s 100th year anniversary.

In stark contrast, the British artist and critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) decried the coal-generated soot and smoke darkening the formerly clear skies as "The Storm Cloud of the 19th Century".

The Art Institute of Chicago has two works on display by one of the world's great landscape painters, J.M.W. Turner, born 250 ...