Paintings, in relief
Public domain paintings from museums, each one scanned from a photo. The story of the picture, and how the brushwork looks once it has height.
The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Van Gogh painted it in June 1889 at the asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where he had admitted himself that May.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1831
It is a woodblock print, the first of Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, made when he was in his early seventies.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665
It is not a portrait but a tronie, a Dutch study of a face, a costume or an expression, and no one knows who the girl was.
The Kiss
Gustav Klimt, 1907–1908
Klimt painted it in Vienna in 1907 and 1908, in what is called his golden period, when he worked real gold leaf into his canvases.
Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Van Gogh painted it in Arles in August 1888, one of four large canvases of sunflowers he made that month to decorate the room where his friend Paul Gauguin would stay.
The Scream
Edvard Munch, 1893
Munch wrote of walking at sunset when the sky turned blood red, and of sensing an infinite scream passing through nature.
Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci, 1503–1519
Leonardo began it in Florence around 1503, most likely as a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of the silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo.
Impression, Sunrise
Claude Monet, 1872
Monet painted the harbour of Le Havre, his home town, from a hotel window, quickly, in thin strokes of grey and blue around a small orange sun.
The Night Watch
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642
Its real subject is the militia company of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, whose members paid Rembrandt about 1,600 guilders for it.
Café Terrace at Night
Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Van Gogh painted it in Arles in September 1888, on the Place du Forum, with his easel in the street after dark.
The Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485
Botticelli painted it in Florence in the mid-1480s, possibly for a member of the Medici family.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1817
A man in a dark green overcoat stands on a rock with his back to us, looking out over a sea of fog.
Water Lilies
Claude Monet, 1906
In 1893 Monet bought land beside his house at Giverny and dug a pond for water lilies, and he spent much of his last thirty years painting it.
Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix, 1830
Delacroix painted it in the autumn of 1830 to mark the July Revolution, three days of street fighting in Paris that brought down King Charles X.
Irises
Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Van Gogh painted it in May 1889, soon after he entered the asylum at Saint-Rémy, working from the garden there.
Las Meninas
Diego Velázquez, 1656
Velázquez, painter to King Philip IV of Spain, shows the five year old princess Margarita Teresa with her maids of honour, the meninas, in a room of the royal palace in Madrid.
Wheatfield with Crows
Vincent van Gogh, 1890
Van Gogh painted it at Auvers-sur-Oise in July 1890, in the last weeks of his life.
The Swing
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1767
A young woman in a pink silk dress swings high and kicks off a slipper, while an older man pushes from the shadows and a young man hidden in the roses looks up at her.
Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Van Gogh painted it at the asylum in Saint-Rémy in September 1889, and it may be his last self-portrait.
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat, 1884–1886
Seurat spent two years on it, making dozens of drawings and oil sketches of Parisians at leisure on an island in the Seine.
Guides
- Painting to 3D
How a photo becomes a relief.
- Art AR viewer
Hang a painting on your wall in AR.
- Rotation video for art
A six second portrait video for posts.