World classics. Altar, palace, exhibition
Familiar paintings and the people for whom they were made.
Online art museum
A free digital art gallery with painting stories and audio tours. Zoom into details, discover artists and explore at your own pace.
Paintings in this selection
33 artworks. Open a painting to read its story and explore its details.
Hubert and Jan van EyckAdoration of the Mystic Lamb — original central panel of the Ghent Altarpiece
Completed 1432
Unknown Byzantine icon painterThe Vladimir Mother of God
First third of the 12th century
Andrei RublevThe Trinity
Probably 1422–1427
Giotto di BondoneLamentation
1303–1305
Fra AngelicoAnnunciation at San Marco
About 1440–1450
Leonardo da VinciThe Last Supper
1495–1498
MichelangeloThe Creation of Adam
1508–1512 (Sistine Chapel ceiling cycle)
RaphaelThe Sistine Madonna
1512–1513
Jan van EyckThe Arnolfini Portrait
1434
Sandro BotticelliThe Birth of Venus
c. 1485
Sandro BotticelliSpring (Primavera)
About 1480
Leonardo da VinciMona Lisa (Portrait of Lisa Gherardini)
1503–1519
TitianVenus of Urbino
1538
Rembrandt van RijnAristotle with a Bust of Homer
1653
Johannes VermeerThe Milkmaid
c. 1660
Paul CézanneThe Basket of Apples
About 1893
RaphaelThe School of Athens
1508–1511 (Stanza della Segnatura cycle)
Hans Holbein the YoungerThe Ambassadors
1533
Diego VelázquezLas Meninas
1656
Rembrandt van RijnThe Night Watch
1642
Chitarman"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50
Wang Hui and assistantsThe Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai
datable to 1698
Unidentified Korean paintersPortrait of Yun Dongseom (1710–1795)
ca. 1790–1805
Francisco GoyaThe Third of May 1808 in Madrid, or The Executions
1814Polotno is an independent educational project bringing together digital reproductions from different collections. Each artwork page credits its collection and sources. Find a painting by title or artist, begin a themed tour or choose a work from the world classics below. No account is needed.
Artists
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Claude Monet
- Vincent van Gogh
- Paul Cezanne
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Édouard Manet
- Eugène Delacroix
- Sandro Botticelli
- Diego Velázquez
- Unidentified Korean painters
- Jan van Eyck
- Giotto di Bondone
- Francisco Goya
- Georges Seurat
- Titian
- Johannes Vermeer
- Wang Hui
- Painted by Chitarman
- Fra Angelico
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Raphael
- Hans Holbein the Younger
- Hubert and Jan van Eyck
- Michelangelo
- Théodore Géricault
- Edvard Munch
- Andrei Rublev
- Painter of the Vladimir icon
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Rulers, merchants, artists and private patrons before a viewer.
How to explore the paintings
On an artwork page, choose “Explore the painting”. Zoom in, move around the image and hide the text to see the details. Turn on the audio guide to hear the story, or use autoplay to move between passages.
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