Art Museum Highlights

Masterpiece Cards hit the books to discover highlights in major art museums.  Discover these must-see famous paintings in US and European art museums.

Each is reproduced and reviewed - see a sample art history card so you can enjoy at the art museum... or at home.

Famous Paintings to Learn

Each Masterpiece Card faithfully reproduces a famous painting.  On the reverse, an art history expert explains its meaning. famous paintings reproductions

Caravaggio, The Musicians.  Oil on canvas, c. 1595.  36 1/4" x 46 5/8" Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1952 (52.81). 

Art Museums Featured

Explore these famous paintings (according to 40 art history pros) in leading art museums and institutions.  Take our art history cards on your next art museum visit to enhance your art appreciation at:
  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • hermitage art museumBarnes Foundation, Merion, PA (near Philadelphia)
  • Capponi Chapel, Church of Santa Felicita, Florence, Italy
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Above left: Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • Casino Pallavicini Rospigliosi, Rome, Italy
  • Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  • Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy
  • Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
  • Civico Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
  • Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. 
  • Courtauld Institue of Art, London, England
  • Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
  • Ducal Palace, Mantua, Italy
  • courtauld instituteEglise Saint-Martin, Colmar, France
  • Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
  • Frick Collection, New York City
Right: Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
  • Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
  • Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy
  • Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome, Italy
  • Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
  • Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium
  • Guggenheim Museum, New York City
  • Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy
  • Hamburger Kunsthalle,Hamburg, Germany
  • Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D. C.
  • Hispanic Society of America, New York City
  • Il Gesu, Piazza of the Gesu, Rome, Italy
  • Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
  • J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA
  • Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
  • Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
  • Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duesseldorf, Germany
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Louvre: see Musee National du Louvre
  • Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
  • Menil Collection, Houston, TX
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
  • Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
  • Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
  • Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
  • Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
  • mfa bostonMusee d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France
  • Museé Gustave Moreau, Paris, France
  • Musée Marmottan, Paris, France
Above: One for the home town! The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  • Musée National du Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France
  • Musée National du Louvre, Paris, France
  • Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
  • Museo del Prado, Madri, Spain
  • Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy
  • Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York City
  • National Gallery, London, England
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. 
  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
  • Oesterreichische Galerie im Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
  • Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
  • Palazzo Farnese, Rome, Italy
  • Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence, Italy
  • Palazzo Rospigliosi-Pallavicini, Rome, Italy
  • Palazzo Te, Mantua, Italy
  • Parma Cathedral, Parma, Italy
  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  • Petworth House, Sussex,England
  • Philadelphia Musem of Art, Philadelphia, PA
  • Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C.
  • Prado: see Museo del Prado
  • Refectory, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy
  • Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
  • Residenz, Wuerzburg, Germany
  • Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland
  • Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
  • Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • San Brizio Chapel, Orvieto, Italy
  • San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
  • Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Italy
  • Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
  • Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome, Italy
  • Smith College Museum, Northampton, MA
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D. C.
  • St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
  • Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome, Italy
  • Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
  • Tate Britain, London, England
  • Tate Modern, London, England
  • Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
  • Uffizi: see Galleria degli Uffizi
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
  • Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
  • Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • Wallace Collection, London, England
  • Whitney Museum, New York City
  • Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT