The Tower of Babel was the subject of three paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The first, a miniature painted on ivory, was painted while Bruegel was in Rome and is now lost. The two surviving paintings,

Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night in 1889 during his stay at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Van Gogh lived well in the hospital; he was allowed more freedoms than

The painting depicts with documentary precision the course of the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius –the pillar of lava, and an earthquake. In addition, all the details of the painting are historically

The celebrated mural painting known as The Creation of Adam is one of a series of Biblical images from the Book of Genesis, which were commissioned by Pope Julius II from Michelangelo, for the ceiling

The Ninth Wave (Russian: Девятый вал, Dyevyatiy val) is an 1850 painting by the Russian Armenian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. It is his best known work. The title refers to an old sailing expression