James McNeill Whistler painted Whistler's Mother, or the Arrangement in Grey and Black, in 1871, depicting his mother leaning against a grey wall in a chair. The picture may be shown in Paris' Musée d'Orsay.
Salvador Dali created The Persistence of Memory in 1931. The Theory of Relativity is considered to have served as inspiration for The Persistence of Memory, which features melting clock faces.
In the year 1642, Rembrandt created The Night Watch. The city, commanded by its commander, is shown leaving. The artwork appears to depict a nighttime scene because to the unusual black finish.
The goddess Venus is shown emerging from the water in The Birth of Venus. Midway through the 1480s, Sandro Botticelli created the artwork.
Picasso painted Guernica to depict the bombing of Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War. The 1937 work of art is kept in Madrid's Reina Sofia Museum.
Johannes Vermeer created The Girl With a Pearl Earring as a piece of art. It features a turbaned girl with a pearl earring and was painted sometime about 1665. The "Dutch Mona Lisa" moniker was given to the picture mostly because of the subject's confused look.
The city of Saint-Remy is shown in the 1889 artwork under the circling sun. After Van Gogh's infamous mental collapse in 1888, during which the artist famously amputated his own ear, the work was finished.