5 Most Famous Paintings In The World

The Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, is a celebrated and highly parodied Italian Renaissance masterpiece

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh depicts the view from his asylum room, featuring an imagined village

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer is named for the earring worn by the subject

Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, from the mid-1480s, is in the Uffizi Gallery

The Kiss, created by Gustav Klimt between 1907 and 1908, is a gilded oil painting from his "Golden Period"