The Final Painting

Patrick De Rynck, classicist and translator, is the author of several books, including How to Read a Painting and How to Read Bible Stories and Myths in Art.

Discover the stories behind the last works of the world's greatest painters, including the likes of Frida Kahlo, Van Gogh, Modigliani and Hopper

Giotto 1266/1267¿1337 Jan van Eyck c. 1385/1390¿1441 Andrea Mantegna c. 1431¿1506 Giovanni Bellini 1430¿1516 Raphael 1483¿1520 Albrecht Du?rer 1471¿1528 Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475¿1564 Titian c. 1490¿1576 Tintoretto 1518¿1594 Caravaggio 1571¿1610 El Greco 1541¿1614 Peter Paul Rubens 1577¿1640 Anthony Van Dyck 1599¿1641 Artemisia Gentileschi 1593¿1654 Diego Velázquez 1599¿1660 Nicolas Pousin 1594¿1665 Frans Hals 1582¿1666 Rembrandt 1606¿1669 Jean-Antoine Watteau 1684¿1721 Francisco Goya 1746¿1828 John Constable 1776¿1837 William Turner 1775¿1851 Gustave Courbet 1819¿1877 Edouard Manet 1832¿1883 Vincent Van Gogh 1853¿1890 Berthe Morisot 1841¿1895 Paul Gauguin 1848¿1903 Paul Cézanne 1839¿1906 Gustav Klimt 1862¿1918 Egon Schiele 1890¿1918 Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841¿1919 Amedeo Modigliani 1884¿1920 Claude Monet 1840¿1926 Edvard Munch 1863¿1944 Vasily Kandinsky 1866¿1944 Piet Mondriaan 1872¿1944 Henri Matisse 1869¿1954 Frida Kahlo 1907¿1954 Jackson Pollock 1912¿1956 Edward Hopper 1882¿1967 Pablo Picasso 1881¿1973