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    19 Famous And Brilliant Paintings With Unknown Facts Make Them Even More Fascinating

    Technically, there's no earring in Girl with a Pearl Earring.

    1. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

    2. Guernica by Pablo Picasso

    3. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

    4. The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo

    5. Portrait of Madame X by John Singer Sargent

    6. The School of Athens by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

    7. The Fighting Temeraire by J. M. W. Turner

    8. Show Me the Monet by Banksy

    9. American Gothic by Grant Wood

    10. Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet

    11. Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

    12. Irises by Vincent van Gogh

    13. The Elevation of the Cross by Peter Paul Rubens

    14. Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue by Georgia O'Keeffe

    15. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

    16. The Ballet Class by Edgar Degas

    17. The Night Watch by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

    18. Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix

    19. Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni