THE PAINTING CODE

Explore The Painting Code

Famous paintings, artists and museums

Browse the 500 paintings in The Painting Code, from familiar masterpieces to works you may be meeting for the first time.

A painting’s colors can be a clue to its identity. In The Painting Code, you guess the work from a color code, then find its museum. This directory gives you another way into the collection: follow an artist, open a painting’s story, and connect its title and date with the museum or collection that holds it.

Start with Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci; The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh; Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, or choose an artist below.

Use the directory to explore before or after a round, or play the free daily art puzzle and see which paintings you recognize.

500 paintings182 artists74 museums & collections17 countries

Adam Elsheimer

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Adolph von Menzel

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Albrecht Altdorfer

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Albrecht Dürer

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Alexander Ivanov

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Alexandre Cabanel

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Alexei Savrasov

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Amedeo Modigliani

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Andrea del Sarto

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Andrea Mantegna

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Annibale Carracci

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Anthony van Dyck

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Antoine-Jean Gros

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Antonello da Messina

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Antonio da Correggio

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Antonio del Pollaiuolo

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Arkhip Kuindzhi

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Arnold Böcklin

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Artemisia Gentileschi

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Arthur Hughes

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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

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Benjamin West

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Berthe Morisot

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Bronzino

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Caravaggio

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Carel Fabritius

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Carlo Crivelli

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Caspar David Friedrich

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Cimabue

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Claude Monet

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Diego Velázquez

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Domenico Ghirlandaio

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Donato Bramante

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Duccio di Buoninsegna

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Edgar Degas

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Édouard Manet

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Edvard Munch

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Edward Burne-Jones

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Egon Schiele

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El Greco

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Emanuel Leutze

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Eugène Delacroix

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Filippo Lippi

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Fra Angelico

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Francesco Hayez

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Francesco Melzi

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Francisco de Zurbarán

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Francisco Goya

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Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz

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François Boucher

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Frans Hals

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Franz von Stuck

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Frédéric Bazille

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Frederic Edwin Church

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Frederic Leighton

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Gentile da Fabriano

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George Frederic Watts

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George Stubbs

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Georges de La Tour

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Georges Seurat

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Gerard David

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Gerard ter Borch

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Gerard van Honthorst

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Gianfrancesco Penni

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Gilbert Stuart

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Giorgione

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Giotto

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Giovanni Antonio Canal

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Giovanni Bellini

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Grant Wood

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Gustav Klimt

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Gustave Caillebotte

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Gustave Courbet

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Gustave Moreau

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Han Gan

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Hans Holbein the Younger

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Hans Memling

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Hendrick Avercamp

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Henri Fantin-Latour

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Henri Matisse

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Henri Rousseau

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Henry Fuseli

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Henry Raeburn

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Herbert James Draper

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Hieronymus Bosch

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Hugo van der Goes

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Hyacinthe Rigaud

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Ilya Repin

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Isaac Levitan

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Ivan Aivazovsky

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Ivan Kramskoi

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Ivan Shishkin

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J. M. W. Turner

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Jacob van Ruisdael

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Jacopo Tintoretto

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Jacques Amans

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Jacques-Louis David

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James Ensor

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James McNeill Whistler

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Jan Asselijn

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Jan Matejko

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Jan Steen

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Jan van Eyck

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Jan Wildens

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Jean-Antoine Watteau

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

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Jean-Étienne Liotard

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Jean-François Millet

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

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Jean-Léon Gérôme

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Joachim Patinir

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Johannes Vermeer

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John Constable

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John Everett Millais

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John Singer Sargent

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John Singleton Copley

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John William Waterhouse

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Joseph Wright of Derby

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Joshua Reynolds

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Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo

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Judith Leyster

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Jusepe de Ribera

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Karl Bryullov

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Kazimir Malevich

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Lorenzo Lotto

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Lorenzo Monaco

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Louis-Michel van Loo

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Lucas Cranach the Elder

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Mary Cassatt

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Michelangelo

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Mikhail Vrubel

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Nicolas Poussin

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Olga Boznańska

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Osman Hamdi Bey

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Paolo Veronese

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Parmigianino

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Paul Cézanne

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Paul Delaroche

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Paul Émile Chabas

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Paul Gauguin

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Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry

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Peter Paul Rubens

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Petrus Christus

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Piero della Francesca

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Piero di Cosimo

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Pieter Brueghel the Elder

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Pieter de Hooch

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Pisanello

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Quinten Metsys

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Raphael

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Rembrandt

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Robert Campin

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Rogier van der Weyden

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Rosa Bonheur

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Sandro Botticelli

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Sarah Goodridge

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Simone Martini

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Théodore Chassériau

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Théodore Géricault

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Thomas Cole

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Thomas Eakins

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Thomas Gainsborough

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Titian

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Umberto Boccioni

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Valentin Serov

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Vasily Surikov

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Vasily Vereshchagin

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Vincent van Gogh

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Vittore Carpaccio

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Wassily Kandinsky

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William Etty

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William Hogarth

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William Holman Hunt

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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Władysław Podkowiński

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