Masterpieces revisited

August 10, 2015

From Mona Lisa to the Kiss - how well do you really know the world's greatest artistic masterpieces?

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Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss"

Austrian Jugendstil artist Gustav Klimt's painting 'The Kiss' is world famous.

Casper David Friedrich's "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog"

Even the title of this Caspar David Friedrich work induces reverie: It embodies German Romanticism like no other.

Edvard Munch's "The Scream"

The iconic painting by Edvard Munch is gloomy, yet unbelievably popular. Why?

Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"

Buttons, beads, balloons and bubble wrap: Artists use the most eccentric materials to reinvent Da Vinci's masterwork.

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