Picasso has had more of his paintings stolen than any other artist. The Art Loss Register has 550 of his works listed as missing.

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world".

Christina's World depicts a woman lying on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon.

In St Trinians, a group of unruly schoolgirls steal Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring to raise funds to save their school.

Painted by Vincent van Gogh in June 1889, The Starry Night depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

In A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat contrasted miniature dots or small brushstrokes of colors that when unified optically in the human eye were perceived as a single shade or hue. He believed that this form of painting, called divisionism at the time but now known as pointillism, would make the colors more brilliant and powerful than standard brushstrokes.

Belgian surrealist René Magritte intended The Son of Man as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man whose face is obscured by a hovering green apple.

Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory employs "the exactitude of realist painting techniques" to depict imagery more likely to be found in dreams than in waking consciousness.

Botticelli's The Birth of Venus depicts the goddess, having just emerged from the sea.

French artist Bernard Pras is widely known for his unbelievable found-object installations. In anamorphic artworks like these, he hides his images in piles of what seems to be plain junk. They can only be seen through a particular device or just from a right angle.