Famous paintings by year completed
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About this puzzle
Famous paintings live in completely different centuries once you look past the museum gift shop. The oldest work here predates the others by more than a century and a half, while the two most recent were finished within a single year of each other - a gap small enough that art history classes often blur them together. Knowing which artist painted each one is no help for the ranking unless you also know when the canvas was actually completed.
Ranked oldest to newest · year completed
What's in this puzzle
Listed alphabetically, without their values - the answer order stays hidden until you play.
- American Gothic
- Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Mona Lisa
- The Persistence of Memory
- The Starry Night
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