Art

Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" holds the record at $450.3 million (2017 auction). Other top sales include de Kooning's "Interchange" ($300M) and Cézanne's "The Card Players" ($250M).

Giotto di Bondone is often credited with sparking the Renaissance in art by introducing naturalism and emotional depth in the early 1300s.

Ansel Adams is renowned for his iconic black-and-white photographs of the American West, which helped inspire the conservation movement.

Antoni Gaudí visionary organic architecture in Barcelona, including the Sagrada Família, redefined what buildings could be.

Andy Warhol became the most iconic figure of Pop Art with works like "Campbell's Soup Cans" (1962) and Marilyn Monroe silkscreens, though Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns were also foundational.

Claude Monet painted approximately 250 water lily paintings ("Nympheas") between 1896 and 1926, using his garden pond at Giverny as the subject — they are among the most recognised and valuable artworks in history.

William Van Alen (Chrysler Building, 1930) and the firm of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon (Empire State Building, 1931) created the most iconic Art Deco skyscrapers, while the movement drew on designers like Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Tamara de Lempicka.

The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1500s.

The Starry Night was painted by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in June 1889.

The famous marble statue of David was carved by Michelangelo between 1501 and 1504.

Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper between about 1495 and 1498 on a wall of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.

The Vitruvian Man was drawn by Leonardo da Vinci around 1490, in pen and ink on paper.

Guernica was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1937, in response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

The Scream was created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, who made the first painted version in 1893.

Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer around 1665.

Sandro Botticelli, the Florentine Renaissance painter, who created it in the mid-1480s. It hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Rembrandt van Rijn, who completed it in 1642. It is the star attraction of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Salvador Dalí, the Spanish surrealist, who painted its famous melting clocks in 1931.

Vincent van Gogh, who painted a famous series of sunflowers in vases in Arles, France, in 1888 and 1889.

Gustav Klimt, the Austrian painter, who created the golden masterpiece in 1907–08. It hangs in the Belvedere in Vienna.

Grant Wood, an artist from Iowa, who painted it in 1930. It is in the Art Institute of Chicago.

Auguste Rodin, the French sculptor, who first created the figure around 1880 as part of a huge bronze door called The Gates of Hell.

Michelangelo, who painted it for Pope Julius II between 1508 and 1512.

Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

Andy Warhol became the most iconic figure of the Pop Art movement in the 1960s.

Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night in June 1889.

Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512.

The Arnolfini Portrait was painted by the Flemish master Jan van Eyck in 1434.

Nighthawks was painted by American artist Edward Hopper in 1942.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, made around 1831.

Liberty Leading the People was painted by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix in 1830 to commemorate the July Revolution in Paris.

It was created by Chares of Lindos. The giant bronze statue stood only a few decades before being destroyed by an earthquake around 226 BCE.