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Every image is served from this domain; none is hotlinked. Plates come from four parallel track datasets (Western, Islamic, Asian, Africa & Americas). Where a licence requires attribution it is given both under the plate and again here. Where rights could not be cleared, no image is shown at all — those works are listed at the bottom with a link to the institution that holds them.

Daily plates

The hero rotates over 17 works, one per calendar day, identical for every visitor that day.

  • The Starry Night Vincent van Gogh, 1889 Public domain · source
  • Water Lilies Claude Monet, 1890 Public domain · source
  • The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dalí, 1931 Annick Bregain · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring Johannes Vermeer, 1665 Public domain · source
  • The Raft of the Medusa Théodore Géricault, 1819 Public domain · source
  • Nighthawks Edward Hopper, 1942 Edward Hopper · Public domain · source
  • Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog Caspar David Friedrich, 1818 Public domain · source
  • The Fighting Temeraire J. M. W. Turner, 1838 Public domain · source
  • A Sunday on La Grande Jatte Georges Seurat, 1886 Public domain · source
  • The Third-Class Carriage Honoré Daumier, 1864 Public domain · source
  • Mont Sainte-Victoire Paul Cézanne, 1890 Public domain · source
  • Where Do We Come From? Paul Gauguin, 1897 Public domain · source
  • The Swing Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1767 Public domain · source
  • School of Athens Raphael, 1511 Public domain · source
  • The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci, 1498 Public domain · source
  • Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci, 1503 Public domain · source
  • Sistine Chapel Ceiling Michelangelo, 1512 Public domain · source

Attribution required

31 works under a Creative Commons licence that requires naming the author.

Public domain

123 works out of copyright. Credit is a courtesy, not an obligation.

Not shown here

48 of 202 figures have no image on this site — either the work is still in copyright, or no public-domain file has been sourced for it yet. Each links out instead.

Text and typography

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