Most Famous

The Most Famous Artworks of Kunsthistorisches Museum

The 60 most celebrated works of the Kunsthistorisches Museum museum, ranked by renown across 3,050 works in the catalog.

A note on the ranking: "fame" here is a measure of renown, not of merit — synthesised from how widely a work is cited and held. It leans toward the Western canon and the best-digitised collections. Read it as a popular index, not a verdict.

  1. Venus and Adonis
    Venus and Adonis Bartholomeus Spranger · 1599
  2. David and Bathsheba
    David and Bathsheba Hans von Aachen · 1612
  3. The Hunters in the Snow
    The Hunters in the Snow Pieter Brueghel I · 1565
  4. The Death of Cleopatra
    The Death of Cleopatra Guido Cagnacci · 1661
  5. Susanna and the Elders
    Susanna and the Elders Jacopo Tintoretto · 1555
  6. Flowers in a blue and white porcelain vase
    Flowers in a blue and white porcelain vase Ambrosius Bosschaert · 1609
  7. Avarice
    Avarice Albrecht Dürer · 1507
  8. Children's Games
    Children's Games Pieter Brueghel I · 1560
  9. Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in Brussels
    Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in Brussels David Teniers the Younger · 1650
  10. Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in Brussels
    Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in Brussels David Teniers the Younger · 1653
  11. François Ier du Saint-Empire et sa collection d'histoire naturelle
  12. Laura
    Laura Giorgione · 1506
  13. Interior with a company celebrating Twelfth Night, the Feast of Epiphany
  14. Jupiter and Mercury at Philemon and Baucis
  15. Cupid Making His Arch
    Cupid Making His Arch Parmigianino · 1536
  16. Angelica and the Hermit
    Angelica and the Hermit Peter Paul Rubens · 1620
  17. Helena Fourment in a Fur Robe
    Helena Fourment in a Fur Robe Peter Paul Rubens · 1638
  18. Große Landschaft mit Tieren
  19. Lucretia
    Lucretia Paolo Veronese
  20. Hercules, Deianira, and Nessus
    Hercules, Deianira, and Nessus Bartholomeus Spranger · 1590
  21. Tavern interior with dancing peasants,
    Tavern interior with dancing peasants, Richard Brakenburgh · 1696
  22. The Tower of Babel
    The Tower of Babel Pieter Brueghel I · 1563
  23. Infanta Margarita Teresa
    Infanta Margarita Teresa Diego Velázquez · 1653
  24. Fruit Still Life with Oysters
    Fruit Still Life with Oysters Cornelis de Heem · 1673
  25. Madonna and Child Enthroned in a Fruit & Flower Garland
  26. Vienna Diptych
    Vienna Diptych Hugo Van der Goes · 1470
  27. Danaë
    Danaë Titian · 1550
  28. Chalice and Host in a Niche, within a Cartouche of Roses and Fruit
  29. Expulsion from earthly Paradise.
    Expulsion from earthly Paradise. Hans von Aachen · 1600
  30. Ecce Homo
    Ecce Homo Titian · 1543
  31. Southern rocky landscape with Mercury and Argus
  32. Vertreibung aus dem Paradies
  33. Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
    Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand Albrecht Dürer · 1508
  34. Holy Tribe
    Holy Tribe Bernhard Strigel · 1520
  35. The Four Continents
    The Four Continents Peter Paul Rubens · 1615
  36. Madonna of the Cherries
    Madonna of the Cherries Titian · 1517
  37. Triptych of the adoration of the magi
  38. Allegory on Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614-1662)
  39. Mars, Venus and Amor
    Mars, Venus and Amor Titian · 1550
  40. David with the Head of Goliath
    David with the Head of Goliath Caravaggio · 1607
  41. Allegory of Vanity (Vanitas)
    Allegory of Vanity (Vanitas) Leonaert Bramer · 1650
  42. Virgin with child and saints Maria Magdalen, Cecilia, Dorothea, Catharina and Augustine
  43. Virgin and Child with Saints Stephen, Jerome and Maurice
  44. The Gypsy Madonna
    The Gypsy Madonna Titian · 1510
  45. Still life with fruit, wine glass and vase of flowers
  46. Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
    Salome with the Head of John the Baptist Luini Bernardino · 1525
  47. Crucifixion Triptych
    Crucifixion Triptych Rogier van der Weyden · 1440
  48. Road through a wet forest
    Road through a wet forest Aert van der Neer · 1645
  49. Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus
  50. The Art of Painting
    The Art of Painting Johannes Vermeer · 1667
  51. Madonna del Prato
    Madonna del Prato Raphael · 1505
  52. Portrait of Emperor Maximilian and his family
  53. Madonna of the Rosary
    Madonna of the Rosary Caravaggio · 1607
  54. Holy Family with St Catharine and Young John the Baptist
  55. Marine
    Marine Philip James de Loutherbourg · 1771
  56. Head of Medusa
    Head of Medusa Peter Paul Rubens · 1618
  57. Anbetung der Heiligen Drei Könige
    Anbetung der Heiligen Drei Könige Rueland Frueauf the Elder · 1496
  58. Martha scolding her vain sister Mary Magdalene
  59. The three ages and death
    The three ages and death Hans Baldung Grien · 1509
  60. Ansichten aus den vier Weltteilen mit Szenen von Tieren: Peking