Famous paintings picture book

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Choose a page number for links to the recommended websites for this book, or click on a link below to see lots more famous paintings.

Take virtual tours of art galleries and see famous paintings

Websites to visit

Explore The National Gallery, London

Discover famous paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Click on a painting in the playlist.

Tour the National Portrait Gallery, London
Choose a gallery.

Visit the Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Drag the image and click on arrows to explore, or click on the small paintings.

Walk through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

See artworks from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Take a virtual tour of the Courtauld Gallery, London
Click on a room to begin. This website uses Flash which may not work on all browsers.

Make your own art gallery
Scroll down and click on "Mini Gallery Activity (pdf, 3.6 MB)".

Try an art gallery challenge!

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About this book

Picture books for libraries
Famous paintings picture book

Discover some of the most famous paintings in the world, from da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Degas’s Blue Dancers, in this beautifully illustrated information book published in association with the National Gallery, London. With contents and index pages for easy reference, and links to specially selected websites to take virtual tours of art galleries.

View sample pages from this book.

See the other books in this series.

Megan Cullis

Megan studied English at university and then went on to write books for Usborne. She’s now teaching English to children in a secondary school, where Usborne books make a regular appearance!

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