The Mona Lisa was never sold at auction, and it probably never will be. However, in December 14, 1962 it was assessed through an insurance evaluation at $100 million which with a 3.88% yearly inflation rate is equivalent to $1 billion dollars today in 2023.
Some of the best female painters of all time are Mary Cassatt, Tamara de Lempicka, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, and Jenny Saville.
The most expensive paintings in the world are 1. Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci ($450 million) 2. Interchange by Willem de Kooning ($300 million) 3. The Card Players by Paul Cézanne (~250 million) 4. Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) by Paul Gauguin ($210 million) 5. Orange Marilyn by Andy Warhol ($200 million).
Some of the most famous Renaissance artists are Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raphael Sanzio, Sandro Botticelli, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Donatello, Albrecht Dürer, and Jan van Eyck
Some of the most famous landscape artists are:
Claude Monet
Vincent van Gogh
J.M.W. Turner
John Constable
Thomas Cole
Caspar David Friedrich
Albert Bierstadt
Georgia O’Keeffe
The top 10 best sci fi and fantasy artists are 1) Frank Frazetta 2) H.R. Giger 3) Michael Whelan 4) Boris Vallejo 5) Moebius 6) John Howe 7) Alan Lee 8) Roger Dean 9) Syd Mead 10) Yoshitaka Amano
The most famous drawing artists are:
1. Leonardo da Vinci
2. Pablo Picasso
3. Michelangelo
4. Vincent Van Gogh
5. Henri Matisse
6. Rembrandt
7. Edgar Degas
8. Peter Paul Rubens
9. Egon Schiele
10. Albrecht Dürer
11. Charles Le Brun
12. E.H. Shepard
13. Gustav Klimit
14. Mary Cassatt
15. Joseph Mallord William Turner
16. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
17. Käthe Kollwitz
18. Eugène Delacroix