THE PIXEL MUSEUM

Eighteen masterpieces, in a handful of pixels.

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Pixels on screen
35 × 22 · 770 pixelsEach pixel, about 8 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Tempera on canvas · 172.5 × 278.9 cmUffizi Gallery, Florence
The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485
Pixels on screen
35 × 17 · 595 pixelsEach pixel, about 25 cm of the original
Colours
32 colours
The original
Tempera and oil on plaster · 460 × 880 cmSanta Maria delle Grazie, Milan
The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci, 1495–1498
Pixels on screen
15 × 22 · 330 pixelsEach pixel, about 3.5 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil on panel · 77 × 53 cmLouvre Museum, Paris
Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503–1519
Pixels on screen
28 × 32 · 896 pixelsEach pixel, about 10 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil on canvas · 318 × 276 cmPrado Museum, Madrid
Las Meninas Diego Velázquez, 1656
Pixels on screen
33 × 17 · 561 pixelsEach pixel, about 5.8 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil on canvas · 97 × 190 cmPrado Museum, Madrid
The Nude Maja Francisco Goya, c. 1797–1800
Pixels on screen
35 × 28 · 980 pixelsEach pixel, about 9.3 cm of the original
Colours
32 colours
The original
Oil on canvas · 260 × 325 cmLouvre Museum, Paris
Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830
Pixels on screen
32 × 25 · 800 pixelsEach pixel, about 8.3 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil on canvas · 208 × 264.5 cmMusée d’Orsay, Paris
Luncheon on the Grass Édouard Manet, 1863
Pixels on screen
31 × 24 · 744 pixelsEach pixel, about 2 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil on canvas · 48 × 63 cmMusée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Impression, Sunrise Claude Monet, 1872
Pixels on screen
27 × 21 · 567 pixelsEach pixel, about 3.4 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil on canvas · 73.7 × 92.1 cmMoMA, New York
The Starry Night Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Pixels on screen
26 × 32 · 832 pixelsEach pixel, about 2.1 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil on canvas · 65 × 54.5 cmMusée d’Orsay, Paris
Self-Portrait Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Pixels on screen
20 × 25 · 500 pixelsEach pixel, about 3.7 cm of the original
Colours
24 colours
The original
Tempera and pastel on cardboard · 91 × 73.5 cmNational Museum, Oslo
The Scream Edvard Munch, 1893
Pixels on screen
30 × 31 · 930 pixelsEach pixel, about 7.8 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil on canvas · 243.9 × 233.7 cmMoMA, New York
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Pablo Picasso, 1907
Pixels on screen
30 × 30 · 900 pixelsEach pixel, about 6 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil and gold leaf on canvas · 180 × 180 cmBelvedere Museum, Vienna
The Kiss Gustav Klimt, 1907–1908
Pixels on screen
26 × 32 · 832 pixelsEach pixel, about 2.5 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil on panel · 78 × 65.3 cmArt Institute of Chicago
American Gothic Grant Wood, 1930
Pixels on screen
26 × 26 · 676 pixelsEach pixel, about 1.8 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil on canvas · 46 × 46 cmKunsthaus Zürich
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow Piet Mondrian, 1930
Pixels on screen
32 × 24 · 768 pixelsEach pixel, about 1 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil on canvas · 24 × 33 cmMoMA, New York
The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dalí, 1931
Pixels on screen
47 × 21 · 987 pixelsEach pixel, about 16 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Oil on canvas · 349.3 × 776.6 cmReina Sofía Museum, Madrid
Guernica Pablo Picasso, 1937
Pixels on screen
20 × 25 · 500 pixelsEach pixel, about 2 cm of the original
Colours
16 colours
The original
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas · 50.8 × 40.6 cmMoMA, New York (one of 32 canvases)
Campbell’s Soup Cans Andy Warhol, 1962