The stories behind the paintings

Christmas shopping for someone who loves art? We have gathered our favourite art gifts in one place: twenty-seven famous paintings redesigned as vintage posters, the classic prints our readers buy most, and our book about the thirty most famous paintings in history. Every picture in the guide comes with a story on this blog, so the gift arrives with something to read as well as something to hang. The Mona Lisa as an Art Deco vintage poster, one of twenty-seven famous paintings in our gift guide. 🎁 Open the art gift guide → What you will find in the guide Famous paintings as vintage posters: from the Mona Lisa and The Starry Night to The Scream , Saturn Devouring His Son and Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ , each redesigned in the style of an early twentieth-century poster. Sacred art for Christmas: The Light of the World , El Greco’s Christ Carrying the Cross , Vermeer’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary , the Virgin of Guadalup...