There’s arguably no better city in Europe to while away those chilly winter days and nights than in Vienna;
…the glorious imperial heart of old Habsburg, where sprawling neoclassical palaces rub shoulders with smoky art deco cafés and rowdy Austrian beer halls.
Painting is an ancient medium and even with the introduction of photography, film and digital technology, it still has remained a persistent mode of expression. So many paintings have been limned over dozens of millennia that only a relatively small percentage of them could be construed as "timeless classics" that have become familiar to the public—and not coincidentally produced by some of the most famous artists of all time. We, of course, have our opinion of what makes the grade and we present them here in our list of the best paintings of all time.