Standing proud, the tiny hilltop village of Vézelay is a delight.
Also a UNESCO World Heritage site, anyone with a passion for architecture will feel right at home. Like something out of a movie, this French village is packed with mesmerising alleyways, vineyards, and sunflower fields – nature’s paradise.
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.