PyeongyeMuseum tour
Museum tours,
one painting at a time
Each painting is one room: start at room 1 and read Leo's notes as you go.
TOUR 01Fifteen Masterpieces
TOUR 01 · The first tour
Fifteen Masterpieces
Six hundred years of Western art and Japanese prints, one masterpiece per room in order of time — the first tour.
- 01
The Crucifixion; The Last JudgmentJan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38Free - 02
The HarvestersPieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565Free - 03
View of ToledoEl Greco · ca. 1599–1600Free - 04
Aristotle with a Bust of HomerRembrandt · 1653Free - 05
Young Woman with a Water PitcherJohannes Vermeer · ca. 1662Free - 06
The Death of SocratesJacques Louis David · 1787Free - 07
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1830–32Free - 08
WhalersJoseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845Free - 09
The Dance ClassEdgar Degas · 1874Free - 10
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884Georges Seurat · 1884–86, border added 1888–89Free - 11
Wheat Field with CypressesVincent van Gogh · 1889Free - 12
The Card PlayersPaul Cézanne · 1890–92Free - 13
The Child's BathMary Cassatt · 1893Free - 14
Water LiliesClaude Monet · 1906Free - 15
Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)Gustav Klimt · 1912–13Free
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TOUR 02Gold Altarpieces of Siena and FlorenceItalian altarpieces of the 1200s to 1400s, with saints and the Madonna painted on gold-leaf grounds, one after another.
TOUR 03The Italian RenaissanceFrom Filippo Lippi to Moroni: the faces and stories painted by Italian artists of the 1400s and 1500s.
TOUR 04The Northern RenaissanceFinely detailed portraits and Bible stories by Flemish and German painters of the 1400s and 1500s.
TOUR 05The Dutch Golden AgeThe rooms, faces and fields of the 1600s Netherlands, painted by Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer and de Hooch.
TOUR 06Light and Shadow in the 1600sFrom Caravaggio to Murillo: the contrast of light and dark in Italian, Spanish and French paintings of the 1600s.
TOUR 07The 1700s: From Rococo to RevolutionFrom Watteau's drawings to David's portrait of the Lavoisiers: European paintings of the 1700s in order of time.
TOUR 08Impressionism and AfterThe Impressionists who painted outdoor light and everyday Paris, and Seurat, Gauguin and Munch, who came after them.
TOUR 09American PaintersFrom the portraitist Joshua Johnson to Horace Pippin: 130 years of American painting in order of time.
TOUR 10Ink and Color of East AsiaFrom Northern Song landscapes to Ogata Kōrin's waves: scrolls and screens by East Asian painters.
TOUR 11Paintings of India and the HimalayasBuddhist paintings from Nepal and Tibet, and the myths and kings painted by Indian court artists.
TOUR 12Faces of WaterA burning fleet and a giant wave, a water mill and fishermen hauling nets: paintings of water.
TOUR 13From Dawn to NightSunrise, morning sun, dusk and moonlit nights, starlight and gaslight: a walk in the order of a day's light.
TOUR 14Children in PaintingsA child blowing bubbles, a boy standing with his bird, a baby in its mother's arms: four hundred years of painted children.
TOUR 15People at WorkGoldsmiths and harvesters, fishmongers and fishermen, a milliner's shop clerk: paintings of people at work.
TOUR 16Flowers and GardensFrom Clara Peeters' bouquet to Van Gogh's irises and Monet's water lilies: paintings of flowers and gardens.
TOUR 17Animals in ArtEmperor Huizong's birds, Leonardo's bear, Rosa Bonheur's horses and Rousseau's lion: paintings where animals take the lead.
TOUR 18Portraits: Reading FacesKings and cardinals, merchants and actors, a painter's friends: reading faces and clothing in five hundred years of portraits.
TOUR 19Cities and StreetsHeidelberg and Toledo, Venice and Paris, a park in New York: cities as painters saw them, in order of time.
TOUR 20Lines: Drawings and PrintsSilverpoint, chalk and pen drawings, etchings and woodcuts: the masters' hands seen up close.
The first tour is free in all fifteen rooms · other tours: rooms 1–2 free, members from room 3
A tour marked coming soon opens once every room has its notes.