Andy Warhol’s 32 Campbell’s Soup prints are displayed in New York’s Museum of Modern Art in chronological order, but not in the order Warhol painted them. The display begins with the soup Campbell’s introduced first to the American market. That’s because, despite them being some of his most famous paintings, Warhol never left specific instructions about how he wanted them displayed.

Pieta, a 1499 sculpture by Michelangelo, is the only one of his works that the artist himself signed. He later saw his name on his work as a sign of ego and pride, and he never signed another work again.

The rich blue pigment ultramarine was once so expensive that many artists could only use it sparingly. The exception was when painting the robes of the Virgin Mary, which are often shown to be ultramarine in color as a sign of sacrifice and devotion by the artist.

Comedian was a 2019 artwork by an Italian artist named Maurizio Cattelan. It consisted of a banana duct taped to a wall. In 2020, while Comedian was on display at an art fair in Miami, performance artist David Datuna ate it. The banana was replaced later the same day.

The most expensive painting in the world is da Vinci’s Salvator  Mundi. It was sold at auction in 2017 for $450 million.

The French artist Paul Cézanne was known for his wild fits of temper at what he saw as his own failings when his paintings did not work out, he would often rip up or throw away his works before they were complete. In one instance, he was found trying to retrieve a canvas from the branches of a large tree after he had thrown it up there in frustration.