Art

Where the world's most celebrated art now hangs, city by city.

Data as of 29 Oct 2026 · Wikidata, curated registries

Top metro, share of the canon

Paris, 12.5%

Museums holding canon works

658

Oldest of the top 10 museums

1560

Uffizi Gallery

Leading maker city of the 1400s

Florence

20 notable artists born there

Where the canon sits

Notable works held in each metro's museums. Counts of works, never prices.

How this is measured

The canon is works by top-tier artists, works that are widely documented, works on national registries and a curated seed of Asian collections. The visible canon leans Western. Asian collections are seeded, so their counts are a floor.

1
France · Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci
800
12.5% of canon
2
United Kingdom · Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck
477
7.5% of canon
3
Spain · Guernica, Pablo Picasso
469
7.3% of canon
4
United States · The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh
434
6.8% of canon
5
Italy · David, Michelangelo
243
3.8% of canon
6
United States · Ginevra de' Benci, Leonardo da Vinci
212
3.3% of canon
7
Russia · Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Ilya Repin
204
3.2% of canon
8
Netherlands · The Night Watch, Rembrandt
171
2.7% of canon
9
Austria · Venus of Willendorf
151
2.4% of canon
10
Germany · Bust of Queen Nefertiti, Thutmose
131
2.0% of canon
11
Italy · The Tempest, Giorgione
125
1.9% of canon
12
Germany · Madonna of the Carnation, Leonardo da Vinci
122
1.9% of canon

By country

Canon works summed across each country's metros.

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Small territories are not drawn at this scale.

  1. United States 1,302
  2. France 1,095
  3. Italy 637
  4. Spain 612
  5. United Kingdom 605
  6. Germany 450
  7. Russia 328
  8. Netherlands 326

Where these numbers come from

Wikidata (CC0), with Japanese National Treasures, Chinese first-grade relics and a curated Asian seed.

Definitions and limits are on the Method page