Best Paintings of all Time

In this beautiful fresco of Sant'Ignazio Church in Rome, Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709) uses the illusionistic technique called quadratura to create a fantastic piece of art who looks like a 3d painting.

The theme of 'Jesus among the doctors' has never before been so well painted like in this one by José de Ribera (1591-1652), simply because it's probably one of earliest and only paintings where Jesus as a boy was not painted either blonde or very ugly, or both. Besides, I love baroque and tenebrism, and Ribera was simply a master of both, controling the contrasts of light and dark like very few could.