Diana and Actaeon - Titian

Price in US $ - 70.6 million





















The story of how Actaeon was turned into a stag for glimpsing the naked goddess Diana has inspired artists through the centuries. Diana and Actaeon is considered to be one of the greatest works by the Italian Renaissance master Titian.

Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects.

The Massacre of the Innocents - Rubens

Price in US $ - 76,000,000



This painting by Peter Paul Rubens, a seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, depicts an episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents as related in the Gospel of Matthew. Rubens draws on the great Italian Renaissance painters including Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese to depict one of the most brutal Biblical scenes: when king Herod ordered all new-born boys to be killed to prevent one of them becoming the Messiah.


The Massacre of the Innocents holds the current record for an Old Master painting.

Adoration of the Magi - Mantegna

Price in US $ - 10,500,000
Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 – September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance artist. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality.