Claude 3 Haiku · picked Mona Lisa
“Ranking the ten greatest paintings of all time is a highly subjective task, as art is a matter of personal interpretation and appreciation.”
Questions · Art
What are the ten greatest paintings of all time?
We asked 68 models. 54 put Mona Lisa first.
The Starry Night was next with four, and three gave other answers.
Seven gave no single answer.
The question“What are the ten greatest paintings of all time? Rank them. Include painters and a brief reason for each.”
What they said
in their own wordsClaude Haiku 4.5 · picked The Starry Night
“Ten Greatest Paintings of All Time 1. "Starry Night" – Vincent van Gogh (1889) Unmatched emotional intensity and technical innovation; revolutionized how paint could express feeling through movement and color.”
Claude Sonnet 5 · picked Mona Lisa
“This is inherently subjective—there's no objective ranking of art—but here's a defensible list based on historical influence, technical mastery, and cultural impact: 1.”
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp · picked Las Meninas
“Ranking art is subjective—ask ten art historians and you’ll get ten different lists.”
Does the wording change the answer?
no“What are the ten greatest paintings of all time? Rank them. Include painters and a brief reason for each.”
Mona Lisa, 3 of 3
“Rank the ten greatest paintings of all time. Include painters and a brief reason for each.”
Mona Lisa, 54 of 61
Every model’s answer (68)
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Las Meninas |
| Claude 3 Haiku | Mona Lisa |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Mona Lisa |
| DeepSeek Chat V3 0324 | Mona Lisa |
| DeepSeek Chat V3.1 | Mona Lisa |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | Mona Lisa |
| DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | Mona Lisa |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | Mona Lisa |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Mona Lisa |
| ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B | Mona Lisa |
| GLM 4.5 Air | Mona Lisa |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | Mona Lisa |
| GPT-4o Mini | Mona Lisa |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | Mona Lisa |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | Mona Lisa |
| Gemma 3 12B | Mona Lisa |
| Gemma 3 27b It | Mona Lisa |
| Gemma 3 4B | Mona Lisa |
| Grok 4.6 | Mona Lisa |
| Hermes 3 405B Instruct | Mona Lisa |
| Hunyuan 3 | Mona Lisa |
| Hunyuan A13B Instruct | Mona Lisa |
| Ling 3.0 Flash | Mona Lisa |
| Llama 3 8B Lunaris | Mona Lisa |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | Mona Lisa |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Mona Lisa |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Mona Lisa |
| MiniMax M2 | Mona Lisa |
| MiniMax M2.5 | Mona Lisa |
| Minimax M2.1 | Mona Lisa |
| Minimax M2.7 | Mona Lisa |
| Mistral Ministral 14b 2512 | Mona Lisa |
| Mistral Ministral 3 8B 2512 | Mona Lisa |
| Mistral Nemo | Mona Lisa |
| Mistral Small 2603 | Mona Lisa |
| Mistral Small 3 | Mona Lisa |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24b Instruct | Mona Lisa |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | Mona Lisa |
| MythoMax 13B | Mona Lisa |
| Nemotron 3 Super | Mona Lisa |
| Nova Lite 1.0 | Mona Lisa |
| Nova Micro | Mona Lisa |
| Phi-4 | Mona Lisa |
| Qwen 2.5 72b Instruct | Mona Lisa |
| Qwen 2.5 7b Instruct | Mona Lisa |
| Qwen3 14b | Mona Lisa |
| Qwen3 235b A22b 2507 | Mona Lisa |
| Qwen3 30b A3b | Mona Lisa |
| Qwen3 32B | Mona Lisa |
| Qwen3 Next 80b A3b Instruct | Mona Lisa |
| Qwen3 VL 235b A22b Instruct | Mona Lisa |
| Qwen3 VL 30b A3b Instruct | Mona Lisa |
| ReMM SLERP 13B | Mona Lisa |
| Step 3.5 Flash | Mona Lisa |
| Uncensored | Mona Lisa |
| Hermes 3 70B Instruct | The Last Supper |
| Mistral Ministral 3 3B 2512 | The Last Supper |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | The Starry Night |
| Llama 3.1 Euryale 70B v2.2 | The Starry Night |
| UnslopNemo 12B | The Starry Night |
| Weaver (alpha) | The Starry Night |
| GPT OSS 120b | No single answer |
| GPT OSS 20b | No single answer |
| Inception Mercury 2 | No single answer |
| Llama 3.1 70b Instruct | No single answer |
| Llama 3.3 70B | No single answer |
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | No single answer |
| Skyfall 36b V2 | No single answer |
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