World’s most expensive painting with price tag of around $300,000,000. It was sold by Rudolf Staechelin, a notable art collector and Swiss Businessman, to private buyer, allegedly to the Qatar Museums. See all of the most expensive paintings ever sold which were able to break the $100,000,000 as their base price, in which, this painting now is at the top place.
Hierarchy Archive
Painting Hierarchy or the Hierarchy of Genres are the six main types of painting:
1. History Painting
2. Portrait Painting
3. Genre Painting
4. Landscape Painting
5. Animal Painting
6. Still Life Painting
Most of the paintings falls in one or more of these categories and are defined, interpreted accordingly.
This animal picture can be found in Ulisse Aldrovandi, “Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum Historia”, Bologna 1621, 756.



















