Painting

Painting was the art of applying colour to a surface. A painting is also the end product — a picture made in this way.

In 13th century Cumbria the Eleventh Doctor painted a portrait of Clara Oswin Oswald. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)

The Mona Lisa was Earth's most famous painting. It was painted (multiple times) by Leonardo da Vinci. (TV: City of Death)

In the 17th century the Eleventh Doctor posed for a nude painting of him. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)

The Rani once copied a painting by Turner, Eruption of Souffrier onto a room-dividing screen hiding her TARDIS. (TV: The Mark of the Rani, PROSE: The Mark of the Rani)

Guernica was a painting by Pablo Picasso that showed the destruction of Guernica during a bombing raid. Guernica was commissioned by the Republican government for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. (PROSE: History 101)

The Scream was a painting by Edvard Munch created to trap the Warp Core, which he described as an infinite scream through nature. (AUDIO: Dust Breeding)

Vincent van Gogh was a famous Dutch painter of the late 19th century who knew the Doctor. The image of a Krafayis in van Gogh's painting The Church at Auvers prompted the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond to travel back to 1890. While spending time with van Gogh, Amy inspired his painting, Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, which he dedicated to her. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor) In the last year of his life, van Gogh painted The Pandorica Opens inspired by transmissions he picked up from the Stonehenge of 102 AD. The painting contained the co-ordinates of the Pandorica and the date it opened. (TV: The Pandorica Opens) At some point van Gogh met the Sixth Doctor and painted a portrait of him. (COMIC: Changes)

The Flight of the Valwing was a famous Valnaxi painting, thought to have been one of the greatest paintings in the cosmos. (PROSE: The Art of Destruction)