Painting

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

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

The Rani once copied a painting by Turner, Eruption of Souffrier onto a room-dividing screen hiding her TARDIS.

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.

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

The Flight of the Valwing was a famous Valnaxi painting, thought to have been one of the greatest paintings in the cosmos.

Vincent van Gogh was a famous Dutch painter of the late 19th century. He painted The Church at Auvers which in 2010 hung in the Musée d'Orsay in a section dedicated to van Gogh. The Eleventh Doctor noticed a Krafayis painted into one of the windows. This led the Doctor and Amy to travel back to 1890, the year that van Gogh painted the Church. While spending time with van Gogh, Amy inspired his painting, Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, which he dedicated to her. 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.

In the 17th century the Eleventh Doctor posed for a nude painting of him.

In 13th century Cumbria the Eleventh Doctor painted a portrait of Clara Oswin Oswald.