In celebration of the Oscar Academy Awards, we've come up with a list of our favorite movies about art. Happy Viewing!

1.  The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). Charlton Heston plays Michelangelo, in an epic drama that gives a vivid glimpse into the world of Renaissance Rome and the artist’s experience painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the command of the overbearing Pope Julius II.

2.  Rembrandt (1936). This biopic presents the old master painter in the wake of his wife’s death, as he has a controversial affair with a young maid and explores a new and riskier style in his art.

3.  Girl With A Pearl Earring (2003). Adapted from the best-selling Tracy Chevalier novel, this romantic drama is a visually rich look into the life of Vermeer’s maid (Scarlett Johansson) who becomes the subject of one of the Dutch painter’s most iconic pictures.

4.  Camille Claudel (1988). The French language drama is a biographical portrait of the female sculptor as she begins her career as the assistant to the famous sculptor Rodin (Gérard Depardieu), eventually becoming his mistress and seeking her own artistic outlet.

5.  Lust For Life (1956). Kirk Douglas stars as Vincent Van Gogh in this fictionalized biopic of artistic genius in a life plagued by perpetual struggles with mental illness and interpersonal dramas with his close friends, family, and peers, such as Paul Gauguin.

6.  The Rape of Europa (2006). This feature documentary follows the international art world’s effort to recover the millions of precious works that the Nazi’s looted throughout seven countries during World War II.

7.  Caravaggio (1986). A darkly avant-garde impression of the Italian Baroque painter’s life, work, and passionate bisexual love affair that develops with two of his models, leading up to his murder.

8.  Klimt (2006). John Malkovich stars as the famous Viennese fine de siècle artist in a dreamlike look back on a life of love, intrigue, bohemian splendor, and the disease that took his life.

9.  Edvard Munch (1976). A classic drama about the birth of expressionism through the life and work of the famous Norwegian painter, whose fervent participation in the café society of the period’s most progressive intellectuals and passionate affair typified the ways in which he pushed art to its limits.

10.  Goya In Bordeaux (2000). This Italian language film chronicles the life of the famous Spanish painter as he looks back on his life as a court painter in Spain and as a political exile in France, detailing his relationship with the Duchess of Alba.

11.  Modigliani (2004). Andy Garcia plays the Italian Jewish artist during his tense marriage to a Catholic woman, chronicling his rivalry with Picasso against the background of the art scene of 1919 Paris.

12.  Stolen (2005). An investigative documentary about the most famous and mysterious art theft of all time that took place at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.

13.  Little Ashes (2008). The decadent world of Salvador Dalí and his peers as they establish the surrealist movement in 1920s Madrid, and wrestle with artistic and emotional friendships in an era fraught with the excitement of modernism.

14.  Frida (2002). Salma Hayek stars in the captivating Oscar-winning film of the passionate life of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, through her stormy relationship with Diego Rivera and progressive identity as a political revolutionary and a woman in a man’s world.

15.  Love is the Devil (1998). A disturbing look at the life of British painter Francis Bacon, who carries on a stormy affair with the man who tries to burgle his apartment but who remains an emotionally-tormented artistic genius.

16.  The Mystery of Picasso (1956). The film provides documentary footage of the famous modern painter in action at his canvas, giving the viewer a firsthand glimpse at the process behind his masterpieces.