My favourite spring artworks
Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones selects the top artworks that remind him of springtime. Tell about your favourites in the comment threads.
A window on reality: Paul Cézanne's Avenue at Chantilly
Jonathan Jones chooses his favourite spring artworks – in the last of the series, a shady avenue offers a glimpse of a secret revelation
Fading beauty: Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Gladioli in a Vase
Jonathan Jones chooses his favourite spring artworks – this time, an impressionist masterpiece that captures the transient beauty of flowers
Mad about tulips: Balthasar van der Ast's Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects
Jonathan Jones chooses his favourite spring artworks – this time, a masterpiece painted for a flower-crazy culture that kept spring tulips blooming all year
The violence of spring: Paolo Uccello's The Battle of San Romano
Jonathan Jones chooses his favourite springtime artworks – this time the energy of spring surfaces in a carnival of violence
Resurrection drama: Titian's Noli Me Tangere
Jonathan Jones chooses his favourite springtime artworks – this time he is moved by Titian's depiction of the moment Mary Magdalene spots Christ resurrected
Amazing grace: Raphael's The Mond Crucifixion
Jonathan Jones picks another gem from his favourite springtime artworks – a paradoxically sweet and beautiful crucifixion painted by Raphael when he was 19 or 20 years old
Heavenly sky: Giovanni Bellini's The Agony in the Garden
Jonathan Jones picks out a moving Easter scene from his favourite springtime artworks. Christ awaits his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane beneath one of the most beautiful skies ever painted
Flora in the flesh: Palma Vecchio's A Blonde Woman
Jonathan Jones chooses another of his favourite springtime artworks. Today he picks a mysterious lady who could either be the Roman goddess of spring or a Venetian courtesan
Away from the Flock: Damien Hirst's lamb in limbo
Jonathan Jones is choosing his favourite artworks that depict the essence of spring and today he highlights one of Damien Hirst's early experiments with formaldehyde
Lamb of God: Francisco de Zurbarán's Agnus Dei
The latest in Jonathan Jones's series of paintings that reflect the glory of springtime is this remarkable still life by the 17th-century Spanish giant of religious painting
Petal power: Vincent van Gogh's The Pink Peach Tree
Jonathan Jones is bringing us the artworks that best celebrate the new season. Step forward Van Gogh, whose rendering of a peach tree in Arles burns with life force
Natural talent: Claude Monet's Le Printemps
Jonathan Jones is taking us through his favourite seasonal artworks. Today it's the turn of Monet, with an 1886 study of sitters amid greenery that prefigures the poetic reverie of the water lily paintings
Season of revolution: Goya's The Third of May, 1808
In Jonathan Jones's latest daily selection of artworks that capture the essence of spring, Goya reminds us that it's a season of rebirth not only for flowers but for nations
Spring fair: Rembrandt's Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume
Guardian critic Jonathan Jones is making a daily selection of artworks that capture the essence of the season of rebirth. This time it's Rembrandt, with a poignant portrait of his youthful wife as the goddess Flora
Route masters: William Blake's Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims
Spring has sprung, and Jonathan Jones is choosing his favourite artworks that depict the new season. Today it's the turn of William Blake's famed engraving of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales crew
Where there's a wall: Francesco del Cossa’s April
Jonathan Jones is welcoming spring with a bevy of classic works about those glorious months when the weather starts to turn. Today he pays tribute to April, a famous wall fresco in the city of Ferrara, Italy
One for the road: Camille Pissarro's The Avenue, Sydenham
Jonathan Jones is treating us to a selection of his favourite springtime artworks. Today it's a French impressionist's view of a south London suburb in the middle Victorian era
In full bloom: Jeff Koons's Puppy
Jonathan Jones is picking his top springtime artworks. Today, it's Jeff Koons's giant topiary Westie, a kitsch and hilarious homage to the season of growth
Rites of spring: Sandro Botticelli's Primavera
Spring begins with Botticelli
