Painting Painting was the art of applying colour to a surface . A painting was also the end product — a picture made in this way . They were often displayed in museum s afterward . ( TV : " City of Death " , " Vincent and the Doctor " ) In early human and Neanderthal history , particularly during the Ice Age , paintings were made in caves , called " cave painting s " . According to the Third Doctor , when the Dæmon s visited Earth , they inspired cave paintings of powerful supernatural beings . ( TV : " The Dæmons " ) Susan was delighted to find early " cartoon s " when she , the First Doctor and their human companion s arrived in an Aztec tomb . ( TV : " The Aztecs " ) Time Lord s had a similar form of art — stasis cube s — although these were " bigger on the inside " , and actually contained a " tiny sliver of time " . Because of this , Clara Oswald thought one such work , " Gallifrey Falls No More " , to be a 3D oil painting . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) According to Romana , Gallifrey an paintings were done by computer . The Fourth Doctor thought lowly of this computerised art , instead preferring the paintings of Earth , specifically Paris . ( TV : " City of Death " ) Paintings sometimes proved good defence mechanisms . The Rani once copied a painting by Turner , " Eruption of Souffrier " onto a room - dividing screen hiding her TARDIS . The painting defended her TARDIS by producing mustard gas from the volcano ' s top when intruders approached . ( TV : " The Mark of the Rani " , PROSE : " The Mark of the Rani " ) Paintings even occasionally turned sentient . Factor Eleven on the Oddness Scale hung in an art gallery on the Moon . Because a soul extractor was used during the creation of the painting it became an intelligent creature . ( PROSE : " Untitled " ) " 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 " ) Famous Earth painters and paintings . Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel even though he was afraid of heights . The Fourth Doctor told him that he should not have taken the job . ( PROSE : " Managra " , TV : " Vincent and the Doctor " ) A Raphael painting hung in a church in Borosini , Italy in 1944 . To prevent Nazi s from stealing the painting and several others , the Fourth Doctor took the paintings to four years into the future . ( COMIC : " Treasure Trail " ) Vincent van Gogh was a famous Dutch painter of the late 19th century . By the 21st century , some considered him to be the greatest artist who ever lived . 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 " ) " 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 " ) " 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 " Mona Lisa " . The " Mona Lisa " was Earth ' s most famous painting . It was painted multiple times by Leonardo da Vinci . The Fourth Doctor wrote " THIS IS A FAKE " on the canvasses da Vinci was to paint the extra Mona Lisa ' s on and instructed da Vinci to just paint over words . He also told da Vinci that everyone loved " The Last Supper " ( TV : " City of Death " ) The painting grew so famous that contests were held just to view it . A painting of Clyde Langer ' s won first prize in a contest to see the " Mona Lisa " at the International Gallery . ( TV : " Mona Lisa ' s Revenge " ) " The Abomination " was the masterpiece of Giuseppe di Cattivo and was stored underneath the International Gallery . It was painted with pigments made from sentient rock that fell to Earth . When a copy of the " Mona Lisa " , also painted with sentient meteorite was stored in the same Gallery , the paintings awoke , animating other paintings ( including " The Dark Rider " ) and putting people into paintings . ( TV : " Mona Lisa ' s Revenge " ) Android painters at the Paloma Centre . The Paloma Centre not only had one of the largest collections of art in the universe , but also had android copies of many of the painters , including Andy Warhol , Roy Lichtenstein , Pablo Picasso , Salvador Dalí , René Magritte , Pierre - Auguste Renoir , Henri Rousseau , Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec , William Turner and Michelangelo . Paintings by Monet , Matisse , and Zoirarghhh were displayed in the Blue Room of the Paloma Center . ( PROSE : " The War of Art " ) Paintings of the Doctor and his companions . Andy Warhol painted the first eleven incarnations of the Doctor in the summer of 1966 . ( PROSE : " The War of Art " ) At one point the Second Doctor lost his face and had a sunflower painted on his face by the Face - Painter . ( PROSE : " Face Painter " ) A portrait of the Third Doctor existed on Karfel . ( TV : " Timelash " ) A likeness of the Fourth Doctor was painted into a famous poster by Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec . ( AUDIO : " The Demon of Paris " ) The Sixth Doctor had portraits of himself painted by Vincent van Gogh and Michaelangelo . It is unknown which incarnations of the Doctor they depicted . ( COMIC : " Changes " ) Thomas Gainsborough painted a portrait of Ace that would hang in Windsor Castle in 1988 . ( TV : " Silver Nemesis " , PROSE : " Set Piece " ) In the 17th century , the Eleventh Doctor posed for a nude painting . ( TV : " The Impossible Astronaut " ) Paintings by the Doctor and his companions . In 13th century Cumbria , the Eleventh Doctor painted a portrait of Clara Oswin Oswald . ( TV : " The Bells of Saint John " )