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Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Thu, 7 Aug 2025 23:45:40 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 08/08/2025 03:45

Bernard the Elder (circa 1000s - 1100s; Romanesque) and Fernando de Casas Novoa (1683 - circa 1760s; Baroque)

Best Works:
7.5/10: Santiago de Compostela Cathedral (1075 - 1211, original construction; various Gothic, then major Baroque modifications, updates mainly from 1400s - circa 1770) [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

Santiago de Compostela Cathedral (original construction, primarily Romanesque: 1075 - 1211, Pricipal Architect: Bernard the Elder (late 1000s - mid 1100s?); Master Esteban (completed Romanesque Facade: 1103); Pórtico da Gloria, an early work of Romanesque sculpture, Master Mateo (completed 1188); Gothic construction, modifications (especially in the Cloister and some Interior features), more prominently major Baroque construction and modifications, these mainly from 1400s - circa 1770; East Facade (aka, da Quintana) designed and begun by José de Vega y Verdugo and by José de la Peña de Toro in 1666, completed by Domingo de Andrade in 1700; Gines Martinez (Maximilian Staircase, 1600s, entrance, Renaissance style, Front Baroque Facade); Bell Towers, originally designed 1200s; as currently constructed, updated, by José de la Peña de Toro, completed by Domingo de Andrade (1614–1676, additions in the Baroque style); Baroque Facade (completed 1740) by Fernando de Casas Novoa; also North Tower (aka, da Carraca), Fernando de Casas Novoa (designed, built 1738 - 1760); North Façade (aka, da Acibecharía), Baroque construction designed by Lucas Ferro Caaveiro, finished in Neo-Classical style by Lois Monteagudo and Clemente Fernández Sarela (circa 1758 - 1769); various less substantial, additions, modifications thereafter) [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

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VIRTUAL TOUR - EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR - HQ: https://www.turismo.gal/fotos/IMAGENES/...index.html
VIRTUAL VISIT - GOOGLE ARTS & CULTURE: https://artsandculture.google.com/story...w?hl=en-US

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Thu, 7 Aug 2025 15:40:14 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 08/07/2025 19:40

Will update whole page as soon as I can...

Strasbourg Cathedral

7.6 or 7.7 or possibly 7.8/10 (leaning towards 7.7 upon latest evaluation...)

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PHOTO GALLERY - EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR (and original sculptures) - HQ: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucker/52855806647/in/photostream/
PHOTO GALLERY - EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR - VERY HQ: https://www.reddit.com/r/3D_virtual_mus.../#lightbox
360 DEGREE PANORAMA - INTERIOR - NAVE: https://www.klapty.com/p/franck-charles/t/notre-dame-de-strasbourg-1-27361
VIRTUAL TOUR - INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR (numerous viewing options, including all along the facades, towers, roof, etc ... plus probably the highest picture quality I've ever seen for a Cathedral): https://www.alsace-360.fr/2015/Fondatio...trasbourg/

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Wed, 6 Aug 2025 14:23:47 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 08/06/2025 18:23

Afonso Domingues (circa 1350 - 1402); Huguet (circa 1375? - 1438)

Best Works:
7.7/10: Batalha Monastery - Afonso Domingues (1388 - 1402); Huguet (1402 - 1438; continued construction, revisions, additions through completion circa 1517) [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

Batalha Monastery - Afonso Domingues (1388 - 1402); Huguet (1402 - 1438 in which several Flamboyant Gothic elements were added; changed architects posthumously, continued construction, revisions, additions through completion circa 1517) / Batalha, Portugal [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture] (NOTE: does not include second cloister added separately but attached to the far end of the Monastery, added later for separate housing, storage, library and archive spaces, and which -- similar to the clergy domestic spaces and housing of, for example, on the premises and adjacent with the Vatican Gardens and St. Peter's -- is not truly part of its ensemble or artistic vision, or its original or main architectural plan or intended with its compositional purpose or expressively religious, spatial progression)

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/...174%29.jpg

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PHOTO GALLERY - INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR - HQ: https://global-geography.org/af/Geograp...onastery_1
VIRTUAL TOUR (Scroll down on the page): https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/batalha-monastery
VIDEO - DRONE FOOTAGE - AERIAL/EXTERIOR - HQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtdaqVBgld4
VIDEO - WALKING TOUR - HQ (Batalha Monastery specifically begins around the 8 minute mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm2jWPTTRH0

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Mon, 4 Aug 2025 12:37:26 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 08/04/2025 16:37

Both pages under construction, to be separated, rated, more links added, etc...

Master Gerhard of Ryle (circa 1210 - 1271)

Best Works:
8.0/10: Cologne Cathedral (1248 - 1560, construction led by various architects after 1271; construction halted in 1560; resumed and completed 1842 - 1880) [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

Cologne Cathedral - Master Gerhard of Ryle (1248 - 1560, construction led by various architects after 1271; construction halted in 1560; resumed and completed 1842 - 1880) / Cologne, Germany [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

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VIDEO - WALKING TOUR - HQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK8mdxfqS48

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Sun, 3 Aug 2025 18:29:53 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 08/03/2025 22:29

Abbot Serlo (circa 1036 - 1104) and Abbot Froucester (circa mid-1300s - mid-1400s???)

Best Works:
7.4/10: Gloucester Cathedral (Norman (Romanesque) foundations: 1089 - 1120; Gothic transformations: 1242 - 1457; Construction of Cathedral completed 1482; various modifications thereafter) [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

Gloucester Cathedral - Abbot Serlo (Original Architect; Norman (Romanesque) foundations: 1089 - 1120); possibly William de Ramsey or Thomas of Canterbury on various Gothic transformations; Abbot Frouster on the Great Cloister and Fan Vaulting (Gothic transformations: 1242 - 1457; this Gothic period is what shaped the Cathedral the most as we see it today: Early English Gothic Phase: 1242 - 1311, and Perpendicular Gothic Phase: 1351 - 1457; Cloisters: 1351 - 1412; Construction of Cathedral completed 1482; various modifications thereafter) [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

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Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Sun, 3 Aug 2025 16:43:38 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 08/03/2025 20:43

Jean d'Orbais (circa 1175 – 1231)

Best Works:
7.5/10: Reims Cathedral (Principal Architect: 1210 - 1228; additional architects, construction, modifications thereafter with the main phase of construction from 1211 - 1275; further modifications through 1345, High Gothic, Rayonnant Style) [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

Reims Cathedral - Jean d'Orbais (Principal Architect: 1210 - 1228; additional architects, construction, modifications thereafter with the main phase of construction from 1211 - 1275; further modifications through 1345, High Gothic, Rayonnant Style) / Reims, France [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

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Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Fri, 1 Aug 2025 23:47:52 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 08/02/2025 03:47

Heinrich Parler (circa 1315 - circa 1370)

Best Works:
7.5/10: Ulm Minster (first major construction phase: 1377 - 1543; further construction, modifications thereafter until 1890) [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

Ulm Minster - Heinrich Parler (Main Design and Principal Architect, mainly 1387 - 1391; continued construction and modification thereafter over centuries; first major construction phase: 1377 - 1543; further construction, modifications thereafter until 1890) / Ulm, Germany [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

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Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:25:11 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 08/01/2025 03:25

Abbot Suger (circa 1081 - 1151)

Best Works:
7.5/10: Basilica of Saint-Denis (1135 - 1280; modifications thereafter) [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

Basilica of Saint-Denis - Abbot Suger (Principal Architect, Main Construction including the Gothic innovations: 1135 - 1144; key Nave and Transept additions thereafter, mainly 1230 - 1280 with modifications thereafter) / Saint-Denis, France [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

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AERIAL FOOTAGE - EXTERIOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8reSgcN-zk
AERIAL DRONE FOOTAGE - EXTERIOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxmDBW_FiUI
AERIAL DRONE FOOTAGE - EXTERIOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymMdFlGEy9M
AERIAL DRONE FOOTAGE - EXTERIOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aarum6IFJUk
VIRTUAL TOUR - INTERIOR: https://picturearch.com/saintdenis.html

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:55:24 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 08/01/2025 02:55

Bishop Maurice de Sully (circa 1120 - 1196)

Best Works:
8.1/10: Notre-Dame de Paris - Main construction principally directed under Bishop Maurice de Sully (1163 - 1260, main construction; various additions, updates, restorations thereafter; reconstruction of fleche and roof from fire damages: 2019 - 2024 [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture][/b]

Notre-Dame de Paris - Main construction principally directed under Bishop Maurice de Sully (1163 - 1260, main construction; various additions, updates, restorations thereafter; reconstruction of fleche and roof from fire damages: 2019 - 2024) / Parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul-II, Paris, France [Architecture, including Stained Glass and Structural Sculpture]

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PHOTO GALLERY: https://parisjetaime.com/eng/culture/cathedrale-notre-dame-de-paris-et-son-tresor-p3576
PHOTO GALLERY: https://www.flickr.com/photos/checco/4181776806/in/photostream/
PHOTO GALLERY: https://archeyes.com/cathedral-notre-dame-de-paris-symbolism-structure-and-restoration/
PHOTO GALLERY - EXTERIOR: https://www.friendsofnotredamedeparis.org/notre-dame-cathedral/architecture/exterior/
PHOTO GALLERY - INTERIOR: https://www.friendsofnotredamedeparis.org/notre-dame-cathedral/architecture/interior/
VIRTUAL TOUR - HQ: https://www.friendsofnotredamedeparis.org/virtual-tour-notre-dame/
CATHEDRAL LAYOUT/FLOOR PLANS: https://www.friendsofnotredamedeparis.org/notre-dame-cathedral/architecture/layout/

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:43:03 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 07/29/2025 02:43

Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (482 - 565), Isidore of Miletus (442 - 537) and Anthemius of Tralles (474 - 534)

Best Works:
8.3/10: Hagia Sophia (Current Main Structure: 532 - 537; various changes, additions thereafter) [Architecture and Mosaics]

Hagia Sophia - Directed by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I; Designed by Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles (Current Main Structure: 532 - 537; various changes, additions thereafter) [Architecture, including Mosaics and Stained Glass]

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PHOTO GALLERY - FLOOR PLANS, SEVERAL VIEWS AND DETAILS - HQ: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucker/14251995586/in/photostream/
PHOTO GALLERY - EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR - HQ: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mingthein/34602875182/in/photostream/
PHOTO GALLERY - EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR - ALSO INFORMATIONAL, LABELS OF VARIOUS PARTS (under construction) - HQ: https://www.thebyzantinelegacy.com/hagia-sophia
360 DEGREE PANORAMA - EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR (Hagia Sophia, series also includes other famous Mosques of Instanbul): https://www.airpano.com/360photo/mosques-istanbul-turkey/
360 DEGREE PANORAMIC GALLERY OF HAGIA SOPHIA - VIRTUAL TOUR: https://www.360tr.com/hagia-sophia-upper-floor-1-panorama-virtual-tour_89ef68d7b5_en.html
360 DEGREE PANORAMA - NAVE AND PANORAMIC VIEW OF CEILING DOMES: https://www.360cities.net/image/hagia-sophia-istanbul
PHOTO GALLERY AND VIDEO - UP CLOSE NEAR THE CEILINGS AND CENTRAL DOME: https://www.keptlight.com/hagia-sophia-revisited/
VIDEO - EXTENSIVE TOUR, EXPLANATIONS, HQ PHOTOGRAPHY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dwYeIBbdTw

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:33:04 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 07/28/2025 19:33

Early Greek Sculpture - Unattributed or Unknown Artists

Best Works:
7.3/10: Laocoön and His Sons - Unknown Artist; suggested Athanadoros, Hagesandros, or Polydoros of Rhodes (circa 200 BC - 70 AD) [Sculpture]

Laocoön and His Sons - Unknown Artist; suggested Athanadoros, Hagesandros, or Polydoros of Rhodes (circa 200 BC - 70 AD) / Vatican Museum, Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Sculpture]

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MAIN CENTRAL FRONTAL VIEW - VERY LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Laocoon_and_His_Sons.jpg
MAIN CENTRAL FRONTAL VIEW - EXTRA LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Laoco%C3%B6n_and_his_sons_group.jpg
ALTERNATE VIEW - VIEWER'S RIGHT - LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Laocoon_and_His_Sons%2C_Vatican.jpg
PHOTO GALLERY - SEVERAL VIEWS, ANGLES, DETAILS - HQ: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucker/51881831967/in/photostream/
DETAIL - HEAD OF OLDER SON: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Laocoon_group_closeup_4.jpg

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:01:30 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 07/28/2025 02:01

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Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:08:08 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 07/27/2025 23:08

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Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:08:08 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 07/24/2025 17:08

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Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:42:48 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 07/23/2025 16:42

Jacek Malczewski (1854 - 1929)

Best Works:
7.3/10: Vicious Circle (1895 - 1897) [Painting]

Vicious Circle - Jacek Malczewski (1895 - 1897) / National Museum, Poznań, Poland [Painting]

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FULL VIEW - VERY LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Bledne_kolo.jpg

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:18:56 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 07/18/2025 17:18

Gaudenzio Ferrari (1471 - 1546)

Best Works:
6.5/10: Stories of the Life of Christ (1513) [Painting]

Stories of the Life of Christ - Gaudenzio Ferrari (1513) / Santa Maria delle Grazie, Varallo, Italy [Painting]

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FULL VIEW - HIGHEST QUALITY AND LARGEST RESOLUTION - ZOOM FUNCTION: https://www.haltadefinizione.com/visual...io-ferrari
PHOTO GALLERY: https://www.flickr.com/photos/94185526@N04/27261030785/in/photostream/

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:52:59 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 07/17/2025 22:52

Andrea Pozzo (1642 - 1709)

IN PROGRESS...

Best Works:
Not Rated Yet/10: Saint Ingnatius Cycle (1685 - 1694) [Painting]

Nave Ceiling Panorama - Apotheosis of St. Ignatius:

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FULL VIEW - NAVE CEILING PANORAMA - APOTHEOSIS OF ST IGNATIUS - LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/..._Pozzo.jpg
FULL VIEW - NAVE CEILING PANORAMA - APOTHEOSIS OF ST IGNATIUS - VERY LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/..._Pozzo.jpg
FULL VIEW - NAVE CEILING PANORAMA - APOTHEOSIS OF ST IGNATIUS - ZOOM FUNCTION: https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/andrea-pozzo-ceiling-santignazio-church-rome-1685
FULL VIEW - NAVE CEILING PANORAMA - APOTHEOSIS OF ST IGNATIUS - HIGHEST QUALITY AND LARGEST RESOLUTION - ZOOM FUNCTION: https://www.haltadefinizione.com/en/viewer/work/glory-of-saint-ignatio-andrea-pozzo
PHOTO GALLERY - FULL AND DETAIL VIEWS - NAVE CEILING PANORAMA - APOTHEOSIS OF ST IGNATIUS: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucker/50647228931/in/photostream/

NOTE: THE NAVE CEILING PANORAMA IS THE MOST FAMOUS BUT I WILL PROBABLY INCLUDING THE WHOLE ST IGNATIUS CYCLE IN THE NAVE AND ADDITIONAL PARTS OF THE CHURCH AND AS "ONE" UNIFIED, RATED, WORK (rating under review, will be updated soon, along with additional images/links to the additional parts)

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:10:29 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 07/13/2025 19:10

Tiziano Vecellio ("Titian") (circa 1488 - 1576)

IN PROGRESS ... SEVERAL MORE TO ADD ... ALL TITIAN RATINGS STILL UNDER REVIEW (none, even where listed, are "final")...

Best Works:
7.1/10: Assumption of the Virgin (1516 - 1518) [Painting]
7.0/10: Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple (1534 - 1538) [Painting]
7.2/10: Venus of Urbino (1538) [Painting]
7.3/10: Pieta (1575 - 1576; probably unfinished) [Painting]

Assumption of the Virgin - Titian (1516 - 1518) / Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Italy [Painting]

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FULL VIEW - SMALL: https://i0.wp.com/simplykalaa.com/wp-co...&ssl=1
FULL VIEW - MEDIUM: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Tizian_041.jpg
FULL VIEW - MEDIUM - ALTERNATE LIGHTING: https://fraryguitar.com/europe_images/Frari_1317sign.jpg
FULL VIEW - ZOOM FUNCTION: https://www.facebook.com/wheninvenice/p...8855/?_rdr
DETAIL: https://venezianews.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/14_putto-a-dx-copia.jpg
DETAIL: https://www.guidedtoursinvenice.com/file/textarea/blobid1665058305429.jpg
IMAGE - SCALE: https://live-save-venice.pantheonsite.i...68x498.png

Venus of Urbino - Titian (1538) / Uffizi, Florence, Italy [Painting]

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FULL VIEW - LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/...roject.jpg
FULL VIEW - LARGEST SIZE, RESOLUTION AND HIGHEST QUALITY - ZOOM FUNCTION: https://www.haltadefinizione.com/visualizzatore/opera/venere-di-urbino-tiziano-vecellio
PHOTO GALLERY - VERY HQ - FULL AND DETAIL VIEWS - ZOOM FUNCTION: https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/venus-urbino-titian
PHOTO GALLERY - VERY HQ - FULL AND DETAIL VIEWS: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucker/50227492866/in/photostream/
IMAGE - SCALE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Uffizi_Venus_of_Urbino_August_2022.jpg

Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple - Titian (1534 - 1538) / Scoula Grande di S. Maria della Carità, Venice, Italy [Painting]

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FULL VIEW - MEDIUM: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/...222%29.jpg
FULL VIEW - LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/...281%29.JPG
PHOTO GALLERY _ FULL AND DETAIL VIEWS: https://www.gallerieaccademia.it/en/pre...lla-carita
PHOTO GALLERY - SOME VIEWS, DETAILS OF THE ROOM AND PAINTING PLUS SURROUNDINGS: https://universes.art/en/art-destinations/venice/museums/accademia/first-floor/sala-dell-albergo
IMAGE - SCALE: https://www.christianiconography.info/E...rdSize.jpg

"Poesies" Series

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Pieta - Titian (1575 - 1576; probably unfinished) / Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy [Painting]

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FULL VIEW - MEDIUM: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Tiziano%2C_piet%C3%A0%2C_1576%2C_01.JPG
FULL VIEW - LARGE: https://www.guidedtoursinvenice.com/file/textarea/blobid1630416053555.jpg
FULL VIEW - LARGE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/...Titian.jpg
PHOTO GALLERY - FULL AND DETAIL VIEWS: https://www.flickr.com/photos/profzucker/9483086740/in/photostream/
DETAIL: https://www.guidedtoursinvenice.com/file/textarea/blobid1630416195077.jpg
DETAIL: https://www.guidedtoursinvenice.com/file/textarea/blobid1630416126074.jpg
DETAIL: https://www.guidedtoursinvenice.com/file/textarea/blobid1630416267528.jpg
DETAIL: https://www.guidedtoursinvenice.com/file/textarea/blobid1630416379243.jpg
DETAIL: https://www.guidedtoursinvenice.com/file/textarea/blobid1630416484307.jpg
IMAGE - SCALE: https://logasawara.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834535cc569e20240a4c4a80f200b-pi

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

AfterHours — Tue, 8 Jul 2025 11:06:41 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 07/08/2025 15:06

II wrote:

You're welcome 😄 "Portrait of the Bourgeoisie" catched my eyes several times on your thread and it looks really great! II like the color palette, shades, figures and its 4-faced cubic panoramic view which makes you feel you're inside the painting!

II probably like paintings like F-111 less as the images don't feel interconnected enough for me, but II like its vibrant colors which look great for it being painted in the mid 60's, its big size is impressive, the symmetry of the figures, and the black image with the blue bursting water is my favorite.

Thank you for bringing these paintings up :)

Much of F-111 is developing a vivid, absurd, hyped, satirical symbology, in close correlation to its 50s-60s audience -- every element seems random or semi-random but actually matters (is hidden behind the blatant hype by artistic genius) -- between the life-sized 80+ foot jet "happily" thrusting its way through the whole thing (no violence to be seen here! All suggestions of violence is "hidden" by "happy" colors, images, messages or masqueraded by them) ...in correlation and at the expense of its consumerism and messages. The colors are all garishly happy, cheerful, while satirically exploiting its consumerist, militaristic message as if a giant advertisement/billboard. Every image has and conveys meaning, often multiple possibilities, often ambiguous. For instance the little girl (as the "pilot"!) under the hair dryer features also a perfect and brilliant yellow field behind her, that "segues" from her perfect 50's blonde hair and cute ribbons, all-happy color, while the dryer itself is lined by rocket boosters from its rim, shooting from it (to propel it to dry her head!) and almost "hidden" in plain view, features actual "rockets" as part of its formation (look closer at the blow dryer itself -- the structure of its middle part, basically features a rocket ship). This conflates several potential messages simultaneously, between having children in your perfect home and perfect lawn, to the contemporary Space race, to "you can grow up to be an astronaut!", to ubiquitous distractions of advertising hair styles, salons, etc, while going to War or producing for the War, and so forth -- the great economy that our great country and F-111 production will bring for us! Yay! Not to be missed, the random pink above her correlates happy child hood of a little girl (is pink never not a little girl's favorite color???) with the upcoming cheerful nucelar explosion a few panels later... This nuclear explosion is juxtaposed in shape and cheerfulness by a ridiculous umbrella as if that's going to help you with cover in such an instance, probably meant as satrical comment upon the moronic school drills of the time to hide under your desk when a nuclear explosion is alarmed (or similar), also the heat (of nuclear explosion!) reminding you to go to the beach, take your beach umbrella (all those beach and bikini advertisements became prominent in the 60s!!! Yay, lets all go to the beach while at War and to forget about the Cuban missile crises!!!), juxtaposed with the letters USA, the "A" (and Air) segueing right into the word "FORCE" across the explosion and above a huge and lovely message of spaghetti to not only reflect the conquest, increased financial state of the country and food provided by war but also to (probably) subtly suggest violence in the happiest and most satirical, garish way imaginable (the spaghetti can double in this context as a happy version of blood and guts ... good 'ol Spagetthi-Os for the kids!). The colors throughout marry red-white-blue near continuously (even the black tire is also transformed by "non-sequitur" blue and white to remind you to be an American and buy Firestone!), with tangents also (when varying from this tri-color scheme) to either variations on these themes (colors that derive, segue, from these three in more garish variations from red such as orange, etc) but nevertheless into sheer garish, bright, pristine, polished, "50's-early 60's American" happiness (which is of course satiric, as if war and the F-111 will bring this). Ridiculous, apparently non-sequitur, slogans abound, but even where completely out of no where they carry subliminal connective messages to the image, uncannily depicting the advertising of the "American dream" as a result of war machines and Vietnam, and to help produce and support such things -- the jet plane is literally "composed" of all this along its fuselage.

Re: Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

II — Mon, 7 Jul 2025 13:35:11 GMT

Author: II

Posted: 07/07/2025 17:35

AfterHours wrote:

@II

Re: Creation of Adam

The amusing point for me is not so much the fact of including it, it's more about obliviousness, and including both that and the whole Ceiling on the same list (even both, separately placed, together inside a top 10 or 20). And if I did an equivalent of "greatest songs/tracks" for paintings (such as best "panels" or something), I too would include it somewhere on there. But on these often "rote" looking lists, and even making no mention of the Creation of Adam being part of the Ceiling's whole (more common than you would think because it is so known on its own), it tends to speak of the probability that the user(s) is not aware they are talking about part of a much larger work and are simply copying from a google image search of most famous paintings (or similar) where that image will be no doubt be among the most featured (with Mona Lisa, Starry Night, etc).

Most amusingly, I've even seen comments of some "reviewing" Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and -- because that one part of it is so ubiquitous and is "the" image of choice -- they occasionally will really think the whole work consists of "only" the Creation of Adam (and not the dozens of figures/scenes all around it and associated with it too!). And -- no joke, I've actually seen this -- some of these reviews will mention how they went to visit it at the Vatican and came away disappointed with how it was much smaller than they thought. So not only are they -- hilariously -- not really "looking at" what is among the largest paintings in the world right there in front of them, thinking the "whole" of Michelangelo's work is just that part (the Creation of Adam alone) but it being about 65 feet up off the floor additionally makes them also miss the fact of what is actually a huge painting just that in itself (Creation of Adam is just over 9 feet by almost 19 feet across; the figures are bigger than life sized... not that much smaller than, say, Guernica, the size of which often stuns people on that point alone), and thus, even just the Creation of Adam can appear sort of "small"!! It's funny to me how these confusions can lead to such comedies of errors and even cause people to waste their own trip into the Sistine and not notice what they're looking at when they finally have the chance to do so in person! Not to mention, missing the friggin Last Judgment assaulting the other wall out of existence and into another dimension -- if only they just turned their head towards the altar instead of only trying to look at the Creation of Adam at the ignorance of all else 🤣 🤣 🤣

Anyway, I don't mean I expect casual viewers to all be art historians or something, it's just these sorts of things that make me chuckle 🤣

This is what keeps me posting here, realizing I've got work to do 🤣 🤣 :lol:

Those who came only to see the "Creation of Adam" weren't probably aware of the importance of the whole Sistine Chapel, which is full of paintings which portray a whole story and a backstory of its creation process. Not to mention all the amazingly beautiful paintings on the quite long way in the Apostolic Palace before reaching the chapel itself, e.g. "The School of Athens" by Raphael is one of them if II'm not mistaken. And there is the whole St. Peter's Square and all the amazing things it has to offer!
II guess it's up to them to find out one day if they have been missing things 🤣
The Sistine Chapel is uniquely amazing!