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Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

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10/10
Sistine Chapel Ceiling and The Last Judgment - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1508 - 1512; 1535 - 1541) / Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Painting]

9.1/10
The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch (probably circa 1503-1505) / Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain [Painting]

9.0/10
Angkor Wat - Started by Suryavarman II; Completed by Jayavarman VII (circa 1122 - 1150; Note: there are various anomalies that may suggest an earlier date of construction -- perhaps even much earlier) / Siem Reap, Cambodia [Architecture and Sculpture]

8.9/10
Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany - Werner Tubke (1976 - 1987) [aka, "Peasants' War Panorama"] / Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Thuringia, Germany [Painting]

8.8/10
Guernica - Pablo Picasso (1937) / Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain [Painting]
Alhambra - Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar; later additions overseen by Yusuf I and Muhammad V (initial structure: 1250; several alterations thereafter through the 1600s) / Granada, Spain [Architecture and Sculpture]
The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1495 - 1498) / Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy [Painting]

8.7/10

8.6/10
Kailasa Temple - King Krishna I (circa 773) / Ellora Caves (Cave 16), Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, India [Architecture and Sculpture]

8.5/10
Taj Mahal - Ustad Ahmad Lahauri (1631 - 1653) / Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India [Architecture]
Registan Square - Ulugh Beg (1417 - 1420); Yalangtoʻsh Bahodir (1619 - 1636; 1646 - 1660) / Samarkand, Uzbekistan [Architecture]
Monreale Cathedral - Begun by William II of Sicily in 1174; various modifications thereafter (1267) / Monreale, Sicily, Italy [Architecture]

8.4/10
Borobudur - Gunadharma (circa 842?) / Magelang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia [Architecture and Sculpture]
Potala Palace - Lozano Gyatso, 5th Dalai Llama (1645 - 1694; some additions thereafter) / Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China [Architecture]
St. Peter's Basilica - Principal Architects: Donato Bramante (1503 - 1514); Michelangelo Buonarroti (1546 - 1564); Carlo Maderno (1603 - 1629); Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1629 - 1676) (Building completed and opened 1626; various additions thereafter) / Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Architecture and Sculpture]

8.3/10
The Beethoven Frieze - Gustav Klimt (1902) / Secession Building, Vienna, Austria [Painting]
Metamorphose de Narcisse - Salvador Dali (1937) / Tate Modern, London, England [Painting]
The Conversion of Saul and The Crucifixion of St. Peter - Michelangelo Buonarroti (circa 1542 - 1545; circa 1546 - 1550) / Pauline Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Painting]
Lalibela Rock-Hewn Churches Complex - Gebre Meskel Lalibela (Architects unknown, construction was under the rule of Gebre Meskel Lalibela, circa 1181 - 1221; probably modified at various stages thereafter) / Ethiopian Highlands near Lalibela, Ethiopia [Sculpture/Architecture]
Sainte-Chapelle - Jean de Chelles or Thomas de Cormont (1242 - 1248) / Paris, France [Architecture and Sculpture]
David - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1501 - 1504) / Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, Florence, Italy [Sculpture]

8.2/10
Europe After The Rain II - Max Ernst (1940 - 1942) / Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA [Painting]
Sagrada Família - Antoni Gaudí (Gaudi: 1883 - 1926, unfinished; Still under construction) / Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain [Architecture and Sculpture]

8.1/10
Psicostasia - Dino Valls (2005) [Painting]
Pieta - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1498 - 1499) / St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Sculpture]
Sydney Opera House - Jørn Utzon (1959 - 1973) / Bennelong Point, Sydney, Australia [Architecture]
Imam Mosque - Ali Akbar Isfahani (1611 - 1629) [aka, Shah Mosque] / Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Esfahan, Isfahan Province, Iran [Architecture and Sculpture]
The Last Judgment - Hieronymus Bosch (after 1482; probably circa 1500 - 1503) / Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria [Painting]

8.0/10
The Parthenon - Iktinos and Callicrates (Architecture); Phidias (Sculpture) (447 BC - 432 BC) / Athens, Greece [Architecture and Sculpture]
Florence Cathedral - Arnolfo di Cambio (1294 - 1302); Giotto (Bell Tower: 1334 - 1337); Filippo Brunelleschi (Dome: 1420 - 1436) (Completed 1436; Emilio De Fabris, Marble Facade: 1887) / Florence, Italy [Architecture and Sculpture]
Seville Cathedral - Alonso Martínez; Pedro Dancart; Carles Galtés de Ruan; and Alonso Rodríguez (1402 - 1519; various modifications thereafter) / Seville, Andalusia, Spain [Architecture]

7.9/10
La Fabrica - Ricardo Bofill (1973 - 2022) / Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain [Architecture]
Piazza dei Miracoli: Pisa Cathedral - Buscheto (Architect, 1064 - 1092) and Rainaldo (Facade, circa 1100); Pisa Baptistery of St. John - Diotisalvi (1152 - 1353, Pulpit: Nicolas Pisano, 1255 - 1260); Campinile (aka, "Leaning Tower of Pisa", 1173 - 1372) - Diotisalvi, then Benenato (1233 - 1259), Guido Speziale (1260 - 1272), Giovanni di Simone (1272 - 1284), Tommaso di Andrea Pisano (Bell Chamber, 1372); Camposanto Monumentale di Pisa - Giovanni di Simone (1278 - 1284, completed posthumously, 1464) / Pisa, Tuscany, Italy [Architecture]
Golden Gate Bridge - Joseph Strauss (1937) / San Francisco, California, USA [Architecture]
The Pantheon - Apollodorus of Damascus (circa 113 - 125) / Rome, Italy [Architecture]
The Sagrestia Nuova - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1520 - 1533; final composition completed later: 1559) / Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy [Sculpture and Architecture]
The Night Watch - Rembrandt van Rijn (1638 - 1642) / Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands [Painting]
The Kiss - Gustav Klimt (1907 - 1908) / Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria [Painting]
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) - Salvador Dali (1954) / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA [Painting]
The Triumph of Death - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (circa 1562) / Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain [Painting]
Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey - William of Volpiano (1060-1523) / Manche, Normandy, France [Architecture]

7.8/10
The Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh (1889) [Painting]
Fallingwater - Frank Lloyd Wright (1939) / Mill Run, Pennsylvania, USA [Architecture]
Lloyd's Building - Richard Rogers (1978 - 1986) / London, England, UK [Architecture]
Geghard Monastery - Gregory the Illuminator (Monastery: 4th Century; Main Church: 1215; various additional chapels, architecture/sculpture: 1200s) / Kotayk Province, Armenia [Architecture and Sculpture]
The Seven Heavenly Palaces 2004-2015 - Anselm Kiefer (2004 - 2015) / Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy [Art Installation, Sculpture, Painting]
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1647 - 1652) / Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy [Sculpture, Architecture and Painting]
The Virgin - Gustav Klimt (1913) [Painting]

7.7/10
Stata Center - Frank Gehry (2001 - 2004) / Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA [Architecture]
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health - Frank Gehry (2007 - 2010) / Las Vegas, Nevada, USA [Architecture]
Philosophy, Medicine & Jurisprudence - Gustav Klimt (1899 - 1907) [University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings; Destroyed in 1945] [Painting]
Chartres Cathedral - Master of Chartres (Anonymous French Architect) (Mostly constructed 1194-1220; Completed 1252; Various modifications and additions thereafter) [Architecture and Sculpture]
Milan Cathedral - Begun by Simone da Orsenigo; Several architects thereafter (Originally: 1386; several developments through 1965) [Architecture and Sculpture]
Stanza della Segnatura - Raphael Sanzio (1511) [Painting]

7.6/10
Isenheim Altarpiece - Matthias Grunewald (circa 1512 - 1516) [Painting: Matthias Grunewald / Sculpture: Nikolaus Hagenauer]
Saint-Nicolas Church - Walter Maria Förderer (1971) / Heremence, Switzerland [Architecture]
Guggenheim Museum - Frank Gehry (1991 - 1997) / Abando, Bilbao, Spain [Architecture]
Apollo and Daphne - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1625) [Sculpture]
The Gates of Hell - Auguste Rodin (1889 "Expressionist" Version; Unfinished, revised between two main versions, 1880-1917; Bronze cast 1926-1928) [Sculpture]
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Pablo Picasso (1907) [Painting]
Water Lilies (Orangerie Museum) - Claude Monet (1918) [Painting]
Death and the Maiden - Egon Schiele (1915) [Painting]

7.5/10
The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali (1931) [Painting]
The Entire City - Max Ernst (1936) [Zurich Version] [Painting]
Virgin of the Rocks - Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1483-1486) [Painting]
Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci (1505) [Painting]
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I - Gustav Klimt (1907) [Painting]
Fall of the Angel - Anselm Kiefer (2022 - 2023) [Painting]
St. Matthew Cycle: The Calling of St. Matthew; The Inspiration of St. Matthew; The Martyrdom of St. Matthew - Michelangelo Caravaggio (1602) [Painting]
Transfiguration - Raphael Sanzio (1519) [Painting]
Moses - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1515) [Sculpture]
David - Donatello (circa 1440s) / Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy [Sculpture]
Scrovegni Chapel - Giotto di Bondone (1305) [aka "Arena Chapel"] [Painting]
Las Meninas - Diego Velazquez (1656) [Painting]
Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro - Edgar Fonseca (1979) / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [Architecture]
Les Espaces d'Abraxas - Ricardo Bofill (1978 - 1983) / Noisy-le-Grand, Paris, France [Architecture]
City - Michael Heizer (1970 - 2022) / Garden Valley, Nevada, USA [Land Art: Sculpture/Architecture]
Amiens Cathedral - Robert of Luzarches; Thomas and Regnault de Cormont (1270; modifications thereafter) / Amiens, France [Architecture and Sculpture]
Primavera - Sandro Botticelli (1482) [Painting]

7.4/10
La Muralla Roja - Ricardo Bofill (1968 - 1973) / Calpe, Alicante, Spain [Architecture]
Church of the Holy Spirit - Imre Makovecz (1987 - 1991) / Paks, Hungary [Architecture]
The Ambassadors - Hans Holbein the Younger (1533) [Painting]
The Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces - Mikhail Fayantsev (2018 - 2020) / Patriot Park, Kubinka, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia [Architecture and Sculpture]
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559) / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria [Painting]
Return of the Prodigal Son - Rembrandt van Rijn (circa 1667 - 1669) / Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia [Painting]
The Temptation of St. Anthony - Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1501) / Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal [Painting]
Sarajevo - Omar El-Nagdi (1992) [Painting]
Dome of the Rock - Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (circa 685-692) [Architecture]
The Veiled Christ - Giuseppe Sanmartino (1753) [Sculpture]
Aschenblume - Anselm Kiefer (1983-97) / Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA [Painting]
View of Toledo - El Greco (1599) [Painting]
Lucretia - Rembrandt van Rijn (1666) [Minneapolis Institute of Art Version] [Painting]
Abduction of a Sabine Woman - Giambologna (1583) [Sculpture]
Grundtvig's Church - Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (1940) / Copenhagen, Denmark [Architecture]
Sandham Memorial Chapel: The Resurrection of the Soldiers & War Murals - Stanley Spencer (1929) [Painting]
Netherlandish Proverbs - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559) / Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany [Painting]
Church of Atlantida - Eladio Dieste (1952 - 1960) [aka, Church of Christ the Worker and Our Lady of Lourdes] / Estación Atlántida, Uruguay [Architecture]
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - Georges Seurat (1886) [Painting]
Basilica of the Sacred Heart - Albert Van Huffel (1919 - 1970) / Koekelberg, Brussels, Belgium [Architecture]
Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 - James Ensor (1888) [Painting]
Ghent Altarpiece - Jan van Eyck (1432) [Painting]
The Battle of Alexander at Issus - Albrecht Altdorfer (1529) / Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany [Painting]
Eiffel Tower - Stephen Sauvestre (1887 - 1889) / 7th arrondissement, Paris, France [Architecture]
Belshazzar's Feast - Rembrandt van Rijn (circa 1635 - 1638) / The National Gallery, London, England [Painting]
Cypresses - Vincent van Gogh (1889)
Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption - Pier Luigi Nervi, Pietro Belluschi, John Michael Lee, Paul A. Ryan and Angus McSweeney (1971) / San Francisco, California, USA [Architecture]
F-111 - James Rosenquist (1964 - 1965) / The Museum of Modern Art, New York , USA [Painting]
Laurentian Library - Michelangelo Buonarroti (Begun 1525, completed posthumously, 1571; Tribune of Elci rotunda added by Pasquale Poccianti in 1841) / Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, Florence, Italy [Architecture]
Witches Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) - Francisco Goya (circa 1823) [Painting]
The Descent from the Cross - Rogier van der Weyden (1435) [Painting]
The City Rises - Umberto Boccioni (1910) / Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA [Painting]

7.3/10
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp - Rembrandt van Rijn (1632) [Painting]
The Sleeping Venus - Paul Delvaux (1944) [Painting]
The Resurrection - Piero della Francesca (circa 1460) [Painting]
The Luncheon on the Grass - Edouard Manet (1863) [Painting]
Rinaldo and Armida - Anthony van Dyck (1629) [Painting]
Tower of Babel - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563) / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria [Painting]
The Procession To Calvary - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1564) / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria [Painting]
Castle in the Pyrenees - Rene Magritte (1959) / Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel [Painting]
The Scream - Edvard Munch (1893) [Painting]
Osiris and Isis - Anselm Kiefer (1985 - 1987) / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA [Painting]
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows - John Constable (1830 - 1831) / Tate, London, England [Painting]
The Road Ahead is Golden ...Silver ...Bronze - Hernan Bas (2011) / [Painting]
Metropolis - George Grosz (1916 - 1917) / Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain [Painting]
Portrait of the Bourgeoisie - David Alfaro Siqueiros (1939 - 1940) / Mexican Electricians Union, Mexico City, Mexico [Painting]
Kizhi Pogost: Church of Transfiguration; Church of Intercession - Master Nestor (1694; 1714) [Architecture]
Road with Cypress and Star - Vincent van Gogh (1890) [Painting]
Church on the Water - Tadeo Ando (1985 - 1988) / Nakatomamu, Shimukappu, Yufutsu District, Japan [Architecture]
The War - Otto Dix (1929 - 1932) / Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany [Painting]
The Raft of the Medusa - Théodore Géricault (1819) [Painting]
Wheat Field With Cypresses - Vincent van Gogh (1889) [Painting]
Luzifer - Anselm Kiefer (2012 - 2023) [Painting]
Doni Tondo - Michelangelo Buonarroti (circa 1506) [Painting]
Sleeping Venus - Giorgione (1510) [Painting]
Sacred Allegory - Giovanni Bellini (circa 1490-1500) [Painting]
Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway - J.M.W. Turner (1844) [Painting]
Ash Flower - Anselm Kiefer (2004) [Painting]
Chemosphere - John Lautner (1960) / Los Angeles, California, USA [Architecture]
The Deposition - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1555) [aka, "Bandini Pietà" or "The Lamentation over the Dead Christ"] [Sculpture]
Vietnam II - Leon Golub (1973) / Tate Modern, London, England, UK [Painting]
Ennis House - Frank Lloyd Wright (1924) / Los Angeles, California, USA [Architecture]
Sheats-Goldstein Residence - John Lautner (1963; updated by Lautner between 1972-1994; additional modifications posthumously through 2004) [Architecture]
Rondanini Pieta - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1564) / Sforza Castle, Milan, Italy [Sculpture]
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss - Antonio Canova (1793) [Sculpture]
The Adoration of the Magi - Peter Paul Rubens (1609; revised 1629) [Painting]
The Entombment of Christ - Michelangelo Caravaggio (1603) [Painting]
The Death of Socrates - Jacques-Louis David (1787) [Painting]
Quadrofarius - Artem Ogurtsov (2012) [Painting]
Circus Sideshow - Georges Seurat (1888) [Painting]
Christ Cathedral - Philip Johnson and John Burgee (1977 - 1981; interior renovations in 2013) [previously "Crystal" Cathedral] / Garden Grove, California, USA [Architecture]
Pena National Palace - Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1842 - 1854) / Sintra, Portugal [Architecture]
Composition VII - Wassily Kandinsky (1913) / Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia [Painting]
Habitat 67 - Moshe Safdie (1964 - 1967) / Cité du Havre, Montreal, Quebec [Architecture]
Sistine Madonna - Raphael Sanzio (circa 1514) [Painting]
The Crucifixion - Jacopo Tintoretto (1565) [Painting]
Group X, Altarpieces, Nos. 1-3 - Hilma af Klint (1915) [Painting]
The Holy Trinity - Tommaso Masaccio (circa 1427) [Painting]

PROBABLY BEING DOWNGRADED TO THE LOWER LIST (6.8 - 7.2):

7.1/10: Robie House - Frank Lloyd Wright (1910) / Chicago, Illinois, USA [Architecture]
7.1/10: The Taking of Christ - Michelangelo Caravaggio (circa 1602) [Painting]
6.9/10: The Scroll - Shahzia Sikander (1990)

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Greatest Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture of All Time

INCOMPLETE / IN-PROGRESS

10/10
Sistine Chapel Ceiling and The Last Judgment - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1508 - 1512; 1535 - 1541) / Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Painting]

Ceiling - RIGHT SIDE - NEAREST THE ENTRANCE:

Ceiling - LEFT SIDE - NEAREST THE LAST JUDGMENT:

Altar Wall - The Last Judgment:


FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...914#611914


9.1/10
The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch (probably circa 1503-1505) / Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...213#651213


9.0/10
Angkor Wat - Started by Suryavarman II; Completed by Jayavarman VII (circa 1122 - 1150; Note: there are various anomalies that may suggest an earlier date of construction -- perhaps even much earlier) / Siem Reap, Cambodia [Architecture and Sculpture]






FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...270#703270


8.9/10
Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany - Werner Tubke (1976 - 1987) [aka, "Peasants' War Panorama"] / Bad Frankenhausen, Thuringia, Germany







FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...216#651216


8.8/10
Guernica - Pablo Picasso (1937) / Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...219#651219

Alhambra - Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar; later additions overseen by Yusuf I and Muhammad V (initial structure: 1250; several alterations thereafter through the 1600s) / Granada, Spain [Architecture and Sculpture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...150#730150

The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1495 - 1498) / Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...344#612344


8.7/10


8.6/10
Kailasa Temple - King Krishna I (circa 773) / Ellora Caves (Cave 16), Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, India [Architecture and Sculpture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...111#720111


8.5/10
Taj Mahal - Ustad Ahmad Lahauri (1631 - 1653) / Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...648#662648

Registan Square - Ulugh Beg (1417 - 1420); Yalangtoʻsh Bahodir (1619 - 1636; 1646 - 1660) / Samarkand, Uzbekistan [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...424#664424

Monreale Cathedral - Begun by William II of Sicily in 1174; various modifications thereafter (1267) / Monreale, Sicily, Italy [Architecture]

NOTE: Rating/ranking is based on the interior mosaics being part of or joined with the architecture into "one" work and combined overall value. As I am not sure how this should be counted at this time, this is not a sure thing and makes the current rating/ranking a bit tenuous. If the mosaics and the architecture are "separate", individually counted, then this would split the value a bit, thus dropping the rating/ranking.




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...643#663643


8.4/10
Borobudur - Gunadharma (circa 842?) / Magelang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia [Architecture and Sculpture]






FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...179#730179

Potala Palace - Lozano Gyatso, 5th Dalai Llama (1645 - 1694; some additions thereafter) / Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...193#730193

St. Peter's Basilica - Principal Architects: Donato Bramante (1503 - 1514); Michelangelo Buonarroti (1546 - 1564); Carlo Maderno (1603 - 1629); Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1629 - 1676) (Building completed and opened 1626; various additions thereafter) / Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS - Michelangelo Buonarroti: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...914#611914
FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS - Gian Lorenzo Bernini: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...232#651232


8.3/10
The Beethoven Frieze - Gustav Klimt (1902) / Secession Building, Vienna, Austria






FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...217#651217

Metamorphose de Narcisse - Salvador Dali (1937) / Tate Modern, London, England



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...222#651222

The Conversion of Saul and The Crucifixion of St. Peter - Michelangelo Buonarroti (circa 1542 - 1545; circa 1546 - 1550) / Pauline Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Painting]

The Conversion of Saul:

The Crucifixion of St. Peter:


FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...914#611914

Lalibela Rock-Hewn Churches Complex - Gebre Meskel Lalibela (Architects unknown, construction was under the rule of Gebre Meskel Lalibela, circa 1181 - 1221; probably modified at various stages thereafter) / Ethiopian Highlands near Lalibela, Ethiopia [Sculpture/Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...426#664426

Sainte-Chapelle - Jean de Chelles or Thomas de Cormont (1242 - 1248) / Paris, France [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...794#730794

David - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1501 - 1504) / Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, Florence, Italy [Sculpture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...914#611914


8.2/10
Europe After The Rain II - Max Ernst (1940 - 1942) / Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...220#651220

Sagrada Família - Antoni Gaudí (Gaudi: 1883 - 1926, unfinished; Still under construction as of 2025) / Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...601#662601


8.1/10
Psicostasia - Dino Valls (2005)

FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...235#651235

Pieta - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1498 - 1499) / St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy [Sculpture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...914#611914

Sydney Opera House - Jørn Utzon (1959 - 1973) / Bennelong Point, Sydney, Australia [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...266#664266

Imam Mosque - Ali Akbar Isfahani (1611 - 1629) [aka, Shah Mosque] / Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Esfahan, Isfahan Province, Iran [Architecture]






FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...604#663604

The Last Judgment - Hieronymus Bosch (after 1482; probably circa 1500-1503) / Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...213#651213


8.0/10
The Parthenon - Iktinos and Callicrates (Architecture); Phidias (Sculpture) (447 BC - 432 BC) / Athens, Greece [Architecture and Sculpture]


With Partially Reconstructed Pediment:


FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...997#663997

Florence Cathedral - Arnolfo di Cambio (1294 - 1302); Giotto (Bell Tower: 1334 - 1337); Filippo Brunelleschi (Dome: 1420 - 1436) (Completed 1436; Emilio De Fabris, Marble Facade: 1887) / Florence, Italy [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...800#663800

Seville Cathedral - Alonso Martínez; Pedro Dancart; Carles Galtés de Ruan; and Alonso Rodríguez (1402 - 1519; various modifications thereafter) / Seville, Andalusia, Spain [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...596#663596


7.9/10
La Fabrica - Ricardo Bofill (1973 - 2022) / Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia, Spain [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...352#731352

Piazza dei Miracoli: Pisa Cathedral - Buscheto (Architect, 1064 - 1092) and Rainaldo (Facade, circa 1100); Pisa Baptistery of St. John - Diotisalvi (1152 - 1353, Pulpit: Nicolas Pisano, 1255 - 1260); Campinile (aka, "Leaning Tower of Pisa", 1173 - 1372) - Diotisalvi, then Benenato (1233 - 1259), Guido Speziale (1260 - 1272), Giovanni di Simone (1272 - 1284), Tommaso di Andrea Pisano (Bell Chamber, 1372); Camposanto Monumentale di Pisa - Giovanni di Simone (1278 - 1284, completed posthumously, 1464) / Pisa, Tuscany, Italy [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...344#664344

Golden Gate Bridge - Joseph Strauss (1937) / San Francisco, California, USA [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...463#730463

The Pantheon - Apollodorus of Damascus (circa 113-125 AD) / Rome, Italy [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...505#663505

The Sagrestia Nuova - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1520 - 1533; final composition completed later: 1559) / Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy [Sculpture and Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...914#611914

The Night Watch - Rembrandt van Rijn (1638 - 1642) / Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...223#651223

The Kiss - Gustav Klimt (1907 - 1908) / Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...217#651217

Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) - Salvador Dali (1954) / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...222#651222

The Triumph of Death - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (circa 1562) / Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...237#651237

Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey - William of Volpiano (1060-1523) / Manche, Normandy, France [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...751#730751


7.8/10
The Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh (1889)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...242#651242

Fallingwater - Frank Lloyd Wright (1939) / Mill Run, Pennsylvania, USA [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...603#662603

Lloyd's Building - Richard Rogers (1978 - 1986) / London, England, UK [Architecture]




https://www.lloyds.com/about-lloyds/med...to-gallery

FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...486#730486

Geghard Monastery - Gregory the Illuminator (Monastery: 4th Century; Main Church: 1215; various additional chapels, architecture/sculpture: 1200s) / Kotayk Province, Armenia [Architecture/Sculpture]




https://jimshart.artstation.com/projects/wJmaP6

FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...554#730554

The Seven Heavenly Palaces 2004-2015 - Anselm Kiefer (2004 - 2015) / Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy [Art Installation, Sculpture, Painting]






FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...004#732004

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1652) [Sculpture, Architecture and Painting]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...232#651232

The Virgin - Gustav Klimt (1913)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...217#651217


7.7/10
Stata Center - Frank Gehry (2001 - 2004) / Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...210#731210

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health - Frank Gehry (2007 - 2010) / Las Vegas, Nevada, USA [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...210#731210

Philosophy, Medicine & Jurisprudence - Gustav Klimt (1901) [University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings; Destroyed in 1945]

NOTE: As these were destroyed and are only available in black and white photographs, it is impossible to give a truly accurate rating of the originals (among the saddest losses in all of art). Therefore, they can only be evaluated based on what we have photographically and through the assistance of reproductions, which essentially distill them to Klimt's extraordinary draughtsmanship, instead of paintings with the added expression of his colors and gold and ornamentation. I personally think the original work was probably his masterpiece, the greatest work of his career, and I will admit that it is difficult to remove oneself from this notion when evaluating and rating them as is. But that is what I've attempted to do, even if, ultimately it is probably not truly able to be done with certainty. Fwiw (though we'll never know for sure) I estimate that this work would rate around 8.5/10 or higher, if we could see the originals in color.



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...217#651217

Chartres Cathedral - Master of Chartres (Anonymous French Architect) (Mostly constructed 1194-1220; Completed 1252; Various modifications and additions thereafter) [Architecture]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...579#663579

Milan Cathedral - Begun by Simone da Orsenigo; Several architects thereafter (Originally: 1386; several developments through 1965) [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...259#730259

Stanza della Segnatura - Raphael Sanzio (1511)

The Cardinal Virtues and Disputation of the Holy Sacrament:

The Parnassus and The School of Athens:

Ceiling:


FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...229#651229


7.6/10
Isenheim Altarpiece - Matthias Grunewald (circa 1512 - 1516) [Painting: Matthias Grunewald / Sculpture: Nikolaus Hagenauer]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...225#651225

Saint-Nicolas Church - Walter Maria Förderer (1971) / Heremence, Switzerland [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...682#730682

Guggenheim Museum - Frank Gehry (1991 - 1997) / Abando, Bilbao, Spain [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...210#731210

Apollo and Daphne - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1625) [Sculpture]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...232#651232

The Gates of Hell - Auguste Rodin (1889 "Expressionist" Version; Unfinished, revised between two main versions, 1880-1917; Bronze cast 1926-1928) [Sculpture]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...233#651233

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Pablo Picasso (1907)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...219#651219

Water Lilies (Orangerie Museum) - Claude Monet (1918)






FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...443#730443

Death and the Maiden - Egon Schiele (1915)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...245#651245


7.5/10
The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali (1931)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...222#651222

The Entire City - Max Ernst (1936) [Zurich Version]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...220#651220

Virgin of the Rocks - Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1483-1486) [Paris/Louvre Version]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...344#612344

Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci (1505)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...344#612344

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I - Gustav Klimt (1907)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...217#651217

Fall of the Angel - Anselm Kiefer (2022 - 2023) [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...004#732004

St. Matthew Cycle: The Calling of St. Matthew; The Inspiration of St. Matthew; The Martyrdom of St. Matthew - Michelangelo Caravaggio (1602)

FULL VIEW:

The Calling of St. Matthew:

The Inspiration of St. Matthew:

The Martyrdom of St. Matthew:


FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...226#651226

Transfiguration - Raphael Sanzio (1519)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...229#651229

Moses - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1515) [Sculpture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...914#611914

David - Donatello (circa 1440s) / Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy [Sculpture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...490#730490

Scrovegni Chapel - Giotto di Bondone (1305) [aka "Arena Chapel"]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...248#651248

Las Meninas - Diego Velazquez (1656)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...249#651249

Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro - Edgar Fonseca (1979) / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...598#663598

Les Espaces d'Abraxas - Ricardo Bofill (1978 - 1983) / Noisy-le-Grand, Paris, France [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...352#731352

City - Michael Heizer (1970 - 2022) / Garden Valley, Nevada, USA [Land Art: Sculpture/Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...497#664497

Amiens Cathedral - Robert of Luzarches; Thomas and Regnault de Cormont (1270; modifications thereafter) / Amiens, France [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...546#730546

Primavera - Sandro Botticelli (circa 1482)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...250#651250


7.4/10
La Muralla Roja - Ricardo Bofill (1968 - 1973) / Calpe, Alicante, Spain [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...352#731352

Church of the Holy Spirit - Imre Makovecz (1987 - 1991) / Paks, Hungary [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...007#731007

The Ambassadors - Hans Holbein the Younger (1533)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...238#651238

The Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces - Mikhail Fayantsev (2018 - 2020) / Patriot Park, Kubinka, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia [Architecture and Sculpture]






FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...718#731718

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...237#651237

Return of the Prodigal Son - Rembrandt van Rijn (circa 1667 - 1669) / Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...223#651223

The Temptation of St. Anthony - Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1501) / Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...213#651213

Sarajevo - Omar El-Nagdi (1992)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...999#661999

Dome of the Rock - Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (circa 685-692) [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...327#730327

The Veiled Christ - Giuseppe Sanmartino (1753) [Sculpture]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...892#661892

Aschenblume - Anselm Kiefer (1983 - 1997) / Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...004#732004

View of Toledo - El Greco (1599)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...259#651259

Lucretia - Rembrandt van Rijn (1666) [Minneapolis Institute of Art Version]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...223#651223

Abduction of a Sabine Woman - Giambologna (1583) [Sculpture]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...439#730439

Grundtvig's Church - Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (1940) / Copenhagen, Denmark [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...914#662914

Sandham Memorial Chapel: The Resurrection of the Soldiers & War Murals - Stanley Spencer (1929)

Lower North Wall Murals:

Camp at Karasuli - Upper North Wall Mural:

Lower South Wall Murals:

Riverbed at Todorovo - Upper South Wall Mural::

Resurrection of the Soldiers:


FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...243#651243

Netherlandish Proverbs - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...237#651237

Church of Atlantida - Eladio Dieste (1952 - 1960) [aka, Church of Christ the Worker and Our Lady of Lourdes] / Estación Atlántida, Uruguay [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...339#731339

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - Georges Seurat (1886)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...254#651254

Basilica of the Sacred Heart - Albert Van Huffel (1919-1970) / Koekelberg, Brussels, Belgium [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...982#730982

Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 - James Ensor (1889)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...251#651251

Ghent Altarpiece - Jan van Eyck (1432)

Closed:

Open:


FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...239#651239

The Battle of Alexander at Issus - Albrecht Altdorfer (1529) / Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...311#651311

Eiffel Tower - Stephen Sauvestre (1887 - 1889) / 7th arrondissement, Paris, France [Architecture]






FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...967#731967

Belshazzar's Feast - Rembrandt van Rijn (circa 1635 - 1638) / The National Gallery, London, England [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...223#651223

Cypresses - Vincent van Gogh (1889)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...242#651242

Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption - Pier Luigi Nervi, Pietro Belluschi, John Michael Lee, Paul A. Ryan and Angus McSweeney (1971) / San Francisco, California, USA [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...377#730377

F-111 - James Rosenquist (1964 - 1965) / The Museum of Modern Art, New York , USA [Painting]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...269#651269

Laurentian Library - Michelangelo Buonarroti (Begun 1525, completed posthumously, 1571; Tribune of Elci rotunda added by Pasquale Poccianti in 1841) / Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, Florence, Italy [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...914#611914

Witches Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) - Francisco Goya (circa 1823)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...255#651255

The Descent from the Cross - Rogier van der Weyden (1435)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...261#651261

The City Rises - Umberto Boccioni (1910) / Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...597#733597


7.3/10
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp - Rembrandt van Rijn (1632)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...223#651223

The Sleeping Venus - Paul Delvaux (1944)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...262#651262

The Resurrection - Piero della Francesca (circa 1460)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...263#651263

The Luncheon on the Grass - Edouard Manet (1862)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...266#651266

Rinaldo and Armida - Anthony van Dyck (1629)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...264#651264

Tower of Babel - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563) [Vienna Version]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...237#651237

The Procession To Calvary - Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1564)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...237#651237

Castle in the Pyrenees - Rene Magritte (1959) / Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...592#732592

The Scream - Edvard Munch (1893)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...265#651265

Osiris and Isis - Anselm Kiefer (1985 - 1987) / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...004#732004

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows - John Constable (1830 - 1831) / Tate, London, England [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...485#733485

The Road Ahead is Golden ...Silver ...Bronze - Hernan Bas (2011) / [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...858#733858

Metropolis - George Grosz (1916 - 1917) / Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...305#651305

Portrait of the Bourgeoisie - David Alfaro Siqueiros (1939 - 1940) / Mexican Electricians Union, Mexico City, Mexico [Painting]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...999#733999

Kizhi Pogost: Church of Transfiguration; Church of Intercession - Master Nestor (1694; 1714) [Architecture]





FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...400#730400

Road with Cypress and Star - Vincent van Gogh (1890)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...242#651242

Church on the Water - Tadeo Ando (1985 - 1988) / Nakatomamu, Shimukappu, Yufutsu District, Japan [Architecture]






FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...465#731465

The War - Otto Dix (1929 - 1932) / Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...501#732501

The Raft of the Medusa - Theodore Gericault (1818)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...267#651267

Wheat Field With Cypresses - Vincent van Gogh (1889)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...242#651242

Luzifer - Anselm Kiefer (2012 - 2023) [Painting]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...004#732004

Doni Tondo - Michelangelo Buonarroti (circa 1506)



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Sleeping Venus - Giorgione (1510)



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Sacred Allegory - Giovanni Bellini (circa 1490-1500)



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Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway - J.M.W. Turner (1844)



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Ash Flower - Anselm Kiefer (2004) [Painting]



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Chemosphere - John Lautner (1960) / Los Angeles, California, USA [Architecture]





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The Deposition - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1555) [Sculpture] [aka, "Bandini Pietà" or "The Lamentation over the Dead Christ"]





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Vietnam II - Leon Golub (1973) / Tate Modern, London, England, UK [Painting]



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Ennis House - Frank Lloyd Wright (1924) / Los Angeles, California, USA [Architecture]





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Sheats-Goldstein Residence - John Lautner (1963; updated by Lautner between 1972-1994; additional modifications posthumously through 2004) [Architecture]





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Rondanini Pieta - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1564) / Sforza Castle, Milan, Italy [Sculpture]




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Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss - Antonio Canova (1787 - 1793) / Louvre, Paris, France [Sculpture]




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The Adoration of the Magi - Peter Paul Rubens (1609; revised 1629)



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The Entombment of Christ - Michelangelo Caravaggio (1603)



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The Death of Socrates - Jacques-Louis David (1787)



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Quadrofarius - Artem Ogurtsov (2012)



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Circus Sideshow - Georges Seurat (1888)



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Christ Cathedral - Philip Johnson and John Burgee (1977 - 1981; interior renovations in 2013) [previously "Crystal" Cathedral] / Garden Grove, California, USA [Architecture]




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Pena National Palace - Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1842 - 1854) / Sintra, Portugal [Architecture]






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Composition VII - Wassily Kandinsky (1913) / Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia [Painting]



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Habitat 67 - Moshe Safdie (1964 - 1967) / Cité du Havre, Montreal, Quebec [Architecture]




FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/forums/v...198#731198

Sistine Madonna - Raphael Sanzio (circa 1514)



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The Crucifixion - Jacopo Tintoretto (1565)



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Group X, Altarpieces, Nos. 1-3 - Hilma af Klint (1915) [Painting]



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The Holy Trinity - Tommaso Masaccio (circa 1427)



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PROBABLY BEING DOWNGRADED ONTO THE LOWER LIST:

7.1/10
Robie House - Frank Lloyd Wright (1910) / Chicago, Illinois, USA [Architecture]





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The Taking of Christ - Michelangelo Caravaggio (circa 1602)



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6.9/10
The Scroll - Shahzia Sikander (1990)



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Special Note: For many entries, certain notes, insights, analysis, and eventual determinations have not been made alone. In addition to my own observations, I have used many resources over the years to assist me in arriving at my conclusions or in better substantiating them, which would be too numerous to list the entirety of here. I share several resources with those listed in Piero Scaruffi's artist bios (Greatest Painters). Here: https://www.scaruffi.com/art/artists.html ... Additional/special thanks goes to Visual Arts Cork, Mark Harden's ArtChive, Leo Steinberg, William E. Wallace, Martin Kemp, Lee van Laer, Pierre Beaudry, Byron Thomas, Piero Scaruffi's Visual Arts History Parts 1-3 ... add more... Some useful tips were assisted by NerdWriter, Exploring Art with Alessandro, Art History with Alder ... add more...[/i][/b][/b][/img][/i][/b]

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IN-PROGRESS ON REVISING / RE-CREATING THIS LIST

Great Paintings - Extended List (Incomplete / In-Progress)

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7.2/10
Hide and Seek - Pavel Tchelitchew (1942)
The Great Last Judgment - Peter Paul Rubens (1617)
The Descent from the Cross Triptych - Peter Paul Rubens (1614) [Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belgium Version]
Massacre of the Innocents - Peter Paul Rubens (1612) [Art Gallery of Ontario Version]
Belshazzar's Feast - Rembrandt van Rijn (1638)
Fall of the Damned - Peter Paul Rubens (1620)

7.1/10
The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth, Mexico, Myself, Diego and Senor Xolotl - Frida Kahlo (1949)
Cypresses - Vincent Van Gogh (1889)
Saturn Devouring His Son - Francisco Goya (1823)
The Battle of Alexander at Issus - Albrecht Altdorfer (1529)
New York Interpreted (The Voice of the City) - Joseph Stella (1922)
Metropolis - George Grosz (1917)

7.0/10
The Marriage of the Virgin - Raphael Sanzio (1504)
Legend of the True Cross - Piero della Francesca (1466)
Il Grande Metafisico - Gregorio De Chirico (1917)
The Art of Painting - Johannes Vermeer (1668)
Christina's World - Andrew Wyeth (1948)
Nighthawks - Edward Hopper (1942)
Delivery of the Keys - Pietro Perugino (1482)
Supper at Emmaus - Michelangelo Caravaggio (1602)
The Church at Auvers - Vincent Van Gogh (1890)
The Haywain Triptych - Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1516)
The Family - Egon Schiele (1917)
The Stoclet Frieze - Gustav Klimt (1911)
The Pilgrimage to San Isidro - Francisco Goya (1823)
Triumph Over Mastery - Mark Tansey (1986)
Sunflowers - Vincent Van Gogh (1888) [3rd Version, Munich]
The Annunciation - Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1475)
Return of the Prodigal Son - Rembrandt van Rijn (circa 1669)
The Death of the Virgin - Michelangelo Caravaggio (1606)
The Funeral (Dedicated to Oskar Panizza) - George Grosz (1918)
The Denial of Saint Peter - Rembrandt van Rijn (1660)
The Syndics of the Drapers' Guild - Rembrandt van Rijn (1662)
The Jewish Bride - Rembrandt van Rijn (1665)

6.9/10
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Marcel Duchamp (1912)
Wheatfield with Crows - Vincent van Gogh (1890)
The Eve - Luis Jose Estremadoyro (1996)
Triumph Over Mastery II - Mark Tansey (1987)
La Columna Rota - Frida Kahlo (1944)
Pregnant Woman and Death - Egon Schiele (1911)
Judgement of Paris - Peter Paul Rubens (1636) [National Gallery, London Version]
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus - Peter Paul Rubens (1618)
Prometheus Bound - Peter Paul Rubens (circa 1612)

6.8/10
The Last Supper - Jacopo Tintoretto (1594)
The Night Cafe - Vincent Van Gogh (1888)
Agony - Egon Schiele (1912)
Mother With Two Children III - Egon Schiele (1917)
Mother With Two Children II - Egon Schiele (1915)
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler) - Vincent Van Gogh (1887)
Irises - Vincent Van Gogh (1889)

Great Paintings - Extended List (Incomplete / In-Progress)

7.2/10
Hide and Seek - Pavel Tchelitchew (1942)



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The Great Last Judgment - Peter Paul Rubens (1617)



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The Descent from the Cross Triptych - Peter Paul Rubens (1614) [Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belgium Version]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...246#651246

The Massacre of the Innocents - Peter Paul Rubens (circa 1612) [Art Gallery of Ontario Version]



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...246#651246

Belshazzar's Feast - Rembrandt van Rijn (1638)



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Fall of the Damned - Peter Paul Rubens (1620)



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7.1/10
The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego, and Señor Xolotl - Frida Kahlo (1949)



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Cypresses - Vincent Van Gogh (1889)



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Saturn Devouring His Son - Francisco Goya (1823)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...255#651255

The Battle of Alexander at Issus - Albrecht Altdorfer (1529)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...311#651311

New York Interpreted (The Voice of the City) - Joseph Stella (1922)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...321#651321

Metropolis - George Grosz (1917)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...305#651305


7.0/10
The Marriage of the Virgin - Raphael Sanzio (1504)



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Legend of the True Cross - Piero della Francesca (1466)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...263#651263

Il Grande Metafisico - Gregorio De Chirico (1917)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...306#651306

The Art of Painting - Johannes Vermeer (1668)



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Christina's World - Andrew Wyeth (1948)



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Nighthawks - Edward Hopper (1942)



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Delivery of the Keys - Pietro Perugino (1482)



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Supper at Emmaus [London Version] - Michelangelo Caravaggio (1602)



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The Church at Auvers - Vincent van Gogh (1890)



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The Haywain Triptych - Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1516)



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The Family - Egon Schiele (1917)



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The Stoclet Frieze - Gustav Klimt (1911)

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The Pilgrimage to San Isidro - Francisco Goya (circa 1823)



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Triumph Over Mastery - Mark Tansey (1986)



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Sunflowers - Vincent Van Gogh (1888) [3rd Version, Munich]



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The Annunciation - Leonardo Da Vinci (circa 1475)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...344#612344

Return of the Prodigal Son - Rembrandt van Rijn (circa 1669)



FURTHER IMAGES, LINKS, NOTES/ANALYSIS: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...223#651223

The Death of the Virgin - Michelangelo Caravaggio (1606)



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The Funeral (Dedicated to Oskar Panizza) - George Grosz (1918)



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The Denial of Saint Peter - Rembrandt van Rijn (1660)



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The Syndics of the Drapers' Guild - Rembrandt van Rijn (1662)



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The Jewish Bride - Rembrandt van Rijn (1665)



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6.9/10
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Marcel Duchamp (1912)



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Wheatfield with Crows - Vincent van Gogh (1890)



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The Eve - Luis Jose Estremadoyro (1996)



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Triumph Over Mastery II - Mark Tansey (1987)



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La Columna Rota - Frida Kahlo (1944)



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Pregnant Woman and Death - Egon Schiele (1911)



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The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus - Peter Paul Rubens (1618)



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Prometheus Bound - Peter Paul Rubens (circa 1612)



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6.8/10
The Last Supper - Jacopo Tintoretto (1594)



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The Night Cafe - Vincent Van Gogh (1888)



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Agony - Egon Schiele (1912)



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Mother With Two Children III - Egon Schiele (1917)



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Mother With Two Children II - Egon Schiele (1915)



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Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler) - Vincent van Gogh (1887)



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Irises - Vincent van Gogh (1889)



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Photographs don't do it justice, but the best painting I've seen (or at least the one that has most impressed and fascinated me) is Boccioni's The City Rises. Some of these are OK too.
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Photographs don't do it justice, but the best painting I've seen (or at least the one that has most impressed and fascinated me) is Boccioni's The City Rises. Some of these are OK too.


That's actually a pretty great choice. The only Boccioni I've ever seen is Dynamism of a Cyclist, and it's a pretty fantastic bit of art. Hoping to go to the MoMa one day.

I'm not sure how your grading system works AfterHours Laughing Not that you don't have great picks on there (some not my style...), but surely Vermeer, Monet, Schiele, Rubens, Caravaggio, Lichtenstein, Magritte, de Kooning, Basquiat, Kandinsky and Matisse have some 7.3+/10 paintings? Laughing

Won't list off my favourite paintings, mainly because I don't have a list of that, but my favourite painters consist of Basquiat, Miro, Signac, Pissarro, Seurat, Petitjean, Pollock, Schiele, Botticelli, Monet, Degas, Gauguin, Vermeer, Matisse, Picasso, Klimt, Lichtenstein, Cezanne Rothko, Van Gogh, Dali, Chagall, Bacon, Gorky and Klee.

Post-expressionism and post-impressionism are by quite a bit my favourite styles. For the most part I'm not too big on baroque or renaissance art apart from what was going in in The Netherlands (some exclusions obviously, but it's just not usually what I seek out).
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Photographs don't do it justice, but the best painting I've seen (or at least the one that has most impressed and fascinated me) is Boccioni's The City Rises. Some of these are OK too.


Thank you, Boccioni's City Rises is a great one that I did have in my 7.3-7.7 section a couple years ago. Upon last evaluation it fell below these choices for me but I will add it to my recommendations and give it another eval soon. If not 7.3+, it will likely be featured on the "extended" list I'll be putting together and posting. Some works that are in a somewhat similar vein (only superficially) that are already listed are George Grosz's anarchic, apocalyptic Expressionist masterpieces (upon which Boccioni was probably an influence):

Metropolis - George Grosz (1917) http://cultura.biografieonline.it/wp-co...-Grosz.jpg
The Funeral (Dedicated to Oskar Panizza) - George Grosz (1918) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/...anizza.jpg
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I'm not sure how your grading system works AfterHours Laughing


No worries, check out my criteria page and if you want me to clarify, feel free: http://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/vi...hp?t=15503

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Not that you don't have great picks on there (some not my style...), but surely Vermeer, Monet, Schiele, Rubens, Caravaggio, Lichtenstein, Magritte, de Kooning, Basquiat, Kandinsky and Matisse have some 7.3+/10 paintings? Laughing

Won't list off my favourite paintings, mainly because I don't have a list of that, but my favourite painters consist of Basquiat, Miro, Signac, Pissarro, Seurat, Petitjean, Pollock, Schiele, Botticelli, Monet, Degas, Gauguin, Vermeer, Matisse, Picasso, Klimt, Lichtenstein, Cezanne Rothko, Van Gogh, Dali, Chagall, Bacon, Gorky and Klee.

Post-expressionism and post-impressionism are by quite a bit my favourite styles. For the most part I'm not too big on baroque or renaissance art apart from what was going in in The Netherlands (some exclusions obviously, but it's just not usually what I seek out).


Great selections, thank you! Of those, Boticelli, Monet, Rubens, Miro and Matisse are the most likely to be included when I get back around to them -- each had multiple 7.3+ on my previous list that I was mid revising when listology.com crashed, the content of which I am transferring over to BEA. And just below those (or perhaps equal) could be Vermeer, Schiele and Caraveggio, Picasso (addition to Guernica which is already listed) each of which have several great works that might be included. Aside from Lichtenstein and Rothko, the rest all have works that were at least in my Extended list upon my last evaluations. Except maybe Signac and Pissarro, which I'm not sure about. And I haven't studied much of Petitjean (just cursory observations), though immediate impression is that he captures nostalgia quite well and seems more significant than Signac and Pissaro, who for me (at least by memory) were technically impressive but probably not to the extent to be added -- unless I'm missing something (entirely possible). Each of the others have multiple works that were right on the cusp of this list and worthy of re-evaluation. Do you have particular works you'd most recommend by them -- that you feel the most strongly should be 7.3+?

I've never taken to Lichtenstein or Rothko. Can you explain their greatness in your view?
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I've never taken to Lichtenstein or Rothko. Can you explain their greatness in your view?


Sure, but personally, I think their greatness stands for itself. Both artists have extremely unique and recognizable styles, and they're both at the technical height of both their games. Have you ever seen any of Lichtenstein's paintings up close? They're insane. They're usually a lot bigger than you'd ever expect them to be too (which, due to his style, makes sense I guess). Everything is so pristine that it looks like a machine did them. The colours are perfectly monochromatic, and the lines and circles are as flawless as it gets. Also, he brought actual humour into his work. It was okay for his paintings to have jokes in them, one-line stories, metaphors, etc... The thought of having speech bubbles in paintings was absurd before he did it. His more 'comic book' style work aside, he has some stellar masterpieces. The satirical quality of Little Big Painting comes to mind. It was his 'fuck you' as well as a major technical achievement. I'm really quite fond of it. Stylistically, it felt like he could do no wrong. 'Peace Through Chemistry' and 'Artist Studio The Dance' also come to mind when thinking of his masterwork. His work defined the 60's far more than Warhol in my opinion (or at least it should have).

Rothko is Rothko, you know? He had his style and played with colours and came up with some pretty awesome stuff. His early works are always worth a shot as looking at, but the real genius was in his ironic mutliforms. He's an incredibly hard artist to praise due to the simplicity of his work. Was it technical? Not really. Yet people are infatuated with it. It's lovely, it's immersive, it's bigger than life. It's forward thinking, it's poetic, and more than anything else it's decorative and poetic. His paintings had whatever meaning you felt like you could give them, and story you wished. You can connect to them just by forcing yourself to.

Last year I was at a gallery in Italy and there was this completely pitch black room, so I was all like "Aight, I think I'm allowed to go in here, I'll check it out", and the only thing in the entire huge room was one of his paintings illuminated in its frame. I'm not sure what number it was, but it was red on red on red. It was on colour, and I thought it was incredible. It was big too, probably 6x5 feet or so. Whatever he did, it manages to swallow you up. I think his work is actually quite special, and deserves recognition of greatness. Repetition of the works was proof of genius, greatness and insanity. It makes you question a lot about art, and as long as it does that, it'll always remain great.

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Do you have particular works you'd most recommend by them -- that you feel the most strongly should be 7.3+?


Well, going by your scale, and your taste, and I'd say these might deserve a place on your list:

Joan Miro - Dutch Interior II (1928)
Joan Miro - Constellations (1959)
Joan Miro - Catalan Landscape (1924)
Joan Miro - Harlequins Carnival (1924)
Claude Monet - Woman with a Parasol/ Ma...Son (1875) (Also, perhaps Nymphéas as a collective)
Basquiat - Philistines (1982)
Basquiat - Glenn (1984)
Matisse - Harmony In Red (1908)(read any analysis on this, they're usually pretty informative)
Rubens - The Fall of Phaeton (1605)
Rubens - The Feast of Venus (1635)
De Kooning - Donna II
De Kooning - Ganesvoort Steet (1949)
Caravaggio - Conversion on the Way to Damascus (1601)
Caravaggio - Saint Jerome Writing (1605)
Caravaggio - Judith Beheading Holofernes (1599)
Caravaggio - The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (1601)
Caravaggio - Supper At Emmaus (1606)
Vermeer - The Music Lesson (1662)
Vermeer - Officer And A Laughing Girl (1657)
Pollock - Number 5 (1948)
Pollock - Alchemy (1947)
Van Gogh - The Bedroom (1888)
Van Gogh - Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun (1889)
Van Gogh - The Night Cafe
Klee - Insula Dulcamara (1938)
Boticelli - La Nascita di Venere (bit obvious, but whatever)
Degas - Ballet Rehearsal (1874)
Degas - The Dance Class (1873)
Schiele - House With Shingles

(not on previously mentioned list)
Jan Van Eyck - Giovanni and His Bride (1434)
Diego Valazquez - Rokeby Venus
Da Vinci - La Belle Ferronnière (1460)
Kees van Dongen - The Corn Poppy (1919)
Orazio Samacchini - Hercules and Antaeus (1565)

I should note that your Klimt choices are spot on. The Beethoven Frieze is my favourite by him as well.

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AfterHours wrote:


I've never taken to Lichtenstein or Rothko. Can you explain their greatness in your view?


Sure, but personally, I think their greatness stands for itself. Both artists have extremely unique and recognizable styles, and they're both at the technical height of both their games. Have you ever seen any of Lichtenstein's paintings up close? They're insane. They're usually a lot bigger than you'd ever expect them to be too (which, due to his style, makes sense I guess). Everything is so pristine that it looks like a machine did them. The colours are perfectly monochromatic, and the lines and circles are as flawless as it gets. Also, he brought actual humour into his work. It was okay for his paintings to have jokes in them, one-line stories, metaphors, etc... The thought of having speech bubbles in paintings was absurd before he did it. His more 'comic book' style work aside, he has some stellar masterpieces. The satirical quality of Little Big Painting comes to mind. It was his 'fuck you' as well as a major technical achievement. I'm really quite fond of it. Stylistically, it felt like he could do no wrong. 'Peace Through Chemistry' and 'Artist Studio The Dance' also come to mind when thinking of his masterwork. His work defined the 60's far more than Warhol in my opinion (or at least it should have).

Rothko is Rothko, you know? He had his style and played with colours and came up with some pretty awesome stuff. His early works are always worth a shot as looking at, but the real genius was in his ironic mutliforms. He's an incredibly hard artist to praise due to the simplicity of his work. Was it technical? Not really. Yet people are infatuated with it. It's lovely, it's immersive, it's bigger than life. It's forward thinking, it's poetic, and more than anything else it's decorative and poetic. His paintings had whatever meaning you felt like you could give them, and story you wished. You can connect to them just by forcing yourself to.

Last year I was at a gallery in Italy and there was this completely pitch black room, so I was all like "Aight, I think I'm allowed to go in here, I'll check it out", and the only thing in the entire huge room was one of his paintings illuminated in its frame. I'm not sure what number it was, but it was red on red on red. It was on colour, and I thought it was incredible. It was big too, probably 6x5 feet or so. Whatever he did, it manages to swallow you up. I think his work is actually quite special, and deserves recognition of greatness. Repetition of the works was proof of genius, greatness and insanity. It makes you question a lot about art, and as long as it does that, it'll always remain great.

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Do you have particular works you'd most recommend by them -- that you feel the most strongly should be 7.3+?


Well, going by your scale, and your taste, and I'd say these might deserve a place on your list:

Joan Miro - Dutch Interior II (1928)
Joan Miro - Constellations (1959)
Joan Miro - Catalan Landscape (1924)
Joan Miro - Harlequins Carnival (1924)
Claude Monet - Woman with a Parasol/ Madame Monet and Her Son (1875) (Also, perhaps Nymphéas as a collective)
Basquiat - Philistines (1982)
Basquiat - Glenn (1984)
Matisse - Harmony In Red (1908) (read any analysis on this, they're usually pretty informative)
Rubens - The Fall of Phaeton (1605)
Rubens - The Feast of Venus (1635)
De Kooning - Donna II
De Kooning - Ganesvoort Steet (1949)
Caravaggio - Conversion on the Way to Damascus (1601)
Caravaggio - Saint Jerome Writing (1605)
Caravaggio - Judith Beheading Holofernes (1599)
Caravaggio - The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (1601)
Caravaggio - Supper At Emmaus (1606)
Vermeer - The Music Lesson (1662)
Vermeer - Officer And A Laughing Girl (1657)
Pollock - Number 5 (1948)
Pollock - Alchemy (1947)
Van Gogh - The Bedroom (1888)
Van Gogh - Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun (1889)
Van Gogh - The Night Cafe
Klee - Insula Dulcamara (1938)
Boticelli - La Nascita di Venere (bit obvious, but whatever)
Degas - Ballet Rehearsal (1874)
Degas - The Dance Class (1873)
Schiele - House With Shingles

(not on previously mentioned list)
Jan Van Eyck - Giovanni and His Bride (1434)
Diego Valazquez - Rokeby Venus
Da Vinci - La Belle Ferronnière (1460)
Kees van Dongen - The Corn Poppy (1919)
Orazio Samacchini - Hercules and Antaeus (1565)

I should note that your Klimt choices are spot on. The Beethoven Frieze is my favourite by him as well.


Re: Klimt choices spot-on ... Thank you, I try -- maybe a bit too hard Smile Certainly one of the most profound artists. Of his masterpieces, every line, dot, shape, gold decoration, etc, seems to have been given the utmost attention and sensual, obsessively ornamental care. Completely in addition to the often erotic nature of his works and the startlingly original visual art and color schemes he produces, it is amazing that one can see and feel such obsession down to the simplest of his lines and forms. I think this is due to his expertise as a draftsman, combined with the sensation he imbued in his works from his startling avant-garde concepts and the sensuality and awe he conveyed into his paintings for nature, beauty and his sexual preoccupations. The Virgin is another one of his that could very well be included in my 7.3+ list (at the very least, in a high spot on the Extended one). Also Adele Bloch Bauer 1.

Thank you very much for all the recs! I am familiar with all of them, but I haven't evaluated any in at least a year or two, so will put them on my recommendations page to revisit -- 6 at a time so that I don't get too overwhelmed with too many recommendations at a time. They'll be added in approximate order of how likely they are to be added to my 7.3+ list. Most or all of them will already at least be on my extended list when I post it (which is 300-400 additional entries).

Correction: I am not sure if I'm familiar with: Kees van Dongen - The Corn Poppy (1919)
Orazio Samacchini - Hercules and Antaeus (1565) ... The titles don't immediately ring a bell, but with how many paintings I've observed and/or evaluated, it's possible my memory isn't serving me too. If they're new, they'll be the first to be added to my recommendations to check out.

Thank you for all your insights about Lichtenstein and Rothko! I'll give both of them another go with that in mind. And I'll let you know if I end up agreeing with you on them. You've already convinced me that I probably haven't given them attentive enough consideration, however my 7.3+ list is pretty strict so even if I dig them much more than I did before (which, for Lichtenstein, was mainly "amusing, satirical novelty" and, for Rothko "meditative, interesting choice/combinations of color"), they still have a long shot at making it and that doesn't mean your insights weren't valuable. My Extended list (7/10) would be a pretty big jump for both of them from where I considered them before.
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For Cezanne, his most popular are definitely one of his bathers or one of his apple still lifes, but I've always liked Bibemus Quarry (1895), Mont Sainte Victoire seen from Bibemus Quarry, Woods with millstone, Joachim Gasquet, and Man with crossed arms the most.
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Re: Klimt choices spot-on ... Thank you, I try -- maybe a bit too hard Smile Certainly one of the most profound artists. Of his masterpieces, every line, dot, shape, gold decoration, etc, seems to have been given the utmost attention and sensual, obsessively ornamental care. Completely in addition to the often erotic nature of his works and the startlingly original visual art and color schemes he produces, it is amazing that one can see and feel such obsession down to the simplest of his lines and forms. I think this is due to his expertise as a draftsman, combined with the sensation he imbued in his works from his startling avant-garde concepts and the sensuality and awe he conveyed into his paintings for nature, beauty and his sexual preoccupations. The Virgin is another one of his that could very well be included in my 7.3+ list (at the very least, in a high spot on the Extended one). Also Adele Bloch Bauer 1.

Correction: I am not sure if I'm familiar with: Kees van Dongen - The Corn Poppy (1919)
Orazio Samacchini - Hercules and Antaeus (1565)

Thank you for all your insights about Lichtenstein and Rothko! I'll give both of them another go with that in mind. And I'll let you know if I end up agreeing with you on them. You've already convinced me that I probably haven't given them attentive enough consideration, however my 7.3+ list is pretty strict so even if I dig them much more than I did before (which, for Lichtenstein, was mainly "amusing, satirical novelty" and, for Rothko "meditative, interesting choice/combinations of color"), they still have a long shot at making it and that doesn't mean your insights weren't valuable. My Extended list (7/10) would be a pretty big jump for both of them from where I considered them before.


Everything you said about Klimt is correct, without a doubt. Very well put. Adele Bloch Bauer 1 is fantastic too obviously, but I far prefer The Kiss, which is notably on your list. I'm also quite fond of The Tree of Life and Lake Attersee. He diverted from his typical style and really nailed the outcomes for both.

Curious simply on your inclusion of Philosophy, Medicine & Jurisprudence. How did you analyze it? Is there any detailed account as to how it was coloured or what materials were used? I've only ever seen the b&w photographs. I've never researched to heavily into the pieces.

Corn Poppy (and Kees van Dongen in general) is just a personal inclusion. One of my favourite portrait artists. His landscapes are pretty nice too though, something along the lines of Van Gogh meets Matisse meets Monet.

Hercules and Antaeus was a favourite of an old art professor I had. I had to go dig up my notes to remember what it was called. I was really floored when I saw it for the first time (in picture), it's extremely forward thinking for the time.

For the record, Lichtenstein's work is amusing and satirical, but I would definitely disagree with calling it novelty. There's a lot going for them. Make sure to look a bit into who Lichtenstein was as a person as well. I like to separate the art from the artist, but I find that in this case it adds a bit of insight. And keep in mind that Rothko's work isn't always meditative. Sometimes it's very harsh and unsettling.

But yeah, cool, all good. I don't think I'll ever make a comprehensive list of my favourite paintings, but I'm definitely hoping to see them one day.
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