Greatest Works of Art of All Time

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(Currently including Classical, Rock, Jazz, Film & Paintings. There are several works still to be added, especially from Classical.)

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Recommendations welcome. For "My Criteria for Art" page, go here: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...hp?t=15503

*** = Asterisks around an entry mean the rating and ranking is tentative/needs further evaluation (especially applicable to opera, large scale vocal works, and architecture)

GREATEST WORKS OF ART OF ALL TIME

10/10
Sistine Chapel: Ceiling and The Last Judgment - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1512; 1541) [Painting]

9.8/10
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (circa 1321) [Literature: Poetry]

9.7/10
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor "Choral" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1824) [Classical]

9.6/10

9.5/10

9.4/10
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt (1974) [Rock]
Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart (1969) [Rock]
Symphony No. 9 in D Major - Gustav Mahler (1910) [Classical]

9.3/10
***Tristan und Isolde - Richard Wagner (1859) [Classical]***

9.2/10
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground (1967) [Rock]

9.1/10
The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1500) [Painting]
The Doors - The Doors (1967) [Rock]
Lorca - Tim Buckley (1969) [Rock]
Mass in B Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach (1749) [Classical]
***Der Ring des Nibelungen - Richard Wagner (1874) [Classical]***

9.0/10
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (1968) [Rock]
Symphony No. 9 in C Major "The Great" - Franz Schubert (1826) [Classical]
Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan (1966) [Rock]
Symphony No. 15 in A Major - Dmitri Shostakovich (1971) [Classical]
Faust - Faust (1971) [Rock]
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941) [Film]
The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus (1963) [Jazz]
Parable of Arable Land - Red Crayola (1967) [Rock]
***Lulu - Alban Berg (1935) [Classical]***

8.9/10
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel (1997) [Rock]
Brazil - Terry Gilliam (1985) [The Final Cut, 142 minutes] [Film]
***Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1787) [Classical]***
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane (1964) [Jazz]
Escalator Over The Hill - Carla Bley (1971) [Jazz]
Twin Infinitives - Royal Trux (1990) [Rock]
Irrlicht - Klaus Schulze (1972) [Rock]
Desertshore - Nico (1970) [Rock]
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) [Architecture]
The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci (1497) [Painting]
Not Available - Residents (1974) [Rock]
Y - The Pop Group (1979) [Rock]
Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany - Werner Tubke (1987) [aka, "Peasants' War Panorama"] [Painting]
Zen Arcade - Husker Du (1984) [Rock]
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor - Ludwig van Beethoven (1808) [Classical]
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor - Johannes Brahms (1884) [Classical]
Elektra - Richard Strauss (1909) [Classical]
Requiem - Guisseppe Verdi (1874) [Classical]
Third - Soft Machine (1970) [Rock]

8.8/10
Spiderland - Slint (1991) [Rock]
Geek the Girl - Lisa Germano (1994) [Rock]
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major "Eroica" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1804) [Classical]
Touch of Evil - Orson Welles (1958) [Restored Welles' Cut, 108 minutes] [Film]
Guernica - Pablo Picasso (1937) [Painting]
***Pelléas et Mélisande - Claude Debussy (1898) [Classical]***
Glagolitic Mass - Leos Janacek (1926) [Classical]
Even the Sounds Shine - Myra Melford (1994) [Jazz]
***Messiah - George Frideric Handel (1741) [Classical]***
***St. Matthew Passion - Johann Sebastian Bach (1727) [Classical]***
***Missa Solemnis – Ludwig van Beethoven (1823) [Classical]***
Neu! - Neu! (1971) [Rock]
Yerself Is Steam - Mercury Rev (1991) [Rock]
***Aida - Guisseppe Verdi (1871) [Classical]***
***The Marriage of Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1786) [Classical]***
***Saint Luke Passion - Krysztof Penderecki (1966) [Classical]***
***La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ - Olivier Messiaen (1969) [Classical]***
Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters (1992) [Rock]
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" - Antonin Dvorak (1893) [Classical]
Symphonie Fantastique - Hector Berlioz (1830) [Classical]
North By Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock (1959) [Film]
Dolmen Music - Meredith Monk (1981) [Avant-Garde / Classical]
Diamanda Galas - Diamanda Galas (1984) [Avant-Garde / Rock]

Literature/Poetry/Theater - Most Likely Candidates

NOTE: not necessarily the only candidates -- but the most likely .... This is just an educated guess, based mainly on Scaruffi's selections and some sense of their historical significance ... Also just because I listed them does not mean I think all of them will be given those ratings; just that they're the best candidates to do so...

9.3/10+???
Commedia - Dante Alighieri (1321) [Poetry]
Odyssey - Homeros (7## BC) [Poetry]
Hamlet - William Shakespeare (1601) [Theater]
Faust - Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe (1832) [Poetry/Theater]
The Trial - Franz Kafka (1915) [Novel]

8.8/10+???
Paradise Lost - John Milton (1667) [Poetry]
Le Rouge et le Noir - Stendhal (1830) [Novel]
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann (1901) [Novel]
The Golden Bowl - Henry James (1904) [Novel]
Ulysses - James Joyce (1922) [Novel]
Gargantua et Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais (1552) [Novel]
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes (1615) [Novel]
Les Fleurs du Mal - Charles Baudelaire (1857) [Poetry]
Four Quartets - Thomas-Stearns Eliot (1943) [Poetry]
La Jeune Parque - Paul Valery (1917) [Poetry]
King Lear - William Shakespeare (1605) [Theater]
Macbeth - William Shakespeare (1606) [Theater]

Greatest Artists of All Time

(Currently including Artists of Classical, Rock, Jazz, Film & Painting/Visual Arts)

Note: Dante Aligheri, William Shakespeare, Goethe and T.S. Eliot would all very likely rank quite highly if I were to study and evaluate them (or literature in general) more extensively. Others too, such as Milton, Tolstoy, Joyce, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, etc.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
Most Significant Works
Painting: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling & Last Judgment (1512; 1541); The Holy Family with the infant St. John the Baptist (Doni Tondo) (1504)
Sculpture: Pieta; David; Moses (Tomb of Pope Julius II)
Architecture: St. Peter's Basilica; Laurentian Library;
Poetry:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Orson Welles (1915-1985)
Most Significant Works:
Film Director: Citizen Kane (1941); Touch of Evil (1958); The Lady From Shanghai (1947); Mr Arkadin (1955); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); F For Fake (1974); The Stranger (1946); The Trial (1962); Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Actor: Citizen Kane (1941); Touch of Evil (1958);
The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949)
Theater Director: Macbeth (1936) [aka, "Voodoo Macbeth"]; The Cradle Will Rock (1937); Caeser (1937); Heartbreak House (1938)
Radio: Hamlet (1936); The Fall of the City (1937); Les Misérables (1937); War of the Worlds (1939)

Hieronymus Bosch

Olivier Messiaen

Guisseppe Verdi

Charles Mingus

John Coltrane

Alfred Hitchcock

The Velvet Underground (Lou Reed/John Cale)

Captain Beefheart (Don Vliet)

Igor Stravinsky

Ingmar Bergman


Gyorgy Ligeti
Krysztof Penderecki
Miles Davis
Tim Buckley
Leos Janacek
Bob Dylan
Robert Wyatt
Antonin Dvorak
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Cecil Taylor
Klaus Schulze
Bela Bartok
Alfred Schnittke
Richard Strauss
Claude Debussy
Benjamin Britten
Franz Joseph Haydn
Franz Liszt
Meredith Monk
Anthony Braxton
Anthony Davis
George Frederic Handel
Andrei Tarkovsky
Gustav Klimt
Werner Tubke
Fritz Lang
Pere Ubu (David Thomas)
Alban Berg
Faust
Hector Berlioz
The Doors
Sergei Prokofiev
Salvador Dali
Pink Floyd
Federico Fellini
Theo Angelopoulos
Van Morrison
Lisa Germano
Luis Bunuel
Max Ernst
Jean Sibelius
Anton Bruckner
Frank Zappa
Neil Young
The Rolling Stones
Nico
Joanna Newsom
Diamanda Galas
Joni Mitchell
Stanley Kubrick
Antonin Vivaldi
Carla Bley
Henryk Gorecki
Mercury Rev
Bruce Springstein
The Pop Group (Mark Stewart)
Charles Ives
Claudio Monteverdi

(Very Incomplete, In Progress...)[/b][/b]

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Updated through 7/30/17 ^^^

As follows...

FAMILIAR ALBUMS/CLASSICAL WORKS - RE-RATED:
Violin Concerto in D Major - Johannes Brahms (1878) 9.0/10 to 9.1/10
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat Major - Franz Schubert (1828) 8.6/10 to 9.0/10
Violin Concertos Nos. 1-4, Op. 8, "The Four Seasons" - Antonio Vivaldi (1723) 8.8/10 to 9.0/10
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor "Appassionata" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1805) 8.6/10 to 8.7/10; 8.7/10 to 8.8/10
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major - Ludwig van Beethoven (1820) 8.4/10 to 8.8/10
Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major - Franz Schubert (1828) 8.4/10 to 8.8/10
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major "Hammerklavier" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1818) 8.4/10 to 8.8/10

As I am revisiting more and more Classical works, evaluating them, and re-evaluating them, it is becoming increasingly plausible that there may be 100 or more (!!!) 8.8/10+ and perhaps several more 9.3/10+ Classical works. I made an estimate such as this on listology.com some years ago, well before I began industriously revisiting and rating Classical works. But if you would've asked me again later on, say, a year ago, I probably would've called that an exaggeration. Now, as if coming full circle, I would predict that it is more likely an under-estimate than an over-estimate. Time will tell. It can take several revisits of each work to feel as though I have the rating "just right". I am also getting increasingly acclimated to feeling like I am rating Classical accurately (after prior years spent mainly focused on Rock/Jazz/Film/Paintings). The transition to listening to Classical again was not difficult at all, but confidently rating and ranking them took some getting used to.
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[craola]

please tell me you'll be adding more paintings. you've got the sistine chapel right at the top of your list, and hardly anything else. i saw bosch and tubke... i guess the same argument applies to film. this is a pretty music-heavy list, and i know you're a connoisseur of film and paintings as well. i would love to see more of that reflected here. ALSO, it would be cool if there was some notation clarifying what each entry is?
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