Friday, December 08, 2006

50 works of art you should see before you die...

The Guardian has posted a list of 50 works of art you should see before you die: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2006/12/the_50_artworks_you_rate_highe.html

The Angel of the North, UK


Here's the list, I checked the ones I've seen...
√ Piero della Francesca The Baptism of Christ (1450s), National Gallery, London
√ Antony Gormley The Angel of the North (1998), Gateshead
Masjid-i Shah (now Masjid-i Imam) Mosque (largely 1612-1630) Isfahan, Iran
√ JMW Turner Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (exhibited 1844), National Gallery, London
Claude Monet Nymphéas (1914-1926), Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty (1970), Great Salt Lake, Utah
Tikal (AD300-AD869), Late Classic Maya site, Guatemala
Jackson Pollock One: Number 31, 1950, Museum of Modern Art, New York
√ John Constable The Hay Wain (1821), National Gallery, London
The Alhambra (mostly 14th century), Granada
Mark Rothko The Rothko Chapel (paintings 1965-66; chapel opened 1971), Houston, Texas
Matthias Grünewald The Isenheim Altarpiece (1509-1515), Musée Unterlinden, Colmar
Masaccio The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (c. 1427), Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
Edvard Munch The Scream (1893), National Gallery, Oslo
Giotto Fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel (1305-1306), Padua
Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night (1889), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210BC), Shaanxi province, China
√ Sandro Botticelli Primavera (1481-1482), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
√ Stonehenge (2950BC-1600BC), Salisbury Plain, UK
Limbourg brothers Les Très Riches Heurs du Duc de Berry (1413-1416), Musée Condé, Chantilly
√ The Book of Kells (c. AD800), Trinity College Library, Dublin
Ishtar Gate (c. 575BC), Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Pieter Pauwel Rubens Descent from the Cross (1611-1614), Antwerp Cathedral
Hieronymous Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510), Prado, Madrid
√ Jan van Eyck The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (c. 1435), Musée du Louvre, Paris
Jan Vermeer View of Delft (c. 1660-1661), Mauritshuis, the Hague
Caravaggio The Burial of St Lucy (1608), Museo di Palazzo Bellomo, Syracuse, Sicily
Rembrandt Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1654), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Francisco Goya The Third of May 1808 (1814), Prado, Madrid
Edouard Manet The Dead Torero (1864), National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Paul Cézanne Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves (1904-1906), Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
√ Michelangelo Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar wall frescoes (1508-1541), Rome
√ Leonardo da Vinci The Adoration of the Magi (c. 1481), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937), Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
Titian Danaë (1544-1546), Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
√ Raphael The School of Athens (1510-1511), Stanza della Signatura, Vatican Palace, Rome
√ Parthenon Sculptures (Elgin Marbles) (c. 444BC), British Museum, London
Henri Matisse The Dance (1910), Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
√ Théodore Géricault The Raft of the Medusa (1819), Louvre, Paris
Katsushika Hokusai Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (1829-1833), series of woodblock prints, copies in major museums worldwide
Pieter Bruegel the Elder Hunters in the Snow (1565), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Ice Age paintings (about 30,000 years old) in the Chauvet Cave, Ardèche
Richard Serra Torqued Ellipses (1996), includes works on permanent view at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Jasper Johns Flag (1954-1955), Museum of Modern Art, New York
√ Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi The Annunciation (1335), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
√ Jean-Antoine Watteau Gilles (1718-1719), Louvre, Paris
Hans Holbein, The Dead Christ (1521-1522), Kunstmuseum, Basel
Diego Velázquez Las Meninas (1656), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun (1333BC-1323BC), Egyptian Museum, Cairo
San Rock Art, South African National Museum, Cape Town, and at open air sites.

15 out of 50... phew.. only 35 more to go! travelling adventure anyone?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you had travelled with me this time, you could have seen another seven.....

Sun Dec 10, 07:00:00 AM PST  

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