November 06, 2006

Art to see before you die

Jonathan Jones at the Guardian art blog has complied a list of 20 works of art to see before you die. I’ve only seen 5 of the masterpieces so I better start travelling… My favourite is probably The School of Athens by Raphael at the Vatican Palace in Rome.

Jan van Eyck, The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Caravaggio, The Burial of St. Lucy
Museo di Palazzo Bellomo, Syracuse, Sicily

Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

San Rock Art,
South African National Museum, Cape Town

Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Michelangelo, Moses
Church of San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome

Leonardo da Vinci, The Adoration of the Magi
Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Mark Rothko, The Rothko Chapel
Houston, Texas

Vermeer, View of Delft
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Matthias Grünewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece
Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France

Hans Holbein, The Dead Christ
Kunstmuseum, Basel

Velázquez, Las Meninas
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun
Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Masaccio, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise
Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

Pablo Picasso, Guernica
Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid

Titian, Danaë
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples

Raphael, The School of Athens
Stanza della Signatura, Vatican Palace, Rome

Parthenon Sculptures
British Museum, London

Henri Matisse, The Dance
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Slideshow of all the works of art. How many have you seen?

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