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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