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Most Famous Paintings Ever
Persona
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Persona wrote:
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Title: The Sleeping Gypsy

Artist: Henri Rousseau

Date: 1897

Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Fun fact: The painting makes an appearance in the 2007 film I Am Legend
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Date: 06-12-2017 09:29
Persona
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Title: The Triumph of Galatea

Artist: Raphael

Date: c1514

Location: Villa Farnesina, Rome

Fun factL Galatea was said to have been modelled after the famous courtesan, Imperia.
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Date: 06-12-2017 09:38
Persona
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Persona wrote:
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Title: The Gleaners

Artist: Jean-François Millet 

Date: 1857

Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Fun fact: The painting was received poorly by the French middle and upper classes who were suspicious of the sympathetic portrayal of the working class people.
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Persona
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Title: Primavera

Artist: Sandro Botticelli 

Date: 1470s-80s

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Fun fact: The painting depict classical mythological figures such as Mercury, Venus and the Three Graces.
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Date: 06-12-2017 10:06
Argos
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Argos wrote:
Those first three paintings you've posted i bought in socks. The're so awesome!
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Date: 06-12-2017 10:10
Multatuli
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Multatuli wrote:
Persona wrote:
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Title: Primavera

Artist: Sandro Botticelli 

Date: 1470s-80s

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Fun fact: The painting depict classical mythological figures such as Mercury, Venus and the Three Graces.
i like this one so much
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Date: 06-12-2017 11:35
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interlude wrote:
Botticelli and Michelangelos paintings make me drool(david , yummy**) , even though Botticelli didnt draw proportions very well i still love the paintings anyway
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Persona
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Persona wrote:
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Title: The Third of May 1808

Artist: Francisco Goya

Date: 1814

Location: Museum del Prado, Madrid

Fun fact: The painting depicts the Dos de Mayo Uprising where the people of Madrid rebelled against Joseph Bonaparte being assigned their new King.
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Date: 06-12-2017 12:57
Persona
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Persona wrote:
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Title: Charles I in Three Positions

Artist: Anthony van Dyck

Date: 1635/6

Location: Windsor Castle, Berkshire

Fun fact: The painting was sent to Rome in 1636 to be used as a reference work for the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini to create a marble bust of Charles I.
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Date: 06-12-2017 13:20
Persona
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Persona wrote:
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Title: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

Artist: Caspar David Friedrich

Date: c1818

Location: Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg

Fun fact: It is often used on the cover of books, including Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Frankenstein.
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Date: 06-12-2017 13:43
Persona
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Persona wrote:
27. 

Title: Olympia

Artist: Edouard Manet

Date: 1863

Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Fun fact: Contemporary audiences were shocked by Olympia's confrontational gaze and the number of details identifying her as a prostitute (including the orchid in her hair and her jewellery). 
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Date: 06-12-2017 13:59
Snailman
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Persona wrote:
5. 

Title: The Kiss

Artist: Gustav Klimt

Date: 1907-08

Location: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Fun fact: The painting initially created a scandal and was criticized as both 'pornography' and evidence of 'perverted excess'.
one of my favourites !!!
i got a big print of wasserschlangen II in my room (((  also by gustav klimt)
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Date: 06-12-2017 14:00
Persona
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Persona wrote:
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Title: The Tower of Babel

Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Date: c1563

Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Fun fact: There are two versions of this painting, known as the 'great' Tower and the 'little' Tower.
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Date: 06-12-2017 14:23
Persona
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Persona wrote:
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Title: View of Toledo 

Artist: El Greco

Date: 1596-1600

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Fun fact: The Council of Trent's ban against landscape painting lends credence to the idea that this work may stand as the first Spanish landscape painting of its time
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Date: 06-12-2017 14:27
Persona
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Persona wrote:
30. 

Title: A Cotton Office in New Orleans

Artist: Edgar Degas

Date: 1873

Location:  Musee des Beaux-Arts, Pau

Fun fact: The painting depicts Degas's uncle's cotton business, which went bankrupt a few years after the painting.
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