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Most Famous Paintings Ever
Persona
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Persona wrote:
31. 

Title: Bacchus and Ariadne 

Artist: Titian

Date: 1522-23

Location: National Gallery, London

Fun fact: The National Gallery's website states that in the painting, 'Bacchus, god of wine, emerges with his followers from the landscape to the right. Falling in love with Ariadne on first sight, he leaps from his chariot, drawn by two cheetahs, towards her. Ariadne had been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance. The picture shows her initial fear of Bacchus, but he raised her to heaven and turned her into a constellation, represented by the stars above her head.'
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Claire wrote:
Persona wrote:
18. 

Title: American Gothic

Artist: Grant Wood

Date: 1930

Location: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Fun fact: The house in the background of the painting is called the Dibble House and is now a popular tourist attraction.
I've seen this one.
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Date: 07-12-2017 23:13
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Claire wrote:
Persona wrote:
19. 

Title: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Artist: Georges Seurat

Date: 1884-86

Location: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Fun fact: The painting and Seurat's life were the subject of the Sondheim musical Sunday in the Park with George
I've seen this one.
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Claire wrote:
If it's in Chicago I've seen it lol. The Art Institute is free on Thursday evenings for Illinois citizens I used to go every week when I went to school in the city.
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Claire wrote:
Last time I went to the Art Institute was when they had all three versions of Van Gogh's bedroom.

I cried. I really cried a lot.

But what was most interesting to me was they had an early sketch he'd done before the paintings. 

It was really inspiring.
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Date: 07-12-2017 23:15
Persona
Streetmusician



Persona wrote:
32. 

Title: The Sleepers

Artist: Gustave Courbet

Date: 1866

Location: Petit Palais, Paris

Fun fact: The redhead in the painting is Joanna Hiffernan, who was Whistler's mistress and muse.
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Date: 07-12-2017 23:16
Persona
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Persona wrote:
33. 

Title: The Gross Clinic

Artist: Thomas Eakins

Date: 1875

Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania 

Fun fact: At the time, the painting was shocking for both the odd presentation of this figure and the matter-of-fact goriness of the procedure. 
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Iridiscencia
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iridiscencia wrote:
Persona wrote:
6. 

Title: The Arnolfini Portrait

Artist: Jan van Eyck

Date: 1434

Location: National Gallery, London

Fun fact: It depicts the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, presumably in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges.
TJIS painting has been in my dreams multiple times its like ;;;; it catches my soul in the mirror in some way every time i look at it. gives me goosebumps there is just something about this painting that is like ..... not sinister , but Observing
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Persona
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Persona wrote:
34. 

Title: The Ninth Wave

Artist: Ivan Aivazovsky

Date: 1850

Location: State Russian Museum, St Petersburg 

Fun fact: The painting is said to show the destructive side, and beauty of nature.
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Date: 07-12-2017 23:40
Persona
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Persona wrote:
35.

Title: The Last Supper

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci

Date: 1490s

Location: Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Fun fact:In the Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown proposed that the person to Jesus' right (left of Jesus from the viewer's perspective), was not John the Apostle, but Mary Magdalene.
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Date: 08-12-2017 00:10
Persona
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Persona wrote:
36. 

Title: Saint George and the Dragon

Artist: Paolo Uccello

Date: c1470

Location: National Gallery, London

Fun fact: The painting may have served as inspiration for Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Jabberwock.
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Persona
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Persona wrote:
37. 

Title: Mr and Mrs Andrews

Artist: Thomas Gainsborough

Date: 1750 

Location: National Gallery, London

Fun fact: Marxist art critic John Berger had this to say about the painting, particularly in response to fellow art historian Kenneth Clark: "not a couple in nature as Rousseau imagined nature. They are landowners and their proprietary attitude towards what surrounds them is visible in their stance and expressions."
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Persona
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Title: Pollice Verso

Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme

Date: 1872

Location: Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Fun fact: Inspiration for the film Gladiator. 
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Persona
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Persona wrote:
39. 

Title: The Embarkation For Cythera 

Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau

Date: 1717

Location: Louvre, Paris

Fun fact: The painting portrays a "fête galante"; an amorous celebration or party enjoyed by the aristocracy of France during the Régence after the death of Louis XIV, which is generally seen as a period of dissipation and pleasure, and peace, after the sombre last years of the previous reign.
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Date: 08-12-2017 13:08
Persona
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Persona wrote:
40. 

Title: Large Bathers

Artist: Paul Cézanne

Date: 1898–1905

Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania 

Fun fact: With each version of the bathers, Cézanne moved away from the traditional presentation of paintings, intentionally creating works which would not appeal to the novice viewer. He did this in order to avoid fleeting fads and give a timeless quality to his work, and in so doing paved the way for future artists to disregard current trends and paint pieces which would appeal equally to all generations.
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