Today I have for you an article that I found on something that I always wondered about. What are the top 100 "classic paintings" if you will that have inspired other artists. Thanks to Tia Marks at the Contemporary Art Gallery Magazine for sharing this with us.
This is the list of 100 of the Best Art Works of the World Museums Society. This list of the best 100 famous and important artworks was chosen from a huge selection of the great works of the last five centuries. There is a real cross-section of art work listed here from many countries.
Contemporary Art Gallery Magazine asked the World Museums Society to create a list of famous artworks from the great world art museums based on their importance and influence on contemporary art. The best 100 selections of these important works of art was compiled by voting members of the WMS.
1) Bosch - The Garden of Delights (1504) - Prado, Madrid
2) Michelangelo: Il Giudizio Universale/ Universal Judgement (1541) - Cappella Sistina, Roma
3) Dali: Persistence of Memory (1931) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
4) Klimt: The Virgin (1913) - National Gallery, Prague
5) Botticelli: Allegoria della Primavera (1478) - Uffizi, Firenze
6) Monet: Nimphee (1926) - Orangerie, Paris
7) Leonardo: Il Cenacolo/ The Last Supper (1497) - S.Maria delle Grazie, Milano
8) Rubens: Fall of the Damned/ Der Hollensturz der Verdammten
9) Van Gogh: Starry Night (1889) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
10) Raffaello: Sposalizio della Vergine (1504) - Piancoteca di Brera, Milano
11) Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (1936) - Museum of Art, Philadelphia
12) Bruegel: Triumph of Death (1562) - Prado, Madrid
13) Greco: Toledo (1599) - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
14) Seurat: La Parade du Cirque (1888) - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
15) Rembrandt: Militia Company (1642) - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
16) Van Eyck: Madonna in the Church (1425) - Gemaldegalerie, Berlin
17) Leonardo: Gioconda/ Mona Lisa (1505) - Louvre, Paris
18) Rousseau: Sleeping Gypsy (1897) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
19) Greco: La Crucifixion (1594) - Prado, Madrid
20) Altdorfer: The Battle of Alexander the Great (1529) - Alte Pinakothek, Munchen
21) Klee: Ad Marginen (1930) - Kunstmuseum, Basel
22) Rembrandt: Belshazzar's Feast (1635) - National Gallery, London
23) Rubens: St Agustine, National Gallery, Prague
24) Renoir: Bal du Moulin de la Galette (1876) - Musee National d'Orsay, Paris
25) Goya: Aquelarre/ Il Grande Caprone (1821) - Prado, Madrid
26) Chagall: I and the Village (1911) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
27) Magritte: Specchio Falso (1928) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
28) Millet: Harvesters Resting (1853)
29) Veronese: Nozze di Cana (1563) - Louvre, Paris
30) Velasquez: Las Hilanderas (166?) - Prado, Madrid
31) Caravaggio: Davide/ Galea (1607) - Kunsthistorische Muzeum, Wien
32) Rubens: Feast of Venus/ Vennsfest (1637) - Kunsthistorische Muzeum, Wien
33) Vermeer: The Astronomer (1668) - Louvre, Paris
34) Schiele: Death and the Maiden (1915) - Belvedere, Wien
35) Cezanne: Le Mont Saint Victoire (1906) - Museum of Art, Philadelphia
36) Klee: Landschaft mit dem Gelben Kirchturm (1920) - Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munchen
37) Leonardo: Vergine delle Rocce I (1486) - Louvre, Paris
38) Rousseau: Virgin Forest at Sunset (1907) - Kunstmuseum, Basel
39) Tintoretto: Miracolo dello Schiavo (1548) - Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venezia
40) Ernst: Antipope (1942) - Guggenheim, New York
41) Botticelli: Miracolo di San Zenobio (1500) - National Gallery, London
42) Picasso: Three Musicians (1921) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
43) Miro`: Hunter, Museum of Modern Art, New York
44) Matisse: Dance (1909) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
45) Braque: Violin and Palette (1910) - Guggenheim, New York
46) Klee: Fischzauber (1925) - Museum of Art, Philadelphia
47) Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase #3 (1916) - Museum of Art, Philadelphia
48) Van Gogh: Sunflowers (1888) - Museum of Art, Philadelphia
49) Kokoshka: Der Irrende Ritter (1915) - Guggenheim, New York
50) Murillo: Nascita di S. Giovanni Battista, Norton Simon, Pasadena
51) Renoir: Bal a Bougival (1883) - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
52) Manet: Esecuzione dell'Imperatore Massimiliano (1867) - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
53) Manet: Olympia (1863) - Musee National d'Orsay, Paris
54) Monet: Water Lilies I (1905) - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
55) Leger: Acrobat at the Circus, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel
56) Hodler: Der Tag (1899) - Kunstmuseum, Bern
57) Munch: The Scream (1893) - Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
58) Altdorfer: Rest on the Flight to Egypt (1510) - Gemaldegalerie, Berlin
59) De Hooch: The Mother (1660) - Gemaldegalerie, Berlin
60) Steen: St Nicholas Eve (1660) - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
61) Rembrandt: Man in Oriental Costume (1635) - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
62) Rembrandt: The Betrayal of Peter (1660) - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
63) Rembrandt: Philemon and Baucis (1658) - Washington, National Gallery
64) Rembrandt: Landscape with Bridge (1636) - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
65) Vermeer: Kitchen Maidservant (1660) - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
66) Marc: Stables (1914) - Guggenheim, New York
67) Hals: I reggenti dell'Ospizio dei Poveri (1664) - Hals Museum, Harleem
68) Carpaccio: S. Giorgio in Lotta con il Drago (1507)
69) Bellini: Pala di San Giobbe (1487) - Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venezia
70) Pisanello: Partenza di San Giorgio (1438) - Sant'Anastasia, Verona
71) Boccioni: La Citta` che Sale (1910) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
72) Chagall: Dedie a Ma Fiance (1911) - Kunstmuseum, Bern
73) Chagall: Le Soldat Boit (1912) - Guggenheim, New York
74) Kandinskij: Einige Kreise (1926) - Guggenheim, New York
75) Rousseau: Jouers de Football (1908) - Guggenheim, New York
76) Leger: Le Grand Dejeuner/ Three Women (1921) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
77) Delaunay: St Severin (1909) - Guggenheim, New York
78) Ernst: La Grande Foret (1927) - Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel
79) Picasso: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
80) Picasso: Night Fishing at Antibes (1939) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
81) Van Dyck: Crowning of Thorns - Prado, Madrid
82) Tiziano: Venere, Amore e Organista - Prado, Madrid
83) Leonardo: Annunciazione (148?) - Uffizi, Firenze
84) Perugino: La Consegna delle Chiavi (1482) - Cappella Sistina, Roma
85) Giorgione: Tre Filosofi (1508) - Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
86) Grunewald: St Erasmus und St Maurice (1523) - Alte Pinakothek, Munchen
87) Gauguin: Where Have We Come From (1897) - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
88) Gauguin: Mahana No Atua/ Day of the God (1894) - Art Institute, Chicago an dMuseum of Art, New York 89) Greco: Bautismo de Cristo (1596) - Prado, Madrid
90) Van Eyck: The Fountain of Grace (1429) - Prado, Madrid
91) Picasso: Guernica (1937) - Museum of Modern Art, New York
92) Leonardo: Epifania, Uffizi, Firenze
93) Ghirlandaio: Vecchio e Nipote, Louvre, Paris
94) Van Gogh: Selfportrait (1887) - Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
95) Carpaccio: Disputa del Sinedrio (1514) - Brera, Milano
96) Pissarro: Verger a Pontoise (1872) - Musee National d'Orsay, Paris
97) Toulouse-Lautrec: Moulin Rouge (1892) - Art Institute, Chicago
98) Delacroix: La Mort de Sardanapal (1827) - Louvre, Paris
99) Degas: Dance Class (1874) - Louvre, Paris
100) Gericault: The Raft of the Medusa (1819) - Louvre, Paris
This list of 100 of the Favorite Art Works of the World Museums Society has a cross-section of art work from several centuries and many countries. If you are intersted in contemporary art please see the links below. The WMS voted these to be the best of important and influential art works from the world museums.
There it is, what did you think? Did they miss a work that you feel should be there? Leave me a post and let me know. If you want to see a photo of any of these works, I would go to Google or Yahoo and click "Images" and simply copy and paste the name of the painting. You should find something in the first few results. That's all for today, take care and I'll see you on Friday.
