If you could have any five works of art in your house

[DGuller]

Whatever I can sell at a high price without attracting too much attention. 

I guess I thought the idea was that you are displaying them only.  That you do not actually own them.  They are just being displayed in your house for some reason.

To be fair to Mono, that would be his same response to the question, who was your favourite grandparent.

[Savonarola]

Whatever I can sell at a high price without attracting too much attention. 

I guess I thought the idea was that you are displaying them only.  That you do not actually own them.  They are just being displayed in your house for some reason.

To be fair to Mono, that would be his same response to the question, who was your favourite grandparent.

[Savonarola]

Rather hard question to answer.

I'm very minimalist in my tastes. I'd rather live in a piece of art than hang one on the wall.

Do you have an architect then that you would have liked to have had designed your house/apartment and interior?

[Savonarola]

That's a three-fer!

That it is.   

Besides the one at the Uffizzi there's another one at the Louvre and another one at the National Gallery. 

National Gallery (Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano):



Uffizzi (Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino unseats Bernardino della Ciarda at the Battle of San Romano):



Louvre (The Counterattack of Michelotto da Cotignola at the Battle of San Romano):

In addition the works of art were mutilated (presumably to fit into the Medici palace) and the tops were almost certainly destroyed.  I think, though, that's part of the appeal of the paintings.  By not being able to see the sky you feel locked into the battle.

[Admiral Yi]

I wonder if there were battles in which knights actually charged each other with lances.

[garbon]

I totally forgot this cool work on representing a street light.

Giacomo Balla - Street Light

[Liep]

An Asger Jorn:


Some pointilism in Signac


Wheat Field with Crows


Thorvaldsen, from Vor Frue Kirke.


And because I'm a sucker for impressionism, Monet.


I'm sure I'm forgetting something, especially the Renaissance painters. And it isn't actually that easy finding good pictures of paintings in Danish museums online.

[Ed Anger]

[Savonarola]

Thorvaldsen, from Vor Frue Kirke.

  CB and I both really liked the  Thorvaldsen museum in Copenhagen.  We were also delighted later to find some of his works at the State Hermitage.

[sbr]

Minus the Asian.

Unless the Asian is a she.

[Ed Anger]

And 15.

[alfred russel]

I would have 2. A bust of Marius, and a bust of Sulla. The bust of Marius would be placed in a position of dominance over Sulla, and Sulla's bust would be disgraced.

[Ed Anger]

Not biting.

[alfred russel]

I would have 2. A bust of Jim Tressel, and a bust of Brady Hoke. The bust of Hoke would be placed in a position of dominance over Tressel, and Tressel's bust would be disgraced.

[Ed Anger]