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

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Savonarola

July 03, 2014, 12:50:24 PM
My wife got me a book called "1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die."  The author said that the book was inspired by a conversation he once had; what five paintings would you most like to have on your walls.  I'm curious how Languish would answer that.  To expand it a little, what five works of art would you most like to have in your house.  For the purposes of this, you can assume that your house can be expanded to accommodate the Sistine Chapel or whatever you'd like.

I would pick  The Winged Nike of Samothrace:



Paolo Uccello's "Battle of San Romano"



Sandro Botticelli's "Primavera"



Rembrandt van Rijn's "Return of the Prodigal Son"



Vincent Van Gogh, "Starry Night over the Rhone"


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Admiral Yi

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July 03, 2014, 12:52:28 PM
#1 is Rembrandt's "The Night Watch."

Valmy

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July 03, 2014, 12:55:31 PM
Eugène Delacroix's liberty leading the people of course.

Though, IIRC, that painting is about 60 square feet or so.

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July 03, 2014, 12:58:33 PM
Dogs Playing Poker, natch.  ;)
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Savonarola

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July 03, 2014, 01:01:29 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 03, 2014, 12:58:33 PM
Dogs Playing Poker, natch.  ;)

I figured  you more for a painting of disturbing clowns type, Teach:

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July 03, 2014, 01:02:28 PM
I would give that one to Katmai.  :D
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July 03, 2014, 01:08:32 PM
I want the giant portrait of Queen Elizabeth that hung in the rafters of the old Winnipeg Arena.

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garbon

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July 03, 2014, 01:13:55 PM Last Edit: July 04, 2014, 09:49:51 AM by garbon
Off the top of my head, though I'm sure I'd change up if I thought about it more.

Marcel Duchamp - The Large Glass



Peter Paul Rubens - Samson and Delilah



Henri Matisse - Le bonheur de vivre



Piet Mondrian - Composition II, with red, blue and yellow



Sandro Botticelli - Mars and Venus
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July 03, 2014, 01:14:33 PM
Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2014, 12:55:31 PM
Eugène Delacroix's liberty leading the people of course.

Though, IIRC, that painting is about 60 square feet or so.

116 according to Wikipedia (9.8 ft. x 11.9 ft.)  You'll need a bigger house.

I see it's now in the Louvre-Lens museum rather than the Louvre.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

DGuller

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July 03, 2014, 01:25:57 PM
The five most expensive works, obviously.

Ideologue

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July 03, 2014, 01:28:29 PM
The Empire State Building, the Burj Khalifa, the Taipei 101, the Willis Tower, and the Pyramids of Giza.
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Admiral Yi

#12
July 03, 2014, 01:29:20 PM
#2 Boticelli's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."

Savonarola

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July 03, 2014, 01:29:32 PM
Quote from: ulmont on July 03, 2014, 01:27:22 PM
1-5 from the list below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings

e:fuck you, guller.  <_<

That would be a pretty avant-garde collection.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

frunk

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July 03, 2014, 01:30:14 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on July 03, 2014, 01:28:29 PM
The Empire State Building, the Burj Khalifa, the Taipei 101, the Willis Tower, and the Pyramids of Giza.

You'll have to pay moving fees.
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