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

[Savonarola]

#2 Boticelli's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."

This painting?

[Admiral Yi]

Hmm.  Maybe he did another similar one?  Where he looks more snotty and his hand is up by his shoulder.

[Savonarola]

Hmm.  Maybe he did another similar one?  Where he looks more snotty and his hand is up by his shoulder.

Maybe this one?

[Ideologue]

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.

F, C+, D, D... oh, wait, I actually like that last one.  B+.

[Admiral Yi]

That's the ticket Sav.

I just love the way he said "I'm an egotistical douchebag, so that's what I'm going to paint."

[Malthus]

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.

F, C+, D, D... oh, wait, I actually like that last one.  B+.

I've actually seen that last one in the flesh as it were - I wandered into the Neue Galerie in New York, and there it was. It is, indeed, awesome.

[Monoriu]

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

[Valmy]

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.

[The Brain]

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.

That's why he doesn't want the attention.

[Monoriu]

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.

Then you are just asking me to name my top 5 anime.

[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.

That's what I was going for; and besides, Mono, you must have some art that you appreciate, even if it's wall scrolls like this:

[Iormlund]

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.

[mongers]

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.

[MadImmortalMan]

Most of the art in my house was painted by my wife. I kinda like it that way.

[The Larch]

Paolo Uccello's "Battle of San Romano"

That's a three-fer! 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):