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

[The Larch]

I like Caravaggio better but I don't think it would make sense to say that he prefigures Cubism.  I assume advanced here just means along the style that portrays figures in a less "realistic" manner. I think that's fair to put El Greco further along on that than say Caravaggio - though I think overall as the thesis that it is a bit of a reach.

I think Larch (and the critics) meant advanced purely temporally with no implied judgement.

Of course. Ahead of his time.

[garbon]

I don't agree with that logic at all, BTW.  That there's some kind of linear line with bullshit, boring Abstract Expressionism as the "most advanced" form of painting because it doesn't depict anything.  Delacroix is great.  Caravaggio is great.  New Objectivity wasn't "worse" than Expressionism because Otto Dix and Grosz painted vaguely realistic human figures.

But that's not what I was saying nor do I think anyone was. As Sheilbh noted (which I guess I wasn't clear as he seemed to take same notion from my post) it isn't a value judgment. So it isn't saying that Cubism is better.

[Maladict]

There's too much to narrow it down to 5 
No Bellini, Titian, Correggio, Mantegna, Piero della Francesca 


Jacopo de Barbari - Venetie 1500


Guercino - Persian Sibyl


Tintoretto - Paradiso (gonna need a bigger room)


Carpaccio - St. George and the Dragon


Giorgione - The Tempest

[The Larch]

A fan of Italian High Renaissance, I see. 

[Queequeg]

Is anyone not?

[Admiral Yi]

So I finally know what the dude in A Soldier in The Great War was going on and on and on about.

[The Larch]

Well, I would diversify a little bit. 

Would love to have some baroque sculpture, this would look great in the garden:

[Maladict]

A fan of Italian High Renaissance, I see. 

My tastes are more varied, but that would make it even more impossible to do this. So I limited myself to this period.


I love the Boccioni Pedrito posted, I think I circled around it for a good half hour.