My favorite paintings, Top 1000

Submitted by Nance on Thu, 11/02/2006 - 10:39
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This my 1000 favorite paintings.
This was not easy to make, I take the first ideas coming to my mind or that I found on my hard disk.
The list is subject to change, I'll update as I discover (or remember) better paintings,
The updates are in highlight.
Updated 2013-06-01.

My top 20:
Antonio da Correggio - Jupiter and Io
Carlos Parada - Prometheus and the Eagle
Carlos Schwabe - The Death of the Grave Digger
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Venus Verticordia
Edvard Munch - The Scream (or The Cry)
Frederick William Burton - The Meeting on Turret Stairs
George Dunlop Leslie - Alice In Wonderland
Gerald Scarfe - The Wall
Grant Wood - The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Gustav Klimt - Pallas Athena
Gustav-Adolf Mossa - She
Johanne Vermeer - A Woman Asleep at Table
John Collier - Clytaemnestra
John White Alexander - Isabella and the Pot of Basil
John William Waterhouse - The Lady of Shalott on Boat
Louis Janmot - Fleurs des Champs
René Magritte - The Lovers
Salvador Dalí - One Second Before Awakening from a Dream...
Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night
William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Interrupted Work (Penelope)

lukeprog11/02/2006

WOW! And the hyperlinks!

diaskeaus11/03/2006

Ditto on that. Must have taken quite a long time to rig all this up. Impressive! Good paintings, too...

Nance11/03/2006

I do it on free time, it took me more than a week.

At first, I would have liked to made a top 100 and grow it to 200 (after 300...), but that would have taken more time to me this way.

Nance11/03/2006

Yes, it's what took the most of the time and that is why I have to do two parts, because of the characters limit.

I though that people won't take the time to do the search and since some names are obscure I decide to put links.

professor07/09/2007

Fantastic list - fantastic effort.

Nance07/09/2007

Do you have favorite paintings or painters?

professor07/09/2007

I like Monet, but my favourites are the Rennaissance painters such as Bellini and Raphael. A couple of years ago I worked near the National Gallery in London and bought tickets to see a Titian exhibition. Upstairs they had (have) a free permanent exhibition of Rennaissance paintings which I enjoyed even more than Titian. I went back again. Monet's sunrise is my current desktop wallpaper (at home) and has been for a couple of months, whereas usually for my wallpaper I use an astronomy image from the NASA website. My current desktop wallpaper at work is the Sombrero galaxy.

professor03/11/2008

Another favourite of mine is Botticelli. Browsing through your list, you have newly-introduced me to another I particularly like: William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Nance03/11/2008

I'm glad I show you paintings you like.
For Botticelli, I don't really know him beside his most popular paintings, I will look further.

Elston10/05/2009

Hey there,

This is a remarkable list you have here. With your knowledge of painting I'm curious if you can give me the name of a painting I'm trying to find. It is similar to Van Eyck's portrait paintings, except it is of a young woman with a white thing on her head. She has very large eyes and is beautiful (in a plump, roundly manner). I have searched through Van Eyck's paintings and have not come across it, so I imagine it is by someone else. Let me know if you have any idea what I'm talking about.

Nance10/06/2009

The first coming to my mind was La Toque rouge by William Strang, but you say that the scarf is white, then I don't know, hum...

I do a fast google images search on William Strang and I come up with a site with a girl with a white scarf, huge eyes, but a little bit slim:
http://polarbearstale.blogspot.com/2009/07/william-strang-1859-1921.html

No other idea that come to my mind, if there is someting else, I will tell.

Elston10/06/2009

I found it! It's a painting by Van Weyden.

Thanks for responding.

Nance10/07/2009

Fine. I'm glad you find it, because I didn't know that painting.

Elston10/07/2009

What do you think. Is she beautiful?

Nance10/07/2009

Yes, but Elizabeth Siddal is still my favorite artists' model. ;-)

Nance06/13/2012

I think I have a problem with the site and characters limit (because of the links), I did a lot of TinyURL and I hope this will be enough...