Question:
What are some famous paintings?
anonymous
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
What are some famous paintings?
Four answers:
caro
2010-02-07 18:01:53 UTC
The Bathers Cezanne
GARY H
2010-02-07 17:46:33 UTC
It is just a personal preference but I think Michelangelo is the greatest painter that ever lived. Those great colors and that wonderful dramatic movement, and no one has equaled his sculpture. Also Rubens has some very dramatic stuff.
Coolio
2010-02-07 17:43:18 UTC
Do The Scream by Edvard Munch! GOOD LUCK!!!
Sixpence
2010-02-07 13:31:14 UTC
Here are some of the most iconic paintings in art history from the Renaissance up to the year 1900:



"Venus of Urbino" by Titian:

http://medializzy.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/titian_venus_urbino.jpg



"Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Jan Vermeer:

http://www.expasy.ch/spotlight/images/sptlt112.jpg



"Las Meninas" by Velasquez:

http://england.tasis.com/uploaded/News_Stories/Spanish_Art/velasquez-1656-las-meninas.jpg



"The Swing" by Jean-Honore Fragonard:

http://amysbabies.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/frag_swing.jpg



"The Raft of the Medusa" by Theodore Gericault:

http://www.artandperception.com/v01/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/gericault-raft_of_the_medusa.jpg



"La Grande Odalisque" by Ingres:

http://art-quarter.com/beck/joe/aj/1/3/ingres-odalisque98.jpg



"Olympia" by Manet:

http://www.griseldaonline.it/foto/checcoli/1D%20-Edouard-Manet-Olympia-1863-parigi-museo-d%27orsay.jpg



"Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh:

http://www.wagner.edu/departments/art/sites/wagner.edu.departments.art/files/images/Van_Gogh_Starry_Night.jpg



"The Lady of Shalott" by John William Waterhouse:

http://users.skynet.be/michaelssite/Pictures/waterhouse.jpg



"Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_Seurat_-_Un_dimanche_apr%C3%A8s-midi_%C3%A0_l%27%C3%8Ele_de_la_Grande_Jatte.jpg



...and many, many more.


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