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Guardian's "50 works of art you should see before you die"

in no particular order

(found at: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2006/12/the_50_artworks_you_rate_highe.html)
1. Piero della Francesca The Baptism of Christ  
2. Angel Of The North 5 people  
3. Masjid-i Shah Mosque 2 people  
4. JMW Turner Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway  
5. Claude Monet Nymphéas  
6. Spiral Jetty 7 people  
7. Tikal 75 people  
8. Jackson Pollock One: Number 31  
9. John Constable The Hay Wain 1 person  
10. Alhambra 112 people  
11. Rothko Chapel 20 people  
12. Matthias Grünewald - The Isenheim Altarpiece  
13. Masaccio The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise  
14. Edvard Munch The Scream 1 person  
15. Giotto Fresco Cycle  
16. Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night 4 people  
17. Museum of Qin Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses 108 people  
18. Sandro Botticelli - La Primavera 1 person  
19. Stonehenge 1845 people  
20. Limbourg brothers - Les Très Riches Heurs du Duc de Berry  
21. The Book of Kells 14 people  
22. Ishtar Gate 3 people  
23. Peter Paul Rubens - Descent from the Cross  
24. Hieronymous Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights  
25. Jan van Eyck The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin  
26. Jan Vermeer View of Delft 1 person  
27. Caravaggio The Burial of St Lucy (1608), Museo di Palazzo Bellomo, Syracuse, Sicily  
28. Rembrandt van Rijn - Aristotle with a Bust of Homer  
29. Francisco Goya - The Third of May 1808  
30. Edouard Manet - The Dead Torero  
31. Paul Cézanne Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves  
32. Sistine Chapel 246 people  
33. Leonardo da Vinci - The Adoration of the Magi  
34. Pablo Picasso, Guernica 4 people  
35. Titian - Danaë  
36. Raphael - The School of Athens 1 person  
37. Henri Matisse - The Dance 1 person  
38. Théodore Géricault - The Raft of the Medusa  
39. Katsushika Hokusai - Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji 2 people  
40. Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Hunters in the Snow  
41. Cave Of Chauvet 6 people  
42. Richard Serra Torqued Ellipses  
43. Jasper Johns Flag  
44. Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi - The Annunciation  
45. Jean-Antoine Watteau - Pierrot, once called Gilles 1 person  
46. Hans Holbein, The Dead Christ  
47. Diego Velázquez - Las Meninas  
48. Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun 1 person  
49. San Rock Art, South African National Museum, Cape Town  
50. Capitola  
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Created by degan on Dec 08, 2006.