Greatest works of art of Western civilization by Thomas Hoving

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"One early morning of an exceptionally beautiful day I got the idea of retracing every step of my life as an art expert – from 1951 – and writing down the works of art that had bowled me over visually and emotionally, the ones that after years I could describe down to the tiniest details, as if standing in front of them." – Thomas Hoving, introduction to Greatest Works of art of Western civilization, Artisan [New York: 1997]

  1. 1.
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    Resurrection
    by Piero Della Francesca (Pinacoteca Comunale, Sansepolcro)
  2. 2.
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    Bed
    by Robert Rauschenberg (Museum of Modern Art, NY)
  3. 3.
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    Zeus or Poseidon
    by artist unknown (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)
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    The Return of the Prodigal Son
    by Rembrandt Van Rijn (The Hermitage, St. Petersburg)
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    Apocalypse Tapestries
    by Nicolas Bataille, Hennequin de Bruges (Musee des Tapisseries, Chateau d'Angers, France)
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    The Rose
    by Jay Defeo (Whitney Museum of American Art, NY)
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    Calvary
    by Andrea Mantegna (Museum du Louvre, Paris)
  8. 8.
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    Alphabet
    by Master E.S. (Bavarian National Museum, Munich)
  9. 9.
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    The Luncheon of the Boating Party
    by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)
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    Sleep and Death Lifting the Body of Sarpedon
    by Euphronios (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)
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    Portinari Altarpiece
    by Hugo van der Goes (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
  12. 12.
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    Marriage a la Mode
    by William Hogarth (National Gallery, London)
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    The Gates of Paradise
    by Lorenzo Ghiberti (Baptistery, Florence)
  14. 14.
    The Starry Night
    by Vincent van Gogh (MoMA, NYC)
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    The Persistence of Memory
    by Salvador Dali (MoMA, NYC)
  16. 16.
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    The Sistine Madonna
    by Raphael (Gemaldegalerie, Dresden)
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    A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Seurat)
    by Georges Seurat (Art Institute of Chicago)
  18. 18.
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    Queen Nofretiti
    by artist unknown (Agyptisches Museum, Berlin)
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    The Pulpit in the Cathedral of Pisa
    by Nicola Pisano (Baptistery, Pisa)
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    The Cypress Plates
    by artist unknown (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)
  21. 21.
    Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
    by Paul Gauguin (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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    The Bohemian Madonna
    by artist unknown (National Museum of Prague)
  23. 23.
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    The Blue Boy
    by Thomas Gainsborough (Huntington Library, San Marino, CA)
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    The Book of Kells
    by artists unknown (Trinity College, Dublin)
  25. 25.
    David
    by Michelangelo (Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence)
  26. 26.
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    The Gates of Hell
    by Auguste Rodin (Musee d'Orsay, Paris)
  27. 27.
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    Woman with an Ermine
    by Leonardo da Vinci (Czartoryski Museum, Krakow)
  28. 28.
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    Blue Poles
    by Jackson Pollock (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra)
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