So, over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in art from the old masters, such as the paintings of Raphael and others. I was wondering what some of your favorite works of art were.

Mine are:
1. The Triumph of Death by Pieter Breughel the Elder (?) (It's just so busy and chaotic, but it still has focus)
2. The Girl With the Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer (I bought a print in DC...)
3. Various Rembrandt and other dutch portraits (I love the lighting effects they did using oil paints)
4. The Veiled Rebecca (I can't remember who did it, but it's at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. It's a marble statue that looks as though its veil could just blow in the wind. Truly a sight to behold, though not terribly famous)
5. The Scream by Edvard Munch (I like the use of color and the way that the painting seems so surreal, yet plausible)
6. The Portrait of Franz Liszt by Henri Lehmann (I like the use of color and dark tones, along with the realism of the portrait)

There are quite a few more, but those are the ones that I can remember as being particularly striking.

-M.C. Escher's Whirlpool
-Antonio Canova's sculpture: Psyche Revived by Cupid's kiss

these two are my favorites, there's more but i'll just put these for now =)

Anime and videogames. The good ones. :3

Ever since I saw the movie "The Girl With the Pearl Earring" I've been captivated by that painting. I thought the movie was fantastic.

I like a lot of scenery work like Thomas Kinkade.

I can't think of any other works of art I've really enjoyed at the moment. I'll have to think about it some more.

The Deposition from the Cross, Jacopo Pontormo
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Jacopo_Pontormo_-_Kreuzabnahme_Christi.jpg/300px-Jacopo_Pontormo_-_Kreuzabnahme_Christi.jpg

Gamble House, Greene Brothers
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/GambleHouse-2005_edit1.jpg

The Return of the Sun, Odd Nerdrum
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b334/susancloud/return_of_the_sun.jpg

Anything Vermeer, such lovely work. And I'll add more later when I'm not half asleep.

So, over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in art from the old masters, such as the paintings of Raphael and others. I was wondering what some of your favorite works of art were.

Mine are:
1. The Triumph of Death by Pieter Breughel the Elder (?) (It's just so busy and chaotic, but it still has focus)
2. The Girl With the Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer (I bought a print in DC...)
3. Various Rembrandt and other dutch portraits (I love the lighting effects they did using oil paints)
4. The Veiled Rebecca (I can't remember who did it, but it's at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. It's a marble statue that looks as though its veil could just blow in the wind. Truly a sight to behold, though not terribly famous)
5. The Scream by Edvard Munch (I like the use of color and the way that the painting seems so surreal, yet plausible)
6. The Portrait of Franz Liszt by Henri Lehmann (I like the use of color and dark tones, along with the realism of the portrait)

There are quite a few more, but those are the ones that I can remember as being particularly striking.

The Veiled Rebecca is a sculpture created by an Italian sculptor, Giovanni Maria Benzoni depicting Rebecca. (according to wikipedia)

And Dutch painters rule:coolio:

Oh, and I love the stuff made by Salvador Dali

Well, for the old art maters, I like Da Vinci the best, for he not only had the greet ability of painting, but also the knowledge of technology. He was a genius!