Art · Skopia

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6 works

Portrait of Dante

1495 · Private collection

Dante had been dead nearly two centuries, so this is not a likeness but a verdict, struck in profile like a coin.

★ 4.8

1838 · Louvre, Paris

It was half of a double portrait with George Sand listening at the piano, until somebody cut the canvas in two.

★ 6.8

1465 · San Francesco Church (Arezzo), Arezzo

An angel drops steeply from the corner and its light is the only light in the tent. One of the first true night scenes in painting.

★ 7.2

1701 · Louvre, Paris

At sixty-three the king still turns out one leg to show the dancer's calf he was proud of, under a cascade of ermine and fleurs-de-lis.

★ 7.2

1962 · Tate Modern, London

Warhol silkscreened a publicity photo fifty times just after Monroe died, bright on one half and smudging away to nothing on the other.

★ 8.0

1511 · Vatican Museums, Rome

Plato and Aristotle argue at the center of a hall where Raphael gave the philosophers the faces of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Bramante.

★ 9.5