Art · Skopia

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6 works

The School of Athens

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

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

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

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

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

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