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© trabantos/Shutterstock.com By the middle of the 19th century, Manchester had become one of England’s most important centers of manufacturing. It had also developed a notable cultural and intellectual life that it has retained to this day. This list highlights five paintings worth seeing in Manchester (though none of the artists were from that city). Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farth...

None The National Museum in Warsaw, which has more than 800,000 artworks in its collection, is just one of Poland’s many important museums. It’s also one of the places where these five paintings can be found. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Meeting with the Village Mayor (1873) While the Barbizon school of painters in France were p...

© Rafael Ben Ari/Dreamstime.com The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra opened in 1982, and its wide-ranging collection comprises tens of thousands of works, including the world’s most significant collection of art by Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This list focuses on five paintings, mostly contemporary, from the museum’s works of Western art. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die...

SCALA/Art Resource, New York Caravaggio transformed the religious art of his time, using bold compositions and an uncompromising sense of realism to give his pictures a genuine feeling of immediacy. The Conversion on the Way to Damascus is one of his best-known paintings, produced when he was at the height of his powers. The biblical story of Saul’s conversion was a popular subject for artists. A Roman citizen (he is dressed as a Roman soldier in this picture), he was actively persecuting Ch...

Courtesy of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston The oeuvre of Titian was subject to a number of shifts in import and sensibility over the course of his career. Whereas the bacchanals, painted for the duke of Alfonso d’Este’s studio in Ferrara, were for the most part joyous and inflected with a certain youthful fervor, during the 1550s Titian worked under the patronage of King Philip II. From 1553 he produced seven mythological paintings, all of which were rather more complex in thei...

©Sven Hansche/Shutterstock.com Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. The Pillars of Society (1926) A member of the Dada movement from 1917 to 1920, George Grosz satirized corrupt bourgeois society. As the moving force behind the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, his attacks began to focus on the rising Nazi party. Constantly in ...

None Swiss cultural life shows strands of German, Italian, and French influence, among others, but its uniqueness is particularly apparent in its art and artists and its museums and other art venues. Here are just seven paintings from that milieu. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Interior of St. Bavo in Haarlem (1636) The Thirty Years�...

©Arseniy Krasnevsky/Adobe Stock The collection of paintings at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna—the Picture Gallery—can be traced as far back as 16th-century members of the House of Habsburg. The building that currently houses the Picture Gallery was opened in 1891, though the museum also has several other expansive collections. This list focuses on just eight paintings from the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s many masterpieces. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings ...

EB, Inc. London offers world-class art everywhere you look. The city has superb galleries and institutions that are home to world-class artworks. Sometimes, though, these collections can take a bit of extra work to find. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Boats in the Harbor, Collioure (1905) André Derain was born into a middle-class f...

© Ben Molyneux/Shutterstock.com The Ashmolean Museum opened in 1683 at the University of Oxford. Its collection is vastly wide-ranging. This list highlights just 10 of its notable paintings. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Landscape with Repose of the Holy Family (1825) Samuel Palmer belonged to a group of Romantic artists known as t...