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If you could possess one piece of art or sculpture from human history

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    I notice the Mr.Screen cinema usher statue has recently disappeared since the Screen's demise was announced.

    I hope he's not upside down in some skip some place.

    I'd gladly have him :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    Academic wrote: »
    Just one is hard. But it might be Vermeer’s “Die Malkunst”:
    https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/2574/

    The story behind it:
    http://www.khm.at/en/visit/exhibitions/2010/vermeer-the-art-of-painting/

    great choice


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭notsoyoungwan


    The entrance stone at newgrange- that'd look deadly in my back garden


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,455 ✭✭✭livedadream


    if money was no object and having it over my bed wouldnt effect its quality:

    Sir Frederic William Burton, R.H.A.

    ‘The Meeting on the Turret Stairs’


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,542 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    if money was no object and having it over my bed wouldnt effect its quality:

    Sir Frederic William Burton, R.H.A.

    ‘The Meeting on the Turret Stairs’
    Why? Genuinely curious, seems like a fairly unremarkable painting.

    Ive forgotten the name of the one I would pick, it was an ultra detailed Italian painting I saw a few years ago, it was an audience in a throne room, I think it was a Renaissance painting but the detail was spectacular, as in you could examine paintings within paintings etc, its driving me mad now trying to think of what it was but I always thought of it as my choice if I could pick one masterpiece.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭Academic


    LorMal wrote: »
    great choice

    I’ve actually been lucky enough to have seen this in Vienna at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. You almost want to kneel. :)


    Cheers,

    Ac


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,624 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Too many choices

    The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch, it's unreal.


    The Great Wave off Kanagawa, better still a copy of the complete set of 36 views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Good thread. Starry night over the Rhone by Van Gogh. It gets to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    I'd like to have the Strat that Hendrix burned at Monterey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    'NightHawks' by Edward Hopper or 'The Kiss' by Gustav Klimt

    The Kiss is my favourite art piece. I have a large print off it and a beautiful notebook. It's the colours, they make me feel alive.

    But since you snagged it I will take Degas' "The little dancer" sculpture. It is so stunning I nearly wept in it's presence but had to take photos of my friend's 17 year old daughter copying her pose so didn't get to cry.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,832 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Would pick Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach by Dali, could spend all day looking at that painting. Though having the Statue of David in your garden would also be pretty nice too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    The Rifle that was used to assassinat JFK.

    Would be one hell of a conversation piece and probably the most famous gun in history.

    Also it would be worth a absolute fortune.

    Which one?

    Not your ornery onager



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Autonomous Cowherd


    The Pyramid of Cheops, from the Giza Plateau. Just installed out there in the boggy field.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Smart answer: Michaelangelo's "The Creation of Adam". The Cistine Chapel would make a great weekend retreat ;)

    Something I could actually hang in my own home? It'd have to be Van Gogh's "Cafe Terrace at Night". I could genuinely stare at it for hours.


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