Our favourite paintings: the great Auteur Gallery
So I just cut and past the url into the “reply to topic” here, then put in the exclamation marks?
Yes, on either side. Even i, the technophobe computer numbskull managed it, so should be a sinch for someone of your calibre. If there’s a problem with the normal cut and paste, then you’ll have to copy out the url yourself
I didn’t realize my selection would come out so big here. Sorry about that.
Painting with Diatoms (1997)
Metacrinus Angulatus (1997) Mixed media on canvas, 27 × 36 inches (69 × 91 cm)
by James Stanley Brakhage (1993- 2003)
The oldest picture of Pied Piper (watercolour) copied from the glass window of Marktkirche in Hamelin by Freiherr Augustin von Moersperg. (1592)
I can’t remember now if i’ve done this one already. Domenichino: The Maiden and the Unicorn. (see also Rilke poem in poetry thread) Who doesn’t love unicorns? If they didn’t exist we’d have to invent them
Another lady with a smaller unicorn 
by Raphael aka Raffaello di Ritratto (1483-1520, High Renaissance)
Portrait of Agnolo Doni
Portrait of Bindo Aldoviti (1514)
La Donna Velata (1514-1516)
Beautiful portraits by Raphael…
Ah yes, i like that mini unicorn (not something you see very often)
matisse: the music
Do you mean this one? I liked it so much I decided to post it for you.
Matisse, La Musique (1939)
Will Barnet – The Mirror (1981)
Thomas Hart Benton – Hail Storm (1940)
Ah that’s interesting and brings to mind Millet, but i like it as much if not more.
There’s a thread on female directors, and i don’t think i’ve put this great painting over 200 years ago by Marie-Guillemine Benoist (i’ve just mentioned there) on yet:
Kozyndan (sorry, they’re kind of wide):
The Amorous Nudibranchs Paint the Town Red (and Orange and Yellow and Green and Blue and Violet)…
The Household
Flips Shibuya
The Yum-cha Militia (My Mother thought she had SARS, but it turned out to be PMS)
Naze niwatori wa michi wo yokogittanoka?
Portraits From the (Off) Center of The Universe
Domo Arigato Mr. Nakamura
Kozyndan (continued):
Kin-san’s Business Trip
Like Sands Through the Hour Glass…
What’s Next, USA-chan?
Tokyo Otaku Hyper Remix
Wow, now they really are worth scrolling across the full width! Hard to choose a favourite but perhaps Like Sands through the Hour Glass. The shape reminds me a bit of a photo by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Not a painting!
We just came back from the National Gallery here in DC, and got to see Luis Melendez’ paintings for the first time. Superb still-life works:
Oh well, I tried. I put ! at either end of the [IMG but the pics didn’t post. Pity.
Having studied Art History at University, five have always stood out for me:
The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli
Saturn by Francisco Goya
The Garden of Earthly Delights by Jerome Bosch
The Sistine Chapel paintings by Michelangelo
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun (1806-1809) by William Blake
And kudos on all the great posts and interesting finds
Francis Bacon
Great “horror” painting GINO, love it
Noah’s Ark (c.1834) by Edward Hicks (1780-1849), Quaker artist
The Cornell Farm (1848)
Caravaggio – 
The Conversion of Saint Paul
The prominence of the horse’s ass speaks volumes.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/Q6YYvSt-zgI/SiOTr2HfYBI/AAAAAAAAAB8/BSB4AK57DY/s400/La+Dormeuse.jpg
Léon Gard : “La Dormeuse à l’oreiller blanc” (1929)
I hope others dig these, they aren’t anything obscure by any means; I am not well versed in paintings at all, but I love these three.
Edward Hopper – “Night Hawks”
Dali – “Metamorphosis of Narcissus”
Van Gogh – “On The Threshold of Eternity”
bumping the thread up to go with the thread on directors and artists
Netherlandish Proverbs
by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Titian: Diana and Actaeon
Titian: Madonna of the Rabbit
Kenji
Eli, you locate the image you want, then simply add an exclamation mark on each side (with no gap) of the url, when you put that here. The size should be under 600 pxls if you want it fitting in the box