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Favourite European paintings

Before 1500

1. Giotto di Bondone, Scenes from the Life of Joachim, 1305

2. Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife, 1434

3. Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi, 1423

4. Andrea Mantegna, Dead Christ, 1480

5. Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1485

6. Eichhorn Madonna, 1350

7. Jean Fouquet, Melun Diptych, 1450

8. Stefan Lochner, The Virgin of the Rose Garden, 1448

9. Masaccio, The Tribute Money, 1427

10. Jean Malouel, Pieta, 1400

16th century

1. Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1505

2. Style of Jan Mostaert, Christ as the Man of Sorrows, 1525

3. Annibale Carracci, The Beaneater, 1585

4. Albrecht Altdorfer, Alexander's Victory (The Battle on the Issus), 1529

5. Titian, Noli Me Tangere, 1510

6. Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1541

7. Matthias Grunwald, The Meeting of St Erasmus and St Maurice, 1524

8. Pontormo, Joseph in Egypt, 1515

9. El Greco, The Despoiling of Christ, 1595

10. Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors (Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve), 1533

17th century

1. Andrea Pozzo, The Glory of St Ignatius Loyola, 1694

2. Claude Gelle, The Landing of Cleopatra at Tarsus, 1648

3. Meinert Hobbema, Avenue at Midelharnis, 1689

4. Jacques Blanchard, St Sebastian, 1638

5. Peter Paul Rubens, The Consequences of War, 1638

6. Peter Paul Rubens, Self-Portrait with Isabella Brandt, 1609

7. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, The Beheading of St John the Baptist, 1608

8. Jan van der Heyden, The Dam with the New Torn Hall in Amsterdam, 1688

9. Juan Sanchez Cotan, Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber, 1602

10. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Self-portrait aged 63, 1669

18th century

1. Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, 1793

2. William Hogarth, Heads of Six of Hogarth's Servants, 1753

3. Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1787

4. Jacques Louis-David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784

5. Canaletto, Venice: The Basin of St Marco on Ascension Day, 1738

19th century

1. Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

2. Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street: A Rainy Day, 1877

3. Theodore Chasseriau, The Sisters of the Artist, 1843

4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pandora, 1869

5. J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm, 1842

6. Luke Fildes, Apllicant for Admission to a Casual Ward, 1874

7. Edouard Manet, Dejeuner sur l'herbe, 1863

8. Theodore Gericault, The Severed Heads, 1818

9. Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833

10. Vincent van Gogh, The Artist's Bedroom in Arles, 1889

20th century

1. Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931

2. Fiona Rae, Untitled (Blue and Purple Triptych), 1994

3. Hannah Hoch, Glasses, 1927

4. Wassily Kandinsky, Swinging, 1925

5. Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907

6. Stanley Spencer, Self Portrait with Patricia Preece, 1937

7. Francis Bacon, Three Studies of the Male Back, 1970

8. Albert Oehlen, Untitled, 1983

9. Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation Gorge, 1914

10. Henri Matisse, Dance (la Danse), 1910

Ten favourite North American paintings

1. Rivera, La Civilisation Zapotheque
2. Anshutz, Ironworker's Noontime
3. Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Boit (hey, I've actually seen this one in person)
4. Shahn, Jersey Homesteads study
5. Mount, Eel Spearing at Setauket
6. Bierstadt, Yosemite Valley
7. Wood, American Gothic
8. Church, Twilight in the Wilderness
9. Homer, Helena de Kay
10. Pollock, Painting

Ten favourite Chinese paintings

1. Jiang ZhaoLe, Refugees, 1943
2. Li Cheng, A Solitary Temple amid Clearing Peaks, c. 960
3. Zhang Xie, Bamboo and Rock, 18th century
4. Zou Fulei, A Breath of Spring, 1360
5. Wu Guangzhong, The Banyan Tree, 1992
6. Lin Liang, Birds in Bushes, c. 1500
7. Huang Gongwang, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, 1347-50
8. Li Shan, Pine and Wisteria, 1730
9. Gu Hongzhong, The Night Revels of Han Xizai, c. 970
10. Zhang Lu, Hurrying Home Before the Rain, c. 1500

And I might as well do Indian paintings

1. Gaganendranath, Satbhai Champa, c. 1920
2. Li Ahbar Padamsee, Couple, 1987
3. Ajanta caves, The Dying Princess, 4th century
4. Ajanta caves, The Great Renunciation, 4th century
5. Arpanacaur, Baurad the River of Time, 1989
6. Gieve Patel, Dead Politician, 1969
7. Gautam Dutta, Rain in the Hills, 1980s
8. Nala and the Swan (Kangra), 1800
9. Wayside Relaxation (Moghul), 17th century
10. Ajaya Kumar, Death of the Blue God, 1992