I’d really like to keep a record somewhere of the great paintings I’ve seen in person with maybe something about things I’d like to see and where I’d have to travel to do so. Things are complicated a little by single artist exhibits that gather things from multiple sources as I’ve never been one for buying programmes so it’s not quite the same as just which museums have I visited

Does anyone know of a list of great works with or without where they are held. Maybe an excel file or something.

Theres obviously a few books out there that are just big lists of masterpieces but they tend to just have one or two per artist.

  • I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but here's what I do:

    1. I keep a spreadsheet of museums and exhibits I want to go to (start date, end date, city, museum, exhibit/link, plus links to reviews) and have a column to mark the ones I went to. Most museums keep their exhibit links up permanently.

    2. I usually take a photo at the entrance area to an exhibit I want to remember - that way, I've got the date, place, and a placeholder to remember the museum and exhibit. And I often snap a quick photo of the painting and label of art I want to remember, research, etc.

    3. I try to make a point of looking through my photos and notes pretty soon after my visit, and then I'll save the artist or links to resources afterward. Google Arts and Culture, Bloomberg Connects, http://www.artcyclopedia.com/museums are helpful.

    I'll create a photo folder for a trip or a specific museum, so I can refer back.

    1. I'll buy a postcard of the works I want to specifically remember, and I do have a pretty extensive library of museum and exhibit books, but I can't buy them all, so I try to limit that somewhat, but most of the major museums have pretty comprehensive lists of their holdings (Met, MOMA, Louvre, etc).
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  • Bucket List:

    I started this but immediately got overwhelmed.

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  • I keep a list of great works in the notes app on my phone. I also have a folder of great sculptures and one of important chairs.

    I tried excel, word, Quizlet, and a few other places and still enjoy the notes app best. Unfortunately though this means I can’t sort like I could in an excel file. But I have an art gallery on my phone that works in airplane mode.

    I sort by the year the work was completed. I’ll send some cuz I can’t tell if you’re asking for formatting or a list itself. Let me know if you want me to keep going

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    Folio from the Blue Quran, Northern Africa, 900

    Bayeux Tapestries, England, 1070

    Lamentation, Giotto, 1305

    Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, Huang Gongwang, 1348

    Holy Trinity, Masaccio, 1428

    Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck, 1434

    The Descent from the Cross, Rogier van der Weyden, 1435

    Primavera, Sandro Botticelli, 1480

    The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, 1485

    The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci, 1498

    Self-Portrait, Albrecht Dürer, 1500

    The Unicorn Rests in the Garden (The Unicorn Tapestries), Brussels, 1505

    Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, 1506

    The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymous Bosch, 1510

    Sleeping Venus, Giorgione and Titian, 1510

    The School of Athens, Raphael, 1511

    The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo, 1512

    Melencholia I, Albrecht Dürer, 1514

    The Feast of the Gods, Giovanni Bellini, 1514

    Assumption of the Virgin, Titian, 1518

    The Battle of Alexander at Issus, Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529

    The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533

    Venus of Urbino, Titian, 1534

    Madonna with the Long Neck, Parmigianino, 1540

    The Rape of Europa, Titian, 1562

    The Triumph of Death, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562

    The Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

    Air (The Four Elements), Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1566

    The Peasant Wedding, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567

    The Court of Kayumars (The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp) Persian, 1568

    Paradise, Tintoretta, 1592

    St. Martin and the Beggar, El Greco, 1599

    Narcissus, Caravaggio, 1599

    The Calling of Saint Matthew, Caravaggio, 1600

    Judith Beheading Holofernes, Caravaggio, 1602

    View and Plan of Toledo, El Greco, 1608

    Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi, 1613

    The Descent from the Cross, Peter Paul Rubens, 1614

    Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, Bichtr, 1618

    The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

    The Abduction of the Sabine Woman, Nicolas Poussin, 1635

    The Judgement of Paris, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636

    The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642

    The Young Bull, Paulus Potter, 1647

    Portrait of Innocent X, Diego Velasquez, 1650

    Susanna and the Elders, Artemisia Gentileschi, 1652

    Las Meninas, Diego Velásquez, 1656

    The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer, 1661

    Virgin and Child, Elisabetta Sirani, 1663

    Portia Wounding Her Thigh, Elisabetta Sirani, 1664

    Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer, 1665

    The Art of Painting, Johannes Vermeer, 1666

    The Embarkation for Cythera, Antoine Watteau, 1717

    The Ray, Jean Simeon Chardin, 1728

    A Boy with a Flying Squirrel, John Singleton Copley, 1765

    A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, Joseph Wright of Derby, 1766

    The Swing, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1767

    Watson and the Shark, John Singleton Copley, 1778

    The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781

    Oath of the Horatii, Jacques-Louis David, 1785

    Marie Antoinette and Her Children, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1787

    The Death of Marat, Jacques-Louis David, 1793

    Lansdowne Portrait, Gilbert Stuart, 1796

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    Rembrandt’s Storm on the Sea of Galilee? That’s perhaps the worst painting to put on a bucket list. lol.

    Maybe you’ll see it after you see Courbet’s Stonebreakers. lol.

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    That’s a snarky response from a mod

    And like I said, it’s a list of great works. It’s not a bucket list. So it’s an unwarranted comment too.

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  • I use Google maps to mark places I'd like to go in a separate saved list called "art" (very creative, I know). Some are obvious major museums, but some are also smaller, like a statue on a roadside I'd like to see but would never make a special trip for. If I'm traveling somewhere, I can see if any of my saved locations are nearby and make a detour.

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    That’s a really good idea. I’ll have to look at possibilities

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  • Painter here. I'm sorry I cannot resist to give my own list ;) didnt look up the titles though...

    Velazquez - Infanta in blue Ingress - Sphinx  Bacon - Isabella rawthorn standing in a street  Dix - card players  Monets cathedral views De koonings women Felix Nussbaums late works George grosz - monumental paintings in Germany  El Greco - everything? De Miranda - the one painting in Berlin De hooch - not the late works  De Chirico - early works (I'm sorry) Albert Oehlens early work Daniel Richters lonely girl Peter doigs take on Cezanne  Cezannes bathers

    What did I miss??

    Edit: phone jumbled my list :(

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    I had Gemini ungarble the list for everyone else's benefit. Sorry if it inferred anything you hadn't intended.

    ​Diego Velázquez – The Infanta Margareta Teresa in a Blue Dress Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres – Oedipus and the Sphinx Francis Bacon – Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho Otto Dix – The Skat Players Claude Monet – Rouen Cathedral series Willem de Kooning – Woman series Felix Nussbaum – Late works (e.g., Death Triumphant) George Grosz – Berlin-era monumental paintings (e.g., The Pillars of Society) El Greco – Complete oeuvre Juan Carreño de Miranda – Portrait of Charles II (Berlin) Pieter de Hooch – Early Delft-period interiors Giorgio de Chirico – Early Pittura Metafisica works Albert Oehlen – Early neo-expressionist works Daniel Richter – Lonely Girl Peter Doig – Cézanne's Curve / Works referencing Cézanne Paul Cézanne – The Bathers

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