# We're evacuating the planet. What 100 paintings do you insist we bring with us? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 2, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976 "2011-09-02T17:09:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/121 "2011-09-12T14:52:55Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > Hans Holbein’s portrait of [Sir Thomas More](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Hans_Holbein_d._J._-_Sir_Thomas_More_-_WGA11524.jpg/463px-Hans_Holbein_d._J._-_Sir_Thomas_More_-_WGA11524.jpg), because it’s like a photograph 400 years before the camera was invented. Was stopping in to name this exact painting. I’ll add another from the Frick Collection: [Lady Hamilton](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cZjPbyg9fAk/TVclx7XiTRI/AAAAAAAAGh4/OQMoBy7h0QU/s1600/Lh3.jpg). Probably my favorite painting of all time. I can stare at her for hours. Additionally, anything by Leonardo, Hieronymus Bosch, or Salvadore Dali must be preserved. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/122 "2011-09-12T15:07:25Z")
I’ll bring [this.](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HBKWtrKbYAk/Sy-6F9NHO1I/AAAAAAAADIU/k4DOjGEawmY/s1600-h/Justice+League+of+America+%23113.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/123 "2011-09-12T16:57:50Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > lokij, my kingdom for the rest of your top hundred with commentary! I second this, **lokij**. Do five or ten a week! You’ll get traffic. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/124 "2011-09-12T17:44:45Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > …I’ll add another from the Frick Collection: [Lady Hamilton](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cZjPbyg9fAk/TVclx7XiTRI/AAAAAAAAGh4/OQMoBy7h0QU/s1600/Lh3.jpg). Probably my favorite painting of all time. I can stare at her for hours… She was certainly a beauty. See the last painting linked in my post #106, too. ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/125 "2011-09-12T19:52:10Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I second this, **lokij**. Do five or ten a week! You’ll get traffic. Aww. Thanks guys. Maybe I will, I just thought the full hundred would be completely overbearing and something nobody would want to slog through. Your idea to do ten a week sounds fun though. Question. Should I post them here in this thread or make a new one? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/126 "2011-09-12T20:06:59Z")
> [@lokij](#): > > Aww. Thanks guys. Maybe I will, I just thought the full hundred would be completely overbearing and something nobody would want to slog through. Your idea to do ten a week sounds fun though. Question. Should I post them here in this thread or make a new one? In your place, I would start a new thread, then come back to this way and post a link to the new thread in a post so anyone watching this one knows about it. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/127 "2011-09-12T20:11:39Z")
Seconded! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/128 "2011-09-12T20:51:54Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Seconded! I already seconded, Isildur. 😉 Lokij, if you decide to do this, and if you don’t know how to post a link to one thread in another, PM me. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/129 "2011-09-12T21:21:51Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The _Mona Lisa_ must perish! Most over-rated painting on the planet. > . I propose to replace it with another painting by da Vinci : [The virgin, child and Saint Anne](http://english.fju.edu.tw/lctd/asp/arts/93/picture_large.jpg) Rembrandt’s “[The night watch](http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/rembrandt/the-nightwatch-1642#supersized-artistPaintings-220630)” seems mandatory. And for my own pleasure, Gustave Moreau’s [Jupiter and Semele](http://www.ac-grenoble.fr/lycee/diois/Latin/archives/ico/symbolisme/original/1894-1896%20Gustave%20Moreau%20Jupiter%20et%20Semele,%20Detail%20Jupiter%20and%20Semele,%20Detail.html) ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/130 "2011-09-12T22:24:54Z")
> [@Tapiotar](#): > > Skald, may I argue in favor of stained glass windows as being a form of painting? It is pigment applied to (or within) a surface to create a picture. Stained glass speaks to me more than oil or acrylic on canvas – light shining through glass is a living thing. > . No way! Stainted glasses are a different art form, and we’re going to take 100 of them too. Obviously beginning with “Notre-Dame de la belle verriere” from Chartres. No link, because showing a picture of a stainted glass is pointless. You can’t appreciate the famous Chartes’ blue this way. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/131 "2011-09-12T22:42:46Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Good stuff. I prefer his painting of Napoleon’s coronation, though: [Homeschool History Curriculum - History At Our House](http://www.powellhistory.com/art/Painting/David%20-%20Napoleon's%20Coronation.jpg) Well…no. We’ll keep the Death of Socrates or whatever else instead. First, this painting is huge. Like in gigantic. We wouldn’t have room for anything else in the cargo. Second, it’s pure propaganda. Probably the reason why Napoleon wanted it to be larger than any other painting in existence. Third, I don’t like Napoleon hence don’t want, when visiting our museum, to have to look at an absurdly oversized picture dedicated to his glory, and probably taking almost as much room as all the other paintings together. Did I mention this work was too large and depicting a dictator? Now, I’ve no problem with taking [Liberty guiding the people](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zh5AN_4i7gk/TVnQj8ZmYJI/AAAAAAAAAFU/Rlx01bWkYB4/s1600/delacroix10.JPG) by Delacroix. Despite it being rather large, I like this political message much more. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/132 "2011-09-13T01:44:10Z")
Those are all fair points. All right, let’s dump Napoleon’s crowning for Howard Chandler Christy’s masterful painting of the signing of the U.S. Constitution: [http://www.visualphotos.com/photo/1x6743642/signing\_of\_the\_constitution\_of\_the\_us\_howard\_c\_900-2366.jpg](http://www.visualphotos.com/photo/1x6743642/signing_of_the_constitution_of_the_us_howard_c_900-2366.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/133 "2011-09-13T13:21:12Z")
I forgot to make this post yesterday when I started my thread. My picks from eleven to twenty can be found [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=624021&referrerid=16182) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/134 "2011-09-13T14:08:48Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > [Everything by Gustav Klimt.](http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&hl=en&biw=1154&bih=1132&q=klimt&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi) I did not appreciate Klimt until I went to Vienna. At least one work by [Howard Pyle](http://www.bpib.com/pyle.htm), his protégé [N.C. Wyeth](http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/wyeth7.jpg), [Maxfield Parrish](http://www.cafleurebon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/maxfield_parrish_original_l.jpg), [Edward Burne-Jones](http://www.illusionsgallery.com/burne-jones.html) and, possibly, [W.W. Denslow](http://www.google.com/images?q=w.w.+denslow&hl=en&prmd=ivnsb&ei=SGNvTp3iJseDsALfubnKCQ&start=0&sa=N&oi=image_result_group&sa=X). OMG can’t forget [Arthur Rackham](http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=arthur+rackham&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=arthur+rack&oi=image_result_group&sa=X)! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/135 "2011-09-13T14:27:49Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > Well…no. We’ll keep the Death of Socrates or whatever else instead. > > First, this painting is huge. Like in gigantic. We wouldn’t have room for anything else in the cargo. > > Second, it’s pure propaganda. Probably the reason why Napoleon wanted it to be larger than any other painting in existence. > > Third, I don’t like Napoleon hence don’t want, when visiting our museum, to have to look at an absurdly oversized picture dedicated to his glory, and probably taking almost as much room as all the other paintings together. > > Did I mention this work was too large and depicting a dictator? > Now, I’ve no problem with taking [Liberty guiding the people](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zh5AN_4i7gk/TVnQj8ZmYJI/AAAAAAAAAFU/Rlx01bWkYB4/s1600/delacroix10.JPG) by Delacroix. Despite it being rather large, I like this political message much more. You have presented the best argument of anybody so far in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/136 "2011-09-13T14:28:54Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > No way! Stainted glasses are a different art form, and we’re going to take 100 of them too. Obviously beginning with “Notre-Dame de la belle verriere” from Chartres. No link, because showing a picture of a stainted glass is pointless. You can’t appreciate the famous Chartes’ blue this way. We’re not dumping the whiskey for stained glass windows. ---
**Author:** ![Social\_Animal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Social\_Animal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Social_Animal)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/137 "2011-09-13T14:35:42Z")
I would have to take Jean-Etienne Liotard 1743-1745, The Chocolate Girl. It is the most beautiful pastel of all time ---
**Author:** ![Social\_Animal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Social\_Animal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Social_Animal)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976/138 "2011-09-13T14:41:31Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > Was stopping in to name this exact painting. I’ll add another from the Frick Collection: [Lady Hamilton](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cZjPbyg9fAk/TVclx7XiTRI/AAAAAAAAGh4/OQMoBy7h0QU/s1600/Lh3.jpg). Probably my favorite painting of all time. I can stare at her for hours. > > Additionally, anything by Leonardo, Hieronymus Bosch, or Salvadore Dali must be preserved. I went to a Dali exhibition in Atlanta last year. I was draw in his painting of his deceased brother. Portrait of my Dead Brother 1963. Very haunting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-what-100-paintings-do-you-insist-we-bring-with-us/594976.md?page=6)