Paintings, The Twelve Great

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Paintings, The Twelve Great. According to a group of art critics in the early 1920's the twelve greatest paintings in the world are as follows:

Last Supper, Da Vinci, Leonardo, 1498 Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.

Assumption of the Virgin, Titian, 1518, Venetian Academy.

Immaculate Conception, Murillo, Bartolome Esteban, 1678, Louvre.

Beatrice Cenci, Guido Reni, Owe do Rane, 1509, Barberini Palace.

The Night, Correggio, 1522, Dresden Gallery.

Aurora, Guido Reni, Owe do Rane, 1609, Rospigliosi Palace, Rome.

Descent from the Cross, Volterra, about 1545, Church of S. S. Trinita de Monti, Rome.

Descent from the Cross, Rubens, 1612, Antwerp Cathedral.

Communion of St. Jerome, Domenichino, 1614, Vatican.

Last Judgment, Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1534-1541, Sistine Chapel.

Sistine Madonna, Raphael, 1518, Dresden Gallery.

Transfiguration, Raphael, 1519, at the Vatican.