Well if you're still scratching your head about why the NGA and the Met and National Gallery of Canada had all replaced their permanent collections with the Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West, I will now explain to you how this happened.
Just kidding. There can be no explanation. But perhaps the question is, would we want this to have transpired? What if, just for a month, all the galleries in the world displayed Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe and touted it as the greatest painting of all time?
What's your favorite painting? Would you want replicas of it hung in every museum in the world? Come on, sure you would.
This is why I now present to you my favorite works of art ever:
Lamasu
Head of Christ, Mt. Sinai
Muirdeach's Cross, Monasterboice
Coppo di Marcovaldo - Madonna del Bordone
Giovanni Pisano - Pistoia Pulpit
Duccio - Maesta
Orcagna - Strozzi Altarpiece
Francesco Traini (?) - Triumph of Death
Diego Velasquez - Las Meninas
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Annunciation
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