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Thanks for directing me to the list. While I am not overwhelmed about the Mona Lisa being on the list, I am a bit taken aback that Berthe Morisot is the only woman in the top one hundred. I'm sure we can all suggest paintings by women throughout history that could hold a place in the top one hundred. I post this not as a "pc" agenda. I am a painter myself and look for nutrition in paintings that represent a woman's perspective and voice. I'm not just advocating "Artemesia holds her own" with other baroque painters." What I mean is, we should question what the criteria are for defining what makes a great painting. I love most of the paintings on the list. I don't need to denigrate someone else's culture by calling it irrelevant, but what are the parameters operant in this system of deciding the most commodious works? As librarians, we're going to help shape the future by asking these questions, I hope. Of course, we also seek to while preserve and respect the past and more traditional viewpoints. Anything less would be censorship. (I am reading a great book, We Weren't Modern Enough... about women artists in Weimar Germany which touches on the relationship of visual aesthetics and politics and gender. ) Just wanted to throw that out there. Jean Boggs Pratt Institute Library Library Clerk and Library Science Student