All entries
Each work measured on the twelve axes, with its reasons published. Ranked by the mean of the twelve.
A note on method. Works the desk enters from manuscript are scored from a full reading of the text, line by line. Published works are scored from knowledge of the work and its reception; no film is rewatched and no recording replayed for the purpose. The two methods have not yet been calibrated against each other, and a manuscript’s standing should be compared with a published work’s with that in mind.
1754 entries
Ludwig van Beethoven · Music
9.0 · Tier IV
Jean d'Orbais, Jean le Loup, Gaucher de Reims and Bernard de Soissons · Architecture
8.8 · Tier IV
Romanesque builders; Obradoiro facade by Fernando de Casas Novoa · Architecture
8.7 · Tier IV
Stanley Kubrick · Film
8.7 · Tier IV
William of Sens and William the Englishman; nave by Henry Yevele · Architecture
8.7 · Tier IV
Erwin von Steinbach and others; spire by Johannes Hültz · Architecture
8.6 · Tier IV
Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz · Architecture
8.6 · Tier IV
Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus of Rhodes (attributed) · Visual art
8.6 · Tier IV
Henry of Reyns and successors; Henry VII Chapel by Robert and William Vertue (attributed); west towers by Nicholas Hawksmoor · Architecture
8.6 · Tier IV
Mamluk, under Sultan an-Nasir Hasan · Architecture
8.6 · Tier IV
Luciano Laurana and Francesco di Giorgio Martini · Architecture
8.5 · Tier IV
Burgundian Romanesque builders · Architecture
8.5 · Tier IV
Guru Arjan; rebuilt and gilded under Maharaja Ranjit Singh · Architecture
8.5 · Tier IV
Maya, under K'inich Janaab' Pakal and his son · Architecture
8.5 · Tier IV
Senenmut (attributed), under Hatshepsut · Architecture
8.5 · Tier IV
Gerhard of Cologne and successors; completed by Ernst Friedrich Zwirner · Architecture
8.5 · Tier IV
Constantinian, Crusader and later builders · Architecture
8.5 · Tier IV
Matthias of Arras and Peter Parler; completed by later hands · Architecture
8.4 · Tier IV
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers with Gianfranco Franchini · Architecture
8.4 · Tier IV
Anonymous; Octagon by William Hurley and Alan of Walsingham · Architecture
8.4 · Tier IV
Almohad builders; cathedral by Gothic masters · Architecture
8.4 · Tier IV
Kyivan Rus builders, under Yaroslav the Wise · Architecture
8.4 · Tier IV
Elias of Dereham and Nicholas of Ely (attributed); spire by Richard of Farleigh · Architecture
8.4 · Tier IV
William Thornton, Benjamin Latrobe, Charles Bulfinch and Thomas U. Walter · Architecture
8.3 · Tier IV
Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) · Architecture
8.3 · Tier IV
Christopher Wren, with Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh · Architecture
8.3 · Tier IV
Joseph Strauss, Charles Ellis, Leon Moisseiff and Irving Morrow · Architecture
8.3 · Tier IV
Wang Xianchen; Wen Zhengming (attributed design) · Architecture
8.3 · Tier IV
Qutb ud-Din Aibak and Iltutmish; upper storeys by Firuz Shah Tughlaq · Architecture
8.2 · Tier IV
Damien Hirst · Visual art
8.2 · Tier IV
Almohad builders, under Abd al-Mu'min and Yaqub al-Mansur · Architecture
8.2 · Tier IV
George Gilbert Scott and William Henry Barlow · Architecture
8.2 · Tier IV
Mudéjar builders, under Peter of Castile, and later hands · Architecture
8.2 · Tier IV
Pierre Peysson and Jean de Louvres, under Benedict XII and Clement VI · Architecture
8.2 · Tier IV
Qing builders, under the Qianlong Emperor; rebuilt under Cixi · Architecture
8.2 · Tier IV
Juan O'Gorman, Gustavo Saavedra and Juan Martínez de Velasco · Architecture
8.1 · Tier IV
Claudio de Arciniega and successors; facade by Manuel Tolsá · Architecture
8.1 · Tier IV
Burnham and Root; south half by Holabird and Roche · Architecture
8.1 · Tier IV
James McNeill Whistler · Visual art
8.1 · Tier IV
Vladimir-Suzdal builders, under Andrey Bogolyubsky · Architecture
8.1 · Tier IV
Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint; completed by Kaare Klint · Architecture
8.1 · Tier IV
Many masters, from 1386; facade completed in the nineteenth century · Architecture
8.1 · Tier IV
Antonio da Sangallo the Younger; Michelangelo; Giacomo della Porta · Architecture
8.1 · Tier IV
Abraham Darby III; designed by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard · Architecture
8.0 · Tier IV
Thomas Bohier and Catherine Briçonnet; gallery by Philibert de l'Orme and Jean Bullant · Architecture
8.0 · Tier IV
Built for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu; rebuilt 1955 · Architecture
8.0 · Tier IV
Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus (OMA/LMN) · Architecture
7.9 · Tier III
Isambard Kingdom Brunel; completed by Hawkshaw and Barlow · Architecture
7.9 · Tier III
SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) · Architecture
7.8 · Tier III
Herzog and de Meuron, with Ai Weiwei and Li Xinggang · Architecture
7.8 · Tier III
Bonanno Pisano (attributed) and Giovanni di Simone; Tommaso Pisano · Architecture
7.7 · Tier III
Chinese builders (Northern Wei foundation, Ming and Qing rebuilding) · Architecture
7.7 · Tier III
Eduard Riedel and Christian Jank, under Ludwig II · Architecture
7.7 · Tier III
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Nikolaus Pacassi and Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg · Architecture
7.7 · Tier III
Yayoi Kusama · Visual art
7.6 · Tier III