1.   The gilded icons, the statuary, the great paintings, the bas reliefs.

2.   Bidding between gardeners can get fierce for unusual plants, which have the same status as great paintings have for art collectors.

3.   A one-woman predecessor of the Getty Museum, she was determined to see as many great European paintings as possible cross the Atlantic.

4.   But there are also great paintings that take time to win us over and have a built-in, minutely calculated aloofness.

5.   Doing great paintings and showing them to people.

6.   He also put in Gustave Caillebotte, the millionaire painter and amateur oarsman who was to bequeath many great Impressionist paintings to France.

7.   I lick triple-scoop ice cream cones, look at great paintings and slide into Off Broadway shows, but my favorite activities are completely passive.

8.   In any case, the subject invited unflattering comparisons with the great Niagara Falls paintings of Frederic Church and George Inness.

9.   It has enormous size, beautiful proportions and great painting.

10.   No collector, he observes, could possibly own all the great paintings of an art movement.