The Candidates • Pablo Picasso • Andy Warhol • James A. M. Whistler • Francis Bacon • Caravaggio • Rembrandt • Leonardo • Michelangelo • Raphael • Donatello, with profuse apologies for that Ninja Turtle crack

If you could invite any of these artists to attend - and, hopefully, spice up - your next dinner party, which guy(s) would get the nod? You may judge them (they are all dead and so cannot object) on such criteria as: ability to make small talk, table manners, attention to personal hygiene and likelihood of flirting with the hostess. 

If necessary, you may also make decisions based on liking creations of the artist. Less fun than picking apart personal habits, granted, but Art is why we're gathered here after all.

Bear in mind that not all of them liked, admired or could even stand to be in the same room with one another. Seating certain combinations at the same table could potentially make events truly memorable, come to think of it ... a couple of them were fairly good street brawlers ...