Your Favorite Painting(s)

[Psychonaut]

What is/are your favorite painting(s)? Let's try to keep it to a reasonably small number. :D

If I had to narrow it down to one it'd be:

The Garden of Earthly Delights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Earthly_Delights) by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516)


The Garden of Earthly Delights (or The Millennium)[1] is a triptych painted by the early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516), housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. Dating between 1503 and 1504, when Bosch was about 50 years old,[2] it is his best-known[3] and most ambitious work.[4] The masterpiece reveals the artist at the height of his powers; in no other painting does he achieve such complexity of meaning or such vivid imagery.[5] The triptych depicts several biblical and heretical scenes on a grand scale and as a "true triptych", as defined by Hans Belting,[6] was probably intended to illustrate the history of mankind according to medieval Christian doctrine.

The triptych is painted in oil and comprises a square middle panel flanked by two rectangular wings that can close over the center as shutters. These outer wings, when folded shut, display a grisaille painting of the earth during the Creation. The three scenes of the inner triptych are probably intended to be read chronologically from left to right. The left panel depicts God presenting to Adam the newly created Eve, while the central panel is a broad panorama of sexually engaged nude figures, fantastical animals, oversized fruit and hybrid stone formations. The right panel is a hellscape and portrays the torments of damnation.

Art historians and critics frequently interpret the painting as a didactic warning on the perils of life's temptations.[7] However the intricacy of its symbolism, particularly that of the central panel, has led to a wide range of scholarly interpretations over the centuries.[8] 20th-century art historians are divided as to whether the triptych's central panel is a moral warning or a panorama of paradise lost. American writer Peter S. Beagle describes it as an "erotic derangement that turns us all into voyeurs, a place filled with the intoxicating air of perfect liberty".[9]

During his life, Bosch painted three large triptychs in which each panel was essential to the meaning of the whole. Each of these three works present distinct yet linked themes addressing history and faith. Triptychs from this period were generally intended to be read sequentially, the left and right panels often portraying Eden and the Last Judgment respectively, while the subtext was contained in the center piece.[10] It is not known whether "The Garden" work was intended as an altarpiece, but the general view is that the extreme subject matter of the inner center and right panels make it unlikely that it was intended to function in a church or monastery, but was instead commissioned by a lay patron.[11]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Hieronymus_Bosch_-_The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_-_The_exterior_(shutters).jpg
The Exterior

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/GardenED_edit1.jpg
The Interior

An honorable mention in second place would have to be the Arnolfini Portrait (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arnolfini_Portrait) by Jan van Eyck (before c. 1395 – before July 9, 1441).


The Arnolfini Portrait is a painting in oils on oak panel executed by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck in 1434. Among other titles, it is also known as "The Arnolfini Wedding", "The Arnolfini Marriage", "The Arnolfini Double Portrait" or the "Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife".

This painting is believed to be a portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife in a room, presumably in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges. It is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art history. Being both signed and dated by Van Eyck in 1434, it is, with the Ghent Altarpiece by the same artist and his brother Hubert, the oldest very famous panel painting to have been executed in oils rather than in tempera. The painting was bought by the National Gallery in London in 1842.

The illusionism of the painting was remarkable for its time, in part for the rendering of detail, but particularly for the use of light to evoke space in an interior, for "its utterly convincing depiction of a room, as well of the people who inhabit it".[1]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Jan_van_Eyck_001.jpg

[Ulf]

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Caspar_David_Friedrich_032.jpg

[Beorn]

http://www.gvjh.org/%7Eartisland/2006_student_artist/Grimes_michelangelo/jpeg/handstouching.jpg

[Vargtand]

http://www.vidunder.se/bildskapartips/neutralisera/johnbauer.jpg

Anything John Bauer made :P

[Loki]

Religious paintings were very popular, and there are some classic examples that I enjoyed from an exhibition in the National Gallery, London, in 2000:

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/artist/img/jan-gossaert-adoration-kings-NG2790-e.jpg

Jan Gossaert, 'The Adoration of the Kings', 1510-15.


I found the next one exceptionally peaceful:

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/WebMedia/Images/59/NG599/eNG599.jpg

Giovanni Bellini, 'Madonna of the Meadow', about 1500.

[Treffie]

Dali's Apparition

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002045F/dali_apparition.jpg

[Brynhild]

Shearing the rams by Tom Roberts


http://blogs.princeton.edu/wri152-3/s06/afsmith/images/final%20shearing%20the%20rams.jpg

[Loddfafner]

My favorite painting, by far, is the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grunewald. You can see it for yourself in Colmar, in the Alsace. There are several paintings that originally folded like a book. Just a taste of them:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Mathis_Gothart_Grünewald_036.jpg


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Grunewald_Isenheim3_WingsLR.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Mathis_Gothart_Grünewald_019.jpg

He is the only painter who can out-Bosch Hieronymous himself.

[Treffie]

This one is dedicated to all Sleep Paralysis sufferers out there!

John Henry Fuseli - The Nightmare.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_Nightmare.JPG/752px-John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_Nightmare.JPG

[Ulf]

Lilith by John Collier

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Lilith_%28John_Collier_painting%29.jpg

What a lucky snake. :p

[Fortis in Arduis]

http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Lady-Agnew-L.jpg

Lady Angew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent

It is in the National Gallery of Scotland, dontcha know.

[The Lawspeaker]

My favorite painting is and will probably always remain an altarpiece:


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Lamgods_open.jpg



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Lamgods_closed.jpg


Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Ghent Altarpiece (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghent_Altarpiece)) by the Van Eyck brothers (completed around 1432)






http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Reinier_Nooms_-_De_zeeslag_bij_Livorno.jpg

The Battle of Leghorn (De zeeslag bij Livorno) by Reinier Rooms (made in 1653)

I also love the Panorama Mesdag (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama_Mesdag) (by Hendrik Willem Mesdag, painted in 1880,1881) but that is perhaps more for it's setting- it's like stepping back into the 19th century when you stand there on that "dune" surrounded by the painting.

[Sarmata]

I'm not quite sure that these are a paintings or just drawings, but it's art for sure, Konstantin Vasiliews works:

http://i44.tinypic.com/jaj4et.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/v5aczd.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/2dvpzlj.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/bgqtsk.jpg

[Vulpix]

This one by Van Gogh:

http://www.irisinns.ca/images/vangogh3.jpg


Anything by Carl Larsson:


http://www.mundofree.com/nothern_lights/larsson2.gif

http://www.geocities.com/jenpayne11/img/clwindowsill.jpg


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/8/88/20080122220357%21Lisbeth_metar_av_Carl_Larsson_189 8.jpg

http://asacarlssonliberal.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/carl-larsson-picknick-x-4-ashdene.jpg

http://robertarood.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/varen_1907_av_carl_larsson.jpg
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showpost.php?p=34014&postcount=32

[Euroblood]

There are far to many of my favorites to post but I have always liked John William Waterhouse and this painting has been one of my favorites for some time now.

Pandora by John William Waterhouse. Oil on Canvas 1896
http://fpsl.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/john_william_waterhouse_-_pandora_1896.jpg

[Sally]

Edmund Blair Leighton's Tristan and Isolde.

http://i43.tinypic.com/11sfebc.jpg

John W. Waterhouse's Hylas and the Nymphs.

http://i43.tinypic.com/oq8uxl.jpg

Maxfield Parrish's Cinderella

http://i43.tinypic.com/2vngu9f.jpg

[Atlas]

The Sacre of Napoléon. Can't post it for some reasons but y'all know what it looks like, or else look up google.

[Treffie]

Beryl Cook was an English artist who painted fat people, I've always enjoyed the humour in her paintings.

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00029/cook_staircase_29843t.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05/31/article-1023215-016E7ADD00000578-405_233x312.jpg

[Psychonaut]

The Sacre of Napoléon. Can't post it for some reasons but y'all know what it looks like, or else look up google.

http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/IMG/jpg_sacre.jpg

[Zankapfel]

Carl Larrson is amazing <3

Windswept by John Waterhouse

http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/6347/windswept22kb.jpg

Julie Manet with cat by Pierre Auguste Renoir

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f356/123Lucila/ChildwithCatJulieManet.jpg

Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth

http://www.yorkblog.com/flipside/christinas_world_wyeth.jpeg

[Comte Arnau]

http://www.dornai.com/images/Danse_Macabre/Caravaggio-Judith-Beheading-Holofernes.jpghttp://www.songsouponsea.com/Promenade/Cloister.jpg
http://no.altermedia.info/images/william-adolphe_bouguereau_1825-1905_-_young_shepherdess_1868.jpg
http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/William_Turner/fishermen.jpeg
http://usuarios.lycos.es/krie/foto/picasso/viejoguitarrista.jpg
http://www.spanisharts.com/history/del_impres_s.XX/arte_sXX/imagenes/dali_cristo.jpg
http://infozaragoza.com/amoryodio/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/klimt_kiss.jpg

[lei.talk]

the reason the athénienne (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/member.php?u=93) had red hair
as a child?
http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af325/leitalk/Blood_AxisDreams.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt)

[Humanophage]

A fine amount of good paintings in this thread. Fuseli and the Pre-Raphaelites appeal to me as well. Loved El Viejo Guitarrista, too, haven't seen it before.

Vereschagin - Apotheosis of War
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/800px-Apotheosis.jpg/800px-800px-Apotheosis.jpg

Kramskoy - Christ in the Desert
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Kramskoi_Christ_dans_le_d%C3%A9sert.jpg/679px-Kramskoi_Christ_dans_le_d%C3%A9sert.jpg

Repin - Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on Friday, November 16, 1581
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/REPIN_Ivan_Terrible%26Ivan.jpg/800px-REPIN_Ivan_Terrible%26Ivan.jpg

Balke - Stetind i Tåke
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xSUXcsf4x2c/Rohlc-M5PYI/AAAAAAAAAX4/4tbVtQYffik/s400/Peder%2BBalke%2Bcopy.jpg

Böcklin - Isle of the Dead
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Isola_dei_Morti_IV_%28Bocklin%29.jpg

Joseph Ducreux - Self-Portrait
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Ducreux1.jpg/456px-Ducreux1.jpg


Beryl Cook
Indeed, fat people look splendid on paintings:
Botero - The Death of Pablo Escobar
http://www.museodeantioquia.net/page/images/stories/file/Obras%20Botero/CAT100PabloEscobar.JPG

[Svipdag]

I'm sorry that I don't know how to copy them into my post. One of them is "Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California" by Albert Bierstadt. Also, any of Thomas Cole's non-allegorical paintings, especially his Hudson Valley landscapes. And, the paintings [as distinguished from his better-known woodcuts and engravings] of Albrecht Dürer.

[Psychonaut]

I'm sorry that I don't know how to copy them into my post. One of them is "Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California" by Albert Bierstadt.

Lovely :)

http://alloilpaint.com/bierstadt/138.jpg

[Óttar]

Phyllis and Aristotle (?)
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/Kalidasa/aristotle.jpg

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, the best damned painter ever.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/b/bouguereau/bouguereau_admiration.jpg
http://century21photo.com/C21P/Artists/Bouguereau/bouguereau3.jpg
http://www.revilo-oliver.com/Kevin-Strom-personal/Art/Boug_La_Charite.jpg
http://ultraorange.net/media/2007/11/art-william-adolphe-bouguereau-the-wave-1896.jpg
http://www.focusonart.net/Bouguereau-First%20Caresses%20wo.jpg

JW Waterhouse
http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/circe-offering-the-cup-to-ulysses-1891-oil-on-canvas.jpg
Dominique Ingres
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/1848_Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres_-_Venus_Anadyom%C3%A8ne.jpg

[Kadu]

Florence by Oskar Kokoschka
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o21/Kadu_album/Albertina-2.jpg

[Malva]

http://www-cvr.ai.uiuc.edu/~slazebni/personal_page/scrapbook/paintings/chatterton.jpg
The Death of Chatterton Henry Wallis, 1856

[Sally]

Penelope and Her Suitors

J.W. Waterhouse

http://i46.tinypic.com/k476uu.jpg

[Liffrea]

A couple I like, I have them in poster form on my wall:

The Ancient of Days by William Blake 1827:
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll54/Liffrea66/william_blake_-_the_ancient_of_days.jpg

I then have this:
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll54/Liffrea66/Aristotle_Plato.jpg

Which is the central view (depicting Plato and Aristotle) of the painting by Raphael, The School of Athens 1510-11

[Trencavel]

Anything by Caspar David Friedrich, like the one I have in my avatar :)

[Idun]

I like the Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw, among many others. I think his paintings are romantic and have a special "spooky" atmosphere.

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/274/turnroadjagrimshaw.jpg (http://img23.imageshack.us/i/turnroadjagrimshaw.jpg/)


http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5102/laneincheshire400.jpg (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/laneincheshire400.jpg/)

[Inese]

Here paintings from important Latvian painters

Janis Rozendals
http://www.balticgen.com/images/other%20latvia/Latvians%20leaving%20church%20Rozentals%201894.jpg

Bernharts Borcherts
http://www.riga-gallery.com/spaw_images/752f.jpg

Vilhelms Purvitis
http://images.artnet.com/WebServices/picture.aspx?date=20070323&catalog=116180&gallery=424015502&lot=00160&filetype=2

[The Lawspeaker]

http://www.sciencemusings.com/blog/uploaded_images/Harvesters-729611.jpg

I actually like The Harvesters (De Oogst) by Pieter Brueghel.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/View_of_Haarlem_with_Bleaching_Grounds_c1665_Ruisd ael.jpg

And the View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds (Gezicht op Haarlem) by Jacob van Ruysdael.

And one of my absolute favorites- despite of depicting a Dutch defeat:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Velazquez-The_Surrenderof_Breda.jpg
The Surrender of Breda (La Rendición de Breda, El Cuadro de las Lanzas) by Diego Velázquez.
I like the humane expression of Spinola (the Spanish commander)who puts his hand on the shoulder of the defeated Dutch commander. Almost like a father that is welcoming home a lost son.

[Bartox]

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/velazquez/velazquez.feast-bacchus.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/DiegoVelazquez_Viejafriendohuevos.jpg

http://leiter.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/goya-familia-carlos-iv.jpg

[Tony]

Joseph Ducreux - Self-Portrait
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Ducreux1.jpg/456px-Ducreux1.jpg



Wow what a cool pose , so modern , he almost looks like a rapper of the XVIII century :D

I post this one


http://i48.tinypic.com/14aww2x.jpg

It dates back to the Renaissance , 1520 for the record ; the curiosity is the painting of a child with a drawing on a paper in his hand , a very rare subject at that time.
The title is Ritratto di fanciullo con disegno , literally portrait of a kid with drawing. , by Giovanni Francesco Caroto.

[nisse]

http://www.leninimports.com/salvador_dali_gallery_the_rose.jpg

[Bard]

My favourite painting is:
http://yuzuru.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/goya-saturno.jpg
Saturn eating one of his sons, Goya.
And I generally like very much the italian artists like michelangelo, raffaello, caravaggio, they were incredibly good, their paintings look more real than reality.
Even romantic paintings are very good, there are too many great artists to write them all...

[Lars]

http://images.zeno.org/Kunstwerke/I/big/74h00250.jpg

[kwp_wp]

The first one which comes to my mind...
Edvard Munch "The Scream"

[Malva]

http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt16/Christabelgeraldine/Spanish3.jpg?t=1261223015

[Chris]

I love Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son. I'm amazed by any of Andrew Wyeth's Helga portraits. Just the sweater in "Braids" is an achievement.

[Malva]

Brueghel “Triumph of Death”

http://rfairnie17.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/brueghel_triumph-of-death2.jpg

[Klärchen]

Claude Monet, Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies

http://www.poster.net/monet-claude/monet-claude-die-japanische-bruecke-in-giverny-9998624.jpg

Pierre Mignard, Portrait de Molière

http://www.ac-strasbourg.fr/pedago/lettres/victor%20hugo/notes/Moliere.jpg

[MarcvSS]

http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/ss317/TattSSTT/21maart08_008.jpg


A reproduction of a Boris Valejo airbrush piece made by my father in oilpaints...

[Crux]

http://www.lib-art.com/imgpainting/0/6/9960-bacchus-with-nymphs-and-cupid-caesar-van-everdingen.jpg
http://www.johnmariani.com/archive/2005/050918/bacchus.jpg

[vp01]

http://cs16.vkontakte.ru/u448999/728472/x_7ce0d0d7f6.jpg
http://cs1214.vkontakte.ru/u448999/16035383/x_64d457be.jpg
http://cs11.vkontakte.ru/u255490/2835523/x_2b5f1ae019.jpg]
http://cs167.vkontakte.ru/u1252394/2835523/x_d4873d1c.jpg

[Karl]

B. Notke's "Danse Macabre"

http://static1.album.ee/files/792/65/orig_19816473_woan.jpg

[Crux]

B. Notke's "Danse Macabre"

http://static1.album.ee/files/792/65/orig_19816473_woan.jpg

In a chrurch in Hrastovlje, there is a 7m long fresco depicting the danse macabre, it's quite nice and has a great message. Just thought I might as well post it.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Danse_macabre_hrastovlje.JPG

[Daos]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Rise_up%2C_Hungarian!.jpg
János Thorma - Rise up, Hungarian!

Mind you, I don't like this one for it's Hungarian Nationalist message (that would be against my interests), but because the action takes place in my town, not far from my house! :D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Nicolae_Grigorescu_005.jpg
Nicolae Grigorescu - Țărancă din Muscel

All right, enough Nationalism. Here are a couple of paintings I like from other countries:

http://www.artrenewal.org/artwork/098/98/14829/lament_for_icarus-huge.jpg
Herbert James Draper - Lament for Icarus

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Polesye.jpg
Иван Иванович Шишкин - Полесье

[ironman]

http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n449/ruffusruffcut/Caravaggio.jpg
Boy Bitten by a Lizard ((Italian) Ragazzo morso da un ramarro) is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. It exists in two versions, both believed to be authentic, one in the Fondazione Roberto Longhi in Florence, the other in the National Gallery, London. Both are thought to date from the period 1594-1596, but given that it has all the signs of the early works painted in the household of Caravaggio's sophisticated patron Cardinal Francesco Del Monte, and that Caravaggio didn't enter the Cardinal's Palazzo Madama until some time in 1595, the later end of this period seems more likely. The differences between the two versions are infinitesimal.[1]

The painting shows a boy starting back in pain and shock as his finger is unexpectedly nipped by a small lizard hidden in some fruit. The boy's face is a study in emotions, the fruit and a nearby vase of flowers form acutely observed still life studies. The image shows Caravaggio's trademark chiaroscuro and physical realism - the boy has the usual dirty fingernails. The painting also contains complex sexual symbolism, which would have been quite clear to educated audiences in Caravaggio's day: The bared shoulder and the rose behind the boy's ear indicate excessive vanity and a wish to be seen and admired, the cherries symbolize sexual lust, the third finger had the same meaning in the seventeenth century as it does today, and the lizard was a metaphor for the penis. The boy becomes aware, with a shock, of the pains of physical love.

As with all of Caravaggio's early output, much remains conjectural. The boy may be Mario Minniti, Caravaggio's companion and the model for several other paintings from the period - the bouffant dark curly hair and pursed lips look similar, but in other pictures such as Boy with a Basket of Fruit and The Fortune Teller Mario doesn't look so effeminate. The affected pose may have been the inevitable result of the experiment Caravaggio appears to have been undertaking here: observing and recording acute emotions - surprise and disgust - in a situation where real surprise was impossible and where the pose had to be held for a considerable period.

Critics of Caravaggio's insistence on painting only from life would later point out this limitation of his method: it lent itself to marvelously realistic (if theatrical) static compositions, but not to scenes involving movement and violence. It would only be in his late period, when he seems to have worked more from imagination, that Caravaggio would be able to completely overcome this problem. Nevertheless, Boy Bitten by a Lizard is an important work in the artist's early oeuvre precisely because it shows a way out from the airless stillness of very early works such as Boy Peeling a Fruit and Sick Bacchus, and even the implied violence but actual stasis of pieces such as Cardsharps.

[Fortis in Arduis]

At last year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Donald Hamilton Fraser RA wiped the floor, as far as I was concerned:

http://images.worldgallery.co.uk/i/prints/rw/lg/7/0/Donald-Hamilton-Fraser-RA-Church-in-the-Pyrenees-70032.jpg

http://www.artmarine.co.uk/catalogueimg/oji544axwkdnhb45jqqddy4504102007140452.jpg

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_16_513072_donaldhamilton-fraser.jpg

http://www.whittingtonfineart.com/images//limgdhf001.jpg

[Huzzar]

Victor Vasnetsov - Battle of Slavs and Scythians

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa29/powerup927/scyth-2.jpg

[Liffrea]

Few more:

William Blake:

Nebukadnezar:
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll54/Liffrea66/williamblake_wideweb__430x305.jpg

Demiurge Urizen:
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll54/Liffrea66/Sconfitta_William_Blake.jpg

I think this one is called pity.....
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll54/Liffrea66/william_blake_house_shop_postcard.jpg

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

A Soul Brought to Heaven:
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll54/Liffrea66/adolph-w-bouguereau.jpg

Edmund Blair Leighton

Tristan and Isolde:
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll54/Liffrea66/blair91.jpg

Henry Fuseli

Silence:
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll54/Liffrea66/fuseli_lg_silence.jpg

[Lars]

I bought an oil replica a few weeks ago of this painting by Franz von Stuck.


Lucifer
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_21BpPGHWEiw/SkU3-qNw02I/AAAAAAAAArM/60MWxt3mN5w/S1600-R/bm35-Stuck_Franz_von_Lucifer.JPG

[Loddfafner]

At the Picasso exhibit in Philadelphia, they included some "mediocre" "conservative" paintings for context. One in particular caught my eye: Lasarte, "The Hunters," 1931. This site (http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2010/02/) refers to


such forgettable also-rans as Joaquín Valverde Lasarte, whose "The Hunters" (below) was, according to Taylor, "seen as shockingly modern [when it was shown at the 1932 Venice Biennale], not retardataire, as it seems today."

According to the museum (http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/354.html?page=2),


The painting of his fellow countryman Joaquín Valverde Lasarte is thus more typical of the return-to-order movement, as seen in The Hunters of 1931, which caused a sensation when it was first shown at the 1932 Venice Biennale.

[Don]

Goya. Dark period.
Shocking and horrific perception of the human nature. Those faces...
[Don`t look too much time some of the faces, for your own sanity]

Dark/ancient cults, La Inquisición and the Mads.
http://sombrasdelsol.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/goya_aquelarre.jpg
http://enlacaradelcerro.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/aquelarre_goya.jpg
http://www.univ-montp3.fr/boeglin/cours/arts/images/goya_f_scn_inq.jpg
http://miboina.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/corral_de_locos1-revista.jpg

[Óttar]

Titian - Venus Anadyomene
Dominique Ingres - Venus Anadyomene

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/t/titian/titian_venus_anadyomene.jpg
http://homepages.tesco.net/ian.cox99/Ingres%20-%20Venus%20Anadyomene%20(1848).jpg

^ Carpe diem, cherubs! :D

[Dalriada]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Sir_John_Everett_Millais._A_Huguenot%2C_on_St._Bar tholomew%27s_Day_Refusing_to_Shield_Himself_from_D anger_by_Wearing_the_Roman_Catholic_Badge..jpg/389px-Sir_John_Everett_Millais._A_Huguenot%2C_on_St._Bar tholomew%27s_Day_Refusing_to_Shield_Himself_from_D anger_by_Wearing_the_Roman_Catholic_Badge..jpg

A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge by Sir John Everett Millais

[Tabiti]

Nicholas Roerich:
http://iamyouasheisme.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/roerich.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/1/17/20080514060009!Nicholas_Roerich,_Guests_from_Overs eas.jpg
http://www.frankperry.co.uk/images/Chintamani.__1936.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/a/ae/20081028225051!Nicholas_Roerich_008.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Nicholas_Roerich_004.jpg

[Liffrea]

Ossian Conjuring up the Spirits on the Banks of the River Lora with the Sound of his Harp-François Pascal Simon Gérard
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll54/Liffrea66/3ossian.jpg

Ossian is the narrator, and supposed author, of a cycle of poems which the Scottish poet James Macpherson claimed to have translated from ancient sources in the Scots Gaelic. He is based on Oisín, son of Finn or Fionn mac Cumhaill, a character from Irish mythology. The furore over the authenticity of the poems continued into the 20th century.

[Tony]

This is a painting I not only like aesthetically but also for its meaning , it shows the western values , freedom , honesty in trade , respect of the law , industriousity , ingenuity.

I still can read and get what the painter had read above left in the second painting.

The results of good government in the city

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Ambrogio_Lorenzetti_Allegory_of_Good_Govt.jpg

The results of good government in the countryside

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Ambrogio_Lorenzetti_011.jpg


Ambrogio Lorenzetti (or Ambruogio Laurati; c. 1290 – June 9, 1348) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active between approximately 1317 to 1348. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti.

His work shows the influence of Simone Martini, although more naturalistic.[citation needed] The earliest dated work of the Sienese painter is a Madonna and Child (1319, Museo Diocesano, San Casciano). His presence was documented in Florence up until 1321. He would return there after spending a number of years in Siena.[1]

The frescoes on the walls of the Room of the Nine (Sala dei Nove) or Room of Peace (Sala della Pace) in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena are one of the masterworks of early renaissance secular painting. The "nine" was the oligarchal assembly of guild and monetary interests that governed the republic. Three walls are painted with frescoes consisting of a large assembly of allegorical figures of virtues in the Allegory of Good Government [1]. In the other two facing panels, Ambrogio weaves panoramic visions of Effects of Good Government on Town and Country, and Allegory of Bad Government and its Effects on Town and Country (also called "Ill-governed Town and Country"). The better preserved "well-governed town and country" is an unrivaled pictorial encyclopedia of incidents in a peaceful medieval "borgo" and countryside.



The allegory of the Good and Bad Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti is a large cycle of frescos that were painted from 1337 to 1339. They are located in the Sala dei Nove, in Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico

The Good and Bad Government is the first, and only secular-themed painting that existed in its time period. The political party in power in Siena wanted the artist to depict an allegory of ‘bad government’ (assassinations, sacking, violence, poverty, famine and so forth), and one of ‘good government’ (prosperous cities, cultivated lands, well-being, wealth, joy and so forth).

The overall meaning of the painting is clear: if the city is administered in a ‘good’ way, then the whole city will benefit from the public administration in power. The artwork is divided into four sections: the Allegory of Bad Government, represented by an evil man with horns dressed in black (like the Devil) who is surrounded by allegorical figures representing Cruelty, Discord, War, Fraud, Anger and Tyranny; the Effects of Bad Government on Town and Country in which the lands are uncultivated and the people are suffering from violence and thefts; the Allegory of Good Government, represented by an old, wise monarch who sits on a throne and is surrounded by allegorical figures like Justice, Temperance, Prudence, Strength, Peace, as well as the theological virtues of Charity, Faith and Hope; and finally, the Effects of Good Government on Town and Country in which the city of Siena is depicted as rich, prosperous, serene and tranquil. This is the first painting in which the landscape plays a central role in art; only in the 1600s does landscape painting in Italy enter fully and autonomously into the visual arts.

[la bombe]

Rembrandt - The Philosopher in Meditation

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Rembrandt_-_The_Philosopher_in_Meditation.jpg

[Blue Cheer]

Brueghel, must be seen in person to believe
Repin, Cossacks ( don't know full name) but look at the virtuosity in the paint handling, and incredible detail

[Autobahn]

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Hands_of_God_and_Adam.jpg

http://blog.beliefnet.com/feilerfaster/God2-Sistine_Chapel.png

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/The_Creation_of_the_Sun_and_the_Moon%2C_Michelange lo_%281508-1512%29.jpg

More:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_Sistine_Chapel_ceiling

[Eldritch]

Going to an Escher exhibition next week (he thought of himself more as a craftsman than an artist, but anyway). :)

http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/back-bmp/LW359C.jpg

http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/back-bmp/LW389.jpg

http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/switz-bmp/LW310.jpg

http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW445.jpg

[Loddfafner]

Why aren't these great works of art on display in world-class museums?

[Loddfafner]

Another favorite, a true masterpiece:

[Autobahn]

http://www.safran-arts.com/art/picture-Richard-Nixon.jpg

http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/President_Theodore_Roosevelt.jpg

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/73580/1/President-Grover-Cleveland.jpg

http://www.historicalamericana.com/images/uploaded/7211_b-20090801141536_1.JPG

[Karl]

I really like the paintings by Richard Sööt(1903-2002), he fled Estonia in 1944 because of the advancing Russian hordes, but he kept Estonia alive in his mind and his paintings.

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/098/t2_linda_linnuga_80x64_oli_15000.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/099/t2_linda_nooruses_80x62_oli_15000.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/011/t2_naine_linnuga_80x62_oli_13000.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/087/t2_ornament_linda_87_oli_80x62_13000.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/092/t2_rahva_pidu_83_oli_71x86_20000.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/056/t2_sotta_kutse_84_oli_62x80__14000.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/080/t2_voitlus_sarvikuga_78_80x64_oli_16000.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/011/t2_img_0520x.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/095/t2_img_0518x.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/010/t2_img_0522x.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/070/t2_img_0527x.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/018/t2_img_0546_jaanituli.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/001/t2_img_0563x.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/064/t2_img_0577x.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/035/t2_img_0590x.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/040/t2_img_0594x.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/036/t2_img_0620x.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/010/t2_img_0630x.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/049/t2_img_0651x.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/012/t2_img_0661x.jpg

http://www.e-kunstisalong.ee/images/Vene_karu_RICHARD_ST_7m.jpg

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/096/t2_ahelaid_purustamas_79_80x64_oli_15000.jpg

Some of his work can be found here (http://www.richardsoot.com/tood_labi_aegade).

[Sally]

The Light of the World, William Holman Hunt

http://i45.tinypic.com/scgdgp.jpg

Christ and the Two Marys, William Holman Hunt.

http://i49.tinypic.com/sggz21.jpg

May Morning on Magdalen Tower, William Holman Hunt.

http://i49.tinypic.com/2no8wy.jpg

[Chris]

Ivan Albright. His work was morbid and beautiful. He spent years on many of his works. I think he was a medical illustrator early in life.

http://americangallery.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/hail-to-the-pure.jpg
http://redtreetimes.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/ivan-albright-the-picture-of-dorian-gray.jpg

[Liffrea]

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll54/Liffrea66/prometheusbound.jpg

Prometheus Bound by Dirck Van Baburen

[Bloodeagle]

Salvador Dalí’s painting The Sacrament of the Last Supper has to be one of my favorite paintings.

http://amarkonmywall.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/in520dali-ls.jpg

[Sally]

Dante and Beatrice, Henry Holiday.

http://i46.tinypic.com/2jg3u6w.jpg

[Autobahn]

http://www.theartwolf.com/services/wallpapers/botticelli_1024-768.jpg

http://www.theartwolf.com/services/wallpapers/botticelli_1024-768.jpg

[lei.talk]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Orion_aveugle_cherchant_le_soleil.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants)

[Autobahn]

http://www.topofart.com/images/artists/da_Vinci_Leonardo/paintings/leonardo001.jpg

http://www.topofart.com/images/artists/da_Vinci_Leonardo/paintings/leonardo001.jpg

http://www.topartprint.com/artists/da_Vinci_Leonardo/art_prints_posters/1007/The_Annunciation.php

[Laudanum]

Dutch stuff! :D
http://www.marina-aarts.com/images/hendrick-avercamp-01.jpg
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/avercamp/winter-landscape-vienna.jpg
http://www.kunsthandelbies.nl/images/paintings/a_koekkoek_bc_f003.jpg

[Autobahn]

http://www.topartprint.com/images/artists/da_Vinci_Leonardo/paintings/leonardo003.jpg

http://www.topartprint.com/images/artists/da_Vinci_Leonardo/paintings/leonardo003.jpg

http://www.topartprint.com/artists/da_Vinci_Leonardo/art_prints_posters/1009/Lady_with_an_Ermine_(Cecilia_Gallarani).php

[Bloodeagle]

H.R. Giger’s “Birth Machine”
http://gandt.blogs.brynmawr.edu/files/2009/01/hr_giger_birthmachine.jpg

[Tyrrhenoi]

http://broccoliworks.com/guiseppe_arcimboldo.water.jpg

The sea

http://www.easypedia.gr/el/images/shared/e/e5/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo_-_Winter,_1573.jpg

Winter

http://www.abcgallery.com/A/arcimboldo/arcimboldo6.JPG

Fire and war

[Autobahn]

http://www.topartprint.com/images/artists/Alessandro_Filippepi_Botticelli/paintings/botticelli002.jpg

http://www.topartprint.com/images/artists/Alessandro_Filippepi_Botticelli/paintings/botticelli002.jpg

http://www.topartprint.com/artists/Alessandro_Filippepi_Botticelli/art_prints_posters/159/Primavera.php

[Osweo]

I really like the paintings by Richard Sööt(1903-2002), he fled Estonia in 1944 because of the advancing Russian hordes, but he kept Estonia alive in his mind and his paintings.
Some nice stuff there. :thumbs up

http://www.richardsoot.com/static/files/092/t2_rahva_pidu_83_oli_71x86_20000.jpg

But are you sure this one isn't by Roerich/Рерих? :confused:

Compare;
http://de.ifmo.ru/--books/0048/images/im2_1_41.jpg
http://www.rsoc.ru/docs/archive/images/20080410102022Xp.jpg
http://www.rsoc.ru/docs/archive/images/20080410101855ER.jpg
http://bessmerten.ru/shambala_rerih.jpg
http://www.icr.su/upload/900_zamorskie_gosti.jpg

[Cato]

Random art grabs!

Ancient of Days (William Burke)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Blake_ancient_of_days.jpg

Not sure who the artist is or what it's called, but it's Cicero denouncing Catiline.

http://slatin2.cwrl.utexas.edu/~taylor/Cicero_Denounces_Catiline.jpg

Dunno if this is a painting or not, but it's Darth Revan by some random artist.

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/12455/389368-s640x480.jpeg

A Battletech painting! From the golden age of tabletop wargames, a Clan Wolf Hagetaka in the foreground and a Kurita Hatamotochi in the background.

http://www.classicbattletech.com/images/gallery/Reinforcements_Cover@800x600.jpg

The cover of the original Rogue Trader!

http://www.johnsibbick.com/images/fantasy-im/war.jpg

Guan Yun Chang getting the bone in his upper arm scraped free of poison by doctor Hua Tuo after he was shot with a poisoned arrow. The story goes that the valiant general was shot with an arrow in battle (with Wei or Wu, I can't remember which faction), refused any sort of anesthesia (except wine, I beliieve), and sat, chatting with his soldiers and playing chess with one arm while the doctor scrapped the poison off of the bone itself on the other arm.

http://voyage.typepad.com/lfc_images/Guan_Yu.jpg

[Autobahn]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/The_Persistence_of_Memory.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Persistence_of_Memory.jpg

[The Lawspeaker]

I am more and more beginning to like Canaletto.

1746:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Canaletto_Westminster_Bridge_1746.jpg
Westminster Bridge from the north on Lord Mayor's Day

1747:

http://www.wga.hu/art/c/canalett/7/canal706.jpg
London: The Thames and the City of London from Richmond House


The terraces in the foreground belong to Richmond House and, at the left, Montagu House. The figures on them parade, converse, and in a leisurely manner watch the spectacle of the river in the sunshine. While a number of smaller boats skull about on it, two larger decorated barges belonging to the City of London, make their way upstream.

1752:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Northumberland_House_by_Canaletto_(1752).JPG

The Strand front of Northumberland House as painted by Canaletto in 1752. The lion is the emblem of the Percy family.

[The Lawspeaker]

1752:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/GreenwichHospitalCanaletto1752.jpg
Greenwich Hospital in England by Canaletto, 1752.

[Karl]

Some nice stuff there. :thumbs up

But are you sure this one isn't by Roerich/Рерих? :confused:

Compare;
http://de.ifmo.ru/--books/0048/images/im2_1_41.jpg
http://www.rsoc.ru/docs/archive/images/20080410102022Xp.jpg
http://www.rsoc.ru/docs/archive/images/20080410101855ER.jpg
http://bessmerten.ru/shambala_rerih.jpg
http://www.icr.su/upload/900_zamorskie_gosti.jpg

That painting is done by Richard Sööt.

[Autobahn]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Hieronymus_Bosch002.JPG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hieronymus_Bosch002.JPG

[Murphy]

Guan Yun Chang getting the bone in his upper arm scraped free of poison by doctor Hua Tuo after he was shot with a poisoned arrow. The story goes that the valiant general was shot with an arrow in battle (with Wei or Wu, I can't remember which faction), refused any sort of anesthesia (except wine, I beliieve), and sat, chatting with his soldiers and playing chess with one arm while the doctor scrapped the poison off of the bone itself on the other arm.

http://voyage.typepad.com/lfc_images/Guan_Yu.jpg

I had to return to just say that the game he is playing is Go not Chess :D;)!

[Furlan]

Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich

http://www.sexualfables.com/images/Caspar_David_Friedrich_Wanderer.jpg

[Cato]

I had to return to just say that the game he is playing is Go not Chess :D;)!

Nitpicker. :wink

[Autobahn]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/De_Chirico's_Love_Song.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/The_Red_Tower.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism

[Detfri]

Italy and Germany:

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/miss--midnight/italia1.jpg



Venus' birth

http://www.storiadellarte.com/en/biografie/botticelli/immbott/nascitavenere.jpg

[Eldritch]

Guan Yun Chang getting the bone in his upper arm scraped free of poison by doctor Hua Tuo after he was shot with a poisoned arrow. The story goes that the valiant general was shot with an arrow in battle (with Wei or Wu, I can't remember which faction), refused any sort of anesthesia (except wine, I beliieve), and sat, chatting with his soldiers and playing chess with one arm while the doctor scrapped the poison off of the bone itself on the other arm.

http://voyage.typepad.com/lfc_images/Guan_Yu.jpg

Well the idea was that he would get so engrossed in the Go game that he would not notice the pain of the arrow being removed.

[Any Go beginner comes across this image sooner or later ;)]

[Autobahn]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Picasso_three_musicians_moma_2006.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Picasso_three_musicians_moma_2006.jpg

[Óttar]

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/Kalidasa/spanking-cupid.jpg
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/Kalidasa/maria_de_castigo.jpg

[Autobahn]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/68/Picasso_Portrait_of_Daniel-Henry_Kahnweiler_1910.jpg/440px-Picasso_Portrait_of_Daniel-Henry_Kahnweiler_1910.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

[esaima]

http://www.topart168.com/pic/Reproduction_painting/Germany/Friedrich,%20Caspar%20David%201774%20-%201840/Chalk%20Cliffs%20on%20R%C3%BCgen.jpg

Caspar David Friedrich Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (1818).

[Lars]

My favorite painting is without a doubt Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer by Caspar David Friedrich, but J.F. Willumsen's Badende børn på Skagen strand is also a favorite of mine. They look so healthy and innocent, as if the world could only bring joy.


http://www.skagensmuseum.dk/uploads/pics/483_10.jpg

[Autobahn]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Rembrandt_Christ_In_The_Storm_On_The_Sea_Of_Galile e.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt

[Crossbow]

A painting by Petrus Christus (15th Century):

[Autobahn]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Rembrandt_Abduction_of_Europa.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt

[esaima]

Old Man in Sorrow by Van Gogh
http://gertiecranker.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/vincent-van-gogh-final-paintings-1.jpg

Potato eaters by Van Gogh
http://www.samcooks.com/graphics/vegetables/van%20gogh.png

[Autobahn]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/SelbstPortrait_VG2.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Gogh

[esaima]

I like rugged faces by Van Gogh

Portrait of Dr. Gachet
http://www.blavish.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/portrait%20of%20dr%20gachet.jpg

Portrait of Madame Trabuc
http://www.vincentvangoghart.net/gogh.mme-trabuc.jpg

[Autobahn]

http://www.thomaskinkade.com/newzoom?FIF=/zoom/bambi.tif&jtl=3,14
Bambi's First Year

http://www.thomaskinkade.com/htmlroot/tk/images/catalog/product/cinwis_f0.jpg
Cinderella Wishes Upon A Dream
http://www.thomaskinkade.com/htmlroot/tk/images/catalog/product/tinpet_f0.jpg
Peter Pan & Tinkerbell
http://www.thomaskinkade.com/htmlroot/tk/images/catalog/product/pinwis_f0.jpg
Pinocchio Wishes Upon A Star

http://www.thomaskinkade.com/htmlroot/tk/images/catalog/product/snowhi_f0.jpg
Snow White Discovers the Cottage

http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/servlet/com.asucon.ebiz.catalog.web.tk.CatalogServlet?cata logAction=Product&productId=205771&menuNdx=0

[Crossbow]

William Bouguereau , French painter (1825-1905) The Birth of Venus.



http://www.imagedump.nl/img146/325/84birthofvenus1879bywil.th.jpg (http://www.imagedump.nl/img146/325/84birthofvenus1879bywil.jpg)

[Autobahn]

http://www.thomaskinkade.com/htmlroot/tk/images/catalog/product/strliv_12x16_f1.jpg

http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/servlet/com.asucon.ebiz.catalog.web.tk.CatalogServlet?cata logAction=Product&productId=204260&menuNdx=0

[lei.talk]

http://i26.tinypic.com/2edwhs0.jpg (http://nordic-idea.ru/)
Boris (http://galleries.tvalx.com/Russia/BorisOlshansky1/russian_artist_boris_olshansky.htm) Olshanskij (http://www.surya.ds8.ru/index.php?option=com_phocagallery&view=category&id=9%3Aboris-olshanskij&Itemid=64&limitstart=40&lang=)

[Bloodeagle]

Kissing, Alex Grey
http://sololobueno.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/alexgrey4.jpg

[Autobahn]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/441898038_cdac815792.jpg

http://princessbenelux.wordpress.com/

[Liffrea]

For those who like Tolkien:

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll54/Liffrea66/Felagund.jpg

This is Finrod Felagund singing to the first men encountered by the Elves. I'm intrigued by the alien aloofness the artist has managed to capture on Finrod's face. Tolkien worked this theme of "deity" teaching men in his version of the Scef myth.

[Wodans-Krijger]

By Mårten Eskil Winge - Tors strid med jätterna
http://www.bertsgeschiedenissite.nl/middeleeuwen/eeuw7/goden_1.jpg

[nisse]

White pine, by A.J. Casson, one of my favourite Group of Seven artists.

http://poseidonsmuse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/casson.jpg

[Wodans-Krijger]

Jan Breugel - Wedding

http://www.pivnica.net/ieNews/admin/RTE/my_documents/my_pictures/Breugel_-_wedding.jpg

For the christians out there, i think you'd all like the paintings of the Flemish primitives.

[Autobahn]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/The_Nightwatch_by_Rembrandt.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Nightwatch_by_Rembrandt.jpg

[Bloodeagle]

Tornado Over Kansas, John Steuart Curry
http://echostains.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/tornado-over-kansas-by-john-steuart-curry.jpg

[Autobahn]

http://virtualdali.com/assets/paintings/45Eye.jpg

http://virtualdali.com/45Eye.html

http://virtualdali.com/

[antonio]

This is my all time most impressive ever:

http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjungman/projects/Sitz-ElGreco/Entierro%20del%20Conde%20de%20Orgaz.jpg

Ps. Withoum aim of bashing others, one of the pictures Id disliked more is the body-internals kiss. Im just discovering it but I could not help from express my subjective opinion. :embarrassed

[Autobahn]

http://virtualdali.com/assets/paintings/22StillLifeFish.jpg

http://virtualdali.com/

[Wodans-Krijger]

This is my all time most impressive ever:

http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjungman/projects/Sitz-ElGreco/Entierro%20del%20Conde%20de%20Orgaz.jpg

Ps. Withoum aim of bashing others, one of the pictures Id disliked more is the body-internals kiss. Im just discovering it but I could not help from express my subjective opinion. :embarrassed

If you think that is impressive, look at this.
It is called the 'lam gods', which means the lamb of god, made by Van Eyck.

http://www.inekehagen.nl/uploads/images/vaneyck_lamgods_grt.jpg

I saw you're a catholic so i thought you might like this painting.

[Autobahn]

http://virtualdali.com/assets/paintings/43AllegoryOfAnAmericanChr.jpg

http://virtualdali.com/assets/paintings/47BattleOverADandelion.jpg

http://virtualdali.com/assets/paintings/41RuinWithHeadOfMedusa.jpg

http://virtualdali.com/assets/paintings/45BrokenBridge.jpg

http://virtualdali.com/

[antonio]

Previous one was The Burial of the Count of Orgaz...concurrently with his Soul being catched by Holly Trinity into Heavens.

And this is "la Maja Desnuda", maybe alltime its fierce competitor:

http://sexnoetikos.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/the-nude-maja-la-maja-desnuda-francisco-de-goya-y-lucientes.jpg

Pd. I'm talking about when Im 10-12 y.o....nowadays, unfortunatelly, Im hardly moved by Arts.

[Autobahn]

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs210.snc4/38823_141891185837419_100000496148121_368453_36272 16_n.jpg

http://www.allposters.com/-sp/The-Old-Guitarist-c-1903-Posters_i328787_.htm?aid=576251

[lei.talk]

http://i53.tinypic.com/143ov0l.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Frazetta)

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/076/a/9/Phantom_Warrior_by_NavJAG.jpg (http://frankfrazetta.org/viewimage.php?loc=frazetta01.jpg)


http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/media_vault/images/1261493812.jpg (http://frankfrazetta.org/viewimage.php?loc=frank_frazetta_deathdealerII.jpg )


http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/media_vault/images/1261493855.jpg (http://frankfrazetta.org/viewimage.php?loc=frank_frazetta_deathdealerIV.jpg )

http://i56.tinypic.com/s9oh.png (http://www.bowendesigns.com/)
http://www.forthoodsentinel.com/fhs_logo.gif (http://www.forthoodsentinel.com/story.php?id=1911)

[San Galgano]

Arcimboldo:


http://futura.unito.it/files/2010/03/arcimboldo-1.jpg

[Cato]

A bit from the Sistine Chapel, God giving life to the first man according the the Christian mythology. By Michelangelo.

http://www.infiniteunknown.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Michelangelo-Sistine-Chapel-Adam-.jpg

[The Ripper]

I'm a fan of the Finnish national romantic period and its paintings. Gallén-Kallela is one of my favourites.

This one is awe-inspiring when seen live:

http://www.ateneum.fi/kalevalataidettakouluille/images/aino/ainotaru-iso.jpg

Aino triptych

And another version with nice frames ;)

http://yle.fi/ecepic/archive/00373/22_Aino_triptyykki_373107b.jpg

http://annushka.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/gallen-kallela_the_defence_of_the_sampo.png

Defense of the Sampo

http://koti.mbnet.fi/pexxik/pu/images/sammon_taonta.jpg

Sammon taonta, forging of the sampo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Gallen-Kallela_Joukahainen%27s_revenge.jpg

Joukahainen's revenge

http://www.karttakaaro.fi/images/talo0.jpg

Building

http://www.arttailor.com/images/Purren%20valitus%20157x235.jpg

:)

[SaxonCeorl]

Nerissa (1906) - John William Godward

http://www.artrenewal.org/artwork/082/82/11130/nerissa-huge.jpg

I have a poster version of this :)

[rhiannon]

Not really being a big fan of most "fine art," there are a few paintings I really like. My all time favorites are of the Pre-Raphaelite genre....and of this group, my ALL TIME favorite painting is this one:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=13013&stc=1&d=1312278634

This painting speaks to me. I feel like the Lady of Shallot is Me. There is such a strong, melancholic feeling emanating from her in this piece...

My favorite artists are all of this genre....although I also like Maxfield Parrish...and Rembrandt.

[Mordid]

I'm not a fan of art, but i found these picture quite unique.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10114675/BPL/BogowiePolscyIlustracje/01_SwietowitJessa.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10114675/BPL/BogowiePolscyIlustracje/02_MarzannaDziewanna.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10114675/BPL/BogowiePolscyIlustracje/03_LadoJarowit.jpghttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/10114675/BPL/BogowiePolscyIlustracje/03_LadoJarowit.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10114675/BPL/BogowiePolscyIlustracje/06_NyjaTrzyglow.jpg

[rhiannon]

Joukahainen's revenge

http://www.karttakaaro.fi/images/talo0.jpg



The woman in this painting could pass for my German/Irish Grandmother....the resemblance is uncanny!! The boy could have been my father as a child...same coloring and everything..

[mymy]

The Swing- Fragonard

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/resources/frag_swing.jpg

[Laudanum]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4394676079_ffec49de0b.jpg
http://www.iceskatesmuseum.com/images/sch-koekoek.1-800.jpg
http://www.galeriedickvanstraten.nl/images/schilderijen_gr/196_cornelis-kimmel_1.jpg
http://smelsslems.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/2009/12/20/koekoek_2.jpg

^ By Barend Cornelis Koekoek

http://www.ronddehaagseschool.nl/images/wijla.jpg

^ This one isn't that amazing, but it's kinda special to me because the guy who made it, Jan Cornelis Wijlacker (1869-1895), is related to me.:) He was quite well known back when he was alive. My grandparents own one of his paintings. That one is much better looking, but I couldn't find it online.

[Tony]

http://www.funderberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/morning_exercise_by_guan_zeju_992_big.jpg

[Logan]

http://www.allproducts.com/manufacture100/epichloroh/product1.jpg
http://www.oilpaintings2008.com/oilpaintingshop/Academic%20Art/Victor%20Gabriel%20Gilbert/008.jpg
http://www.lilithgallery.com/arthistory/impressionism/images/ClaudeMonet-Clifftop-Walk-at-Pourville-1882.jpg

[beeee]

Le jardin du Paradis, anonymous, 1440. very small painting
Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Francfort.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_2QY2S_czQ2k/THffkwLqQ3I/AAAAAAAAA3c/B4e0TS86hjM/LeMatreduJardindeParadisJardindupara.jpg

[beeee]

yeah !!! :icon12:


Katharina Grosse


http://dailyserving.com/wp-content/uploads/art/Katharina%20-Grosse-4-5-07.jpghttp://skelemitz.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/katharina-grosse2.jpg?w=600&h=749http://contemporaryartscenter.org/images/exhibitions/0607/KG_Lobby2.jpg

[Aces High]

If i were given the choice and could pick out one painting that i like above all others and could have i would say Les raboteurs de parquet (The Floor-Scrapers) by Gustave Caillebotte.
Great brushwork and fantastic use of light,good detail and it turns the most mundane of jobs into a work of art.


Something else i like and whenever im near Orvieto i always pop in for a sit down and look is the work by Luca Signorelli L'inferno.Very graphic and you can sit there almost alone and appreciate it as you eat your ice cream.

[The Lawspeaker]

I am beginning to discover that I have a bit of a soft spot for works of Isaac Levitan (1860-1900) Eventhough he wasn't a Russian but Jewish this painter really seemed to possess a great love for Russia and her landscapes.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Isaak_Levitan_Tihaya_obitel_%28big%29.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Levitan_nad_vech_pok28.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/LevitanI_Lilii_AST.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Isaak_Ilitsch_Lewitan_005.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Vladimirka.jpg

[Indiohammer]

I like pre-Raphaelite painters, but this is my favorite by far:
http://www.illusionsgallery.com/TRISTAN-ISOLDA-L.jpg
Tristan and Isolde

[Querubín]

I love canaletto, tintoreto, verones, monet or manet but if i have to choose. I'll choose van gogh (the best), gauguin and caravagio

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-napwxrXUiLY/TZLbhV99TII/AAAAAAAAABA/lyalBu1Pfwc/s1600/Van+Gogh1.jpg
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_siQq6XQ3Ghk/RpJdURl2kMI/AAAAAAAAE-w/gCKMP2zgIn8/Gauguin-Cat-300-100a.JPG?imgmax=640
http://alisedasanchez.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/caravaggio20muerte20de20la20virgen1.jpg

[ElWolverine]

I have many favorite paints, its hard to choose some

Well, some of my favorite paints;

http://i53.tinypic.com/ddhtg5.jpg
eL JUICIO fINAL

http://i54.tinypic.com/f9jted.jpg
las bañistas

http://i53.tinypic.com/34xgjrm.jpg
el bar de follies bergeres

http://i56.tinypic.com/2w7ibzt.jpg
mouline de la galete

[Gamera]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Suomineito.jpg

"Attack" by Edvard Isto.

[Gamera]

http://i56.tinypic.com/352hksw.jpg

Does anyone know how this one is called? I really like it.

[Rosenrot]

BOUGUEREAU :

[Nymphes and Satyr]
http://www.carlosmuller.com.br/imagens/galeria/gr/14.jpg

[Le Crab]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Le_Crab.jpg/462px-Le_Crab.jpg

MUCHA:

[Autumn:]
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wGMHgHGfGVg/TTcYVHXXH9I/AAAAAAAAAi4/KW4wGpZ4Zns/s1600/alphonse_mucha_autumn.jpg

[Dont know the name]
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EKKMGbeba_g/TbBU_6ljIQI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/M7ZfHZdSkK8/s1600/Summer+Alphonse+Mucha.jpg

RUBENS PETER PAUL:

[Leda and the Swan]
http://artmight.com/albums/2011-02-07/art-upload-2/r/Rubens-Peter-Paul/Rubens-Leda-and-the-Swan.jpg

DA VINCI:

[Adoration of the Magi]
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OJ9FjWdSfZs/TB5R9oVj4nI/AAAAAAAAALA/_b-NYwGPixE/s1600/Leonardo_da_Vinci_Adoration_of_the_Magi.jpg

[Madonna of the Rocks]
http://www.paintingall.com/images/P/Leonardo-da-Vinci-Madonna-of-the-Rocks-Virgin-of-the-Rocks-Oil-Painting.jpg

SALVADOR DA LI
[Temptation of saint anthony]
http://atuleirus.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/kuszenieswantoniego19468cp.jpg

[Dormir]

The Taking of Christ has been my favorite since I've discovered it. The rendering of light and darkness and the serene emotional feel that the painting holds in contrast to the chaos within it is beautiful to me.

[Zankapfel]

http://i56.tinypic.com/352hksw.jpg

Does anyone know how this one is called? I really like it.

That's not a painting, Gam :)

It's part of a photo series by German photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten.

I can't recall the name now though, sorry.

But I know the subjects are all girls and they're made to look like giants.

[_______]

i love mark ryden

[Pallantides]

http://i.imgur.com/Q6zEj.jpg

[Logan]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XYuUUgSM0MU/TF2OSCvKqnI/AAAAAAAAAAU/NMEmmhhRi3o/s1600/valkyrie16.jpg

http://2.fimagenes.com/i/3/5/3/am_131456_2535177_798521.jpg

http://www.il-tempio.net/albums/Miti-e-Personaggi/The_Valkyrie.jpg

[Saturni]

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb42/Robert7779/sin-L.jpg

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb42/Robert7779/StrongholdofTibet1932.jpg

[Incal]

Le Brenn et sa part de butin

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Paul_Jamin_-_Le_Brenn_et_sa_part_de_butin_1893.jpg

[Sally]

It's not a painting, but I have always liked Goya's The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799).


http://i52.tinypic.com/e0q5qv.jpg

[Incal]

The blowing up of the Turkish flagship by Kanaris

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/KonstantinosKanaris.jpg

[microrobert]

http://inero.unblog.fr/files/2007/09/f0000m780703b.jpg

[microrobert]

http://www.niceflatinrome.com/images/Gerome_Gladiators.jpg

http://www.thearttribune.com/IMG/jpg/Gerome_Cesar.jpg

Jean Léon Gérôme

French painter (1824-1904)

[microrobert]

http://do-while.com/img/art/ship-and-sea/ship-and-sea01.jpg

[microrobert]

http://www.macbraveheart.co.uk/_images/art/hillhouse/shadow_warrior.jpg

[Sylvanus]

This was here, yes, I know, but: Caspar David Friedrich - The wanderer above the sea of fog

Joseph Ducreux - Self-portrait of the artist in the guise of a mockingbird
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Ducreux1.jpg

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - random pic with this model, but one of the best is this:
The Wave
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281825-1905%29_-_The_Wave_%281896%29.jpg

[microrobert]

http://mondesfrancophones.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/tous-les-matins-du-monde2.jpg

[microrobert]

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/files2010june/Thomas-Cole-The-Architects-Dream.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Karl_Wilhelm_Diefenbach_-_Il_Tramonto.jpg

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach - Il Tramonto

http://www.centrostudilaruna.it/immagini/helgoland.jpg

Paul Smalian - Helgoland

[microrobert]

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/greekroman/images/EvelynDeMorgan-Flora-1894.jpg

Evelyn De Morgan - Flora

[microrobert]

http://static.picassomio.com/images/art/pm-34582-large.jpg

John WATERHOUSE - A Walk Through The Park

[microrobert]

http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/art/d/1731-2/Amaury_Duval_La_Naissance_de_Venus.jpg

Amaury Duval la naissance de Vénus

[microrobert]

http://www.reprodart.com/kunst/koch_max/2-m121-t1-1905.jpg

"Donar-Thor".-Schulwandbild. Farbdruck nach Gemälde von Max Koch (1859-1930).

[microrobert]

http://www.vincentlecuyer.com/peintures/Henri-Paul-Motte.jpg

Henri Paul MOTTE
(Paris, 1846 – Paris, 1922)
Le cheval de Troie, 1874

[microrobert]

http://vividkultur.ch/wp/wp-content/images/thomas_cole.jpg

Thomas Cole The Titan's Goblet

[microrobert]

http://www.lib-art.com/imgpainting/5/2/10325-wreck-in-the-moonlight-caspar-david-friedrich.jpg

Caspar David Friedrich Wreck in the moonlight

[microrobert]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Homer_u%C4%8Di_Dantea_Shakespearea_i_Goethea_pjeva ti.JPG

Bela Čikoš Sesija Homer teachs Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe to sing

[microrobert]

http://nseuropa.org/Photos/Paintings_files/image008.jpg

Karl Diebitsch Mother

[microrobert]

http://www.galleria.thule-italia.com/Arte/petersen/Pet2.jpg

Wilhelm Petersen Der Heerrufer

http://www.galleria.thule-italia.com/Arte/petersen/pet9.jpg

Wilhelm Petersen Bronzezeitlicher Krieger

http://www.galleria.thule-italia.com/Arte/petersen/petersen_2.jpg

[microrobert]

Karl Mahr


http://www.galleria.thule-italia.com/Arte/Mahr/mahr4.jpg

http://www.galleria.thule-italia.com/Arte/Mahr/mahr3.jpg

http://www.galleria.thule-italia.com/Arte/Mahr/mahr5.jpg

[microrobert]

http://austria-lexikon.at/attach/AEIOU/Dachstein/Bilder_Dachstein/1/Dachstein3.jpg

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Ansicht des Dachsteins mit dem Hallstättersee bei Ischl

http://www.allartclassic.com/img/Rudolf_von_Alt_ALR006.jpg

Rudolf von Alt Der Almsee

[microrobert]

http://www.histoire-image.org/photo/zoom/sum45_gerard_01f.jpg

François GERARD Le courage guerrier ou le courage Gaulois

[microrobert]

http://ewigeseuropa.canalblog.com/Arisches_familie.jpg

Wolgang Willrich Familienbildnis

http://top-antropos.com/images/6/Wolfgang-Willrich/Wolfgang%20Willrich%20%2817%29.jpg


http://top-antropos.com/images/6/Wolfgang-Willrich/Wolfgang%20Willrich%20%282%29.jpg

[microrobert]

http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/c/3/75/727/75727641_large_August_Malmstromjpg1.jpg

August Malmström "Elf Play", (1866)

[microrobert]

http://www.bilder-geschichte.de/imgsg/winge-orvar-odd.jpg

Mårten Eskil Winge Der Abschied von Orvar Odd nach der Schlacht von Samsö (1866)

http://media.artfinder.com/works/r/bal/2/9/7/126792_full_488x719.jpg

Marten Eskil Winge Thor's Fight with the Giants, 1872

[microrobert]

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8951/robertoiidenormandaluch.jpg


J.J. Dassy Robert de Normandie at the Siege of Antioch 1097-1098

[microrobert]

WILLIAM TURNER


http://www.historia-sztuki.com.pl/images/Turner-01.jpg

Fishermen at Sea

http://www.historia-sztuki.com.pl/images/Turner-02.jpg

The Shipwreck

http://www.all-art.org/neoclasscism/turner/6.jpg

The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons

[microrobert]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2413/2972410754_15bf752a51_o.jpg

Carlos de Haes Los Picos de Europa


http://www.intaglio-fine-art.com/images/trc241.jpg

Joseph Farquharson Where Winter Holds its Sway



http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/2/11093.jpg

Frederic Edwin Church The Icebergs

[microrobert]

John Constable


http://lycees.ac-rouen.fr/fecamp/site2/IMG/jpg/CONSTABLE_STONEHENGE_1836.jpg

Stonehenge


http://www.bestpriceart.com/shop-online/images/vault/constab6.jpg

Old Sarum

[microrobert]

http://kevinalfredstrom.com/art/d/3017-2/John+Everett+Millais+-+Martyr+of+the+Solway+_1871_.jpg

John Everett Millais Martyr of the Solway (1871)

[microrobert]

http://www.scanopia.com/dante-gabriel-rossetti/lady-lilith.jpg

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Lady Lilith

[microrobert]

http://i017.radikal.ru/1003/7d/bcdf59f3b2f6.jpg

Wilhelm Petersen Tyr mit dem Fenriswolf

[microrobert]

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee358/ludovicusp/dk/004.jpg

Heinrich Berran Bergheuer

[microrobert]

http://cf.juggle-images.com/fit/white/600x600/wg-kunsthaus-zurich-7.jpg

Johann Heinrich Wüest Der Rhonegletscher

[microrobert]

http://therawyou.com/yahoo_site_admin1/assets/images/Blair_Leighton_The_Accolade.36232525_std.jpg

Edmund Blair Leighton The Accolade

[Magister Eckhart]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CNREPdvq7Cc/TH5XQ4wwqDI/AAAAAAAAA5g/dRMwqvOXnSw/s1600/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB+-+Caspar+David+Friedrich+-+The+Abbey+in+the+Oakwood.jpg

Caspar David Friedrich, The Abbey in the Oakwood, 1810

http://schools.nashua.edu/myclass/lavalleev/Art%20History%20Pictures/ch23/23-08.jpg

Albrecht Dürer, A Knight, Death, and the Devil, 1513

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Franz_von_Stuck_-_Die_S%C3%BCnde_1893.jpg

Franz von Stuck, Sin, 1893

http://uploads7.wikipaintings.org/images/gustav-klimt/minerva-or-pallas-athena.jpg

Gustav Klimt, Pallas Athena, 1898

http://www.regnumnovum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/St.-Mary-Magdalene-the-Repentant-M-M-by-Georges-de-La-Tour-2.jpg

Georges de La Tour, The Repentant Magdalene, c. 1640s

http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/paintings/images/waterhouse_circe_invidiosa.jpg

John William Waterhouse, Circe Invidiosa, 1892

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/VanGoghIrises2.jpg

Vincent Van Gogh, Irises, 1889

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/George_Inness_003.jpg

George Inness, The Lackawanna Valley, 1855

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg

Jacques Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QdldXbGQw4w/TQ_OYaNAfLI/AAAAAAAAABI/o9ajXD694G8/s1600/BoschTheLastJudgementTriptych.jpg

Hieronymus Bosch, The Last Judgement, early 1500s.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Sir_Thomas_More%2C_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg

Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Thomas More, 1526

[microrobert]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uEXvaLEVsJ8/TRthJPctKQI/AAAAAAAAE9U/jE5IktGJq8k/s1600/carl-larsson%2BBrita%2Ben%2BIdun%2B1.jpg

Carl Larsson Brita as Iduna
http://www.hangingpalette.com/v/vspfiles/templates/115/images/clear1x1.gif

[microrobert]

http://www.opencaching.de/images/uploads/DA245F0E-FD7E-102B-A255-00163E42ED98.jpg

Lukas Cranach the Elder Adam und Eva

[microrobert]

http://www.dididou.fr/coloriage/culture/peinture/de-vinci5.jpg

Leonardo da Vinci Portrait of a Lady with An Ermine

[microrobert]

http://storage.canalblog.com/37/60/119589/67646031.jpg

Sandro Botticelli Profile Portrait of a Young Lady

[microrobert]

Edwin Henry Landseer



http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/foto/b/3/apps/0/751/751306_37.jpg


The Monarch Of The Glen



http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/foto/b/3/apps/0/751/751388_44.jpg

Saved

[microrobert]

http://iamachild.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/girl-in-kitchen.jpg


Wilhelm Hempfing Mädchen mit Küchenstilleben

http://static3.akpool.de/images/cards/32/322870.jpg

Richard Heymann In sicherer Hut

[Magister Eckhart]

http://storage.canalblog.com/37/60/119589/67646031.jpg

Sandro Botticelli Profile Portrait of a Young Lady

That reminds me of another of my favourite Dürers:

http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/DurerYoungVenWoman.jpg
Portrait of a Young Venetian Lady, 1505

[microrobert]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Eugene_von_Blaas_-_Portrait_Of_A_Young_Lady.jpg

Eugene von Blaas A Portrait Of A Young Lady

[microrobert]

http://www.fineartlib.info/plugins/p17_image_gallery/images/md/7/2011.jpg

Ernst Carl Eugen Koerner The Acropolis Athens

[microrobert]

http://iamachild.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/small_master-of-all-he-surveys.jpg

Joseph Freiherr von Molitor Muhlfeld Master of All He Surveys

[microrobert]

http://static3.akpool.de/images/cards/26/263268.jpg

Edward H. Compton Hintersee mit Göllspiegelung

[microrobert]

http://www.revilo-oliver.com/Kevin-Strom-personal/Art/Kiefer_Michael_Mathias_NordischesMeer.jpg

Michael Mathias Kiefer Nordisches Meer

[microrobert]

http://www.terminartors.com/files/artworks/9/7/0/9707/La_Tour_Georges_de-The_Dice_Players_perhaps_workshop_of_La_tour_.jpg

Georges De La Tour 'The Dice Players'

[microrobert]

http://www.artcyclopedia.org/art/adriaen-van-ostade-oaks.jpg

Adriaen van Ostade Landscape with Two Oaks




http://membres.lycos.fr/manchicourt/Velde/Velde_Adriaen_Philadelphia_Winter_scene.jpg

Adriaen van de Velde Winter Scene

[Incal]

José y la mujer de Putifar by Antonio María Esquivel

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Jos%C3%A9_y_la_mujer_de_putifar_de_Antonio_Mar%C3% ADa_Esquivel.JPG

[microrobert]

http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic/Andrew%20Wyeth/big/Master%20Bedroom.jpg

Andrew Wyeth Master Bedroom

[microrobert]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fdF5cLyPamw/SYn19xd6asI/AAAAAAAANuU/Hmo_wE6ovUc/s640/19triump+of+pan+nicolas+poussin.jpg

Nicolas Poussin The Triumph of Pan

[microrobert]

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lroaw5quNI1qixsklo1_500.jpg

Evelyn De Morgan Helen of Troy

[microrobert]

http://www.copistes.com/fichiers/0021798001303247482.jpg

Ernest Meissonier Friedland 1807

[microrobert]

http://mattiee.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/donne169.jpg

George Henry Boughton A Spring Idyll

[microrobert]

John Ottis ADAMS


http://www.ricci-art.net/img006/550.jpg

Iridescence Of A Shallow Stream


http://www.china-oilpainting-art.com/yisujia/Adams%20John%20Ottis/big/Adams%20John%20Ottis%20009.jpg

Sycamores On The Whitewater

[microrobert]

http://americangallery.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/small_the-badlands-arizona.jpg?w=795&h=673

Carl Oscar BORG The Badlands, Arizona

[Veneda]

Jacek Malczewski - Death of Ellenai, 1883. Oil on canvas 212 x 370 cm.
The National Museum in Cracow

http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Malczewski_J/Images/Smierc_Ellenai_I.jpg

[Veneda]

Jacek Malczewski - Fatherland (from the triptych Law, Fatherland, Art), 1903.
Oil on board. 69.5 x 98 cm. The National Museum in Wroclaw

http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Malczewski_J/Images/Ojczyzna.jpg

[Incal]

Tommaso Laureti - Trionfo della religione Cristiana

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l58s8kBiZM1qzb3a1o1_r1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKe yId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1320582828&Signature=UTm4DyiwEhqvIHKeuMmtBlc3M6k%3D

[Veneda]

Theodore Axentowicz - Pretty lady, c. 1910. Pastel on paper, 63 x 47.5 cm, private collection


http://artyzm.com/obrazy/axentowicz-cudna.jpg

[Drawing-live]

I have a big wooded frame of the scream painting by munch in my apartment
I had it for manu years, the only painting i made an afford to put in a good frame.
The rest i like nature in general. Also i do love the night sky by vangough. I had a frame of that also but lost it somwhere from moving places so many times over the years.

[microrobert]

http://www.sinoorigin.com/images/classical-figure-painting/large/A%20Young%20Girl%20Holding%20a%20Basket%20of%20Gra pes.jpg

Elizabeth J. Gardner BOUGUEREAU A Young Girl Holding A Basket Of Grapes

[microrobert]

http://2.fimagenes.com/i/4/4/80/am_149171_2213513_759334.jpg

John Godward An Offering To Venus

[Body And Soul]

Der Triumph Des Todes, by german painter Otto Dix :love:

[microrobert]

http://americangallery.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/new-snow-at-sunrise.jpg?w=600&h=764

George Douglas Brewerton New Snow At Sunrise

[microrobert]

http://images.artnet.com/WebServices/picture.aspx?date=20100612&catalog=194569&gallery=425280802&lot=01969&filetype=2

Curt Liebich Schwarzwaldhaus im Schnee

[microrobert]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DxPiZDmkuHU/TM6xF-EtzGI/AAAAAAAAEDw/ah1DRwgGe1k/s1600/D3.jpg

Jean Leon Gerome Duel After a Masquerade Ball

[microrobert]

William Henry Chandler

http://americangallery.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/stone-bridge-crossing-hudson-river.jpg?w=716&h=312

Stone Bridge Crossing Hudson River

http://americangallery.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/seascape.jpg?w=716&h=314

Seascape

[microrobert]

Frederic Edwin Church


http://www.fineartfile.idv.tw/faf/fafimg/C_/C146.jpg

Niagara Falls


http://gregcookland.com/journal/uploaded_images/picChurchIceberg-762752.jpeg

The Iceberg

[Veneda]

Wojciech Kossak – Injured cuirassier and girl. 1908. Oil on canvas. 95 x 136 cm. The Museum of Fine Arts, Lodz.

http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Kossak_W/Images/Ranny_kirasjer.jpg

[microrobert]

http://www.imagiva.com/martin-john/the-bard.jpg

John Martin The Bard

[Tony]

Le chalet du cycle au Bois de Boulogne by Jean Bèraud

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bnc4hX4-5ME/TUoopRH_dxI/AAAAAAAAABU/7IEdTxHYW3w/s1600/BEJ007_L.jpg

[microrobert]

http://www.allartclassic.com/img/Hamilton_HHH001.jpg

Hamilton Hamilton Headwaters Of The Rio Grande

[microrobert]

James Hamilton

http://americangallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/old-ironsides.jpg?w=471&h=600

Old Ironsides

http://americangallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/burning-oil-well-at-night-near-rousville-pennsylvania.jpg?w=473&h=637

Burning Oil Well At Night, Near Rousville, Pennsylvania

http://americangallery.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/small_bayou-in-moonlight.jpg?w=478&h=485

Bayou In Moonlight

[SaxonCeorl]

Priestess of Delphi - John Collier

http://www.wildintegrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/1-The-Honorable-John-Collier-Priestess-of-Delphi-18911.jpg

[microrobert]

Gregory Frank Harris

http://americangallery.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/small_a-golden-harvest.jpg?w=632&h=375

A Golden Harvest

http://americangallery.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/a-peaceful-time.jpg?w=550&h=750

A Peaceful Time

[Kataphraktoi]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Marie_Antoinette_Young4.jpg

Marie Antoinette, painted in 1771 by Joseph Krantzinger. This was her mother's favourite painting and she kept it in her private study; I think she looks very charming and pretty in her horse-riding outfit and with her eyes painted wide and doe-like. Vive la Reine!

[Body And Soul]

I love this dreamy atmosphere

[Body And Soul]

I like more avant-garde art, than traditional one...

[Tony]

Avante-garde?so you may like Beardsley.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q9emOXxLOxk/TSCHn_BnDRI/AAAAAAAAAlE/iUjG8ORU8j0/s1600/salome_aubrey_beardsley.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wcQqAuTWa-4/R98fSiw66vI/AAAAAAAAAno/brr5iPJn-Ts/s400/Beardsley+Isolde.jpg

[Body And Soul]

Avante-garde?so you may like Beardsley.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q9emOXxLOxk/TSCHn_BnDRI/AAAAAAAAAlE/iUjG8ORU8j0/s1600/salome_aubrey_beardsley.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wcQqAuTWa-4/R98fSiw66vI/AAAAAAAAAno/brr5iPJn-Ts/s400/Beardsley+Isolde.jpg

Interesting painting. Anyway, my fav artistic tendency is Expressionism and "Neue Sachlichkeit", especially Otto Dix, Gerg Grosz and Munch.

[Magister Eckhart]

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/symbolism/images/FranzVonStuck-Crucifixion-II-1892.jpg
Franz von Stuck - Crucifixion II, 1892

http://caycegoldberg.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/franzvonstucklucifer.jpg
Franz von Stuck - Lucifer, 1890

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/symbolism/images/FranzVonStuck-The-Wild-Hunt-1899.jpg
Franz von Stuck - The Wild Hunt, 1899

I always found the contrast of Stuck's vision of innocence with sensuality and Sin - it is rather typical of the symbolists with their reputation as pederasts, but I still find it incredibly interesting, and view his two pieces Innocence and Sensuality as companion pieces:

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/symbolism/images/FranzVonStuck-Innocence-1889.jpg
Innocence - 1889

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7wB2gcr8lA/S-mRP9JSzwI/AAAAAAAAH0Q/vh4WlIIA8sI/s1600/Sensuality+Franz+von+Stuck.jpg
Sensuality - 1891

There is a less... explicit version of the above that he painted in 1896 or 1897.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7wB2gcr8lA/S-mebO0KVfI/AAAAAAAAH1g/FPjLyNiP1xs/s1600/sensuality+eve+and+the+snake+1891.jpg
Eve and the Snake - c. 1896

Anyway, I've really quite fallen in love with Stuck's work over the last few weeks. He is certainly becoming my favourite expressionist painter, and is joining Waterhouse, Van Gogh, and El Greco as one of my favourite artists.

[Kataphraktoi]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/The_Madonna_in_Sorrow.jpg

The Madonna in Sorrow by Il Sassoferrato.

[SaxonCeorl]

http://www.oceansbridge.com/paintings/museums/new-hermitage/Reynolds_Joshua-ZZZ-Cupid_Untying_the_Zone_of_Venus.jpg

Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus - Joshua Reynolds

[microrobert]

http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/art/d/3260-1/Jean-Baptiste+Greuze_+l_oiseau+mort_+Mus_e+du+Louvre.jp g

Jean-Baptiste Greuze L'oiseau mort

[Body And Soul]

Otto Dix, "Prager Strasse", 1920. http://www.ottodix.org/pix/catalog/gallery/1920-PragerStrasse-sm.jpg

[Amarantine]

http://www.artgalerija.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=27487&g2_serialNumber=1

http://www.pravoslavna-srbija.com/Srbstvo/slike/KrunisanjeCaraDusana.jpg

UROS PREDIC

[Amarantine]

http://zoricap.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/mone.jpg

CLAUDE MONET

[billErobreren]

some of mine, malt av Christian Krohg:D

Albertine at the police doctor's waiting room
http://cache2.artprintimages.com/lrg/13/1349/TIAS000Z.jpg
The Sick Girl
http://www.artunframed.com/images/artmis19/krohg99.jpg

[Body And Soul]

I love it very much:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/munch/munch.karl-johan.jpg

[Ushtari]

Now i understand why your parents gave you dat name

[Supreme American]

Anything from Norman Rockwell, white Americana at its best. With the racial browning of the USA, his prints are increasingly scarce. It makes me yearn for days long gone.

[Arrow Cross]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Aboukir.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Francois-Louis-Joseph_Watteau_001.jpg