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she's very beautiful in person
love these.
Classical nudes were just high-class masturbation-fodder back in the day. Prove me wrong.
Aw yes, these threads are always great.
This piece, "Kindred Spirits" by Asher B. Durand circa 1849 is one of the most famous of the 'Hudson Valley' school of landscape painting. The style, and Durand's work especially, shows clear influences from the pastoral scenes popular in Europe at the time. The piece isn't a direct copy of any particular place, but the scenery is inspired by the landscapes of the Hudson River Valley. Hence the name.
This piece, painted in 1858, is more of a showcase of lighting than scenery, and the more muted colors and subtler details come to evoke more of a sense of tranquility than grandeur. The subject is a real place this time, close to his friend Thomas Cole's house.
Parmigianino
>Madonna dal collo lungo
Mannerism has some interesting twists
Cole was also a pretty exceptional landscape painter, and is considered the other founding member of the Hudson school. This one, painted in 1827, is pretty representative of Cole's repertoire. You can see clearly the influence on Durand, especially in the colors, but the composition of Cole's pieces are pretty different.
4/4
This, the final piece the 5 part collection "The Course of Empire" is also by Cole. Someone else posted part 4 upthread here . You may have seen them and others from the collection show up in /pol/ack infographics about cyclical history. They're not precisely taking the wrong message from it either, it was popular in artistic circles at the time to think that city life was inherently degenerating or dehumanizing and that the life of an idealized "gentleman farmer" was the highest lifestyle one could aspire to. You can see the same stylistic trends in some of the rural landscapes from further upthread like this one .
>not a single nonwesterner to be found
Sad!
Impressive, is this Meiji era?
That was commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor. It's part of a series of 12 handscrolls but I can only find one other one, "Entering Suzhou" which comes right after that one. All the others except this one are from Japan though. This one is actually the Meiji Emperor and his family.
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They still are
>plebs masturbating on low-tier porn rather than renaissance master-tier art
For me it's more mental masturbation. The paintings are stimulating sure but more in a that is quite an attractive piece - not I'm going to stick my hand in my pants and play. It is like finding that certain scent of perfume.
Titties! Wow! I love art now!
Implying any of these fuckers compares to Caravaggio.
comfy, assuming thats fog
Love me some Atkinson-Grimshaw.
This still haunts my nightmares.
Quite interesting writeup, thanks
I really like this one
You want some fucking tapestries boys
Thats modern though
That is western art too.
Definitely not, it was painted by the Chinese artist Tang Yin in 1523. Unless this is just b8 and you're about to start shitposting about how WE WUZ MANGZ N SHIET
he's good but he had wonky proportions and lacked a ranged color palette.
spotted the puritan
why so many bulshit from XIX century here?
>John William Godward
What were her parents thinking, naming her that?!
Honestly
Bugle boy looks like he's freaking out there.
great work of art for a great man
How can you say that when they never depicted *down there*?!
What is?
>mental masturbation
Only one way to rock?
What else would it be?
>Conversion
Is that what they call stealing a guy's horse after murdering him?
Looks like Puget Sound.
Kinda reminds me of the scenery from when Mr. Banks is en route to his inquiry and subsequent dismissal.
No, he falls off his horse and sees the spirit of Jesus, and is thus converted.
When the lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying "Come and see." I looked and behold, a pale horse, and Death sat atop it, and Hades was following with him. They were given authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, and with the wild beasts of the earth.
Every character in this one really has their own story, huh?
Reminds me of Barry Lyndon
fucking gauls
man, life must have been boring before television was invented