Classical Fantasty Paintings

Get in here culturefags, got an obscure request for you. I like classical paintings, but I especially like when people take modern fantasy and give it the ol' Delacroix treatment. Post Veeky Forums shit in the style of romantic painters and other artistic movements of the past

This one is "The Death of St. Peter" by Jacques-Louis David

I don't have many examples unfortunately, but here's a famous painting found in a castle in Kyoto, dated 1660 AD

"The Siege of Constantinople" artist unknown

Bumping because I like these.

This painting is probably about dark souls

Fun fact: During the time of the Siege of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1452, the population of the city was around 50,000. However, the massive Theodisian walls that the Romans had built around the city over a millenia before was built during a time when the population of the city was around 1,000,000 (give or take). So by the time the Moslems came, Constantinople was actually this massive set of walls around a huge area, far too large for the population, so they formed towns and the like within the walls, and some of these towns had their own walls. (They only had enough men to man the outer Theodisian walls during the siege, however, and barely enough for even that.)

Zbigniew Beliak is good for this stuff.

And I'm sure the Ottomans had a ridiculous number of troops, but that's really interesting that later generations built villages within walls. I would have loved to see the city in it's million days, the Byzantines are bretty cool

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This is "Market in Jaffa" by Gustav Bauernfeind

"The Meeting of the Four" by Francisco Goya, 1810

I really like this.

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Either half-plate is thicker than I thought, or this dude has some doomsday arms going on

>I'm gonna put this sword straight through that pansy shield and through your skull
>That's impossible, idiot!
>*flexes arm, plate shatters off*

Could be he's wearing a gambeson?

>You'll never be asked by King Vol to join in the wild hunt with naked Valkyries and the spirits of dead viking berserkers

>. So by the time the Moslems came, Constantinople was actually this massive set of walls around a huge area, far too large for the population, so they formed towns and the like within the walls, and some of these towns had their own walls.
That's pretty metal

I want to impregnate that Zelda, fuck!

>being this autistic
stop posting, fampai

What qualifies? You posted some obvious digipaints, do you just want really high quality landscapes?

Ottomans had an army of 50000-80000 against 7000-10000 Byzantine defenders (mostly Greeks, many Genoese and Venetian, I think. Maybe Florence? Anyways, lots of Italian mercs). This was a normal size for a European army from the fall of Rome until the 30 Year's War; Euro armies typically didn't go much higher than 20k until then. A world-class Classical Antiquity army, by comparison, was 50000+ (Many Roman/Persian/whatever examples), similar to the size the Ottomans fielded for the siege. The Fall of Constantinople also heralded in the Rennaissance because all the Christian Greek scholars, doctors, scientists, and philosophers fled Greece, and got all of their documents that they'd been sitting on for a thousand years translated into Latin and vernacular, heralding an immense revival of science and art.

Here's "Ivan the Formidable (read: Terrible) Kills His Son in a Fit of Rage", one of my absolute favourite arts of all time. The emotion captured in Ivan's face is floors me.

>Dinotopia

Mah nigga.

PORKED

I'm the constantinople historyfag and I just took a closer look at that picture, it is G A R B A G E
>trebuchets at constantinople
the moslems had CANNONS
dammit
it's 1452, get with the times

Know a guy named Alex Brock. Does incredibly lush fantasy art stuff, very frazetta esque sometimes too.

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I would love to see a modern piece of fantasy as told through Reformation-era religious propaganda. Game of Thrones with a printing press would be neat.

>Moslems had CANNONS

Um user, the people in the painting have crosses on their clothes...

We call them mudslimes here, for that is what they are.

where do i find a girl like this?

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Aw yeah, that Renessaince throwback. It's high medieval armour, yet one of them wears a Parthian helmet mixed with plate.

More like "Renaissance artist makes token effort at historical accuracy".

This looks like a part of the "Deliverence of Saint Peter" by Raphael that you can find in the Vatican Museum, the part with the Guards basically shitting themselves after as the angel leads St. Peter out of King Herods prison.

Consorting with bat demons usually.

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There's a nude version of that.

This isn't completely related if you strictly want modern fantasy in an older style, but I'm going to go ahead and post four or five Theodor Kittelsen drawings.

Kittelsen was a Norwegian neo-romantic who drew and painted a lot of historical and mythological motives around the turn of the century. So you end up with some neat, usually creepy, fantasy motives.

>The Witch, 1892

>The Sea Troll, 1887

>The Dying Mountain Troll, 1887

>The Ash Lad and the Troll, 1887(?)

>The Water Spirit, 1887

That's it.
I feel like a lot of Kittelsen's stuff would be great illustrations for some dark, folkloric fantasy. Hope I get the chance to run a game like that one day.

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sauce?

Here you go.

>tfw you're sweating blood because you don't have a very good eye for classical art and don't want to fuck up

This one is a bit more /d/ than Veeky Forums, but the principle is the same.

Im sorry user, that is definitely not Constantinople, its just some fantasy pic I thought looked classical. In my mind it was the 4th crusade not the Ottomans being Ottomans

That's incredible

I've always liked this a lot

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this looks kind of like that one tiepolo painting about the plague?

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honestly i just love this painting

I like these quite a bit, thanks user.

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slightly diff

Who fucked that child's shit up. Smh at jap barbers.

What are these from or of? Some mad Finnish power legend?

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I think it's a depiction of the mythical hyperborea but I am not too sure

Check out Wikiart if you're interested, it has a fair deal of his stuff. Primarily drawings.
In addition to his regular folkloric illustrations I'd recommend trying to find his series on the cultural personification of the Black Plague, "Pesta".

>Pesta in the stairwell, 1896

It's Russian.
Vsevolod Ivanov, I think. It's Slavic/Rus fantasy, and some of it's super weird, but very cool.

Confirming that it's Vsevolod Ivanov, a while ago there was an awesome thread about it here, titled Mythic Russia.

Is that the Femperor of Mankind?

I always liked the cherubin's expression. I mean, look at him, that smugness, i bet he made many female saints go to heaven and back

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You can actually taste the bloodlust

Is that the seal of astaroth on her robes?

>astaroth
Looks like it yes.
Dude as I remember him, loved doing little demonology references in his works. I could never recognize any of the symbols myself though. thanks for pointing it out.

What is this actually of?

No they aren't, no we don't, and for fuck's sake, keep /pol/ in /pol/, you God-damned furfag wannabe.

Wow, look at this triggered cuck.

Does baby need a safe space?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm "fursecuting" you.

is their a same sized clothed version?

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And the ARTISTIC NUDE SO NOT PORN one in the larger size.

inb4ban

>not Da Killin' of Warboss Lincoln

Damn do these suck.

I quite like them.

There is no accounting for taste. Personal taste is like that. Personal.

I didn't grab it before it 404'd, but there was a picture of just the faces and the post "the word you're looking for is 'despair'"

It's no loger personal when you share it publicly.

Sharing opinions publicly is a waste of time. With few exceptions, nobody cares about anyone else's opinion as a general rule.

That said, narcissists love to share their opinion, trolls love to see opposing opinions to shit on them, and cowards who lack convictions love to see similar opinions because it reaffirms their own.

Yet here we are in a thread about sharing our opinions publicly. What label do we get?

Never read ASoIaF or saw Game of Thrones but this art is killer. I don't know what's going on in it, but it's cool

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>Yet here we are in a thread about sharing our opinions publicly. What label do we get?

Misinformed? Seems to me this is a thread about sharing art.

Um.... I think that's from WOW