Art History

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La Pieta - Michelangelo

He sculpted this as a teenager. No one believed him so he snuck into the Vatican one night and carved his name on the sash on Mary's chest. When he got older he said he regretted it.

>>3261762
>>3261758

That is actually really interesting.

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Susanna and the Elders - Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia was known for not romanticizing scenes from the bible. The picture on the right is an xray of the final painting. This was her original vision for the piece.

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best portrait ever

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Judith Beheading Holofernes - Artemisia Gentileschi and Caravaggio

Another example of the realism of Artemisia's paintings. The left is Caravaggio's rendition of the same scene.

>>3261807

Didn´t she gave her rapist´s face to Holofernes?

>>3261827
Yep. Judith is a self portrait of herself.

>>3261762
Love this piece, I've heard that story as well. In person it's just as beautiful, but when I was there it was hard to get close enough to see where the inscription was. Also, at one point in the last few decades a madman came in and started hacking away at it with an axe. Now there's a barrier.

I always liked most the detail of the cloth, his ability to make stone look soft always impressed me.

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Obligatory Ilya Repin's "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan" on November 16th, 1581 (1885).

This piece was always very emotional for me, especially the expression on Ivan's face.

Ivan the terrible was known as a mad tsar, he wasn't called "the terrible" for nothing. Some say the dude was actually clinically insane and was well known to be prone to violent outbursts. One night, after an argument with his most loved son and heir (for good reason on the son's part, Ivan had recently caused a miscarriage of his wife by beating her while she was pregnant), in a fit of rage he struck him in the head with his scepter, which he immediately regretted but which ultimately would cause his death.

Of course the less liked son would eventually inherit the throne, and after that one died leaving no heirs, Russia entered the time of troubles where 1/3rd of the population died in famine (~2 million people).

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My favorite sculpture by Bernini

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>>3261758
Incredible painting, quite possibly the most metal piece of artwork before the 20th century.

>>3262039
Always hits me right in the feels.

>>3261775
Wow, powerful.

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The Swing by Fragonard
>You will never be a nobleman that commissions the highest quality ecchi

>>3263090
I love the aesthetic of Rococo.

Madame de Pompadour - Francois Boucher

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>>3263090
whoops forgot image

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>>3261758
>>3261807
Caravaggio is just on another level. The very Baroque deep light-dark contrast is fucking amazing.

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war cripples by Otto Dix. Was destroyed by the nazis.

>>3263802
Revolting painting. Though I can't justify the same conclusion, I see why they reached it.

>>3261762

Pretty sure he was in his twenties not a teenager

>>3263961
>Revolting painting.
kinda the point lad

>>3261973
Im so jealous. There are so many beautiful pieces in the Vatican I have to see before I die.

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I really like this painting. I'm an art pleb, but I'm a sucker for Apocalyptic scenes like this and >>3262205

>>3263961
>a picture about the horrors of war is revolting
imagine

>>3264047
A trip to the Vatican is always worth it, it's the most beautiful place I've ever seen with my own eyes.

>>3264084

The Fall of the Damned - Peter Paul Rubens

Archangel Michael throwing the bodies of the damned into hell. Not really apocalyptic but has the same feeling.

Sadly someone threw acid on this piece back in the 50's and destroyed it.

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>>3264084
>>3266191
Forgot the picture again lol

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>>3261758
I saw this one in Madrid, it's Saturn eating his child

Fransisco Goya is pretty good

>>3265274
Did you ever go into the catacombs? A friend of mine has been to the Vatican a few times and I guess if you e-mail them a few months in advance you can get a tour of it.

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>>3261758
very pretty

unpopular opinion: picaso is overrated and probably a fraud

anything jheronimus bosch related is good too
i remember seeing this really big painting with christians and jesus (i think) looking over this city at night with the palace being golden and glowing

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>>3266259
oops file

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Jean-Leon Gerome's Diogenes.
I like this piece really because it really captures the "simple living" aspect of the Cynics and I'm a sucker for paintings of philosophers.

>>3266232
Agreed. If he actually had a style that was abstract, yet skillful like Goya or Dali. Most of his paintings are things people could draw easily 90% of the time. His earliest work is his best for the most part.

>>3266385
Cynics don't live simply; they live against social norms. If it were fashionable to live like a hobo cynics would strive to live as extravagantly as possible.

>>3261762
the vatican didn't even exist back then as it does today. rome belonged to the pope. plus he did it on commission by a french cardinal

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>>3266385
>abstract, yet skillful like Goya or Dali.
Neither Goya nor Dali made abstract art.
>Most of his paintings are things people could draw easily 90% of the time.
Having been drawing as an amateur for quite some time, I have to say that I'd kill to be able to draw like Picasso. Pic related. I could never do something so elegant, effortless but effective.
>His earliest work is his best for the most part.
His earliest work is very boring, but I guess that looking realistic is all that a piece of art has to be...

>>3263090
Why is she holding her fingers like that

>>3261775
Artemisia Gentileschi... had a hard life.

>>3263802
Awfuly Jewish and ugly. Good ridance

>>3266768
Masonic signalling

>>3266232
I'm not a huge fan of Picaso myself. I feel like most things after impressionism isn't great.

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Sorry I kind of had an orientalist phase going on last year but this is a close up of Light of the Harem by Frederic Leighton. I really appreciate the angles. I can post the full version too. just give me a sec.

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>>3261775
>>3261807
Okay, I don't want to get into touchy subjects, but was she, like, raped raped or Medieval raped?
Because what it sounds like is that she was suckered into having sex in exchange for a promised marriage that the guy reneged on

>>3267884
You mean antiquity?
With abduction/ elopement because it was without the father's permission?

>>3267910
Yeah, because her rapist was a tenant of her father's, and he and Artemisia apparently had, as far as I can tell, a mutual relationship after the first sexual encounter, until he failed to marry her. Upon which, her father charged him with breech of promise or rape.
I'm not trying to say she wasn't raped, but I'm just wondering if it was rape as we'd know it

>>3267928
If we look in terms of those laws in that day, yes she would still be "raped" but if we compared it to our laws (where rape is lack of consent from a participant regardless of marriage arrangements or what his/her father says) then no. Still we don't know exactly what went down between them, and we never will so it's hard to say.

>>3266196

That picture should be upside down.

>>3267937
I'm just wondering, because it sounds like a similar story to Rembrandt's mistress, Geertje Dircx, who is never referred to as being raped. Different countries, but the breech of promise bit is similar

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>>3266880
perhaps this is better for you
Otto Dix - The Trench

>>3266232
desu I like pre-modernism stuff as much as the next guy but I always enjoyed what came after impressionism much more. Hard to compare though since it's like comparing Mozart to Stravinsky

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>>3263521
>>3261807
Speaking of Caravaggio, this is his first attempt at St. Matthew's inspiration from an angel. It was dismissed for presenting the saint as too crude and unwise. It was destroyed in an allied bombing

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>>3267975
And here is number two.

Also, the original was destroyed by a fire, not a bombing

>>3267982
I've been searching for the name of this painting for awhile. Thanks anon.

It's a shame how much art is destroyed by wars and people wanting to erase history.

>>3267997
>It's a shame how much art is destroyed by wars and people wanting to erase history.
>>3264084 is painted on the wall of a cathedral that was converted into an "atheism museum" by the Soviet Union. As far as I know it wasn't damaged, but considering what the Bolsheviks did to Orthodox worship, it's a spooky thought what could have happened to it

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This is your brain on Classicism

>>3268053
>but that's wrong you fucking idiot

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>>3268054
Sorry, wrong picture. This is your brain on Classicism*
>>3268053
This is your brain on Hellenisticism

*This is a snip, go to Wikipedia for >4MB goodness

>>3268063
I wasn't calling you an idiot, that's just the face the guy is making
>if this nigga don't shut the fuck up

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This is a fresco by a pre high renaissance artist named Andrea del Castagno. There are several interesting notes about this Fresco including some that will affect Leonardo's depiction of it in the future, like how Judas sits on the opposite side of the table from the other disciples, a common motif per Leonardo.

What I like best about this, however, is how the artist uses this scene to show off his prowess as a painter, which is also common in renaissance works and art in general. Note the elaborate reproductions of different marbles behind the scene, and how the swirling, tempestuous pattern surrounds the point of highest drama.

Del Castagno is most famous, however, for being the subject of a morality tale by Vasari. In his Lives, Vasari uses del Castagno to show how ambition can lead to deadly jealousy among artists in the highly competitive Renaissance Florence.

In the tale, the wicked, and inferior, Castagno murders Domenico Veneziano, a superior artist, out of jealousy. However, history vindicates Andrea, as he died some four years earlier than Domenico, and was thusly incapable of murdering anyone.

What is the style of marble sculpting called in which the artist sculpts a see-through cloth over the body?

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>>3268104
Wet drapery

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I find it fascinating how Renaissance masters took up carving statues to be presented blank. It makes sense, since they dug up blank statues from antiquity, whose paint had worn off.
What I'd like to know is if they would have realized that those statues were originally painted or not? You might want to instinctively say no, but then you remember that polychrome statues survived antiquity through the middle ages. They even continued after the renaissance, though Marbles were rarely painted, polychromy being mainly restricted to wood sculpture. So one may have been able to deduce that these ancient statues were originally painted as well. Another hint towards this is the compensatory measure taken by the renaissance artists when carving for blank marbles. This measure is the sculpting of pupils. The ancient statues had no carved pupils, as they were painted, but renaissance marbles had sculpted pupils.

>>3262039
What have I done?

What have I become?

The eyes give the picture true pathos.

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>>3262173
Love the story in general. I love the Aeneid Here's a roman fresco of Aeneas being healed

>>3266768
The hand is probably returning from having loosened her shoe so the guy will pick it up. Gives him an excuse to put it on her later.

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Gwen John was a welsh artist, sister of the more famous, during their lifetimes, Augustus John, a famous philanderer.
Gwen has a lovely, unique style that abounds with a sublime sensibility.
Gwen was also a crazy person who spent some time living in an abandoned residence, and also had a fling with Auguste Rodin, after which she grew so crazily obsessed with him, that he was forced to avoid her.

It seems Rodin was drawn to crazy bitches

>>3268107
Thabks. Time to fap.

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detail from Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel

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>>3268436
Here, have a very yellowed whole

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Hubrecht van Eyck is a sad case. He was the brother of the much more famous Jan van Eyck, the man, falsely, credited with inventing European oil painting, despite it having been around in Europe since the 12th century, at least, who has at times been attributed some of the best passages in het Lam Gods and at others, claimed to be none existent.

Today, we recognize Hubrecht as non-fictitious, though non represented. We have no idea what he painted, when, or for whom, with the exception of het Lam Gods, the Ghent Altarpiece in Saint Bavo's, with the possibility of the three Marys at the Tomb, which is usually attributed to Jan, despite. It is generally agreed that Hubrecht came up with the general design and layout of the Ghent Altarpiece, though it is unknown if he managed to lay out his composition on panel, or if his work was purely speculative. Some have claimed that the underdrawing of the Ghent Altarpiece shows Hubrecht's work, ie round windows, where gothic ones replace them in the final, but this remains uncertain. Speculative dendrochronology claims that the panels themselves are too young to be by Hubrecht.

It may be deduced that Hubrecht was possibly a clergyman in addition to painter, and his works may have been nearly entirely composed of large devotionals, as the Ghent Altarpiece was the only work of Jan van Eyck to be of such a type, i.e. a large polyptych meant for public devotion. Jan, being primarily a portraitist/maker of private devotionals, diptychs and the like. This means that Hubrecht's work may have been largely destroyed by the Beeldenstorm, the Protestant iconoclasm of Dutch Church art. Hubrecht represents something important to the history and research of the Dutch Renaissance, he along with Robert Campin show that Jan van Eyck was not a sudden flash of unprecedented brilliance, but part of a line of ever advancing artistic technique developing in the north. Maybe one day, we'll know him as Jan did, as, "maior quo nemo repertus."

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It looks like I've misremembered: the initial pass of the Angel Annunciate panel shows a Gothic style sculpture surrounding the scence, like something that would enclose a Miniature scene in a manuscript. It was replaced by a more naturalistic setting, that of a domestic roof. This was the change people claim Jan made to Hubrecht, though, it's also just as likely that Jan made the initial pass and changed his own work.
>>3268711
Take a closer look at Jan and Hubrecht's magnum opus in ever possible detail here:

http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/#home/sub=teaser

>>3268154
terracotta was done in polychrome as well.

>>3268092
Before reading your comments, I initially thought that Judas was Jesus and only the 12 disciples were the ones wearing the halos. I was actually surprised how can something so apocyphal could exist in that time.

>>3265251
A better artist could make it revolting without making it revolting to look at.

>>3270855
Oh, yes, my sir, our exquisite sensibilities should not be offended by such vile "art"!

>>3270949
Let's start making music that's just uncomfortable high pitched shrieking, food that tastes like garbage and perfume that smells like shit. Wait that's a stupid idea? No you don't get it you silly brainlet it's awful on PURPOSE so that makes it okay silly retard!

>>3270964
If you want to make parallels, you could compare the picture to dissonant and lo-fi music or bitter food just as well. Not everything has to be nice, pretty and sugary.
It seriously isn't a particularly revolting picture. Far, far more radical things have been done in the meantime.

>>3270999
It should not be in a thread next to quality art. There is definitely worse but it's still worth less than the materials used to make it.

>>3271010
In your opinion.

>>3271014
Wow everything is an opinion so nothing matters. I guess I'll just spam my mspaint drawings because they're good in my opinion.

>>3271023
It's an art history thread, not "pictures that don't trigger me" thread.

>>3267975
Mirin' calves. St. Mat's fucking jacked.

>>3271061
Don't post garbage and expect people not to complain.

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>>3263961
>desperately grounded in aestheticism.

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>>3266215
I've listened in a docu that Goya started to lose his mind by the time he was painting this

Pic related is a Repin painting depicting a group of cossacks writing a letter to the sultan Sultan Mehmed IV, basically asking him to gtfo
>Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!
O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil's kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck thy mother.
Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother!
So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won't even be herding pigs for the Christians. Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!
- Koshovyi otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian Host.

>>3271069
Fuck off man, and stop shitting up the thread

>>3271010
>It should not be in a thread next to quality art
You, of course, are familiar with aesthetic philosophy and art theory and can easily determine what is good and bad art objectively.

>>3271167
>>3271023

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>>3271069
do you like this better?

>>3271199
>I can't provide any arguments for objective evaluation of art so I'll post a strawman instead
Ok

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Netherlandish Proverbs is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch language proverbs and idioms.

Running themes in Bruegel's paintings are the absurdity, wickedness and foolishness of humans, and this is no exception. The painting's original title, The Blue Cloak or The Folly of the World, indicates that Bruegel's intent was not just to illustrate proverbs, but rather to catalog human folly. Many of the people depicted show the characteristic blank features that Bruegel used to portray fools.

A lot of these proverbs are still in use today in The Netherlands, Belgium and France.

>>3263802
I'd love this for wallpaper, Otto Dix WWI stuff is god tier

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>>3271229
The Tower of Babel was the subject of three paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The first, a miniature painted on ivory, was painted while Bruegel was in Rome and is now lost. The two surviving paintings, often distinguished by the prefix "Great" and "Little", are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam respectively. Both are oil paintings on wood panels.

The paintings depict the construction of the Tower of Babel, which, according to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, was built by a unified, monolingual humanity as a mark of their achievement and to prevent them from scattering: "Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'" (Genesis 11:4).

>>3270964
>I don't understand what 'expression' is

Of course not, autist.

>>3271269
My expression is farting in your mouth.

>>3271273
Your garbage opinions on art shouldn't be posted next to quality aesthetic arguments.

>>3271276
BRAAAP

>>3271279
Are you done?

>>3271284
You are in the calm before the storm.

>>3271273
>>3271213

>>3271229
I love renaissance dutch paintings. Even though the proportions of people to background gets kind of wonky I think it gives it that extra charm. It also shows how close artists were to getting back into realism after the Middle Ages of art being largely symbolic.

>>3263521
Honestly, I think Gentileschi's work is more visceral and real. Caravaggio's Judith doesn't seem to be exerting much power.

>>3270855
And any photographer would be able to equal if not surpass that effect with literally a fraction of the effort.
But a photo will never manage to repulse you like that painting does.

>>3272149
That's the point. Why do you think Judith has to slay Holofernes at night when he was sleeping?

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>>3261785

Oath of the Three Horatii by Jacques-Louis David, 1784

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>>3273129
Yeah, but it looks like she's cutting into a stick of butter. It doesn't look like she'd be able to decapitate him with that amount of force.
Plus, as a counterpoint to your statement, Caravaggio's Holofernes is clearly screaming and forcibly posed, while Judith's is very passive, and only pathetically raising his arm against the maid.

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>>3273406
If you've seen any decapitation videos you'd know that the victim under the knife would not be able to react at all to a clean decapitation. The fact that Holofernes is screaming and writhing like a madman shows exactly how little force and experience Judith had while doing it, which was the entire point of Caravaggio's painting as well as the book of Judith.

>>3267964
Damn that's fucked up, in a good way I mean. Very hellish vibes.

>>3273406
>>3274564
>>3271080
>>3267884
>>3263521
Brainlets.

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>>3274564
But Gentileschi's Judith is visibly struggling with even a non-volatile Holofernes, while Caravaggio's Judith is mildly perturbed while seemingly effortlessly slicing through his neck. Gentileschi's cut is hardly clean. In Gentileschi's painting, Judith is the one exhibiting force in her arms, while Caravaggio's Holofernes is the one with tensed muscles. Plus, Gentileschi's scene is much more gruesome, as she's killing an unaware man and the scene is realistically gory, while Caravaggio's scene is much more theatrical.
All in all, I think Gentileschi's scene captures the mood and tone better than Caravaggio's, and is a good addition to his groundwork.

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We need some Flanders in here. Here's a relatively obscure figure, at least in the mainstream. Adam de Coster, one of the Antwerp Caravaggisti, who are kind of overshadowed by the Netherlandish Caravaggisti from Utrecht

>>3266232
>posting a meme painting
>opinion is astonishingly fucking uninformed

Ah, excellent.

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Van Eyck, Arnolfini Wedding

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>>3274619
I didn't say anything about Gentileschi's painting; I think both paintings are great. Though most of what you said regarding the two is confirmation bias on your part.

>>3274619
>>3274920
Would you fucktards kindly stop shitting up this thread by chewing up the image limit by posting shitty reaction pics. It's borderline avatarfagging at this point.

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>>3274972
I've been posting, nigga. I'll post some anime while laying the critical smackdown if I so wish

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This is by Albert van Ouwater, and it is notable as it is his only surviving work that can be verified, as it is quite unique and matches perfectly Karel van Mander's description of its Spanish copy.
The scene is a raising of Lazarus, which is set in an internal, mock Jewish Temple, rather than the typically observed outdoor tomb. The reason for this change is pretty obvious, when the Dutch buried their dead, they did so in the floors of the Church, excavating them some 20 years or so after death to allow fresher corpses to take their place. The reason for doing this, is so the corpses can rot without causing a stink. This is common in places without adequate land for permanent tombs, like continental Europe and Greece.
Places like Poland or Italy would typically preserve the skeletal remains in structures like charnel houses or ossuaries, but in the Netherlands, the bones of the poor were generally destroyed.
This was the fate of Rembrandt's remains, as he died a poor man.

Albert van Ouwater is remarkable, as he is the first known Haarlem based Netherlandish painter, being a contemporary of the first great Flemish painters like van Eyck and Campin. Humourously, Karel van Mander commends Ouwater on his Landscapes, but his only known work is entirely contained inside a building. He is possibly a teacher of Geertgen tot sint Jans.

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Here's a title page from a 9th century Carolingian copy of the works of Terrence after a Roman original.

This work is significant, because it shows how an actual Roman manuscript may have looked. This copy is very good, and preserves some very Roman looking features, like the dress and the masks of the performers. The portrait of Terrence may be crude, but you can clearly see that it resembles a contemporary portrait of a Roman man in Roman dress, rather than a medieval one. It's my sincerest hope that one day we dig up a real Roman Manuscript with preserved illuminations so we can see what they looked like in full.

Read the whole thing here:
http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3868

>>3261758
>art history

my mortal enemy from university, we meet again. It was seriously the hardest nonSTEM class I've ever taken, I've never had to study so much and for so long before just to get a fucking B

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>>3275469
Now here's a 12th century Copy of the same work, most likely a copy of a copy, now in the Bodleian Library. Look at how derived it is in comparison to the older copy. Terrence now looks like a cartoon in cartoon Frankish dress, and the actors look like goblins rather than performers in masks.
This shows how Manuscripts evolved in early medieval Europe, copies of copies of Roman Originals, or ones made in Roman form.

Please don't be too critical of the art, though. They weren't made by professional artists, but rather monks.
This work can be found in its entirety on Wikimedia Commons

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>>3275496
>>3275469
Now here's a comparison of the Mask Pages from each work. Closest I can figure, these serve as a character guide.
Note that these masks look like depictions of theater masks you'd see in actual Roman works.

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>>3275516

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>>3275541
There are multiple Mask Pages in the Vatican manuscript, but only one I can find in the Bodleian copy. Anyway, here's the exact Vatican Analogue to this Bodleian page.

I'd have to say, that while the Vatican is more historically significant, it is crude. I like the aesthetics of the Bodleian much better

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>>3266215

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>>3275638
>>3275541
>>3275516
Here are some second century AD masks.

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These are interesting busts by a fellow called l'Antico for his Ancient sensibilities. His use of different patinas and metals to give vibrancy to his statues reflects what we know about actual Greek Bronzes from examples like the Riace bronzes. Very pleasing

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>>3275727
There is a certain vivacity here, clear even from the thumbnail.

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>>3275727
>>3275731
And here is a Riace bronze. Look at that lip; that's real genius.

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This is a small bronze by the ill-fated nephew of Leonardo, Pierino da Vinci. He died in his mid 20s (24?), but was said to be every bit the genius his uncle was. I have a marble by him, as well, but I don't think it remarkable enough to post. He was a gifted sculptor, though.

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I love drawings by the masters. I think it sheds way more light on them than their finished works do. I love how loose Michelangelo could get

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>>3275785
Always some funny gems from Leonardo

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Felician Rops, ladies and gentlemen

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I also really like Outsider art. Here is the work of Henry Darger. He had a hard life

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>>3275823

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Jean Colombe: excellent colorist, but cannot draw a profile to save his life. It makes identifying his work easy, though

>>3275813
is that supposed to be Jephthah's daughter, since she was also willingly sacrificed to YHWH?

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Tintoretto is my boy

>>3275840
I think it's just a generic Satanist

>>3275850
I like my idea better. It's also hotter. I want to imagine that Jesus floated over her on his cross waving his cock in her face as she wandered through the mountains bewailinf her virginity the month before she was sacrificed.

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>>3275813
...And then there's Martin van Mael

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>>3275857
That's not Jesus, it's Beelzebub

>>3275868
fine fine, as long as someone is waving a dick in Jephthah's daughter's face

>>3274715
>Netherlandish
Dutch.

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>>3275929
No

>>3275474
What was hard about it exactly?

>>3275943
Probably names and dates, although, gen ed level art history wouldn't necessarily be that intensive. It's not like you're going through 500 Andreas or Gerards or Jeans. You're basically confined to stuff like Giotto painted the Arena Chapel-Late 13th Century, or something

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How is this one still not posted? The facial expression is so fucking good

>>3275966
Best taste, Anon.

>>3275759
Post that shit

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>>3266215
The black paintings are pretty fucking disturbing

>>3267943
Alex pls

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Make way for the patron chad of France everyone

Siege of La Rochelle by Henri-Paul Motte

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Step aside plebians, nobleman coming through

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>>3276488
Dubs for a knightly gentleman

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>>3276489
You can thank me later for saving your thread, OP

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>>3276490
No need to bow to me simpletons, we shall all be equals in the Empyrean

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>>3276494

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>>3276497
Seriously though lads, r8 my taste

>>3275955
Do they teach that the renaissance started with Giotto or some later artist?

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>>3277011
wrong one

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>>3277013
contrapposto fighting stances?

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>>3277020
looks like a twink in polychrome terracotta

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>>3277022
mid 14th century Czech guy

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>>3277024
gothic sculpture

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>>3277028
Classical revival in early medieval byzantine art?

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>>3277033
dank as fuck car

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>>3277036

>>3261775
>>3261807
>posting female art


My redditometer is sky rocketing

>>3277048
What a coincidence, so is my virgin detector.

>>3277054
You know I expected the exact same answer, I get laid with alt right qties

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>>3277009
I don't think anyone calls Giotto a truly renaissance artist; he's almost always called Late Gothic with Renaissance sensibilities. I don't know if there's a truly first Renaissance artist, honestly, because basic Art History, the only AH class I've taken at a uni level, skips straight from Giotto to Masaccio, which is 100 years. It's strange, because nobody takes Statue into consideration when starting the renaissance, but there were some pretty big Renaissance themes going on with people like Arnolfo di Cambio and the Pisano family before him.

Wikipedia's list of Old Masters starts off the Early Renaissance with Uccello, which is probably too late. If I had to pick the "first" renaissance artist, it'd probably be Cennino Cennini, who wrote one of the first painting manuals, and who was an earlier painter in the direct line of the school of Giotto, learning from Agnolo Gaddi, the son of Giotto's best known student, Taddeo.

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>>3276356
Ok

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>>3277306
>>3275759
And for extra fun, here's a sculpture attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, the scatterbrain himself. It's a beeswax bozzetto, or preliminary model, which was intended to be cast, but presumably never was.
>>3277033
That's Carolingian, bruv

>>3276498
>Seriously though lads, r8 my taste
Entry level as fuck. Not to say there's anything wrong with entry level art but a Renaissance rendition of ancient Greece/Greek philosophers is about as plebian as you can get outside of naturalism.

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>>3276498
Overrated.

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>>3277359
>>3276498
This is Raphael's mural masterpiece in my view
>tfw having to go back and save a smaller file to get under 4MB

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Damned peasants, the lot of you

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>>3277916

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>>3277917

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>>3277921

>>3275943
it was super liberal and so virtuslly none of the class was about european art. It was literally all indian and muslim and shit like that, like pure propaganda class. So i would have to memorize not just dates bit the entire story of a painting and everything it represents despite it being a foreign culture.

Our test was 30 pieces of foreign art, and we have to regurgitate an essay's worth of information for each fucking one. This out of a total pool of like 60 that could have been there. The fact that it was all foreign made it EXTREMELY difficult to remember things.

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>>3277929
r8 these faggots

>>3276438
I have this as a wallpaper and could never find the name of the piece. Thanks anon. I love the colors in this. It makes the reds stand out even more.

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>>3278087

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Triumph of the Immaculate - Paolo de Matteis

Great example of the Baroque style. It was meant to look theatrical and express drama and Matteis does a wonderful job doing just that in his works.

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Late 18 century Warsaw. This painting is just super comfy to look at and spot the little details.

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this was made in 16th century and in my opinon it looks postimpressionism or even expressionist

>>3262039
Is there a more reddit painting?

>>3278117
That's because people cribbed his style.

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>>3278260

>>3267964
Hey I like this one, I love you

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>>3278269

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I always like an unfinished painting. Let's you see the process.
>>3278338
>Digital
>Historical painting

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>>3278372
ok but i already deleted it

>>3275966
I like the rocks

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Justinian and his Priests - Bascilica of San Vitale

My favorite mosaic

Feel free to post architecture too. I feel like that falls under art history.

>>3278129
its a good painting don't be a faggot

>>3278409
Hey mark, can you give me source for the deleted one as well as this?

>>3279951
>justinian and his cuckold crew

>>3277013
I've seen that tapestry live. Really beautiful.
It really signals the power of the Portuguese Crown, in my opinion.

>>3262039
This site has truly ruined this painting

>>3268159
i hope your memeing

>>3274803
Only patrician in this entire thread

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>>3261758

All you cucks posting classical paintings should neck themselves. It only proves how much you don't know about art if you think some kitsch 19th century is the greatest thing ever

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>>3261807

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>>3262039

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>>3282461
wow. rude.

>>3282485
>>3282489
>>3282493
Imagine an animated film in the style of these classical paintings, jesus chirst

>>3282463
>>3282460
>>3282468
>>3282485
Damn these are nice.

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>>3282461
This is the first /his/ art thread I've seen that ISN'T 19th century shit. I honestly don't understand why you are complaining.
Here's a comic by Picasso.

>>3282876
Holy shit he fucking sucks lmao

>>3271090
>4chan int .jpg

>>3278129
The one of the guy in hell biting another guy's neck, or the last Gustave Dore plate from Paradise Lost
Praised by Reddit and used as album covers by countless shitty metal bands

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This thread is kind of a shitshow, from babby's Intro Art History to pandering pop-art to the Bosch-tier shitposting.

I'll dump a few although I doubt anyone will care.

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Hugo Simberg Kuoleman puutarha, 1896.

>>3283392
Hugo Simberg

Halla 1895

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>>3283403

Someone post the "Four Seasons" series. The ones with the seasonal fruits arranged into faces.

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I'll finish off my dump (mostly from the Philadelphia Museum of Art) with this guy.

The picture doesn't do it justice, but jun pottery is breath-taking in person. There are many Chinese pottery pieces that would be impressive even today, it's hard to imagine them making it before the industrial age and modern tools. Ceramics in general are probably my favorite medium, but it's hard to translate digitally.

>>3283028
>Gustave Dore plate from Paradise Los
Which is a shame because those are so fucking cool

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>>3283442
do i have good taste in music babby?

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Name my band /his/

small /r/equest here

could anybody post the pic with two woman screaming at a man, while he holds his ears

ty