Classical Fantasty Paintings

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

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

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"The Siege of Constantinople" artist unknown

Bumping because I like these.

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This painting is probably about dark souls

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>>52260015
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.)

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Zbigniew Beliak is good for this stuff.

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>>52265094
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

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

>>52265309
I really like this.

>>52265589
Either half-plate is thicker than I thought, or this dude has some doomsday arms going on

>>52265808
>I'm gonna put this sword straight through that pansy shield and through your skull
>That's impossible, idiot!
>*flexes arm, plate shatters off*

>>52265808
Could be he's wearing a gambeson?

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

>>52265094
>. 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

>>52259852
I want to impregnate that Zelda, fuck!

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>>52266678
>being this autistic
stop posting, fampai

>>52259852
What qualifies? You posted some obvious digipaints, do you just want really high quality landscapes?

>>52265210
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.

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>>52266978
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.

>>52265270
>Dinotopia

Mah nigga.

>>52259852
PORKED

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>>52260015
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

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>>52259852
Know a guy named Alex Brock. Does incredibly lush fantasy art stuff, very frazetta esque sometimes too.

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>>52267753

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>>52259894
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.

>>52267065
>Moslems had CANNONS

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

>>52268283
We call them mudslimes here, for that is what they are.

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>>52267776
where do i find a girl like this?

>>52268968
Aw yeah, that Renessaince throwback. It's high medieval armour, yet one of them wears a Parthian helmet mixed with plate.

>>52269738
More like "Renaissance artist makes token effort at historical accuracy".

>>52268968
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.

>>52268957
Consorting with bat demons usually.

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>>52266678
There's a nude version of that.

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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

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>>52271407
>The Sea Troll, 1887

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>>52271441
>The Dying Mountain Troll, 1887

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>>52271449
>The Ash Lad and the Troll, 1887(?)

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>>52271466
>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.

>>52271364
sauce?

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>>52271692
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

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

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>>52267065
Im sorry anon, 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

>>52259894
That's incredible

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I've always liked this a lot

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>>52273970

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>>52274083
this looks kind of like that one tiepolo painting about the plague?

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>>52274101

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>>52274113
honestly i just love this painting

>>52271498
I like these quite a bit, thanks anon.

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>>52274123

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>>52274177
slightly diff

>>52274226
Who fucked that child's shit up. Smh at jap barbers.

>>52273970
>>52273997
>>52274014
What are these from or of? Some mad Finnish power legend?

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>>52274226

>>52274436
I think it's a depiction of the mythical hyperborea but I am not too sure

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>>52274144
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

>>52274436
It's Russian.
Vsevolod Ivanov, I think. It's Slavic/Rus fantasy, and some of it's super weird, but very cool.

>>52274436
Confirming that it's Vsevolod Ivanov, a while ago there was an awesome thread about it here, titled Mythic Russia.

>>52274083
Is that the Femperor of Mankind?

>>52272066

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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>>52280050

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>>52280092

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>>52280106

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>>52280129

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You can actually taste the bloodlust

>>52267776
Is that the seal of astaroth on her robes?

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>>52280403
>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.

>>52264870
What is this actually of?

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>>52268347
No they aren't, no we don't, and for fuck's sake, keep /pol/ in /pol/, you God-damned furfag wannabe.

>>52282074
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm "fursecuting" you.

>>52271729
is their a same sized clothed version?

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>>52282400

>>52282519

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

inb4ban

>>52265210
>not Da Killin' of Warboss Lincoln

>>52282519
>>52282535
Damn do these suck.

>>52282750
I quite like them.

>>52282750
There is no accounting for taste. Personal taste is like that. Personal.

>>52266995
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'"

>>52283214
It's no loger personal when you share it publicly.

>>52282750
>>52282998
>>52283403
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.

>>52283523
Yet here we are in a thread about sharing our opinions publicly. What label do we get?

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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

>>52283575
>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.

>>52259894
Um.... I think that's from WOW

>>52283740
But Art is subjective. Op requested art, so he requested opinions on art.

>>52283843
>But Art is subjective.

It's most certainly not. Anything someone creates that they claim is art, is art. You may find something lacks completely any artistic merits and sensibilities, but your refutation never overrides their original intent and declaration.

>>52283872
Which is subjective. You view it as art, I do not.
I can claim my dogs shit on the lawn is art, but that doesn't make it true. Just like you claiming it's art doesn't make it art, only that this is an example of what you view as art.

>>52283916
Unless the dog is making a claim it made art when it took a shit, that is outside the scope of the definition.

Anything someone creates that they claim is art, is art. Period.

>>52283942
Wrong. It's your opinion it's art. It's not art unless it's factually proven to be art, and how do you factually prove art is art? Finding more people that agree with your opinion than disagree.

>>52283942
What if I disagree with your obscure definition of art? That means I might not consider that dog shit art and voila, art is subjective

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>>52283872

I hate to agree with you but that is the commonly held modern view on art. It leads to awful things like this.

>>52283986
>thinks Duchamp is obscure
kek

The best Zelda art was that one about Skywind or whatever where Link watches at some dude with a huge dick fucks Zelda and she cums all over and then the guy fucks Link while he's wearing a dress

>>52281799
"Souls on the Banks of the Acheron" by Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl. Hermes on the forefront, bringing the souls of the dead to the Charon.

>>52283801
None of the titles that guy is listing are accurate

>>52265309
Cool picture. Why lie about the author and date, though?

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>>52266995

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>>52284244

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>>52283872

>>52284244
nice

>>52282074
"dae safe spaces"
<gets triggered whenever people tell him to stop being a fucking cumskin mouthbreather over the dumbest shit>

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>>52259852

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>>52266005
It looks like it.

>>52284179
Thank you kind anon.

>>52283989
I mean, by the standards of terrible art, that's not too bad. There's a recognisable shape and intention to the design at least. It's not just "look at the thing I made out of panda shit" (although it mostly is).

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Jakub Różalski made a career from drawing fantasy in a classical style.

>>52280156
>oh no my only weakness, a tree with knives!

>>52287427
There's also humour in it. People always forget that humour is in fact a part of art. Just because the experience most people have of art is one of boring school classes devoid of any humour doesn't mean that artists and art critics do not see any humour in art.

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>>52290296
>hippo cavalry
The horror! THE HORROR!

>>52284258
Thaaaaat's fucking cool as hell.

>>52283965
>It's not art unless it's factually proven to be art, and how do you factually prove art is art?
>Autism

>>52292508
I know, reading that felt like having a brain aneurysm.

PRO TIP: BECAUSE SOMETHING IS ART DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO LIKE IT OR YOU ARE STUPID FOR DISLIKING IT
you don't need to be this autistic about it.

>>52265141
Fuck it. I'm not going to touch that.

>>52278357
No that is Myrea, the Queen of Tears

>>52295426
that just looks silly, necrons aren't meant to take such poses

>>52297875
Gaze upon my shapely necrodermis thighs, mortal, and know your imperfect existence was all for naught.

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>>52259852

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>>52298336
>not posting the version where it's /x/ carrying a baby Ebola-chan

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>>52268994
I forget the name of this guy (they did a bunch for rhyme of the ancient mariner right?), but the one I'm posting seems to rif on their style.

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>>52286591
>I have this axe head but no shaft, I guess I'll just stick it on a fuckin branch

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>>52298807
>take a bunch of axe heads
>put them on shrub
>????
>axe tree

its pmuch science

>>52271498
This picture always confused me: the picture is titled "Noekken" but seems to depict what my grandpa called a "fossegrim". He distinguished the two by saying the fossegrim was essentially a little man who lived under waterfalls and played a Hardanger fiddle. He was usually harmless and might even teach you to play as well as he did. Noekken, on the other hand was more of a aqua-boogeyman with glowing eyes that would drag you into the depths unless you pat into the water and made the sign of the cross. So why would Kittelsen draw one and name it another?

I just chalk it up to regional differences.

>>52287669
>reply of the cossaks
>but with batman
What are they saying?

>>52298085
kek

>>52265141
Fuck yeah, Zbigniew's rad. Found his stuff through Ghost

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>>52298568
its by gustave dore, probably most famous for his dantes inferno.

>>52298912
The picture is called "Fossegrimen", and you're right about Noekken being a different kind of entity.
The filename is just wrong because the site I got it from had the wrong name and year, and I didn't bother renaming it.

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Haven't checked what page this is at today but I'm bumping it so that I know I have plenty of time to save all this shit to my HDD later.

Also I totally posted the image in the OP the other day for my thread asking about a good system for dark fantasy. That feel when

>>52274177

What is up with warriors and that hairstyle? It's everywhere.

>>52305592
It's a pseudo military cut in the american marines right now. My friend says it's comfortable when you are wearing a helmet.

>>52281999
>implying the world wouldn't be better by virtually every objective metric if every muslim disappeared forever
What wasted trips.

>>52309248
A good friend of mine's a muslim, and I'd miss him a great deal if he were to disappear.

>>52309420
Neat anecdote.

>>52309248
The world would also be a better place if every Christian and Jew fucked off.

They all believe in the same retarded braindead bronze age desert-demon worshipping desert cult anyway.

>>52309434
Thank you. I try my best.

>>52309434
Neat statement of opinion.

>>52309539
>The world would also be a better place if every Christian and Jew fucked off.
This is objectively untrue, though. Those tend to be from (genetically) intelligent ethnic populations.

>actually making the false equivalence that judeo/christianity = islam because they're categorized as 'religions'
wew

>>52309566
>calling an anecdote an anecdote is stating an opinion
top wew, lad

>>52309582
They all follow the retarded shit that cocksucking junkie Moses cooked up when he was smoking some bush in the desert.

>>52309626
Nope. There's gigantic differences that even autism-spectrum fedora lords like yourself should be able to see the chasm between.

Like just this one:
Jesus was a hippy.
Muhammad was a warlord who spread his lies by the sword.

The premise of both is categorically different.

>>52309724
>Jesus was a hippy.
but muh merchant temple

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>>52309539

>>52309724
>jesus was a hippy
Someone should let the crusades and the Spanish inquisition know.

Oh wait.

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>>52310131

>>52310131
>>52310155
>maymay fedora images
I expected nothing, and yet...

>>52309724
>Jesus was a hippy.
Jesus fucking beat innocent merchants into the hospital with a fucking whip.

Jesus was a fucking communist terrorist.

>>52309724
>the dude who probably didn't even exist is different from the dude who did
Constantine and Muhammad seem close enough to me.

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>>52267065
>>52260015
But it's the Siege of Carcassonne in 1209

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>>52310233

>>52310256
>guys if I strawman with meme images it might fool someone!

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>>52259852

>>52310131
>>52310155
>>52310276
>I have nothing left to say but I must post.

>>52287747
Aaaayyyy the battle of grunwald

>>52294720
this is the final fantasy guy, right? I have always loved his artwork, could never in a million years describe what it looks like to other people without saying "unique"

>>52299971
They're telling batman how much of a shit he is

>>52310577
The composition is very traditional Japanese, but the style is more Western. The subjects are very busy looking while the backdrops are fairly simple. When it all comes together it gives it an otherworldly feeling, as if what you're seeing is a chance viewing through a dream.

>>52309248
This man speaks the truth.

>>52281999
Drink that liberal kool-aid. You know ((they)) want you to.

>>52284159
The actual fuck?

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>>52310398
I fucking love this

>>52310155
I'm not certain this seems like something that Linkara would actually say. He's a Christian, I know, but he does seem to like science and technology.

Is this an actual Linkara quote, or just something that you put on this image to make a meme?

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>>52310650
That...actually works pretty well. Thank you anon, culturefags are always appreciated

>>52310577
yeah, yoshitaka amano

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>>52312332
Oh god no. I wish I'd never found that bloody thing and brought it here now, it always starts huge arguments.

Oh well, in for a penny...

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>>52312393
Why? Its good art.

>>52314877
Yeah, but it's hard to not imagine that someone, somewhere, is jerking off hard to it.

Anyways, moving on. Don't want to start a shitstorm.

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>>52309582
>objectively untrue
>(genetically) intelligent
Wew lad.

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>>52259852

This mermaid is my waifu.

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this thread lacks some Kirby.

>>52282535
is he b&?

>>52259852
I can't tell what Zelda's expression is trying to convey. Is she attracted to Ganon? scared? drugged/half asleep?

>>52317836
One of the hallmarks of 'good art'. That there is intention to the choice of particular attribute is clear, but as to what that subtle attribute is meant to convey is difficult to encapsulate in words. One could write an entire essay solely on what Zelda's face is meant to convey; pages and pages, each detailing the overall meaning of the painting based on the different takes of her emotion alone.

>>52318543'
I'm not sure if convey was the right word. Ganon is smiling. it might just be my autism, but I cant tell what the expression on zelda's face is.

>>52315275

We might do many bad things anon, but I want to believe we wouldn't stoop so low as fapping to boobplate.

>>52318659
It's not your autism. I can't speak for the artist, but, to me, Zelda's expression is meant to be a mix of emotions. Like the Mona Lisa, the expression very subtly has clues that point to several different emotions at once. Considering that the painting is, by definition, a still, it could be that she is in the midst of expressing several emotions at once. While we'll never be able to see the whole 'scene' in motion, that would somewhat take away from the art. In this still, this single instant, the artist has caught this perfect point where the face is beautifully caught between emotions.

>>52319146
I can't fap to that!

>>52259852

It must be cold as shit in Ganon's Castle right now looking at her chest.

>>52282750
Really neat objectively wrong opinion you have there.

>>52317836
>>52319146

It's based on a sculpture called Death and the Maiden

>>52310697
It doesn't seem like something he'd say on his show, seeing as he's usually pretty careful about not insulting people.
That being said, it's really not that scathing. Maybe a bit of a oversimplification, but Science IS opposed to belief without evidence.

>>52265589

I love your filename.

>>52321789
FUCK YOU! FUCK YOUR NON-RESEARCH!
IT'S "Et Toujours! Et Jamais! (And Always! And Never!)"

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>>52305592
The same reason why samurais have weird hairstyles: comfort when wearing helmets.

Some helmets are pressed on the side of your head and some, like samurai helmets, are placed on the top of your head. Basically you get rid of the hair where your helmet is pressed against your head.

>>52271684
Damn...I can't see a pretty depiction of Jeanne D'Arc without falling in love hard.

>>52298336
I love how the artist gave a modern spin to a old christianity theme. I wish there was more stuff like that around.

>>52310694
>shit, you're not simba...hey guys, is this kid one of yours?

>>52312332
>not raped first
Historically inaccurate desu senpai.

>>52324525
Meh, she's probably a bitch princess who wanted to play war, but everyone is sick of it and they want to get rid of her as soon as possible.
When a woman is a total shit ,sometimes you just don't want to do it, you just want to kill.

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>>52324824

>>52280217
>unrealistic fantasy armor

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>>52324824
Virt?

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>>52324824
She's actually an immortal nymph who fell in love with the crown prince, despite the crown prince being betrothed, and is now watching his execution by Teshnen sympathizers. This was the year 3112 on the universal time scale, and after getting shot her body was taken by Jezza priests and placed in a burial pool, where she almost instantly regenerated. By now you guys have probably realized that's a picture of Lennet Somme, the nymph who led the Royalist against the Teshnen's and fucking annihilated them
>inb4 muh Canton mercenaries
Fuck off, they happened to play a role in a major battle then fucked back off to the steppes. It wall Lennet and the Royalists

>>52294651
whoah- story behind this one?

>>52309248
population

>>52326460
Shimabara rebellion

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>>52326460
Not sure, but the full spread is amazing. Would look great as a painting in a private study

>>52324525
weeb fag

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>>52274113
>proxy green
My brother of African descent.

I'm still trying to figure out how to home brew a setting that could make his anachronistic style work.

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>>52283246

Two days late, but here it is in case anyone else wanted it.

>>52284258

Overwatch?

>>52310577
>>52310650
I want Elric of Melnibone done by Amano.

>>52309582
We would have the beacon of civilization. China

>>52330642
underage b&

>>52333697
go back to sucking your moms fat cock until you grow up

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>>52259852

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>>52333045
Is this sarcasm?

>>52337910
Holy shit it actually exists? So getting it.

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less classical art-tinged fantasy art and more just straight up Hudson River School stuff that i think would make a cool fantasy location

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>>52344754

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>>52344801
and a spooky fantasy-style counterpart:

>>52344831
whoops, the filename's kind of inaccurate. that's one of gustavo dore's engravings for dante called "Paradisio"

>>52344740
well this is just cool

>>52343713
I actually like my merfolk closer to this than fish.

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>>52345356

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One of my all time faves. I spent a lot of time looking at Daniel Horne's Dragon Magazine covers (this one was not a cover).

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I am failing to remember the name and author of this, but I have totally stolen it for my game.

>>52353001
Zdzisław Beksiński

>>52290343
I'd rather fight twice as many dudes riding elephants. Hippos are truly monstrous creatures; slayers of men.