22 Apr 2024, 12:54 pm
Post your favorite classic paintings and other artworks here. 
Lady Lilith by Dante Gabrielle Rossetti
Lilith by John Collier
Lamia by Herbert James Draper
Lamia by John William Waterhouse
Lamia and The Soldier by John William Waterhouse
The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse.
The Mermaid by John William Waterhouse.
The Siren by John William Waterhouse
The Bat Woman by Albert Joseph Penot
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Durer
Knight, Devil, and Death by Albrecht Durer
Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Specter by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Tamamo-no-Mae by Toyokuni III/Kunisada
Tamamo-no-Mae and the Archer Miura Kuranosuke
Judith and Holofernes by Giorgio Vasari
Ajax and Cassandra by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tishbein
Burney Relief/Queen of the Night by unknown
Persephone and Hades relief by unknown
Marie Antoinette with a rose by Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (uncensored AND censored dress)
The Vestal Virgins by Jean Raoux
Also a few paintings by painter Harry Roseland depicting an old black woman as a fortune telling reading the future for white Victorian era ladies (I really like these paintings because they speak volumes to the kind of influence that black fortune tellers in the deep south could hold over their white slave masters and oppressors.)
Reading the cards
Reading palms
Reading tea leaves
22 Apr 2024, 2:19 pm
22 Apr 2024, 2:22 pm
Winged Victory of Samothrace:
The total height of the monument is 5.57 meters (18 ft, 3 in) including the socle; the statue alone measures 2.75 meters (9 ft). The sculpture is one of a small number of major Hellenistic statues surviving in the original, rather than Roman copies.
Winged Victory has been exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris, at the top of the main staircase, since 1884. Greece is seeking the return of the sculpture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_Vi ... Samothrace
It’s my favorite statue even though it’s missing its head.
22 Apr 2024, 2:30 pm
The total height of the monument is 5.57 meters (18 ft, 3 in) including the socle; the statue alone measures 2.75 meters (9 ft). The sculpture is one of a small number of major Hellenistic statues surviving in the original, rather than Roman copies.
Winged Victory has been exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris, at the top of the main staircase, since 1884. Greece is seeking the return of the sculpture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_Vi ... Samothrace
It’s my favorite statue even though it’s missing its head.
Nike is an interesting Goddess. I feel like she could have been one of the Greek Goddesses to inspire Columbia along with Athena, Themis, and Libertas.
Speaking of Lady Columbia, here are some of my favorite classic posters of the Goddess of the New World.
To me Columbia isn't just a representation of America, she is a representation of American Women who despite having to fight sexism and oppression they have always been strong in their own way and always refused to stay quiet.
22 Apr 2024, 3:31 pm
Another one I like.
Psyche in the Underworld by Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau
22 Apr 2024, 4:06 pm
Ho Ho off to the Sabbath by William Mortenson
Some colorized postcards of convicted WW1 spy Mata Hari
22 Apr 2024, 6:13 pm
It’s raining men 
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I really like surrealism and René Magritte in particular.
22 Apr 2024, 6:18 pm
:I really like surrealism and René Magritte in particular.
Hahaha I like your sense of humor! Seriously!
22 Apr 2024, 7:19 pm
This painting is especially cool to me because it was a source of inspiration for Mary Shelly when she wrote Frankenstein.
22 Apr 2024, 7:36 pm
This painting is especially cool to me because it was a source of inspiration for Mary Shelly when she wrote Frankenstein.
Oooh I like that one too! The Nightmare by Henry Fusili. Very gothic and cool!
Here's another bit of Japanese artwork I like. An Onna-Musha (warrior woman) weilding a naginata by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
Also another one of my favorites. A long hanging scroll of the Shichifukujin (Seven Gods of Luck).
22 Apr 2024, 9:15 pm
Dante & Virgil in Hell by William Adolphe Bouguereau.
Nyx Goddess of the Night by Pedro Americo
23 Apr 2024, 1:13 am
Saturn Devouring his Son by Peter Paul Rubens.
The Goddess Juno by Cano Alonso
Diana Hunting by Guillaume Seignac
Vase Painting of Hades & Persephone.
23 Apr 2024, 8:35 am
Spring by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
(This is a painting of Ostara the Germanic Goddess of Spring from whom we get the modern 'Christian' holiday of Easter).
23 Apr 2024, 9:48 am
Boudica rallying the Britons by John Opie
(Yes I love a lot of classic paintings that focus on women lol 
)
Cleopatra by John William Waterhouse
Circe offering the cup to Ulyssus
And
Circe Invidiosa
Both by John William Waterhouse
23 Apr 2024, 10:25 am
Here's some lovely paintings of Hawaii's first independent queen known as Ka'ahumanu.
She's actually an interesting and somewhat controversial historic figure. She became ruler of Hawaii after the death of her husband and she was open to welcoming foreigners from Europe and America to her island. She had converted to Chrirstiainity and was responsible for the destruction of many of Hawaii's ancient temples and even had the Hulu dance banned for a long time, BUT she also made some good changes to Hawaii by doing away with human sactifaces which were still practiced up until her rise to power, and she also improved the status of women in Hawaiian society.
Adopting Christiainity as the main religion for her people and welcoming the Americans who would later overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy in an illegal coup was probably a poor decision on her part, but I believe she genuinenly had the best intentions for her people so I don't think America's sins should be held against her.
23 Apr 2024, 4:12 pm
Fortune Teller by Albert Anker
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