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As the title says, post some of your favorite classic paintings and list the names of the artists.

Lady Lilith by Dante Gabriel Rossetti



One of the many painting of a black fortune teller reading cards for rich white ladies by Harry Roseland (he has done countless paintings just like this one)



Kiss of The Enchantress by Isobel Lilian Gloag



Tamamo no Mae and the archer by Yashima Gakutei



The Magic Circle by John Waterhouse.



Off to the Sabbot by William Mortensen

Three more I'm a fan of

The Mermaid by John Waterhouse



The Bat Woman by Albert Joseph Penot



Lilith by John Collier

Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix




Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich




Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God by Jan Matejko




The School of Athens by Raphael




The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai

I really like this painting and I like the Goddess Libertas herself.

I love this painting, it may be my favorite (until I find a decent one of a galleon). It's bold, a little bit colorful, there's action, it depicts a struggle for ideas like freedom and democracy, etc (I'm sure the actual battle was hell). It feels inspiring, heroic and climactic. I can almost imagine this scene at the end of a musical (I've never seen Les Misérables).

I think romantic paintings might be my favorite.

Two paintings of Lamia by John Waterhouse and one by Herbert James Draper.

She has a shedded snake skin wrapped around her legs in all three paintings to indicate who she is.

I myself have a thing for detailed paintings that depict women in the various roles of mythology or history (as you can probably tell lol)

Two paintings I like that depict The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse. Top one is by Viktor Vastnetsov and the other is a Medieval wood sketch by Albrecht Durer

A Japanese scroll depicting the Shichifukujin (7 Gods of Fortune).



Also I know this isn't really a painting but I'm pretty obsessed with this Mesopotamian sculpture known as the Burney Relief which was discovered by Sydney Burney. Also known as the "Queen of the Night"

A painting of the Vestal Virgins tending the sacred fire in the Temple of their Goddess Vesta.

By Jean Raoux.

Saturn Devouring his Son by Peter Paul Rubens

Marie Antoinette with a Rose

Two versions of the same painting depicting France's original Party Queen