Posting my own personal collection of classic Western art, many Sup Forums favourites plus some lesser-known great works. The works are correctly attributed and titled, and wherever possible I have used the best hi-res images available. I've also colour-corrected badly photographed works to let their true beauty shine.
Other posters welcome of course! Let's start with Leighton.
Camden Carter
Frank Dicksee - The Mother
Caleb Smith
Jacques Louis David - The Death Of Socrates
Lucas Turner
Jules Joseph Lefebvre - The Grasshopper
Lucas Rodriguez
Claudio Coello - St. Michael The Archangel
Connor Flores
Henry Ossawa Tanner - The Raising Of Lazarus
Carson Mitchell
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Zachary Thomas
John Everett Millais - Joan Of Arc
Cameron Scott
Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Spring [Detail]
Jacob Robinson
Raphael - The Alba Madonna
Angel Martinez
Edwin Blashfield - Head Of A Girl
Xavier Lopez
Edwin Long - The Babylonian Marriage Market
Jason Perez
John William Waterhouse - Saint Eulalia
Josiah Sanders
William Holman Hunt - The Awakening Conscience
Chase Nelson
John Everett Millais - Study For Ophelia
Owen Taylor
Emil Scheibe - Hitler At The Front
Landon Ward
Do you guys ever buy any art like this? You know there are still artists doing these kind of artworks out there, If you guys want classical art styles to be continued you also have to create an market for those styles.
Jeremiah Mitchell
Frederic Leighton - Maenad
Justin Gray
The perspective seems way off in this painting
Joshua Johnson
Some true art coming through.
Gabriel Parker
Good point there Sven - I hope threads like this will inspire a new generation of artists continuing this tradition, and patronage of new artists is a very important part of that - see the video in the OP about the Renaissance. I am an artist myself but I would like to have enough money to support other artists one day.
And here's Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Prosperine
Jason Sanders
Elizabeth Thompson - 28th Regiment At Quatre Bras [Detail]
Luis Baker
Andrew Wyeth - Day Dream
Brandon Morris
That's cool, it just seems sometimes that people on here hates on modern art just to be contrarian and don't really care about art outside of the Sup Forums facade.
Eli Myers
Perspective may be a bit unconventional but to me the joy of this piece is about the soldiers' individual characters and how energized they seem.
Edwin Blashfield - The Angel With The Flaming Sword
Brody Baker
Konstantin Makovsky - A Boyar Wedding Feast
Jordan Foster
A lot of great art was made by being contrarian and thrashing against the conventions and established notions of preceding styles. I'm a big fan of Schiele although he's not really Sup Forums material...
Modernism, post-modernism and 'contemporary art' so often hated on by Sup Forums is just another movement that needs to be actively challenged and overturned by new, great art. But I don't believe simply emulating and slavishly trying to recreate the aesthetic of classical art provides that challenge.
Christian Long
Arnold Friberg - The Prayer At Valley Forge [Detail]
Luke Gray
Arnold Friberg - The Prayer At Valley Forge
Jack Robinson
Enrico Pazzi - Statue Of Dante Alighieri
Connor Hall
Henryk Siemiradzki - A Christian Dirce
Joshua Richardson
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Jayden Reed
Edward McCartan - Diana
Brayden Mitchell
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Ryan Walker
WE
Nikolai Fechin - Portrait??
Asher Perry
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Austin Roberts
John William Waterhouse - Pandora [Detail]
James Miller
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Luke Davis
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Logan Bell
Richard Westall - The Sword Of Damocles
Joseph Taylor
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Anthony Williams
Henryk Siemiradzki - Phryne On The Poseidon's Celebration In Eleusis
Evan Morris
Waxed with no razor burn? Oh yeah it is a painting after all.
stunning
A bit to loli for me.
Baby looks pissed. Probably because his tiny dick is out there for all to see.
Is this the same Blashfield who did the collar at the Library of Congress?
This is disturbing.
I don't know who St. Eulalia was, but if you're raped and dead (or left for it) in the snowy streets, your feet aren't going to be like that. Just sayin'.
This is awful.
This is talent.
This is just weird.
Yeah she looks fuck all happy to be there.
Guess it's an acquired taste. Then again I'm a fan of calligraphy and Japanese cats.
Logan Murphy
Friedrich Von Amerling - The Drowsy One
Nicholas Anderson
>how can modern art boyz even compare?
James Young
Very nuanced opinion for pol, I personally enjoy a great range of art that probably would be considered blasphemous by pol. The common opinion around here seems to be that beauty is something that god gives to us that we can only momentarily capture. I don't really agree, I think beauty can be found wherever humans are engaged both as a living culture but also conceptually.
Take for instance the city of Norilsk, on the surface it seems like a hideous soulless soviet husk, more like a motherboard then a human city. But then you see pictures of old babushkas taking difficult walks through hostile snow storms, surrounded by these towering dimly lit concrete behemoths, and suddenly you see a sort of new beauty in there. The most inhuman architecture have been reframed, recontextualized to become tales of human suffering, desire and sometimes even joy. Now that doesn't mean that these things are desirable in our life, but it does show that beauty isn't as simple as ornamentation and divine symbolism.
Hunter Perry
Thank you much OP, please continue.
William Young
Gustave Doré - Dante And Virgil In The Ninth Circle Of Hell
Jeremiah Wood
well done. Even if sheboon.
Charles Williams
veerrry good. too bad catholics are ridiculous now.
Kevin Perez
Great art defies era, ideology and 'academic' validation - but I would say that healthy, thriving civilizations create art that reflects that vitality, and civilisations in crisis create art reflective of their struggle and decline. There can be great beauty found in that, I agree.
Thank you for looking bro
Ryan Peterson
Solomon Joseph Solomon - Ajax And Cassandra
Joseph Parker
Arno Breker - Berufung
Jonathan Gonzalez
Arno Breker - Berufung [Detail]
Charles Lewis
Absolutely lurking, very good thread OP
Tyler Adams
Edwin Blashfield - Study For A Mural
Same Blashfield, yes
Zachary Watson
Jean-André Rixens - The Death Of Cleopatra
Ethan Foster
Thanks m8 I'm glad you're enjoying
Frank Dicksee - Paolo And Francesca [Detail]
Sebastian Smith
Ilya Repin - Self Portrait
Luis Parker
Jean-Léon Gérôme - Phryne Revealed Before The Areopagus (Seems a perennial Sup Forums favourite, I think we can see why.)
Anthony Phillips
Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Siesta
Wyatt Young
Andrew Wyeth - The Intruder
Benjamin Sullivan
Good dump OP
Caleb Long
John Singer Sargent - Study Of Rosina Ferrara
>When Charles Sprague Pearce showed his cabinet picture of Rosina for the Salon in 1882, Mr. Pearce described her as "the tawney skinned, panther eyed, elf-like Rosina, wildest and lithest of all the savage creatures on the savage isle of Capri."
Asher Green
Cheers, got many more to come
John William Waterhouse - Circe Offering The Cup To Ulysses
Oliver Rodriguez
William Bouguereau - The First Mourning
Hudson Green
Paul Gaugin - Nevermore [Detail]
Let's see if we can get away with a piece of post-impressionism while the alt-right kiddies are asleep
Xavier Bailey
>Sup Forumss faces when seeing a gril IRL
Alexander Gomez
Frederic Leighton - The Garden Of The Hesperides
Ayden Baker
Jean-Léon Gérôme - Pygmalion And Galatea
>Sup Forums constructing a custom Realdoll waifu
Ryan Rodriguez
Edwin Austin Abbey - King Lear, Act I, Scene I
Josiah Carter
John William Godward - Drusilla I
Jaxon Long
John William Godward - Drusilla II
Jordan Mitchell
Ilya Repin - Volga Boatmen
John Diaz
John William Waterhouse - Study For Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
Levi Diaz
Mikhail Nesterov - The Soul Of The People
Colton Diaz
Paul Delaroche - Napoléon Bonaparte Abdicated In Fontainebleau [Detail]
>tfw deposed and sent into exile
Lincoln Anderson
Andrew Wyeth - Pennsylvania Landscape
Jeremiah Brooks
Franciszek Żmurko - At Padishah's Order
Jayden Long
Isaac Levitan - Quiet Abode
Colton Torres
Ilya Repin - Portrait of O. A. Makarova
Landon Jones
Thanks for the support Russkybro, you guys gave us some kickass art in your time.
Vasily Vereshchagin - Defeated, Requiem
Jason Ross
William Bouguereau - The Scourging At The Pillar
Wyatt Harris
Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry - Diana Reposing
Aaron Cook
Henryk Siemiradzki - A Dangerous Lesson
Zachary Cox
Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Finding Of Moses
Ian Murphy
Solomon Joseph Solomon - Eve
Xavier Gray
Frank Cadogan Cowper - Vanity
Joshua Morales
William Bouguereau - The Virgin Of Consolation
John Jenkins
Frank Cadogan Cowper - The Patient Griselda
I actually prefer the study to the final oils... but both pretty magical