Thread 4989063

1898 - Lionel Royer - Vercingetorix throws down his arms at the feet of Julius Caesar

>>4989320
>>4989393
Pure kino.

1893 - Paul Joseph Jamin - Brennus and His Share of the Spoils

>>4990543
Nice, never seen this one before.

>>4990719
obelix before he got fat

1830 - 1833 - Karl Bryullov - The Last Day of Pompeii

1837 - Charles de Steuben - Bataille de Poitiers, en octobre 732

>>4991377
Apocalyptic.

>>4991377
Reminds me of the Democrats after Trump won again.

1848 - Ivan Aivazovsky - Battle of Cesme at Night

1856 - 1871 - George Caleb Bingham - Washington Crossing the Delaware

1863 - 1883 - Jean-Léon Gérôme- The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer (between 1863 and 1883)

1867 - 1868 - Jean-Leon Gerome - Bonaparte Before the Sphinx

>>4992310
Lmao.

>>4992763
I remember this from Ridley Scott’s shitty Napoleon movie

1867 - Jean-Léon Gérome - The Death of Caesar

>>4993876
where are you finding these? google?

>>4995261
Some of them from google images, some others from yandex.
Sometimes I look for an author or title and then go to wikipedia, or wikimedia commons to find the image.
But I've been saving images for a loooong time.

>>4995269
Thanks for contributing, friend. I love this kind of stuff. A lot of paintings I’ve found I actually had to downsize because they were well over 8+ MBs.

>>4989063 (OP)
ftfy

1973 - V. Zveg - Battle of Nassau 1776

Do you guys have Wyeth's Christina's World in a decent res?

1805 - 1807 - Jaques-Louis David - The Coronation of Napoleon

>>4995471
Lmao

>>4997395
Let me get back with you on it.

>>4998925
>leave thread for a day and a half
>it's about to fall off page 10
Thought this was a slow board lol

a classic

>>4992762
Cringe artstyle. The praying people almost look photoshopped onto the scene.

>>5000307
Yeah they completely lack any sort of shadows.

>Magdalen Reading (Rogier van der Weyden, 1435)
Part of a larger artwork, this piece is all that remains.

>>5000307
>The praying people almost look photoshopped onto the scene.
When you start realising that half of "historical" paintings are either modern day fakes or were not painted but printed on printers by ancient civilization you can never go back.

>>5003842
>half of "historical" paintings are either modern day fakes or were not painted but printed on printers by ancient civilization
Fuck, seriously? What ancient civilization printers are you referring to exactly?

>>4992310
Hah, those silly Democrats, loving America and caring about its future. We sure are owning them!

>>5004774
Politics aside, this is a really really good painting.

Gerrit van Honthorst - Woman Playing the Guitar [1624]

Gerrit van Honthorst was born in Utrecht on November 4, 1590. Honthorst, the son of a painter of tapestry cartoons, was first trained by Abraham Bloemaert in Utrecht and later went to Rome. Influenced strongly by the work of Caravaggio, Honthorst soon became much in demand in Rome. He was patronised by the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani and by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who was later also the patron of the sculptor Bernini. On his return to Utrecht, in 1620, Honthorst came to play a leading role in the civic life of the town, being dean of the painters' guild on four occasions between 1625 and 1629. In 1628 he spent six busy and profitable months in England at the invitation of Charles I. After his return to Utrecht he remained an internationally admired figure. His later works, especially those painted for the Court of Denmark and for the Stadholder in Holland, were dryly classicist. Honthorst died, still successful, in Utrecht in 1656.

[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas, 82 x 58 cm]

>>4992310
Trump ripped off his paypig base of half a billion dollars promising to overturn the 2020 election and just pocketed the money. He also just did an ICO pump and dump scam on his paypig base and pocketed another quarter billion

I get art can be political but Christ guys.

>>5005432
Thanks for the context, anon!

>>5003126
Epic

>>5007319
I'm this close to catching Lisztomania just from looking at that painting.

>>5007630
many worse things to catch in 19th century Hungary.

>>5007815
Kek very true… I should post some classical music themed paintings.

"Capture of Joan of Arc" by Adolf Alexander Dillens (c. 1850)

The Flirtation by Adolf Alexander Dillens (1858)

>>5009662
>No, you still don't get it babe, back when it was called chucks the sign wouldnt have read seed and feed but

>>5009872
LOL guess shit never changes.

>>5003126
FUCK albania

>>5010784
QRD?

>>5011159
>FUCK albania

chad

>>5011807
they cant do that salute!

Heil dir im Siegerkranz!
>>4992400
Kino.
We need more naval paintings here.

>>4992400
I love the color palette in this.

"The Night Watch" by Rembrandt, 1642.

It was a portrait commissioned by a militia company in Amsterdam. Militia company portraits were pretty common in Dutch paintings at this time, but this one was pretty unique in its composition. The portraits were usually done very flat, with all the members simply standing or sitting and facing the viewer, but Rembrandt painted the Militia Company of District II in this more exciting way with them moving around an in action.

Theres also a theory that the painting includes clues left by Rembrandt to accuse the company of murdering their previous captain over financial reasons as well as other crimes and immoral acts by the officers. The theory also states that these officers, all wealthy and powerful men, realized this after the fact and worked behind the scenes to ruin Rembrandts career.

opressive thread against the folk of colour whom don't get representation in art!

>>5014935
heres a painting of St. Maurice by Lucas Cranach.

If you ever see a medieval painting of a black man wearing a suit of armor, its almost always going to be St. Maurice. St. Maurice was a Roman soldier of North African decent who had converted to Christianity and because of his status as a soldier, he was always depicted in painting and sculptures in anachronistic military gear and weapons. Since he was a "moor" hes almost always depicted as being black too, although you might find some depictions where he looks more north african/swarthy rather than sub-saharan.

>>5005908
DAMN!!!

Seriously, I wonder how common it was for dudes to just go jerk off to paintings like this.

>>5014937
I didn't know that but "moor" isn't really black, it is northern african, which back in the day had even more cacusian admixture than now, so his portrayal as a black person is very inaccurate at very least.

'Stańczyk' by Jan Matejko, 1862.

He was a real court jester who served in the court of three Polish kings over the years. The painting shows him sad while we can see a party is going on in the background with people laughing. The document on the table next to him is one announcing that Russian troops have recently conquered Smolensk which is what Stańczyk is reacting too. The party in the background is being held to celebrate a minor Polish victory in their war against Russia, but Stańczyk realizes that the Russian victory at Smolensk is much more crucial and at this point, Russia has basically won the war over Poland.

>>5014985
An absolute classic painting. I appreciate you adding that description as I am now aware of the historical context behind it.

>>5014935
Just shut up and fucking paint, baboon!

>>4989069
Great thread please more like these

>>5010784
Kosovo to e Bulgarska zemlya.

>>5011809
They can. They are Italian fascists and will die soon, one will be disgraced.

>>5015495
*duct tapes banana to wall*

>>5014935
This thread isn't oppressive! It's A R T

>>5015498
>>5016011
Based.

>>5015694
We got the ghost of Warhol ITT huh?

>>5016011
There aren't even any eggs in their boat!

>>5016829
The egg carton in my fridge is almost expired :/ the west has truly fallen

The Young Cricketer by Francis Cotes (1768)

>>5011807
Kino.

Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych by Jan van Eyck (c. 1430-40):
>It was executed in a miniature format at just 22.2 in high by 7.8 in wide. The diptych was probably commissioned for private devotion.

>>5018465
Nah I'm a burger. Sounds rough though.

Battle of Tippecanoe 1811 - Kurz and Allison

>>5018447
I posted the same painting here but the colours in yours are way more vibrant >>5017792

>>5018754
You're exactly right lol I saw that and thought it was just too good not to save and repost ITT. I threw it in Photoshop and cranked up the saturation/vibrance.

>>4997820
This fucking painting, man. I saw it at the Louvre. It's huge as fuck

>>5019143
Really? I went to the Louvre back in 2015 and don't remember seeing this one. What a shame!

>>4997395
>>4998925
Bumping to finally follow up this request; there's ton of different versions on Google with various color grading/tinting.

>threads hitting page 10 after only 15 hours
Board's heating up again…

Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster by Bartholomeus van der Helst (1648):
>The painting is one of the largest civic guard group portraits for which most of the sitters are known and most of the portrayed objects have survived.
>The painting is about retiring from active duty, because the Peace of Münster had finally been signed after years of negotiations.

>>4991378
Total Muslims death

>>5020414
great companion piece to
>>5014923

Both are Dutch Militia company portraits. One is very orthodox of the time and one was much more experimental.

Militia Companies in Holland were a big deal due to Holland fighting for their independence from Spanish rule and their status as a small mercantile republic. These Militia companies ended up becoming sort of fraternal organizations and drinking clubs for the wealthy, the influential, and the ambitious.

>>5020458
Very interesting. Thanks for the additional context, anon!

>>5019821
I love the aesthetic/vibes of this one.

>>4991054
A true classic... it never really made much sense to me though.

The Smokers by Adriaen Brouwer (c. 1636):
>At the time, smoking was new and controversial. Brouwer included a self-portrait: he is the one turning to face the viewer while lifting a drinking mug and exhaling smoke.
>While the subjects have not been identified with certainty, it has been suggested the person in black and white apparel depicted on the right is painter Jan de Heem and the person in the middle is Brouwer pupil Joos van Craesbeeck.

The Smoker by Joos van Craesbeeck (c. 1635-36)

>>5022739
too many new threads. just look at just the past 3 days. 15 new ones, of which 10 are about some random woman. we need a /celeb/

>>5023218
just counted. 76 simp threads. more than half the board

>>5023218
>>5023221
To me, it looks like some autist got sick of all the celeb threads on /hr/ so they started flooding them out with generic stock image threads dedicated to dice and flowers. In response, people recreate the threads that archived early, anti-celeb autist continues flooding the catalog, and the board speeds up dramatically for everyone. It's pretty clear to me; I mean why else would someone keep bumping a Santa Claus thread in the middle of March?
Fwiw I don't care for the fetish threads either, I just say that as OP of this thread and the Harper + Kidder threads.

>>5023218
I thought of proposing a celeb general thread, but there are glaring issues that would ruin it from the start(moderation, traffic, autism, etc.)

if anything a general /hr/ thread for non specific, non instagram/twitter tier quality pics would facilitate most of the non celebrity material.
>but why should the celebfags get their way
it's easily the most recognized on the board and has been for over a decade. if gookmoot wont increase file size limits then we shouldn't change the boards identity.

>>5023438
>if anything a general /hr/ thread for non specific, non instagram/twitter tier quality pics would facilitate most of the non celebrity material.
I liked the general /mature/ thread for older actresses. Wish we had those kinds of threads more often along with art threads, hence why I made this one.
It is undeniable that this board mostly consists of celebposter shit. As one myself, I wish I could get rid of half the threads on this board dedicated to uglies and chicks I couldn't care less about. However I don’t see the demographics of this board changing anytime soon, stock image autist anon be damned >>5021800
>if gookmoot wont increase file size limits then we shouldn't change the boards identity.
Agreed. It's crazy how the file limit here of all places is still 8 MB instead of 12. It's also incredibly ironic having to resize pictures to post on a board called high resolution.

The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Joos van Craesbeeck (c. 1650)

Two more van Craesbeeck: The Painter's Studio (1655)

Death is Violent and Fast: Quarrel in a Pub (c. 1630s)

I miss when you didn't have to bump a thread here multiple times a day, ngl

>>5025211
everyone's paranoid and it makes things worse

>>5023241
the rate of autist to non-autist is low

>>5025228
>>5025983
You're not wrong. It's funny cuz a good chunk of threads on /hr/ are just image dumps with literally no discussion or even text accompanying the pictures kek no different from a bot at that point.

>>5026241
i prefer that to the brutes

>>5026455
Brutes? Like as in savages?

Historicalbump

>>5026889
yes. refined threads >

>>5027950
That's fair. I'll admit this thread was created with high quality and historical art discussion in mind. It's also a typically slower board allowing threads to breathe but unfortunately we're currently in a wave of new thread-making.

>>5029290
This reminds me of another painting I saw a long time ago but I can't remember the exact name of it.

Bump

>>5023221
based

Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle by Arnold Böcklin. Circa: 1872, Medium: Oil on canvas

>>5031687
Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya. Circa: 1820-1823, Medium: Mixed media mural transferred to canvas

Self-portrait by Judith Leyster (c. 1630). This one has an interesting backstory:
>For centuries, this painting was attributed to Frans Hals and only properly attributed to Leyster upon acquisition by the National Gallery of Art in 1949, over 300 years later.
>Though Leyster, age 21, looks very relaxed, the composition is to some extent an artificial confection. She is dressed in what must have been her best clothes, which in reality she is unlikely to have risked near wet oil paint. The figure she is painting is borrowed from a different work and was perhaps never actually painted as a standalone figure.

>>5031696
Excellent piece. For whatever reason I always found this one particularly disturbing. Something about the grotesque imagery/style.

>>5032792
The best thing about the black paintings is that goya made them on the walls of his house when he was half mad and deaf and never intended for anyone to see them.

>>5033058
Jesus, I never knew that. Now I'm gonna have to look up the story behind why Goya went mad.

Simon de vos Massacre of the Innocents

>>5033813
attached wrong image, my retardation is palpable.

View of Toledo by El Greco (c. 1596-1600)

View and Plan of Toledo by El Greco (c. 1608):
>This is second of the two surviving landscapes of Toledo painted by El Greco.

>>5034622
One more Greco: Assumption of the Virgin (c. 1577-79)

Assumption of the Virgin, this time by Titian (c. 1515-1518).

Another Titian: Sacred and Profane Love (1514)

The Boat of Charon by Jose Benlliure y Gil (1919):
>In Greek mythology, Charon is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.
>A coin to pay Charon for passage was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. In some versions those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years.

Here's a 24min video essay I just watched on Goya's life and his work, focusing on the Black Paintings mentioned recently ITT.
I enjoyed it and hope someone else will find it as informative as I did:
https://youtu.be/UOkscKuXP4k&t=9s

>>4995904
*gestures at the fallen man
“How could you shove my adopted father you brute? How coul-ack”

amazing thread thanks anons

easiest click of the 'download all' button I've ever had

>>5038197
I'm glad you've enjoyed it anon! We're only about halfway to bump limit so this thread ain't going anywhere anytime soon.

>>4995904
>>5038159
Kek didn't even catch this one

>>4995471
Based, have a close-up. Welcome back everyone.

Pouring one out for the high-quality painting threads lost during the transition.

According to the federal agency Architect of the Capitol, a preliminary version of this was painted in 1785, only four years after the surrender.

La Liberté guidant le peuple
Eugène Delacroix - 1830

>>5040778
Nice!

>>5037655
I was looking for this, very interesting stuff.
Thanks.

>>5013348
amazing how the artist being dogshit actually make this painting come to life. Here the painting inside of the painting is actually better at just a glance, and the people all look like badly drawn and unrealistic, but then you realize that thats the statement the artist might have been going for

>>5014937
im calling bullshit, that AI generated trash. Really, Gothic style platemail, shown on a black roman soldier. where the hell did Ser Niggronious Kang get his hands on some armor that wasn't seen until the 15th or 16th century?

>>5041802
You're welcome anon.

>>5041892
I never considered the "painting inside a painting" perspective in that one and am curious what the artist meant by it.

>>5042464
>>5042467
>>5042468
>>5042682
Very nice!

>>5043106
I love the color palette in this one.

>>5043486
shakespeare wasn't real

Bless the anon above me for kicking this thread into high gear. /hr/ just hasn't been the same post-hack…

>>5045468
Very nice. Do you have a favorite painter/movement?

>>5043637
As someone that has visited the Louvre, this is very cool.

>>5046123
>>5046124
>>5046330
>>5046339
Pure kino.

>>4990719
>are ya winning son

>>5047783
Lmao

>>5014985
I came across this classical compilation recently using the same painting.
Thread theme:
https://youtu.be/dzCuwjHFd7M

>>5031696
I love Francisco Goya art, specially his etchings.

>>5043106
The clothes looks so real!

>>4996523
it must suck having to walk around with wet shoes/socks all day

>>5031687
>Hey man did you see that ass?
>Yeah, Death I see it homie

Absolutely fantastic thread, thanks anons.

>>5047511
God, I hate modern slang

>>5051505
I'm just a /tv/ poster and those are undeniably beautiful paintings.

>>5046330
lighting here in this one is incredible
you know exactly what kind of day its depicting

The Misanthrope by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1568)

Where do you guys find high-res historical paintings other than Wikipedia?

>>5057762
>>5057764
Luxurious. Opulent.

>>5058276
Very nice. I've always liked paintings of art itself like this. Self-portraits, too.

Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness by Giovanni di Paolo (c. 1455-60)

Posting some Panini.
Roman Capriccio: The Colosseum and Other Monuments (1735)

>>5047748
Beautiful

>>5050922
Topkek.

Roman Capriccio: The Pantheon and Other Monuments (1735)

Piazza Navona in Rome (1729)

Musical feast given by the cardinal de La Rochefoucauld in the Teatro Argentina in Rome in 1747 on the occasion of the marriage of Dauphin, son of Louis XV (1747)

>>5062203
they got a musical feast and a kickass painting? man

>>5062207
Hell yeah! Imagine sitting front row at that concert.

>>5061623
Agreed. I love the use of color particularly in that painting.

>>4997820
that's incredible to see in real life
anyone have a better version?

>>5056905
Google Arts & Culture, various museum and art archive sites sometimes host high res pictures of their collection, websites of auction houses (Sotheby's, Christie's, etc.) Generally I find something and then try to reverse image search until I get satisfactory high res results.

>>5064111
paste those links in
https://ophir.alwaysdata.net/dezoomify/dezoomify.html
and you'll get a very high res image

>>5064111
Nice. Thanks for your input, anon.

>>5064137
This too. I wasn't aware of it.

Apotheosis of Venezia by Paolo Veronese (1585)

Anyone got that painting of a bloke in red robes standing on a stone wharf watching ships in a storm?

Ilya Repin - Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

>>5065251
This one?
Cardinal Richelieu on the sea wall of La Rochelle during the 1627-28 siege by Henri-Paul Motte (1881).

>>5064112
Wonderful.

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1490-1500)
Original file (30,000 × 17,078 pixels, file size: 222.86 MB):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg

>>5063801
Let me check later today.

Gonna post some details from The Last Judgement since it's a giant fresco.

>>5064112
>GustaveMoreau_VenusMaybe.jpg
>Venus
>Maybe

Do you not see the seashells?

>>5070858
Kek, not even the full title either. It's "Venus Rising from the Sea"

>>5070858
>>5071004
It was late I had to quickly give all the files names ok? I was pretty sure that was that but couldn't be assed to make sure. No bully. If you bully I get very upset and never post in here again.

>>5071294
It's all good... just a little jab, y'know? I can't bully you for contributing a nice painting.

>>5071649
why posting AI pictures and not paintings?

also, painting is "The hunters in the snow" by Pieter Brueghel the Elder

>>5071650
Because it's my thread and we're like three days from bump limit.
Nice painting btw, I posted a Brueghel earlier >>5054324

Fun fact: The Last Judgement was later censored with clothes painted on various figures.

Can /hr/ slow down again?
Pretty please?

Remember the restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck? It was pretty eye-opening at the time:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/new-restoration-reveals-painted-over-original-version-of-van-eyck-lamb-of-god/

Additional article including HD comparisons before/after restoration:
https://www.codart.nl/other/ghent-altarpiece-website-enhanced/

>From left to right: before restoration (with the sixteenth-century overpaint still present), during restoration (showing the van Eycks' original Lamb from 1432 before retouching), after retouching (the final result of the restoration)

Portrait of a Saxon Noblewoman by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1534)

>>5076184

Battle of Grunwald by Jan Matejko 1878.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grunwald

Well, that's a wrap!
What an excellent thread this was. A big thanks to everyone that contributed since January! This will be the last time you hear from me unless you're also a Jessica Harper fan so cheers and thanks again :)