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Old August 29th, 2011, 06:37 PM   #271

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Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights

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Old December 23rd, 2011, 11:18 AM   #272

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Pyramid of Skulls (Paul Cezanne) c. 1901

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Two Tahitian Women (Paul Gaugin) 1899
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Self-Portrait at Lezaven (Paul Gaugin) c. 1888
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Old December 23rd, 2011, 12:29 PM   #273
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Pyramid of Skulls (Paul Cezanne) c. 1901

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Two Tahitian Women (Paul Gaugin) 1899
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Self-Portrait at Lezaven (Paul Gaugin) c. 1888
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Lovely paintings, Star.
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Old December 23rd, 2011, 02:48 PM   #274

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Probably somebody already knows my favourite paintins,so I'll give you works I have not posted in previous threads:

By Vasily Vereshchagin
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Blowing from Guns in British India

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The Doors of Tamerlane

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Shooting in the Cremlin

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Bayonet Charge


By Francesco Hayez

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The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem


By Caspar David Friedrich

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Rocky Ravine

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Ruins of Eldena


By Eduard Detaille

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Vive L'Empereur
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Old December 23rd, 2011, 03:02 PM   #275
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I always love your taste in art, Method.
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Old December 28th, 2011, 12:06 PM   #276

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I don't know if this has been posted but Albrecht Dürer seems to be so realistic using watercolor. The young hare is painted using watercolor, and always wonder how did he do it?

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Old December 28th, 2011, 12:19 PM   #277

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I'm sharing some of the most popular Bahraini paintings here

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(^ looks like my living room )

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(The old docks)
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Old December 28th, 2011, 12:22 PM   #278
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Caspar David Friedrich - Cloister Cemetery in the Snow

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Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon

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The Watzmann

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Old December 28th, 2011, 02:30 PM   #279

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To Blacksmit049: Durer is one of my favourite artists, I especially like his engravings.
To Briseis: thumbs up!

Pollice Verso by Jean-Léon Gérôme
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Despite the fact that the hand gesture is inaccurate.

Piazza della Loggia(Brescia) by Angelo Inganni
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The Retrival of Manfredi's Body by Giuseppe Bezzuoli
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Call To Arms by Edmund Blair Leighton
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Old December 29th, 2011, 10:41 AM   #280

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To Blacksmit049: Durer is one of my favourite artists, I especially like his engravings.
About the Pollice Verso painting, one should open and discuss a thread about that "thumbs down" gesture. Intriguing.

PS. I had to register to Imageshack just to view your images, I hate that frog.
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