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Favorite old paintings

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Spicegnosis

Spicegnosis

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I really like this painting "Sadko in the underwater kingdom" by Ilya Repin
I couldn't work out how to post an image,but here is a link.
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File:Sadko.jpg - Wikipedia

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If anyone has any other old paintings they like looking at,please post them.

Spicegnosis.
 
what a lovely topic :) here's a few i have at hand:
 

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and here is another great piece by ilya repin, in response to the original post :)
it depicts ivan the terrible's horror at having killed his son.
 

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Cool thread! Here are some of my favorites :d

Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delights
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Jan van Eyck Arnolfini Portrait
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John Everett Millais Isabella
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Much love,
Sally xx
 
Dali- Crucifixion 'Hypercubic Body'
Francis Bacon- 'Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion'
Rene Magritte- 'The False Mirror'
 

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