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Ivan Aivazovsky

The Black Sea at Night, 1879

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My apologies for misleading

Deleted my post with dresses which got crazy amount of reblogs. When I posted it more than half a year ago (I guess), borrowing pictures from FB, I had no clue that was AI-generated as I had little experience defining such things. I was just disappointed of poor quality and tried to google them to find a better resolution and atelier name to give credit to author(s). Failed, so posted as it was. Now I see why those pictures were so blurry. Sorry for unintentional misleading, my luck I signed it "fantasy".

Thanks to all commenters who kindly (or not so kindly) pointed it out for me.

Also thanks for your subscription to my Tumblr. I rarely post but hope you like my taste in fine arts and photography.

Good day to you all!

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Illustration "Snow-White’s Mother" by Angela Barrett (1991)

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John James Chalon

The Cemetery of Pere Lachaise, 1822.

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Roman Ruins in Schonbrunn, 1891 - oil on canvas. — Carl Moll (Austrian, 1861-1945)

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The Sacrificial Lamb by Josefa de Óbidos, 1670

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Henryk Siemiradzki — Christian Dirce (1897)

I mean... He was a genius.

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Seems I've got a new favourite artist. Polish one who has lived and got education in Ukraine during his adolescence, by the way.

Henryk Siemiradzki — Nero's Torches, 1876

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Oil paintings by wonderful Basque artist Alai Ganuza

So unique!

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Gustave-Max Stevens — The Twelve Princesses (1899)

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Nymphology. Posting a bigger image here

Inspired by Pre-Raphaelites and named after Melanie Martinez song 🫀

I used plates from Bourgery: Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery, illustrations by Nicolas Henri Jacob.

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I was today years old when found out about "Cosmic Madonna", shame on me.

That's not Midjourney (sad hehe, sorry for not tagging it in one of previous entries as I didn't know about such a thing while posting).

That's Salvador Dali in 1958 🙏🏻

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Janis Rozentāls — Nāve (Death), 1897

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Alexandre Cabanel – Cleopatra testing poison on condemned prisoners (1887)

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Me, being quite educated and person of culture a bit, can't stop being amazed that there was a large amount of realist artwork during antiquity times besides sculpture (e.g. Fayum mummy portraits).

This is the Dog mosaic from Hellenistic Ptolemaic Egypt (~200-150 BC).

Middle Ages didn't do well for fine arts.