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This could be a fun thread. Post art, drawings, paintings, etc. that depict scenes or characters from books. Can be classical works of art or just typical fanart. As long as it's depicting something from a work of literature.

>> No.21937089
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>> No.21937373
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Anne of Green Gables

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https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/artists

I love arthurian aesthetics

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>>21937084
Everything by Gustave Doré, but this one specifically :

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Virgil and Dante observing the combat of Capocchio and Schicchi, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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Pygmalion

>> No.21937909

>>21937904
pepe demon

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Socrates and Phaedrus dipping their feet in the river outside Athens

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>>21937478
what about pic rel ? A personal favourite.

>> No.21937915
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Ancient depiction from Pompeii of Leda and the Swan. Here's a poem by WB Yeats to along with it:

>A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
>Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
>By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
>He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

>How can those terrified vague fingers push
>The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
>And how can body, laid in that white rush,
>But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

>A shudder in the loins engenders there
>The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
>And Agamemnon dead.
>Being so caught up,
>So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
>Did she put on his knowledge with his power
>Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

>> No.21937929
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The rape of Ganymede by Zeus

>There Ganymede is wrought with living art,
>Chasing thro' Ida's groves the trembling hart:
>Breathless he seems, yet eager to pursue;
>When from aloft descends, in open view,
>The bird of Jove, and, sousing on his prey,
>With crooked talons bears the boy away.
>In vain, with lifted hands and gazing eyes,
>His guards behold him soaring thro' the skies,
>And dogs pursue his flight with imitated cries.
The Aeneid, Virgil

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>>21937929
WTF I posted some beer ad version lmao
Here's the one I meant to post.

I'll use the opportunity to post another poem, this one's by Goethe
>How, in the light of morning,
>Round me thou glowest,
>Spring, thou beloved one!
>With thousand-varying loving bliss
>The sacred emotions
>Born of thy warmth eternal
>Press 'gainst my bosom,
>Thou endlessly fair one!
>Could I but hold thee clasp'd
>Within mine arms!

>Ah! upon thy bosom
>Lay I, pining,
>And then thy flowers, thy grass,
>Were pressing against my heart.
>Thou coolest the burning
>Thirst of my bosom,
>Beauteous morning breeze!
>The nightingale then calls me
>Sweetly from out of the misty vale.
>I come, I come!
>Whither? Ah, whither?

>Up, up, lies my course.
>While downward the clouds
>Are hovering, the clouds
>Are bending to meet yearning love.
>For me,
>Within thine arms
>Upwards!
>Embraced and embracing!
>Upwards into thy bosom,
>Oh Father all-loving!

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Rest on the Flight to Egypt

>> No.21937946
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Paradise Lost, Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council (by John Martin)

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Death in Venice

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Illustrations of whales from Moby Dick

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>> No.21937969

>>21937089
Based. Although I hate BotNS art. It always looks horribly inadequate to what’s contained in the book and what I imagined.

>> No.21937980
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Socrates confronting Alcibiades

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Socrates sees under Charmides' cloak

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Socrates and Alcibiades converse with the courtesan Aspasia

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>>21937913
Love it. There's also, the one depicting the laments of David over Absalom.

>> No.21939140
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Aubrey Beardsley is the purest graphical distillation of the decadent fin-de-siecle vibe. I think most of his works were illustrations of fiction. This one's illustrating a Poe story.

>> No.21939154

>>21937432
also anything by NC Wyeth.

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>>21939154
forgot pic*

>> No.21939748

good thread have a bump

>> No.21939907

>>21937432
The sign of an infantile mind.

>> No.21939929
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Everything Paget is kino

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For me it's Hendrick Goltzius.

Here's his "The Great Hercules"

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>>21939962
and here's "The Feast of the Gods at the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche"

I want to thank Peter Greenaway for making me aware of him. He's become one of my absolute favorites.

>> No.21940056

>>21937084
Dore & Dali's Don Quixote

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from the faerie queene

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>>21937084
Dumping what I got thats /lit/ related

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>>21940193

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>>21940227

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>>21940266

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>>21940275

>> No.21940374

>>21939907
Or an idealist. Perhaps you're too much of a miserable cynic to see things that way.

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>>21939929
good taste

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Mikhail Vrubel – Tamara and the Demon (1891)

Based on Lermontov poem The Demon

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>>21940717
I love these old gothic illustrations

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>>21939907
>>21940374
misery does love company

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Master and Margarita. Don't know by whom though.

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>>21937084

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>>21939140
His work is similar to Harry Clarke's, which I love intensely.
This is from a long series he did on Faust.

>> No.21944040

>>21942820
probably the best illustration ever

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Tolkien still gets a fair amount of illustration that doesn't explicitly draw on the movies' aesthetic.

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Alezei (Alyosha) Karamazov

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Master and Margarita. Pontius Pilate waiting

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>> No.21944443

>>21944441
Baldanders looks a little too Jewish here, they don't like this illustration so much...

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>> No.21944821

>>21944444
Checked, and this painting is so fucking cool

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>>21937084

go

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>>21939140
>Aubrey Beardsley
he also did illustrations for Salome by Oscar Wilde, my library had a copy of the play with his art, that's how I found out about him
now I am addicted to for Art Nouveau

>> No.21944907

>>21937950
>not white
ONE JOB

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an illustration of the hobbit by tove jansson

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>>21944866

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>>21937946
Fucking love Martin

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