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->''"The tapestries wove a tale of chaos ignited, an orgy of fire and pain. Undead beings, with rotted skins caked with sulfur and ash, beckoned at me through a burning abyss. Their tortured stares were a testemonial to the price of weakness. ....Their fate would not find me. Yet blood calls to blood."''
-->Kain, encountering some of the paintings in Vorador's Mansion, ''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain]]''
-->Kain, encountering some of the paintings in Vorador's Mansion, ''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain]]''
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* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/LightVerse": Light-sculptures, a form of {{Hologram}} art, are generated by light-consoles. Despite being a popular medium of artistic expression, Mrs Lardner is widely celebrated as one of the best artists and her art is the biggest draw to her [[{{Socialite}} parties]].
* ''Literature/DumaKey'': The main character is an artist, who describes several nonexistent paintings. Many of them sound beautiful, or at least intriguing in their surrealism and spookiness, until [[ArtAttacker you realize what the paintings do...]]
** King's short story "The Road Virus Heads North" is about a man who purchases the titular painting, which depicts a sharp-toothed man sitting in a truck, from a yard sale. The woman who sells it to him mentions that it used to belong to her uncle, who recently died under mysterious--and violent--circumstances. As is par for the course with King, the buyer realizes that [[CreepyChangingPainting the painting is transforming]] as time goes by: specifically, the backdrop is changing as if the truck is actually driving. When the man sees that the background is the yard sale, now utterly destroyed with the woman's bloody corpse nearby, he turns on the news and discovers that the real yard sale suffered the same fate. The story ends with the buyer looking at the painting one final time: the truck is empty, with fresh bloodstains on the seat, and ''his own house'' is the backdrop...
* ''Literature/TheEmperorsSoul'': "Lily of the Spring Pond" is a famous masterpiece, painted by the great artist Han [=ShuXen=] for a woman he loved, eventually donated by her children to the Imperial Gallery, and finally stolen by the protagonist Wan [=ShaiLu=]. [[spoiler:She actually burned it at the request of [=ShuXen=], who reviled the Rose Empire and could not bear to have his work displayed in the palace.]]
** King's short story "The Road Virus Heads North" is about a man who purchases the titular painting, which depicts a sharp-toothed man sitting in a truck, from a yard sale. The woman who sells it to him mentions that it used to belong to her uncle, who recently died under mysterious--and violent--circumstances. As is par for the course with King, the buyer realizes that [[CreepyChangingPainting the painting is transforming]] as time goes by: specifically, the backdrop is changing as if the truck is actually driving. When the man sees that the background is the yard sale, now utterly destroyed with the woman's bloody corpse nearby, he turns on the news and discovers that the real yard sale suffered the same fate. The story ends with the buyer looking at the painting one final time: the truck is empty, with fresh bloodstains on the seat, and ''his own house'' is the backdrop...
* ''Literature/TheEmperorsSoul'': "Lily of the Spring Pond" is a famous masterpiece, painted by the great artist Han [=ShuXen=] for a woman he loved, eventually donated by her children to the Imperial Gallery, and finally stolen by the protagonist Wan [=ShaiLu=]. [[spoiler:She actually burned it at the request of [=ShuXen=], who reviled the Rose Empire and could not bear to have his work displayed in the palace.]]
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* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's short story "Literature/WeAlsoWalkDogs", a painting called "The Weeping Buddha" is mentioned to have been created by an artist named Krantz.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/DumaKey'': The main character is an artist, who describes several nonexistent paintings. Many of them sound beautiful, or at least intriguing in their surrealism and spookiness, until [[ArtAttacker you realize what the paintings do...]]
** King's short story "The Road Virus Heads North" is about a man who purchases the titular painting, which depicts a sharp-toothed man sitting in a truck, from a yard sale. The woman who sells it to him mentions that it used to belong to her uncle, who recently died under mysterious--and violent--circumstances. As is par for the course with King, the buyer realizes that [[CreepyChangingPainting the painting is transforming]] as time goes by: specifically, the backdrop is changing as if the truck is actually driving. When the man sees that the background is the yard sale, now utterly destroyed with the woman's bloody corpse nearby, he turns on the news and discovers that the real yard sale suffered the same fate. The story ends with the buyer looking at the painting one final time: the truck is empty, with fresh bloodstains on the seat, and ''his own house'' is the backdrop...
* Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' stories. The Kdatlyno are blind aliens who create artworks called "touch-sculptures".
** At the start of the short story "Literature/AtTheCore", Beowulf Schaeffer is looking at a touch sculpture called ''FTLSPACE'' by a Kdatlyno named Hrodenu. It looks like a mishmash of a painting, a relief mural, and a sculpture.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/DumaKey'': The main character is an artist, who describes several nonexistent paintings. Many of them sound beautiful, or at least intriguing in their surrealism and spookiness, until [[ArtAttacker you realize what the paintings do...]]
** King's short story "The Road Virus Heads North" is about a man who purchases the titular painting, which depicts a sharp-toothed man sitting in a truck, from a yard sale. The woman who sells it to him mentions that it used to belong to her uncle, who recently died under mysterious--and violent--circumstances. As is par for the course with King, the buyer realizes that [[CreepyChangingPainting the painting is transforming]] as time goes by: specifically, the backdrop is changing as if the truck is actually driving. When the man sees that the background is the yard sale, now utterly destroyed with the woman's bloody corpse nearby, he turns on the news and discovers that the real yard sale suffered the same fate. The story ends with the buyer looking at the painting one final time: the truck is empty, with fresh bloodstains on the seat, and ''his own house'' is the backdrop...
* Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' stories. The Kdatlyno are blind aliens who create artworks called "touch-sculptures".
** At the start of the short story "Literature/AtTheCore", Beowulf Schaeffer is looking at a touch sculpture called ''FTLSPACE'' by a Kdatlyno named Hrodenu. It looks like a mishmash of a painting, a relief mural, and a sculpture.
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* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's short story "Literature/WeAlsoWalkDogs", a painting called "The Weeping Buddha" is mentioned to have been created by an artist named Krantz.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/DumaKey'': The main character is an artist, who describes several nonexistent paintings. Many of them sound beautiful, or at least intriguing in their surrealism and spookiness, until [[ArtAttacker you realize what the paintings do...]]
** King's short story "The Road Virus Heads North" is about a man who purchases the titular painting, which depicts a sharp-toothed man sitting in a truck, from a yard sale. The woman who sells it to him mentions that it used to belong to her uncle, who recently died under mysterious--and violent--circumstances. As is par for the course with King, the buyer realizes that [[CreepyChangingPainting the painting is transforming]] as time goes by: specifically, the backdrop is changing as if the truck is actually driving. When the man sees that the background is the yard sale, now utterly destroyed with the woman's bloody corpse nearby, he turns on the news and discovers that the real yard sale suffered the same fate. The story ends with the buyer looking at the painting one final time: the truck is empty, with fresh bloodstains on the seat, and ''his own house'' is the backdrop...
* Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' stories.''Literature/KnownSpace'': The Kdatlyno are blind aliens who create artworks called "touch-sculptures".
** At the start of the short story"Literature/AtTheCore", ''At the Core'', Beowulf Schaeffer is looking at a touch sculpture called ''FTLSPACE'' by a Kdatlyno named Hrodenu. It looks like a mishmash of a painting, a relief mural, and a sculpture.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/DumaKey'': The main character is an artist, who describes several nonexistent paintings. Many of them sound beautiful, or at least intriguing in their surrealism and spookiness, until [[ArtAttacker you realize what the paintings do...]]
** King's short story "The Road Virus Heads North" is about a man who purchases the titular painting, which depicts a sharp-toothed man sitting in a truck, from a yard sale. The woman who sells it to him mentions that it used to belong to her uncle, who recently died under mysterious--and violent--circumstances. As is par for the course with King, the buyer realizes that [[CreepyChangingPainting the painting is transforming]] as time goes by: specifically, the backdrop is changing as if the truck is actually driving. When the man sees that the background is the yard sale, now utterly destroyed with the woman's bloody corpse nearby, he turns on the news and discovers that the real yard sale suffered the same fate. The story ends with the buyer looking at the painting one final time: the truck is empty, with fresh bloodstains on the seat, and ''his own house'' is the backdrop...
* Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' stories.
** At the start of the short story
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* Creator/BrandonSanderson's ''Literature/TheEmperorsSoul'': "Lily of the Spring Pond" is a famous masterpiece, painted by the great artist Han [=ShuXen=] for a woman he loved, eventually donated by her children to the Imperial Gallery, and finally stolen by the protagonist Wan [=ShaiLu=]. [[spoiler:She actually burned it at the request of [=ShuXen=], who reviled the Rose Empire and could not bear to have his work displayed in the palace.]]
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* Creator/BrandonSanderson's ''Literature/TheEmperorsSoul'': "Lily ''Literature/TheLaboursOfHercules'': Hercule Poirot takes on twelve cases that correspond with the titular Labors from mythology. The ninth case, "The Girdle of Hippolyta," is about a fictional Rubens painting depicting the Amazon queen presenting her girdle to Hercules. The painting goes missing and Poirot must track it down while solving the apparently unrelated case of a schoolgirl who, after vanishing from a train she was riding with fellow students, turns up miles away with no recollection of what happened.
* ''Literature/LightVerse'': Light-sculptures, a form of {{Hologram}} art, are generated by light-consoles. Despite being a popular medium of artistic expression, Mrs Lardner is widely celebrated as one of theSpring Pond" best artists and her art is the biggest draw to her [[{{Socialite}} parties]].
* ''The Mezzotint'': This short story by Creator/MontagueRhodesJames has the eponymous engraving of an English country house, which turns out to be a CreepyChangingPainting.
* ''My Last Duchess'': This famousmasterpiece, poem by Creator/RobertBrowning is a dramatic monologue in which the Duke of Ferrara displays a painting of his late wife to an ambassador who is there to negotiate a remarriage, revealing his [[CrazyJealousGuy many irrational grievances]] with the good-natured Duchess and, eventually, his arrangement of her murder.
* ''Literature/PickmansModel'': Focuses on the paintings of MadArtist Richard Pickman, who is ostracized by the art community for his violent scenes of hideous monsters. When he gives his friend Thurber (the narrator) a tour of his studio, Thurber is extremely unsettled by the level of realism in one particular painting, which depicts one of the monsters gnawing on a human corpse. He's even more unsettled to learn that the reference image he pocketed [[spoiler: is a [[RealAfterAll photograph of the model]].]]
* ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'': The eponymous portrait is probably one of the most famous examples of a fictional work of art. The titular character obtains it as part of a DealWithTheDevil to gain eternal life and youth, commenting that he wishes he could remain as beautiful and unchanging as his paintedby visage. True to form, Dorian remains completely physically unchanged--but the great painting itself [[CreepyChangingPainting having becomes gradually more distorted and grotesque as time goes on]], mirroring the real Dorian's own moral decay. [[spoiler: The ending of the story reveals that the painting also functions as a SoulJar--when Dorian stabs it in a fit of rage, he dies and instantly becomes the aged, monstrous version of himself from the work, while the painted Dorian goes back to its original form.]]
* ''Thrones, Dominations'': In this Literature/LordPeterWimsey novel, the artistHan [=ShuXen=] for a woman he loved, eventually donated Chapparelle paints two portraits: The first is of Harriet, and its in-story purpose is to show her character and to let her see the second portrait in-progress. The second portrait is of Rosamund, and is destroyed by her children murderer to hide the Imperial Gallery, clue it portrays: [[spoiler:a papier-mâché mask that the murderer used to fool a witness into thinking the victim was still alive -- and finally stolen by thus provide the murderer with an alibi.]]
* ''Literature/TheTwoGeorges'': The titular Thomas Gainsborough painting depicts a meeting between George Washington and King George III that led to a peaceful resolution of the issues between Great Britain and her American colonies. Two hundred years later, the territory that never became the United States is still under British dominion as part of the North American Union, and the painting is considered a powerful symbol of unity. Terrorist group the Sons of Liberty steal the painting, and the protagonistWan [=ShaiLu=]. [[spoiler:She actually burned must recover it at before it is destroyed.
* ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'': Loose example. The painting in question has no long-term effect on therequest of [=ShuXen=], who reviled plot, but it is the Rose Empire and could not bear portal that the characters travel through to reach the world of Narnia, thus setting the entire plot in motion.
* ''We Also Walk Dogs'': A painting called "The Weeping Buddha" is mentioned to havehis work displayed in the palace.]]been created by an artist named Krantz.
* ''Literature/LightVerse'': Light-sculptures, a form of {{Hologram}} art, are generated by light-consoles. Despite being a popular medium of artistic expression, Mrs Lardner is widely celebrated as one of the
* ''The Mezzotint'': This short story by Creator/MontagueRhodesJames has the eponymous engraving of an English country house, which turns out to be a CreepyChangingPainting.
* ''My Last Duchess'': This famous
* ''Literature/PickmansModel'': Focuses on the paintings of MadArtist Richard Pickman, who is ostracized by the art community for his violent scenes of hideous monsters. When he gives his friend Thurber (the narrator) a tour of his studio, Thurber is extremely unsettled by the level of realism in one particular painting, which depicts one of the monsters gnawing on a human corpse. He's even more unsettled to learn that the reference image he pocketed [[spoiler: is a [[RealAfterAll photograph of the model]].]]
* ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'': The eponymous portrait is probably one of the most famous examples of a fictional work of art. The titular character obtains it as part of a DealWithTheDevil to gain eternal life and youth, commenting that he wishes he could remain as beautiful and unchanging as his painted
* ''Thrones, Dominations'': In this Literature/LordPeterWimsey novel, the artist
* ''Literature/TheTwoGeorges'': The titular Thomas Gainsborough painting depicts a meeting between George Washington and King George III that led to a peaceful resolution of the issues between Great Britain and her American colonies. Two hundred years later, the territory that never became the United States is still under British dominion as part of the North American Union, and the painting is considered a powerful symbol of unity. Terrorist group the Sons of Liberty steal the painting, and the protagonist
* ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'': Loose example. The painting in question has no long-term effect on the
* ''We Also Walk Dogs'': A painting called "The Weeping Buddha" is mentioned to have
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* Creator/OscarWilde's ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'': The eponymous portrait is probably one of the most famous examples of a fictional work of art. The titular character obtains it as part of a DealWithTheDevil to gain eternal life and youth, commenting that he wishes he could remain as beautiful and unchanging as his painted visage. True to form, Dorian remains completely physically unchanged--but the painting itself [[CreepyChangingPainting having becomes gradually more distorted and grotesque as time goes on]], mirroring the real Dorian's own moral decay. [[spoiler: The ending of the story reveals that the painting also functions as a SoulJar--when Dorian stabs it in a fit of rage, he dies and instantly becomes the aged, monstrous version of himself from the work, while the painted Dorian goes back to its original form.]]
* In the Literature/LordPeterWimsey novel ''Thrones, Dominations'', the artist Chapparelle paints two portraits: The first is of Harriet, and its in-story purpose is to show her character and to let her see the second portrait in-progress. The second portrait is of Rosamund, and is destroyed by her murderer to hide the clue it portrays: [[spoiler:a papier-mâché mask that the murderer used to fool a witness into thinking the victim was still alive -- and thus provide the murderer with an alibi.]]
* The short story "The Mezzotint" by Creator/MontagueRhodesJames has the eponymous engraving of an English country house, which turns out to be a CreepyChangingPainting.
* In ''Literature/TheTwoGeorges'', by Creator/HarryTurtledove and Creator/RichardDreyfuss (yes, the actor), the titular Thomas Gainsborough painting depicts a meeting between George Washington and King George III that led to a peaceful resolution of the issues between Great Britain and her American colonies. Two hundred years later, the territory that never became the United States is still under British dominion as part of the North American Union, and the painting is considered a powerful symbol of unity. Terrorist group the Sons of Liberty steal the painting, and the protagonist must recover it before it is destroyed.
* "Literature/PickmansModel" by Creator/HPLovecraft focuses on the paintings of MadArtist Richard Pickman, who is ostracized by the art community for his violent scenes of hideous monsters. When he gives his friend Thurber (the narrator) a tour of his studio, Thurber is extremely unsettled by the level of realism in one particular painting, which depicts one of the monsters gnawing on a human corpse. He's even more unsettled to learn that the reference image he pocketed [[spoiler: is a [[RealAfterAll photograph of the model]].]]
* The poem "My Last Duchess," by Creator/RobertBrowning, is a dramatic monologue in which the Duke of Ferrara displays a painting of his late wife to an ambassador who is there to negotiate a remarriage, revealing his [[CrazyJealousGuy many irrational grievances]] with the good-natured Duchess and, eventually, his arrangement of her murder.
* In ''Literature/TheLaboursOfHercules'', Hercule Poirot takes on twelve cases that correspond with the titular Labors from mythology. The ninth case, "The Girdle of Hippolyta," is about a fictional Rubens painting depicting the Amazon queen presenting her girdle to Hercules. The painting goes missing and Poirot must track it down while solving the apparently unrelated case of a schoolgirl who, after vanishing from a train she was riding with fellow students, turns up miles away with no recollection of what happened.
* In the Literature/LordPeterWimsey novel ''Thrones, Dominations'', the artist Chapparelle paints two portraits: The first is of Harriet, and its in-story purpose is to show her character and to let her see the second portrait in-progress. The second portrait is of Rosamund, and is destroyed by her murderer to hide the clue it portrays: [[spoiler:a papier-mâché mask that the murderer used to fool a witness into thinking the victim was still alive -- and thus provide the murderer with an alibi.]]
* The short story "The Mezzotint" by Creator/MontagueRhodesJames has the eponymous engraving of an English country house, which turns out to be a CreepyChangingPainting.
* In ''Literature/TheTwoGeorges'', by Creator/HarryTurtledove and Creator/RichardDreyfuss (yes, the actor), the titular Thomas Gainsborough painting depicts a meeting between George Washington and King George III that led to a peaceful resolution of the issues between Great Britain and her American colonies. Two hundred years later, the territory that never became the United States is still under British dominion as part of the North American Union, and the painting is considered a powerful symbol of unity. Terrorist group the Sons of Liberty steal the painting, and the protagonist must recover it before it is destroyed.
* "Literature/PickmansModel" by Creator/HPLovecraft focuses on the paintings of MadArtist Richard Pickman, who is ostracized by the art community for his violent scenes of hideous monsters. When he gives his friend Thurber (the narrator) a tour of his studio, Thurber is extremely unsettled by the level of realism in one particular painting, which depicts one of the monsters gnawing on a human corpse. He's even more unsettled to learn that the reference image he pocketed [[spoiler: is a [[RealAfterAll photograph of the model]].]]
* The poem "My Last Duchess," by Creator/RobertBrowning, is a dramatic monologue in which the Duke of Ferrara displays a painting of his late wife to an ambassador who is there to negotiate a remarriage, revealing his [[CrazyJealousGuy many irrational grievances]] with the good-natured Duchess and, eventually, his arrangement of her murder.
* In ''Literature/TheLaboursOfHercules'', Hercule Poirot takes on twelve cases that correspond with the titular Labors from mythology. The ninth case, "The Girdle of Hippolyta," is about a fictional Rubens painting depicting the Amazon queen presenting her girdle to Hercules. The painting goes missing and Poirot must track it down while solving the apparently unrelated case of a schoolgirl who, after vanishing from a train she was riding with fellow students, turns up miles away with no recollection of what happened.
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* ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'': May references a Creator/VincentVanGogh painting, ''The Plain of Auvers'', calling it "haunting" and "disturbing" because the artist "painted it four days before he shot himself". There is no van Gogh with that title. There is one called ''Plain '''near''' Auvers'', which was painted the same year as his death, but it was definitely not his last work and can't really be described as creepy. May could be referring to a number of other works, like ''Wheatfield with [[CreepyCrows Crows]]'', ''Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds'', or most likely ''Landscape at Auvers in the Rain'', all of which have been called "the last van Gogh". But their titles aren't as [[RuleOfCool mysterious and ambiguous]].
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* ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'': May references a Creator/VincentVanGogh painting, ''The Plain of Auvers'', calling it "haunting" and "disturbing" because the artist "painted it four days before he shot himself". There is no van Gogh with that title. There is one called ''Plain '''near''' Auvers'', which was painted the same year as his death, but it was definitely not his last work and can't really be described as creepy. May could be referring to a number of other works, like ''Wheatfield with [[CreepyCrows Crows]]'', ''Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds'', or most likely ''Landscape at Auvers in the Rain'', all of which have been called "the last van Gogh". But their titles aren't as [[RuleOfCool mysterious and ambiguous]].
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* Bruce Wayne has a painting that's supposedly an early example of the Hudson River school despite not looking like anything from the group. Damian destroyed in the pages of ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}''.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Bruce Wayne has a painting that's supposedly an early example of the Hudson River school despite not looking like anything from the group. Damian destroyed it in the pages of ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}''.''ComicBook/Robin1993''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E15TheWarOfArt The War of Art]]'', Homer and Marge purchase a painting from a yard sale which is appraised as a lost work by the (fictional) 20th century artist Johann Oldenveldt. It’s eventually revealed to merely be a forgery done in Oldenveldt’s style, but so convincing that it could have sold for $100,000 if the fraud was never uncovered.
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* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', there is a passing mention of a fictional painting, ''Battle on the Mammon Plains'', by Kaster, depicting the clashing front lines of two armies.
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has the 'Sayuri', a painting of a young woman looking down and smiling, which delighted the art world in its mystery - who is that woman and why is she smiling? [[spoiler:The painting was produced by Yusuke's mother as a self-portrait, and the original version showed her holding the baby Yusuke in her arms. When Madarame took advantage of her death and took Yusuke on as a protégé, he painted over her arms so that the baby was no longer visible on the correct prediction that the ambiguity of the image would make it more appealing (and profitable).]]
* ''Videogame/{{Arcanum}}'': In one quest, your character is tasked with recovering the painting "Kerghan and Persephone", recently stolen from the estate of the Garringsburgs, a family of Tarantian aristocrats.
* ''Videogame/{{Arcanum}}'': In one quest, your character is tasked with recovering the painting "Kerghan and Persephone", recently stolen from the estate of the Garringsburgs, a family of Tarantian aristocrats.
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has the 'Sayuri', a painting of a young woman looking down and smiling, which delighted the art world in its mystery - who is that woman and why is she smiling? [[spoiler:The painting was produced by Yusuke's mother as a self-portrait, and the original version showed her holding the baby Yusuke in her arms. When Madarame took advantage of her death and took Yusuke on as a protégé, he painted over her arms so that the baby was no longer visible on the correct prediction that the ambiguity of the image would make it more appealing (and profitable).]]
*''Videogame/{{Arcanum}}'': ''VideoGame/{{Arcanum}}'': In one quest, your character is tasked with recovering the painting "Kerghan and Persephone", recently stolen from the estate of the Garringsburgs, a family of Tarantian aristocrats.
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* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' has a couple of examples:
** If Bethany is the surviving sibling, there is a minor quest in Act 1 in which Hawke presents her with an old portrait of their mother Leandra, from long before any of them were born. The picture is not shown to the player, but Bethany is thrilled with how beautiful and happy their mother looks in the painting.
** In the ''Black Emporium'' DLC, one of the codex entries found in the eponymous location talks about the "Velvet Cailans," a weird collection of portraits of King Cailan of Ferelden on black velvet canvas. It's an in-universe riff on the real-world phenomenon of portraits of Music/ElvisPresley on black velvet.
** If Bethany is the surviving sibling, there is a minor quest in Act 1 in which Hawke presents her with an old portrait of their mother Leandra, from long before any of them were born. The picture is not shown to the player, but Bethany is thrilled with how beautiful and happy their mother looks in the painting.
** In the ''Black Emporium'' DLC, one of the codex entries found in the eponymous location talks about the "Velvet Cailans," a weird collection of portraits of King Cailan of Ferelden on black velvet canvas. It's an in-universe riff on the real-world phenomenon of portraits of Music/ElvisPresley on black velvet.
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* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' has a couple of examples:
** If Bethany is the surviving sibling, there is a minor quest in Act 1 in which Hawke presents her with an old portrait of their mother Leandra, from long before any of them were born. The picture is not shown to the player, but Bethany is thrilled with how beautiful and happy their mother looks in the painting.
** In the ''Black Emporium'' DLC, one of the codex entries found in the eponymous location talks about the "Velvet Cailans," a weird collection of portraits of King Cailan of Ferelden on black velvet canvas. It's an in-universe riff on the real-world phenomenon of portraits of Music/ElvisPresley on black velvet.
** If Bethany is the surviving sibling, there is a minor quest in Act 1 in which Hawke presents her with an old portrait of their mother Leandra, from long before any of them were born. The picture is not shown to the player, but Bethany is thrilled with how beautiful and happy their mother looks in the painting.
** In the ''Black Emporium'' DLC, one of the codex entries found in the eponymous location talks about the "Velvet Cailans," a weird collection of portraits of King Cailan of Ferelden on black velvet canvas. It's an in-universe riff on the real-world phenomenon of portraits of Music/ElvisPresley on black velvet.
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* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's short story "[[Literature/WeAlsoWalkDogs --We Also Walk Dogs]]". A painting called "The Weeping Buddha" is mentioned to have been created by an artist named Krantz.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/DumaKey'': The main character is an artist, who describes several nonexistent paintings. Many of which sound beautiful, or at least intriguing in their surrealism and spookiness, until [[ArtAttacker you realize what the paintings do...]]
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/DumaKey'': The main character is an artist, who describes several nonexistent paintings. Many of which sound beautiful, or at least intriguing in their surrealism and spookiness, until [[ArtAttacker you realize what the paintings do...]]
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* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's short story "[[Literature/WeAlsoWalkDogs --We Also Walk Dogs]]". A "Literature/WeAlsoWalkDogs", a painting called "The Weeping Buddha" is mentioned to have been created by an artist named Krantz.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/DumaKey'': The main character is an artist, who describes several nonexistent paintings. Many ofwhich them sound beautiful, or at least intriguing in their surrealism and spookiness, until [[ArtAttacker you realize what the paintings do...]]
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/DumaKey'': The main character is an artist, who describes several nonexistent paintings. Many of
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has the 'Sayuri', a painting of a young woman looking down and smiling, which delighted the art world in its mystery - who is that woman and why is she smiling? [[spoiler:The painting was produced by Yusuke's mother as a self-portrait, and the original version showed her holding the baby Yusuke in her arms. When Madarame took advantage of her death and took Yusuke on as a protege, he painted over her arms so that the baby was no longer visible on the correct prediction that the ambiguity of the image would make it more appealing (and profitable).]]
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has the 'Sayuri', a painting of a young woman looking down and smiling, which delighted the art world in its mystery - who is that woman and why is she smiling? [[spoiler:The painting was produced by Yusuke's mother as a self-portrait, and the original version showed her holding the baby Yusuke in her arms. When Madarame took advantage of her death and took Yusuke on as a protege, protégé, he painted over her arms so that the baby was no longer visible on the correct prediction that the ambiguity of the image would make it more appealing (and profitable).]]
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' has a couple of examples:
** If Bethany is the surviving sibling, there is a minor quest in Act 1 in which Hawke presents her with an old portrait of their mother Leandra, from long before any of them were born. The picture is not shown to the player, but Bethany is thrilled with how beautiful and happy their mother looks in the painting.
** In the ''Black Emporium'' DLC, one of the codex entries found in the eponymous location talks about the "Velvet Cailans," a weird collection of portraits of King Cailan of Ferelden on black velvet canvas. It's an in-universe riff on the real-world phenomenon of portraits of Music/ElvisPresley on black velvet.
** If Bethany is the surviving sibling, there is a minor quest in Act 1 in which Hawke presents her with an old portrait of their mother Leandra, from long before any of them were born. The picture is not shown to the player, but Bethany is thrilled with how beautiful and happy their mother looks in the painting.
** In the ''Black Emporium'' DLC, one of the codex entries found in the eponymous location talks about the "Velvet Cailans," a weird collection of portraits of King Cailan of Ferelden on black velvet canvas. It's an in-universe riff on the real-world phenomenon of portraits of Music/ElvisPresley on black velvet.
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** King's short story "The Road Virus Heads North" is about a man who purchases the titular painting, which depicts a sharp-toothed man sitting in a truck, from a yard sale. The woman who sells it to him mentions that it used to belong to her uncle, who recently died under mysterious--and violent--circumstances. As is par for the course with King, the buyer realizes that [[CreepyChangingPainting the painting is transforming]] as time goes by: specifically, the backdrop is changing as if the truck is actually driving. When the man sees that the background is the yard sale, now utterly destroyed with the woman's bloody corpse nearby, he turns on the news and discovers that the real yard sale suffered the same fate. The story ends with the buyer looking at the painting one final time: the truck is empty, with fresh bloodstains on the seat, and ''his own house'' is the backdrop...
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* Creator/OscarWilde's ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'': The eponymous portrait is probably one of the most famous examples of a fictional work of art. It has the unique property of [[CreepyChangingPainting having its subject become gradually more distorted and grotesque as time goes on]], mirroring the real Dorian's own moral decay.
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* Creator/OscarWilde's ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'': The eponymous portrait is probably one of the most famous examples of a fictional work of art. It has The titular character obtains it as part of a DealWithTheDevil to gain eternal life and youth, commenting that he wishes he could remain as beautiful and unchanging as his painted visage. True to form, Dorian remains completely physically unchanged--but the unique property of painting itself [[CreepyChangingPainting having its subject become becomes gradually more distorted and grotesque as time goes on]], mirroring the real Dorian's own moral decay.decay. [[spoiler: The ending of the story reveals that the painting also functions as a SoulJar--when Dorian stabs it in a fit of rage, he dies and instantly becomes the aged, monstrous version of himself from the work, while the painted Dorian goes back to its original form.]]
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* In ''Literature/TheLaboursOfHercules'', Hercule Poirot takes on twelve cases that correspond with the titular Labors from mythology. The ninth case, "The Girdle of Hippolyta," is about a fictional Rubens painting depicting the Amazon queen presenting her girdle to Hercules. The painting goes missing and Poirot must track it down while solving the apparently unrelated case of a schoolgirl who, after vanishing from a train she was riding with fellow students, turns up miles away with no recollection of what happened.
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* The first episode of ''Series/NightGallery'' featured a segment about a rich man who owns a large painting of his property. After his EvilNephew kills him for his money, [[CreepyChangingPainting details in the painting start changing]] to reflect the dead man's grave, and then him slowly rising from it and coming toward the door. The nephew panics and ends up accidentally killing himself, at which point the [[TheButlerDidIt family butler]] gloats over his trick--he was the one secretly adding the new elements to the painting so he could steal the fortune. But the end of the episode shows the painting [[RealAfterAll changing on its own]], with the ''nephew'' now making his way toward the house, spelling a grisly end for the butler.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Requiem for Methuselah". While in Flint's mansion, Spock discovers a number of da Vinci paintings that have never been catalogued. It later turns out that Flint is an [[JuliusBeethovenDaVinci immortal who was da Vinci and other famous men]]. He created the new works after leaving Earth.
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** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Requiem for Methuselah". While in Flint's mansion, Spock discovers a number of da Vinci paintings that have never been catalogued. It later turns out that Flint is an [[JuliusBeethovenDaVinci immortal who was da Vinci and other famous men]]. He created the new works after leavingEarth.Earth.
** The ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS2E02Penance Penance]]'' features a painting of one General Jean-Luc Picard in Chateau Picard.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Requiem for Methuselah". While in Flint's mansion, Spock discovers a number of da Vinci paintings that have never been catalogued. It later turns out that Flint is an [[JuliusBeethovenDaVinci immortal who was da Vinci and other famous men]]. He created the new works after leaving
** The ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS2E02Penance Penance]]'' features a painting of one General Jean-Luc Picard in Chateau Picard.
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* Daniel Robitaille, the eponymous ''Film/Candyman'', was a portrait artist in life; his paintings are central to the plot of the third film.
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* In ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'' (both the broadway show and the film), the entire plot revolves around a painting, "After the Hunt," by a presumably fictional artist Beaugarde, and two student copies of it, one of them quite good, the other not.
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* In ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'' (both the broadway Broadway show and the film), the entire plot revolves around a painting, "After the Hunt," by a presumably the fictional artist Beaugarde, and two student copies of it, one of them quite good, the other not.
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* A painting called "The Fallen Madonna With the Big Boobies" is a RunningGag in ''Series/AlloAllo''
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** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]", Creator/VincentVanGogh paints the TARDIS exploding, much to his distress. The painting first appeared in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor Vincent and the Doctor]]", where is discovered in the actual era as an uncredited Van Gogh painting, later demonstrated it was an original painting of him.
** In the MilestoneCelebration episode "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]", there's the "Undergallery" in National Gallery in London where there're various secret paintings that are unavaliable to the public for various reasons, like a portrait of Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethI with the [[Creator/DavidTennant Tenth Doctor]]; a version of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'', except [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZSe7EBCIAAEtiS.jpg:large with Cybermen]]; and some paintings which are made with Time Lord technology (called as 3D paintings), important part of the plot.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': One of the three cases in "Tri-Borough" centers around a fictional early-American painting called, ''Immortality'' by fictional artist Jacques de Suis. At first it is thought to be a forgery, but turns out to be real in-universe.
** In the MilestoneCelebration episode "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]", there's the "Undergallery" in National Gallery in London where there're various secret paintings that are unavaliable to the public for various reasons, like a portrait of Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethI with the [[Creator/DavidTennant Tenth Doctor]]; a version of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'', except [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZSe7EBCIAAEtiS.jpg:large with Cybermen]]; and some paintings which are made with Time Lord technology (called as 3D paintings), important part of the plot.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': One of the three cases in "Tri-Borough" centers around a fictional early-American painting called, ''Immortality'' by fictional artist Jacques de Suis. At first it is thought to be a forgery, but turns out to be real in-universe.
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** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]", Creator/VincentVanGogh paints the TARDIS exploding, much to his distress. The painting first appeared in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor Vincent and the Doctor]]", where is discovered in the actual era as an uncredited Van Gogh painting, later demonstrated it was an original painting of him.
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** In the MilestoneCelebration episode "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]",there's the "Undergallery" in of the National Gallery in London where there're contains various secret paintings that are unavaliable not on display to the public for various reasons, like a portrait of Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethI with the [[Creator/DavidTennant Tenth Doctor]]; a version of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'', except [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZSe7EBCIAAEtiS.jpg:large with Cybermen]]; and some 3D paintings which are made with Time Lord technology (called as 3D paintings), important part of the plot.
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** In the MilestoneCelebration episode "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]",
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1891 SCP-1891 ("Constructeur")]]. SCP-1891 is a painting of a humanoid clothed in construction tools (wrenches, hammers, etc.). If any other painting is brought into the same structure as SCP-1891, the other painting will change to a depiction of large industrial machines. The humanoid will disappear from SCP-1891 and appear in the other painting, maintaining the machines.
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1891 SCP-1891 ("Constructeur")]]. SCP-1891 is a painting of a humanoid clothed in construction tools (wrenches, hammers, etc.). If any other painting is brought into the same structure as SCP-1891, the other painting will change to into a depiction of large industrial machines. The humanoid will disappear from SCP-1891 and appear in the other painting, maintaining the machines.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': Gustavo Calderón has what appears to be a blank canvas prominently displayed in his mansion. Calderón explains that it's actually a colorful masterpiece that's been covered with layer after layer of white paint so no trace of the color shows through. Sterling and Malory Archer are stunned to learn that the piece is worth $40 million USD.
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* Daniel Robitaille, the eponymous Film/Candyman, was a portrait artist in life; his paintings are central to the plot of the third film.
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* ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'': Featured in several books, Leonard of Quirm's "Woman Holding Ferret" is the Disc's equivalent of the "Lady with an Ermine", and "Mona Ogg", which is obviously the Disc's equivalent of the "Mona Lisa" (which portrays a young Nanny Ogg).
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* ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'', ''The Ascension of the Magdelene'', a medieval scenario in which a painting of the Ascension of a women into the archetypical Invisible Clergy has reality-warping powers, paralleling the standard modern setting in which a videotape fills the conceptual role.
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* ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'', ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' has ''The Ascension of the Magdelene'', Magdalene'', a medieval scenario in which a an eponymous painting of the Ascension ascension of a women woman into the archetypical Invisible Clergy has reality-warping powers, paralleling the standard modern setting in which a videotape fills the same conceptual role.
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* "Literature/PickmansModel" by Creator/HPLovecraft focuses on the paintings of MadArtist Richard Pickman, who is ostracized by the art community for his violent scenes of hideous monsters. When he gives his friend Thurber (the narrator) a tour of his studio, Thurber is extremely unsettled by the level of realism in one particular painting, which depicts one of the monsters gnawing on a human corpse. He's even more unsettled to learn that the reference image he pocketed [[spoiler is a photograph of the model.]]
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* The poem "My Last Duchess," by Creator/RobertBrowning, is a dramatic monologue in which the Duke of Ferrara displays a painting of his late wife to an ambassador who is there to negotiate a remarriage, revealing his [[CrazyJealousGuy many irrational grievances]] with the good-natured Duchess and, eventually, his arrangement of her murder.
* The poem "My Last Duchess," by Creator/RobertBrowning, is a dramatic monologue in which the Duke of Ferrara displays a painting of his late wife to an ambassador who is there to negotiate a remarriage, revealing his [[CrazyJealousGuy many irrational grievances]] with the good-natured Duchess and, eventually, his arrangement of her murder.
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* In ''Literature/TheTwoGeorges'', by Creator/HarryTurtledove and Creator/RichardDreyfuss (yes, the actor), the titular Thomas Gainsborough painting depicts a meeting between George Washington and King George III that led to a peaceful resolution of the issues between Great Britain and her American colonies. Two hundred years later, the territory that never became the United States is still under British dominion as part of the North American Union, and the painting is considered a powerful symbol of unity. Terrorist group the Sons of Liberty steal the painting, and the protagonist must recover it before it is destroyed.
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* In the Literature/LordPeterWimsey novel ''[[Literature/ThronesDominions Thrones, Dominions]]'', the artist Chapparelle paints two portraits: The first is of Harriet, and its in-story purpose is to show her character and to let her see the second portrait in-progress. The second portrait is of Rosamund, and is destroyed by her murderer to hide the clue it portrays: [[spoiler:a paper mache mask that the murderer used to fool a witness into thinking the victim was still alive - and thus provide the murderer with an alibi.]]
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