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Certain works of art are so classic that they've become iconic. As such, they are frequently exploited for symbolic or comedic effect.

Many classic {{paintings}} and {{sculptures}} have found their way into popular media. So frequently are these images exploited that people who may have never seen the original works still recognize the images.

The broader trope is StockShoutOut, which covers similar items from pop culture rather than fine art.

Compare TruthInTelevision and LifeImitatesArt, where this inspirational transition is made beyond the fourth wall. Not to be confused with the simple fact that [[FollowTheLeader artists imitate other artists]]. See also [[ReferencedBy/OtherMedia Referenced By.Other Media]]'s art list.

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[[folder:Specific subtropes include:]]
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* AmericanGothicCouple (Grant Wood's ''American Gothic'')
* TheBurlesqueOfVenus (Creator/SandroBotticelli's ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus|Botticelli}}'')
* CaninesGamblingInACardGame (Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's ''Art/DogsPlayingPoker'')
* LastSupperSteal (the {{tableau}} from Leonardo Da Vinci's ''Art/TheLastSupper'')
* MonaLisaSmile (Creator/LeonardoDaVinci's ''[[Art/TheMonaLisa Mona Lisa]]'')
* NighthawksShot (Creator/EdwardHopper's ''Nighthawks'')
* PietaPlagiarism (Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti's ''Pietà'')
* RecliningVenus (Giorgione's ''[[Art/SleepingVenusGiorgione Sleeping Venus]]'')
* TheScreamParody (Creator/EdvardMunch's ''Art/{{The Scream|Munch}}'')
* SistineSteal (Michelangelo's [[Art/SistineChapel ceiling of the Sistine Chapel]], specifically the "Creation of Adam" image)
* ThinkerPose (Creator/AugusteRodin's ''The Thinker'')
* TheVitruvianPose (Creator/LeonardoDaVinci's ''Vitruvian Man'' drawing)
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[[folder:Works of art that are often imitated without a subtrope existing for them include:]]
* ''Art/{{Abaporu}}'' (by Creator/TarsilaDoAmaral)
* ''Art/{{Annunciation}}'' (by Creator/LeonardoDaVinci)
* ''Art/TheArnolfiniPortrait'' (by Jan van Eyck)
* ''Art/TheBayeuxTapestry'' -- See the [[ReferencedBy/TheBayeuxTapestry Referenced By]] page.
* ''Art/TheFallenAngel'' (by Creator/AlexandreCabanel)
* ''Art/LibertyLeadingThePeople'' (by Eugène Delacroix)
* ''Art/NefertitiBust''
* ''Art/TheNightWatch'' (by Creator/RembrandtVanRijn)
* ''Art/LOrigineDuMonde'' (by Gustave Courbet)
* ''Art/ThePersistenceOfMemory'' (by Creator/SalvadorDali)
* ''The Spirit of '76 / Yankee Doodle'' (by Archibald Willard)
* ''Art/TheStarryNight'' (by Creator/VincentVanGogh)
* ''Art/StatueOfLiberty''
* ''Art/VenusDeMilo''
* ''Le Violon d'Ingres'' (by Man Ray)
* ''Art/WandererAboveTheSeaOfFog'' (by Creator/CasparDavidFriedrich)[[/index]]
* ''Washington Crossing the Delaware'' (by Emanuel Leutze)
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!!Examples:

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Manga artist Creator/SuehiroMaruo loves integrating elements of famous paintings into his compositions. Examples: ''The Garden of Earthly Delights'' by Creator/HieronymusBosch, ''Hope'' by George Frederic Watts, ''The Plague'' by Arnold Boeckin, and ({{NSFW}})''The Guitar Lesson'' by Balthus.
* The opening and closing credits for ''Manga/ElfenLied'' take an immense cue from the works of Creator/GustavKlimt, to the point of inserting the five mains into a Klimt-like painting.
* ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'''s opening credits also contain numerous allusions to Creator/GustavKlimt's work.
* [[http://pm1.narvii.com/5763/dfd8ca4925ad417802b939e121fffbd588f4a7b9_hq.jpg This picture]] of ''Literature/{{Shimoneta}}'' references Eugène Delacroix's ''Liberty Leading the People''.
* One episode of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' featured Garterbelt being revived by God and forced to relive all of human history. References to famous paintings, photographs and film stills abound.
* ''Shisunki Renaissance David-kun'' is a series ''built'' off of this trope. All of the characters are based off of famous art pieces, and there are many panels that recreate some famous artwork, including gag reactions.
* During a montage in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' showing how [[spoiler:the series' LayeredWorld [[MergedReality collapsed into a single plane of existence]]]], one of the spread pages is full of monsters based on the demons shown in Creator/HieronymusBosch's ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''.
* Garaku Utagawa of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' [[ArtInitiatesLife creates ink painting that come to life]], several of which homage traditional Japanese art:
** His ZergRush of rabbits and frogs resemble those in the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga]]'' picture scrolls.
** His giant octopus, which ends up [[TentacleRope grabbing Matsuri and Suzu]], resembles the ones in the infamous woodblock print ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife]]''.
* In ''Manga/{{Nisekoi}}'', Marika makes a gigantic chocolate statue of Raku for Valentines Day, with the same size and pose of ''Art/{{David}}''.
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[[folder:Arts]]
* One way to depict the Grecorroman LoveGoddess is the "Venus Pudica", which was very popular during the Hellenistic period. It features her as self-conscious of her own nakedness and divine beauty, causing her to daintily try and cover her breasts and crotch. It contrasts with other common takes on her, in which she neither flaunts nor cares about her looks but is merely solemn. It draws from the goddess' early days when she was still a virgin. Several {{art}}works featuring the goddess are modeled after it, the most influential one being the ''Art/CapitolineVenus'' and its replica, the ''Art/AphroditeOfMenophantos''. Both {{sculptures}} share the positioning of the hands, the presence of a towel/sheet, and the fact that the goddess is fresh off a bath. Depictions in {{paintings}} include Creator/SandroBotticelli's ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus|Botticelli}}''.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_art Academicism]] was all about this trope -- using a not-so-{{Small Reference Pool|s}} (the Classical Mythology and Christianity) following strict rules of proportion and composition, which greatly hindered creativity and caused artists to repeat the masters' artworks over and over. Creator/AlexandreCabanel, despite disagreeing with it in his youth, won a contest by imitating Giorgione's ''Art/{{Sleeping Venus|Giorgione}}''. He later learned to give his own OriginalFlavor to such Neoclassicist paintings.
* ''Art/TheBirthOfVenusCabanel'': It's said to be one of the more famous works of art directly inspired by the TropeCodifier of the RecliningVenus ''[[Art/SleepingVenusGiorgione Sleeping Venus]]''.
* ''Art/MediciChapels'':
** ''Art/SleepingAriadne'', an ancient Rome {{sculpture|s}}, loosely influences three of the allegorical statues. All of them are in resting positions. "Night", in particular, is also sleeping. "Dawn" has just woken up and "Dusk" is preparing to sleep. "Day", [[AvertedTrope by contrast]], has an energetic posture.
** The tomb portrait of Lorenzo has been known as "Il Pensiero" ("The Thinker"). The similarity between the poses is what gave Rodin's much later sculpture its name.
* Édouard Manet had a deep understanding of art history, having based ''Art/LeDejeunerSurLHerbe'' on the ''Art/{{Judgement of Paris}}'' (ca. 1515) by Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael, ''Pastoral Concert'' by Creator/{{Giorgione}} or Titian, ''Art/TheTempest'' by Giorgione and ''La Partie Carrée'' by Antoine Watteau.
* ''Art/GrandeOdalisque'': Much like various other historical examples of the RecliningVenus, Ingres admitted that his primary inspiration for ''Grande Odalisque'' was the ''Art/DresdenVenus'' and the ''Art/VenusOfUrbino''.
* The ''figura serpentinata'' prevalent in the Mannerist movement was a big influence on the composition of Bernini's ''{{Art/The Rape of Proserpina|Bernini}}'', Giambologna's ''The Rape of the Sabine Women'' being the most obvious in similarities.
* Henry Fuseli's 1781 painting ''The Nightmare'' -depicting a SleepParalysisCreature squatting on the chest of a dozing woman, while a HellishHorse watches-- has become a staple of this. Fuseli himself painted a few variations on the theme throughout the 1780s and '90s, and the Danish artist Nicolai Abildgaard painted his own HotterAndSexier version in 1800. To a less overt extent, it was also likely an influence of Creator/FranciscoDeGoya's ''Art/TheSleepOfReasonProducesMonsters'', which shows a male sleeper being tormented by strange creatures -- in this case, a swarm of [[BatOutOfHell bats]] and [[OminousOwl owls]].
* ''Art/NueCouchee'': The RecliningVenus pose that it emulates is interpreted as being from the back of the model not unlike ''Art/GrandeOdalisque''.
* Most of the {{paintings}} and drawings on Creator/AzaSmith's ''Website/GrindhouseAndWatercolorsTheRevulsionAndTerrorOfAzaSmith'' are representational depictions of his ragdolls, which are considered artwork in it of themselves.
* ''VenusAndCupidLotto'': It's but one of many paintings that came out with the blockbusting popularity of the Art/DresdenVenus, the subject matter and the RecliningVenus position being one of the larger signs of this.
* Creator/SalvadorDali's "[[https://lakeimagesweb.artic.edu/iiif/2/54b1e714-0806-9420-dcaa-cf3d14342bd6/full/!800,800/0/default.jpg Venus de Milo with Drawers]]" is a replica of the Art/VenusDeMilo with certain segments cutoff to resemble drawers with fluffy balls as handlers.
* ''Art/YoungHylasWithTheWaterNymphs'':
** Like many of the other depictions of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hylas]] at the time, the painting was directly inspired by Creator/JohnWilliamWaterhouse's ''Art/HylasAndTheNymphs''.
** The sepia coloring and poses of the nymphs are reminiscent of Rubens' "The Disembarkation at Marseilles" (from the Art/MarieDeMediciCycle).
* ''Art/{{Olympia}}'':
** The painting itself deliberately pays homage to Titian's ''Venus of Urbino''.
** ''Olympia'''s fame would go on to inspire a number of homages, including ''Portrait (Futago)'' by Yasumasa Morimura and ''A Modern Olympia'' by Paul Cézanne.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* The [[http://a21.idata.over-blog.com/0/31/92/83/images-hors-BD/Peintres/Renoir/M-C-V-TT.jpg last panel]] of ''ComicBook/{{Valerian}}'''s adventure "On the False Earths" references ''Luncheon of the Boating Party'', a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
* Creator/ReneGoscinny and Creator/AlbertUderzo have recreations of various famous paintings or sculptures scattered throughout the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' books.
** In ''Recap/AsterixTheLegionary'', for one iteration of the running gag of the pirates having their ship sunk by the Gauls, they wind up recreating ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'' by Theodore Géricault.
** In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheLaurelWreath'', on the same page a Roman slave takes poses of Auguste Rodin's ''Thinker'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n_and_His_Sons Laocoön and His Sons]]'', and Myron's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discobolus Discobolus]]''.
** In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheSoothsayer'', you can recognize ''The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp'' by Creator/RembrandtVanRijn.
** In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGreatCrossing'', Asterix himself poses like the Art/StatueOfLiberty when hailing the Viking longship from atop a cairn.
** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peasant_Wedding The Peasant Wedding]]'' by Creator/PieterBruegelTheElder is recreated in ''Recap/AsterixInBelgium''.
* A [[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/23/swampthing4runawayhomag.jpg/ page]] in 2012's ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' #4 references [[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/853/rockwellrunaway.jpg/ The Runaway]] by Creator/NormanRockwell.
* ''Red Soul'' (third album of ''{{ComicBook/Blacksad}})'' references "Connoisseur" by Creator/NormanRockwell.
* "[[http://www.newsarama.com/19629-batman-editor-answers-10-questions-about-the-thanksgiving-teaser.html Happy Batsgiving]]", one of Creator/DCComics' double-page deeply-symbolic-of-upcoming-stories art pieces, is based on "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_First_Thanksgiving_cph.3g04961.jpg The First Thanksgiving]]" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.
* "[[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=50564 Abandon All Hope]]", another of these, focusing on ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' and related characters, is based on the bottom right corner of "[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Michelangelo,_Giudizio_Universale_02.jpg The Last Judgement]]" by Michelangelo.
* ''ComicBook/PinkyAndPepperForever'': Pepper's art tends to place her girlfriend Pinky in various art references. The one that gets her a nasty homophobic insult from a classmate is a [[TheBurlesqueOfVenus Burlesque of Venus]] with Pinky as Venus in a grubby apartment standing on a mattress. Some of the paintings she does [[spoiler:after Pinky's death]] reference ''The Scream'', ''Satan Devouring His Son,'' and ''[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_(painting) Ophelia]]'' by Sir John Millais.
* In ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'':
** "Het Spaanse Spook" ("The Spanish Ghost"): Suske, Wiske and Lambik are zapped into Creator/PieterBruegelTheElder's "Peasant Wedding" where they have an adventure in the 16th century. They also meet Bruegel himself.
** "Het Rijmende Paard" ("The Rhyming Horse") the painting of ''St. Martin Dividing His Cloak'' by Anthony Van Dyck is brought alive to teach humanity about sharing. By accident it's just his horse that escapes from the painting and needs to be brought back.
* Happens a lot in ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'' too. In the story "Hotel O." all the rooms are named after famous {{painters}} and various references are made to these works. For instance a vase with sunflowers being brought to the Creator/VincentVanGogh room.
* Coincidentally, the same week in 2015 saw the release of [=TPBs=] of ''ComicBook/{{Lumberjanes}}'' and ''ComicBook/Prez2015'' which both had covers featuring female protagonists in parodies of Emanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware".
* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' artists seem to [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joker_copy_4176.jpg love]] [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/ce/0a/97/ce0a971f52b2c18b7cc78d3801516a1f.jpg putting]] [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judge Death]] in place of ComicBook/TheJoker in [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C95eWGJ8xPY/Txp1yyZsy0I/AAAAAAAABDU/b5UYweGBctk/s1600/JohnDouglas_Killing-Joke_4.jpg homages]] [[http://art.cafimg.com/images/Category_48189/subcat_130463/Meg211_1a.jpg to]] old Brian Bolland artworks (who has worked on both 2000AD and DC properties).
* ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'': The Batgirls (Alysia Yeoh, Felicity Smoak, Harper Row, Kathleen Duquesne, Mary Kane, and Nell Little), Cullen Row and Tim Drake all eat lunch on a steel girder posed like the subjects of the famous depression era photo "Lunch atop a Skyscraper"--generally attributed to Charles C. Ebbets-- of construction workers eating high above New York's streets while working on Rockefeller Center.
* The pose of ComicBook/{{Superboy}} cockily smirking over his shoulder at the viewer while pointing with his thumb over his other shoulder at the S symbol on the back of his jacket from The Adventures of Superman has been used on a couple of covers; Byron Stark is in a mirrored version of the pose on the cover of ''ComicBook/SuperboyAndTheRavers'' #3, and Kon himself uses it again on the cover of ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}: ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}'' #1.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'':
** The cover of ''Adventure Comics #247: ComicBook/TheLegionOfSuperHeroes'', portraying the three founders of the team behind a desk with name tags judging Superboy as unworthy of their "super-hero club" gets homaged occasionally:
*** The cover of ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #147 revisits the theme with the Legion characters replaced by their evil counterparts.
*** The cover of ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' Vol 4 #88 sees the trio--Lighting Lad replaced by his sister--trying to reject ComicBook/{{Impulse}} but finding their buttons aren't working while Imp holds sparking wires behind his back.
*** The cover of ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' Vol 5 #48 depicts most of the Legion behind tiered desks with name tags watching tryouts for the club.
*** The cover of ''The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide'' #29 painted by Creator/AlexRoss features the same characters as the original but in a more realistic style with more dramatic lighting.
*** The cover of ''Simpsons Comics'' #68 has the classic set up, poses and props with Homer being rejected by other Simpsons characters all dressed as superheroes.
*** The cover of ''Creator/{{Dark Horse|Comics}} Presents'' #115 has odd characters dressed somewhat like the Legion trio rejecting Dr. Spin's application to their superhero club.
*** One of the back-up strips in the ''ComicBook/{{LEGION|DC Comics}}'' Creator/{{Elseworlds}} Annual was a {{Retraux}} story featuring a Silver Age version of L.E.G.I.O.N. The opening panel showed them on an intergalactic quiz show where the host was wearing a Superman costume (without the ChestInsignia), and they relayed their answers with the same Yes/No buttons.
*** The cover of "ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroesBugsBunnySpecial" is another homage to ''Adventure Comics'' #247, replacing Superboy and the Legion three founders with Bugs Bunny, Lightning Lass, Ultra Boy and Brainiac 5 (who states that "[they're] not THAT desperate!")
** "ComicBook/ThoseEmeraldEyesAreShining": The cover of issue #301 is a homage to the cover of ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'' #300, wherein the magazine became the ''Legion of Super-Heroe'''s official "home".
* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joker_copy_4176.jpg The infamous Brian Bollard artwork]] of ComicBook/TheJoker lounging in front of a wall of [[HumanHeadOnTheWall superheroes' mounted heads]] has been homaged with other villains, such as [[https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ce/0a/97/ce0a971f52b2c18b7cc78d3801516a1f.jpg this one]] of [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judge Death]], [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sladeo_9088.png this one]] of ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} and the ComicBook/TeenTitans, and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spencer_hunted_94.jpg this one]] of Kraven the Hunter and various ''ComicBook/{{Spiderman}}'' characters.
* The covers of ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber1'' (with Superman lifting a car and smashing it against a rock), ''ComicBook/SupermanNumber1'' (with Superman leaping over the city in an oval panel with a fancy border) and ''[[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959 Action Comics #252]]'' (with ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} flying out of her rocketship before the shocked stare of Superman) are frequently homaged by both DC and other companies to introduce a SupermanSubstitute or a "new chapter" in Clark's life.
* ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' #965, part one of "A Lonely Place of Living", has [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/5/5c/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_965.jpg a cover]] based on [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/e/ef/Batman_441.jpg that]] of ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' #441, part three of "A Lonely Place of Dying". Both show Tim Drake holding a Robin costume and looking at it uncertainly, with the faces of Batman and the villain (Two-Face/Mr Oz) superimposed in the background, and the other main characters (Alfred and Dick/Batwoman, Clayface, Batwing, Orphan and Azrael) standing behind him.
* A [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/c/cb/Deathstroke_Inc._Vol_1_8_Burnham_Variant.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20220429150338 variant cover]] of ''ComicBook/DeathstrokeInc'' #8, is an almost exact duplicate of the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/c/c0/Deathstroke_the_Terminator_Vol_1_1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080505043112 cover]] of ''Deathstroke the Terminator'' #1, [[{{Retraux}} complete with title design and the old DC Bullet logo]], except that Slade is in his current outfit, is toting [[{{BFG}} an even bigger gun]], and the background shows the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial, rather than a generic cityscape.
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' vol 2 twice duplicated notable covers from the same number of vol 1:
** [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/f/f4/Flash_v.2_105.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090103235421 The cover of #105]], which sees the return of the second Mirror Master is based on [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/5/53/The_Flash_Vol_1_105.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160607023305 the vol. 1 cover]] which introduced the original. Except that while Barry was running towards a row of mirrors with identical reflections of Scudder, Wally is running through a crazy mirror dimension with [=McCulloch=] reflected in random shards from all angles.
** [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/f/ff/Flash_v.2_123.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090103235725 The cover of #123]], in which Wally had become the official hero of Santa Marta, California, commuting from Keystone, duplicated [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/c/ce/The_Flash_Vol_1_123.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20060628132750 the famous "The Flash of Two Worlds" cover]], except that instead of Barry and Jay both rushing to rescue the same man, it showed two Wallys rushing to rescue different men in the same pose (one wearing a Hawaiian shirt and with palm trees in the background).
* Similarly, [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/0/0a/Green_Lantern_Vol_3_76.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090105233808 the cover]] of ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' vol.3 #76, which began a crossover with ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' under the title "Hard-Travelling Heroes: The Next Generation" shows Kyle using a ring-created arrow to destroy Conner's bow, in an identical composition to Ollie firing an arrow at Hal's power battery on [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/1/1c/Green_Lantern_Vol_2_76.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200530231846 the cover of vol.2 #76]], which began the original "Hard-Travelling Heroes" storyline. It even uses a modernised version of the "Green Lantern co-starring Green Arrow" logo introduced in that issue, which continued for the rest of the crossover.
* ''ComicBook/TheQuestForKalevala'': In one panel, the heroes and Magica in her bird form are in the same position as the people in the famous Finnish painting ''The Defense of the Sampo'' by Akseli Gallen-Kallela.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* Given that one of the main characters of ''ComicStrip/SafeHavens'' is a child, time traveling Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, it's surprising it doesn't happen more often. But in one notable instance, he shows that his painting "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" is actually a family portrait he paints of himself, his mother Maria, [[spoiler: and his stepmother Bambi]], to show his mother in the past that she would find love again. Another time, after he says he promises to someday paint his friend Candide's portrait, Candide is seen giving the MonaLisaSmile, implying that she's the true identity of Mona Lisa.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* The Art/VenusDeMilo is frequently used, usually in period pieces where the whole statue is shown and then the arms are "accidentally" broken off. This joke was used in ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix'' (1976) for instance and later stolen for Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' (1997) too.
* The end credits of ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'' feature depictions of the characters in parodies of famous paintings. Fox example, Gus appears as the ''Blue Boy'', and the Grand Duke is in ''Art/TheScreamMunch".
* The end credits for ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' features a snapshot of a Thanksgiving dinner styled like Creator/NormanRockwell's ''Freedom from Want''.
* ''WebVideo/MadGod'' never recreates a specific painting, but the director has said that the goal was to capture the feel of a Hieronymous Bosch work, albeit with a somewhat more DieselPunk aesthetic.
* Near the end of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', the titular character meets [[spoiler: the released souls of the children the Other Mother ate]] in a heavenly place resembling Vincent van Gogh's ''The Starry Night''.
* ''WesternAnimation/LovingVincent'' takes a heavy influence from van Gogh's paintings for its visuals. In the closing credits images of the characters are put next to the original paintings that served as inspiration.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JosephKingOfDreams'', the first dream Joseph has are inspired by the van Gogh's wheatfield paintings, while the second is inspired by van Gogh's The Starry Night.
* The Hungarian animated film ''Animation/RubenBrandtCollector'' follows a psychotherapist tormented by nightmares inspired by famous works of art, including The Birth of Venus, Magritte's The Treachery of Images, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the Triple Elvis by Andy Warhol. The art style of the movie itself seems to be heavily influenced by Dali and Pablo Picasso's Cubism period.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* BibleTimes movies covering Jesus will often homage the ''[[PietaPlagiarism Pietà]]'' pose with the actual people involved. For instance, ''Series/JesusOfNazareth'' has Mary wailing in her grief as she cradles her son, while ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' has her suffer in silence and stare at the viewer.
* Reenactments of the self-[[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning crowning]] of Emperor UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte and Empress UsefulNotes/JosephineDeBeauharnais often imitate Creator/JacquesLouisDavid's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coronation_of_Napoleon rendition of it]]. The films reenacting it include:
** ''Désirée'' (1954), with Creator/MarlonBrando.
** ''Film/{{Austerlitz}}'' (1960) with Creator/PierreMondy oddly features it... as a model recreation [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome while it happens offscreen]].
** ''[[Film/Napoleon1955 Napoléon]]'' (1955) with Raymond Pellegrin.
** ''Film/{{Napoleon|2023}}'' (2023) with Creator/JoaquinPhoenix. From this one there's also Napoleon on his horse before Art/TheSphinx in Giza, UsefulNotes/{{Egypt}}, like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaparte_Before_the_Sphinx Jean-Léon Gérôme painting]] from 1867-1886.
* ''Film/AsterixAndObelixMissionCleopatra'': When the pirates get shipwrecked and find themselves on a raft, we get a near perfect recreation of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]''.
* Creator/ZackSnyder ''loves'' Renaissance/classical imagery, particularly religious art, and it shows in his films.
** The LastSupperSteal in the opening of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}''.
** ''Film/SnowSteamIron'' has a naked woman carrying (and even kissing) a bearded man's decapitated head in "Judith beheading Holofernes" fashion.
** Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
*** ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': Wonder Woman and Batman carrying Superman's dead body is reminiscent of depictions of the Christ being de-crucified.
*** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'': The preview that Snyder presented at the IGN Fan Fest in late February 2021 depicts all founding members of the Justice League in [[Film/ManOfSteel Kryptonian hologram]]-like reliefs. [[https://static1.colliderimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/justice-league-snyder-cut-mother-box-teaser-batman-social-featured.png Batman]] is seen in a pose that's reminiscent of a number of [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Sebastian-rubens.jpg depictions of Christian martyr Saint Sebastian]].
* The 1935 film version of ''[[Film/DavidCopperfield1935 David Copperfield]]'' has several scenes staged to resemble the original illustrations from the novel, most notably the early scene of David and family at church, which is an exact copy of the drawing from the book.
* In Creator/JohnFord's ''[[Film/YoungMrLincoln Young Mr. Lincoln]]'' (1939), at the end of the trial scene, young Abe (Creator/HenryFonda) is seen sitting in a chair, his head bowed in thought, in the exact posture of the Daniel Chester French statue in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'' features Venus herself, appearing like in the Botticelli painting.
* ''Film/BarryLyndon'', directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick, is visually modelled on rococo paintings, especially Thomas Gainsborough and Antoine Watteau. [[SceneryPorn The effect is gorgeous.]]
* One scene in Italian horror movie ''Film/TheChurch'' (''La Chiesa'', 1989, written by Creator/DarioArgento and directed by Michele Soavi) is taken directly from a Creator/BorisVallejo painting "Vampire's Kiss". Also, the design for the lizard-demon-gargoyle creature is taken from an infamous 1600s wood-carving depicting a man selling his soul to the devil.
* When Creator/CharlesLaughton is first seen in ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfHenryVIII'', he is standing in a doorway in [[http://immortalephemera.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/03/charles-laughton-1.jpg the exact same pose]] that Henry VIII struck for [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Workshop_of_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_-_Portrait_of_Henry_VIII_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg the famous Hans Holbein portait]].
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'': Dracula's castle is modeled after the [[https://nicklouras.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/ixrbul4y.jpeg?w=1024 painting "The Black Idol" (1903]]) by Frantisek Kupka.
** [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/571e359eab7d06bca64e4fdfd27013d7/tumblr_pzgvqhcKRW1yxoemdo2_1280.jpg Dracula's portrait]] is based on [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/106d0859dc10bccb172b6657999cf185/tumblr_pzgvqhcKRW1yxoemdo1_1280.jpg Albrecht Dürer's self-portrait]].
** The [[http://nationalclothing.org/images/2019/01/Dracula16.jpg gold robe]] Dracula wears at the end of the film is meant to evoke Creator/GustavKlimt's ''Art/{{The Kiss|Klimt}}''.
* In the documentary feature ''Film/FacesPlaces'', co-directors Creator/AgnesVarda and JR talk about a decades-old photo she took of photographer Guy Bourdin sitting against an old beach shack. Then JR sits against the same beach shack in the exact same pose.
* Creator/RidleyScott's ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' has been described as a "dark [[Creator/LawrenceAlmaTadema Alma-Tadema]]"; indeed, the Anglo-Dutch painter's visions of Roman life served as a central inspiration for the film's production designers. His influence can be seen in the lavish sets and Janty Yates' costume designs, particularly for Lucilla.
* The 2015 [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Filipino]] {{Biopic}} ''Film/HeneralLuna'' has the titular HistoricalDomainCharacter and his men die in a tableau deliberately shot to resemble the ''Spoliarium'', a famous mural done by his artist older brother, Juan Luna, which shows dead gladiators being dragged away into the depths of the Roman Colosseum, as greedy onlookers wait for a chance at their possessions. (Needless to say this was unlikely how they died in RealLife.)
* ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'': [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bgE_1qGfYA8/maxresdefault.jpg Johnny's clothing attire, exaggerated movements, and flailing arms]] during his over-the-top character monologue (as well as during his occasional spastic seizures) are reminiscent of the various [[http://socks-studio.com/img/blog/longo-00.jpg charcoal sketches]] of [[https://soongsup.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/robert_longo23.jpg sharply dressed men in motion]], made and popularized by the movie's director, Robert Longo, in the 1980's.
* ''Film/{{Juarez}}'': One scene shows a Mexican patriot getting shot by French firing squad. Standing against a wall, wearing a white shirt, he throws out his arms and says "Viva Benito Juarez!" before the soldiers shoot him. The scene is staged to mirror Creator/FranciscoDeGoya's [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/El_Tres_de_Mayo%2C_by_Francisco_de_Goya%2C_from_Prado_thin_black_margin.jpg/776px-El_Tres_de_Mayo%2C_by_Francisco_de_Goya%2C_from_Prado_thin_black_margin.jpg famous painting]] ''Art/TheThirdOfMay1808''.
* One of Juliet's visions in ''Film/JulietOfTheSpirits'' is a shot of a nude woman in a clamshell a-la Botticelli's [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Sandro_Botticelli_-_La_nascita_di_Venere_-_Google_Art_Project_-_edited.jpg/1280px-Sandro_Botticelli_-_La_nascita_di_Venere_-_Google_Art_Project_-_edited.jpg "Birth of Venus"]].
* Creator/LawrenceAlmaTadema's portrayal of AncientEgypt heavily influenced the art design on ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'', ''The Finding of Moses''. Director Cecil B. [=DeMille=] reportedly instructed set designers to study the paintings in order to achieve his artistic vision.
* "Film/{{Trevor|1994}}": Trevor the natural-born LargeHam recreates "[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Jacques-Louis_David_-_Marat_assassinated_-_Google_Art_Project_2.jpg/796px-Jacques-Louis_David_-_Marat_assassinated_-_Google_Art_Project_2.jpg The Death of Marat]]" in his bathtub, complete with fake blood and quill.
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' enough references to art that it has its own folder on [[ShoutOut/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow the Shout Out page]]. Notable examples are the iconic lips in the movie's logo being inspired by Man Ray's painting ''A l'heure de l'observatoire, les Amoureux'' (''Observatory Time, The Lovers'') and the AmericanGothicCouple being referenced multiple times.
* ''Film/{{Henry V|1944}}'': Much of the scenes with the French court are staged to resemble scenes from the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Très_Riches_Heures_du_Duc_de_Berry Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry]]", a famous illustrated manuscript that was produced around the time of Agincourt. Towards the end the movie stages a copy of the famous [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Les_Très_Riches_Heures_du_duc_de_Berry_février.jpg February illustration]] from that manuscript, with Pistol in the place of the man warming himself by the fire.
* ''Film/Sin2019'': When Michelangelo comes to see a Medici cardinal, there's a lady with an ermine in her arms in the room. This is of course a reference to the famous 1489-1490 painting of the same name by Creator/LeonardoDaVinci.
* ''Film/DieUnbekannte'' was the film of a book which was inspired by the famous death mask "L'Inconnue de la Seine". The mask features a woman with a mysterious smile much like the Mona Lisa. As Madeline is drowning herself for the DownerEnding, she assumes a placid smile just like the mask's.
* ''Film/TheCell'': Some of the film's striking imagery is based on artwork. For example, the scene featuring the three women with their heads thrown back and mouths open is based on the painting ''Dawn'' by Odd Nedrum.
* ''Film/Titanic1997'': Almost every long shot of the ship is a recreation of Ken Marschall's paintings, from ''Titanic'' docked in Cherbourg to ''Carpathia'' arriving to pick up the survivors.
* ''Film/{{Ophelia}}'' takes quite a bit of inspiration from Pre-Raphaelite style art:
** The choice of scenery and particularly the way Ophelia is depicted appear to draw influence from Creator/JohnWilliamWaterhouse's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_(John_William_Waterhouse) paintings]] [[https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_William_Waterhouse_-_Ophelia,_1894.jpg of the]] [[https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JWW_Ophelia_1889.jpg character]].
** The opening scene of Ophelia drowning is reminiscent of John Everett Millais's famous painting of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_(painting) Ophelia]].
* A lot of the ocean scenes in ''Film/PacificRim'' feature CGI waves specifically modeled on Katsushika Hokusai's famous woodcut "The Great Wave off Kanagawa".
** The way the movie shows its {{kaiju}} was also directly modeled on the painting ''The Colossus'', generally attributed to Creator/FranciscoDeGoya.
* ''Film/LesVisiteurs'': The [[https://static.blog4ever.com/2011/07/508405/artfichier_508405_7613358_201803071444195.jpg portrait]] of Godefroy de Montmirail is made in the same style as the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance Italian Renaissance]] portrait of [[https://www.rivagedeboheme.fr/medias/images/p-della-f-portrait-de-federico-da-montefeltro-1465-66.jpg Federico III da Montefeltro]] by Piero della Francesca, including him wearing red clothes and the river being the exact same.
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[[folder:Literature]]
%%* Quite a bit of Creator/AynRand's ''Literature/TheFountainhead'' seems to be about this.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
** Artist Paul Kidby loves these. So far he's done:
*** Joseph Wright's ''Experiment With Air-Pump'' (''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' cover);
*** Creator/RembrandtVanRijn's ''The Night Watch'' (er, ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'' cover);
*** ''[[IwoJimaPose Raising The Flag on Iwo Jima]]'' (''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'' cover);
*** ''[[MonaLisaSmile Mona Lisa]]'' (Leonard of Quirm's "The Mona Ogg", ''Art of Discworld'' cover);
*** ''[[ThinkerPose The Thinker]]'' ([[DumbMuscle Detritus]] as "Da Finker" in ''The Art of Discworld'');
*** Holman Hunt's ''The Hireling Shepherd'' (Leonard and Gytha again in ''The Art of Discworld'');
*** ''[[AmericanGothicCouple American Gothic]]'' ([[Literature/ReaperMan Death and Miss Flitworth]] in ''The Art of Discworld'');
*** Creator/NormanRockwell's ''Triple Self-Portrait'' ([[Literature/TheColourOfMagic Twoflower's iconograph imp]] in ''The Art of Discworld'')
*** Maxfield Parrish's ''The Pied Piper'' ([[Literature/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents Maurice and Keith]] for ''The Discworld Calendar 2003'');
*** The cover of ''[[SgtPeppersShoutOut Sergeant Pepper]]'' ([[Literature/SoulMusic The Band With Rocks In]] for ''The Discworld Calendar 2012'')
*** Creator/FrankFrazetta's ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' LegCling picture ({{Gender Flip}}ped with [[Literature/{{Sourcery}} Conina the Barbarian hairdresser and Rincewind]] for ''The Discworld Calendar 2012'')
*** ''Literature/TheLastHero'' alone includes the final scene of ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' (Cohen in the frontispiece); the Bayeaux Tapestry (the Silver Horde in the ''other'' frontispiece); Da Vinci's ''Vitruvian Man'' (Leonard's design for a NASA-style training centrifuge); Munch's ''Art/{{The Scream|Munch}}'' (Rincewind's reaction to the elephants); Wright's ''Philosopher at the Orrery'' (the wizards plotting the route of the ''Kite''); the [[SistineSteal Sistine Chapel]] (Cohen giving the finger to the gods) and probably more.
** In ''The Illustrated [[Literature/TheWeeFreeMen Wee Free Men]]'' Stephen Player does a couple of pictures based on Richard Dadd's ''The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke'', since the scene in the book is specifically stated in the Author's Note to be based on that painting.
** Marc Simonetti's covers from the French translations of the books include:
*** Either the poster for ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' or the one for the 1977 biopic ''Valentino'' (''Literature/MovingPictures'')
*** The poster for MGM's ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' (''Literature/WitchesAbroad'')
*** The cover of ''[[AbbeyRoadCrossing Abbey Road]]'' (''Literature/SoulMusic'')
*** Franzetta's LegCling again (''Literature/InterestingTimes'')
* One edition of ''Literature/DaveBarrySleptHere'' has the cover parodying Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware," with the river filled with ice cubes instead of water and a character resembling the author sleeping in the back of the rowboat. (The painting is not only referenced in the text but ruthlessly mocked.)
* [[http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WomenatWar.jpg The cover]] of one cheap Sci-fi book homages Eugène Delacroix's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People Liberty Leading the People]]''.
* In ''Literature/PickmansModel'', the narrator compares Pickman's ability to create an eerie mood in his paintings to that of the real-life painter Henri Fuseli. Later on in the story, when he is shown a gallery of Pickman's {{Spooky Painting}}s, he notes that a few of them feature ghouls "squatting on the chests of sleepers", suggesting Fuseli's most famous work, ''The Nightmare''.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In Cycle 5 of ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'', when there were five contestants left, the challenge was to for each "recreate" a classic work of art, being ''Art/TheMonaLisa'', ''Whistler's Mother'', ''The Vitruvian Man'', ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus|Botticelli}}'', and ''Art/GirlWithAPearlEarring''.
* The cinematography in the first season of ''Series/{{Andor}}'' includes several allusions to ''Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog'', for example [[https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/andor-story-gallery-ep-2-01_0fdff5a5.jpeg?region=0%2C0%2C1920%2C804 these]] [[https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/andor-story-gallery-ep-2-06_5094ae2f.jpeg two]].
* ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/94/ee/0f/94ee0f3611194175e52568f7bb894230.jpg The portrait of the Bridgerton brothers]] in the family home is a send-up of a [[https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437449 1761-66 painting]] of Henry Fane, Inigo Jones, and Charles Blair by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
* The painting of 19th Century Tavern-Goers used in the opening of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' at least tried to match up imagery of the patrons with characters on the show as the actor credits flashed by.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Terror of the Autons]]", a Time Lord messenger appears as a man in a bowler hat and business suit, but floating in mid-air. This is a shout-out to Rene Magritte's painting "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golconda_(Magritte) Golconda]]", which has similarly dressed men falling into a cityscape like raindrops.
** The Fourth Doctor's iconic silhouette with wide-brimmed hat, long scarf and overcoat was inspired by the stage garb of the late-nineteenth-century cabaret singer and comedian [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristide_Bruant Aristide Bruant]], as immortalised in famous posters for him by Toulouse-Lautrec.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate Warriors' Gate]]", the ruined Gate is copied from Caspar David Friedrich's painting ''[[https://www.romantik-referat.de/malerei/kathedrale.html Klosterfriedhof im Schnee]]'' (''Monastery Graveyard in the Snow'').
** The Silence look incredibly like ''Art/TheScreamMunch''; {{Word of God}} says the in-universe explanation for this is that they've been subconsciously influencing our art and culture for centuries.
** The Undergallery in ''[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]'' has some of these, including a version of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'' with Cybermen.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]]: The Stenza travel pod is visually reminiscent of the "Nancy style" of art nouveau glassware.
* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'':
** In the prologue, Galadriel sits beside a big pile of Elvish helmets in a desolated forest. The visuals of that scene resembles a work of the 19th-century Russian painter Vasily Vereshchagin — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_War "The Apotheosis of War"]].
** Some costumes seem to be inspired by artworks too, like Galadriel wearing the golden dress in Lindon, and Queen Regent Miriel wearing a white dress with golden applications with a blue paledamentum over her shoulder, pay homage to ''Girl With A Golden Wreath'' by Leon Francois Comerre, and respectively, to ''Zenobia's last look on Palmyra'' by Herbert Gustave Schmalz.
** Galadriel's armors are both inspired by different paintings of Joan D'Arc, such as "Joan of Arc" by John Everett Millais and Charles-Amable Lenoir, and the 1854 "Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
** Disa's dress and hairstyle are inspired by several works by Creator/GustavKlimt.
** One of the Dwarven ladies witnessing the challenge between Elrond and Durin wears a headdress clearly inspired by the Iberian sculpture of the Lady of Elche.
** Elendil's white armour is very similar to the book cover made by Violet Oakley for the mythical hero Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan, in 1910.
* ''[[Series/Napoleon2002 Napoléon]]'' (2002) with Creator/ChristianClavier also recreates Creator/JacquesLouisDavid's rendition of UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte's coronation as [[TheEmperor Emperor]].
* In the ad campaign for ''Series/NipTuck'', women getting plastic surgery are positioned to resemble classical works, including Art/VenusDeMilo.
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[[folder:Magazines]]
* In ''Magazine/{{MAD}}''[='s=] "20 Dumbest People, Events and Places of 1999", the illustration for #2 was a parody of Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World" with UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton looking across a field towards the U.S. Capitol.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s [[Music/QueenII "The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke"]] was written as an expression of Music/FreddieMercury's appreciation for the eponymous painting by Richard Dadd. Consequently, the lyrics center around the various characters depicted in the painting.
* Music/TomWaits' album "Nighthawks at the Diner", unsurprisingly enough, has a cover that is a clear [[NighthawksShot tip of the hat]] to Creator/EdwardHopper's ''Nighthawks''.
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* ''The Kermitage Collection'' is a collection of famous paintings redone to star Franchise/TheMuppets, including ''[[MonaLisaSmile The Mona Moi]]'' (Piggy), ''Whistler's Weirdo'' (Gonzo), ''[[TheBurlesqueOfVenus The Birth of You-Know-Who]]'' (Piggy again), ''[[AmericanGothicCouple American Gothique]]'' (Piggy and Kermit), ''Jester at the Court of Henry VIII'' (Fozzie) and so on...
* An often-reprinted ''Series/SesameStreet'' coloring book features Muppetized versions of a variety of famous paintings.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* The final scene of ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' is intended to be blocked so that the final positions of all the actors at the curtain calls to mind the Savage[=/=]Pine engraving of the Signing, although it's rarely exact.
* The first act of ''Theatre/SundayInTheParkWithGeorge'' ends with a {{Tableau}} recreating Georges Seurat's famous painting ''Art/ASundayAfternoonOnTheIslandOfLaGrandeJatte''. The act also has scenes recreating Seurat's paintings ''Bathing Place, Asnières'' and ''Woman Powdering her Nose''.
* In ''Theatre/MaratSade'', when Marat finally gets killed, he poses as in Jacques-Louis David's painting of his death.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland''
** In "Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal", there is a Desingeograph of the "Vitruvian Pirate", which Guybrush calls "Pirate Da Vinci", on the Illuminopictoscreen; this "Vitruvian Pirate" is definitely a spoof of ''Vitruvian Man'' by Creator/LeonardoDaVinci.
** In Chapter 4, the provocative painting of Chieftain Beluga hanging above W.P. Grindstump in Club 41 is most likely a parody of the 1636 painting ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%C3%AB_%28Rembrandt_painting%29 Danaë]]'' by Creator/RembrandtVanRijn.
* ''[[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon Mr. Goemon]]'' (the UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame) has enemies surfing on the crest of Hokusai's ''The Great Wave off Kanagawa''.
* Buried deep in the bizarre abandoned MMO/chat room ''Worlds'' is the "[[Creator/MCEscher Escher]] Tribute" area, based on the ever-famous ''Relativity'', with physics to match. Can be seen [[http://www.twitch.tv/vinesauce/c/1071623 here]] at about 29 minutes in.
* ''VideoGame/MysticalFighter'' has copies of Hokusai's ''The Great Wave off Kanagawa'' on [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseArchitecture fusuma]] midway through the first stage.
* The cover art for ''VideoGame/YouAreEmpty'' copies Dmitry Moor's famous Red Army recruitment poster, except the soldier's face and hands are skeletonized.
* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', the melting clock from Creator/SalvadorDali's ''Art/ThePersistenceOfMemory'' is [[EverythingTryingToKillYou trying to kill you]].
* The various paintings by Charles Chatenay in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' are [[https://yyoungjustice.tumblr.com/post/186739562937/charles-ch%C3%A2tenays-works-are-actually-based-off-of based off of various real world paintings]] that were made during the Fauvist Movement, including ''Woman in a Chemise'' by André Derain, ''Reclining Nude in Blue with Straw Hat'' by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and ''Study of a Nude'' and ''Nude on a Yellow Sofa'' by Henri Matisse. Chatenay himself seems to be mainly an expy of Paul Gauguin.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': [[http://www.wowhead.com/item=88417 Gokk'lok's Shell]] is a novelty item that makes your character stand naked inside a large clam shell, à la ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_%28Botticelli%29 the Birth of Venus]]''.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', Rin's Act 3 ("Distance") has both [[https://katawashoujo.fandom.com/wiki/Act_3_-_Distance Hisao posing like The Thinker and Rin posing like Venus de Milo,]] and a promotional montage incorporating all the girls' handicaps makes up a version of [[https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/231158-katawa-shoujo Vitruvian Man]].
* ''VisualNovel/{{Last Chance in Xollywood}}'': A funny example with alien tycoon Garfield Sphynx Sr. (one of the possible film investors in the visual novel), whose previous husband bought Creator/JohannesVermeer's ''Art/GirlWithAPearlEarring'' and turned it into ''[[https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMjI2NzgzOC8xMzQ0MDc5Ny5wbmc=/original/WBFqj6.png a portrait of Garfield]]''.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* According to Joel Guerra, the design of ''WebAnimation/{{ENA}}'' was inspired by the painting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_before_a_Mirror Girl Before a Mirror]] by Pablo Picasso.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-02-14 The second panel]] of an ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' page contains an extra imitating Edvard Munch's ''The Scream''.
* Creator/DavidWillis drew an elaborate poster print featuring the casts of both the ''Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}'' and ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' in a pastiche of Creator/AlexRoss's cover for the 35th-anniversary edition of ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'': Adele, coached by Jane, drew several pictures based on famous paintings and art styles in episode 5. They included Creator/PabloPicasso, Creator/GustavKlimt, and Creator/VincentVanGogh (one picture reminded a bit of his ''Art/TheStarryNight''). Adele's last picture was inspired by ''Art/TheSonOfMan'' by Creator/ReneMagritte (a face obscured by an apple).
* ''WebVideo/RatsSMP'': El's art gallery displays many rat-ified pastiches of classic art pieces created with the Chisel and Bits mod, including the "[[MonaLisaSmile Mona Rita]]", "[[TheScreamParody The Squeak]]", a version of "Starry Night" where [[CheesyMoon the moon is a piece of cheese]], and "[[SistineSteal The Creation of Ratam]]".
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E11TheCrepesOfWrath The Crepes of Wrath]]" Bart and his chauffeur pass through landscapes which are all references to famous paintings made in France, including works by Claude Monet, Creator/VincentVanGogh, Henri Rousseau and Édouard Manet.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer The Last Temptation of Homer]]" ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:La_nascita_di_Venere_(Botticelli).jpg The Birth of Venus]]'' by Sandro Botticelli was referenced when Homer is fantasizing about Mindy.
--->'''Cherub Lenny:''' Hey Homer, what’s the matter?\\
'''Cherub Carl:''' [[HaventYouSeenXBefore Ain't you never seen a naked chick riding a clam before?]]
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E10BartGetsHitByACar "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"]] Bart goes to Hell, where he sees Creator/HieronymusBosch's "The Garden Of Earthly Delights" recreated.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV Treehouse Of Horror IV]]", in a parody of Series/NightGallery several famous paintings by Creator/ReneMagritte, Creator/MCEscher, Creator/SalvadorDali, Creator/VincentVanGogh, Creator/EdvardMunch, Creator/{{Giorgione}}, Creator/JacquesLouisDavid, and Creator/PabloPicasso are parodied. Even "Art/DogsPlayingPoker" by Cassius Marsellus Coolidge is featured.
** Homer's dream sequence in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E19MomAndPopArt "Mom and Pop Art"]] is also a ShoutOut to several famous paintings (Henri Rousseau, Creator/PabloPicasso, Creator/AndyWarhol, Creator/LeonardoDaVinci).
** Homer's drive-in movie visit, complete with passing steam locomotive, in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E16DumbbellIndemnity "Dumbbell Indemnity"]] is based on the iconic 1950's O. Winston Link photograph "Hotshot Eastbound".
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E8MargeVsSSCCATAG Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples, Teens and Gays]]", Milhouse sports the same expression as the "weeping Frenchman" from the famous 1940 photograph taken during the Nazi occupation of France.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E10TheManWhoCameToBeDinner The Man Who Came to Be Dinner]]", there is a poster in Diz-Nee Land for ''Song of the South Bronx'', a mix between the movie poster for ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'' and the 1964 photograph "Macombs Rd., Bronx".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "Painter And Poet" has Painter creating Smurf versions of ''The Blue Boy'', ''Whistler's Mother'', ''Mona Lisa'', and ''Henry VIII Of England''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E13SoManyBirthdays So Many Birthdays]]", Steven finds an old painting in Amethyst's room that's a parody of Copley's "Watson and the Shark", with [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Steven's mom Rose Quartz and the Crystal Gems]] [[BeenThereShapedHistory on the boat]] and Garnet punching out a shark.
-->'''Garnet:''' The hard part was getting the shark to pose.
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