OPPAI ORACLE

Zil wrote: Sun Jul 05, 2026 2:30 am

If I can be so bold as to call this a "painting", this is a bunch of hands stenciled in Cueva de las Manos in Argentina by prehistoric people. It really shook me when I first looked at it. It's probably the strongest reaction I've ever had to a painting. Actually, a lot of the time when I look at it, I don't think much of it, but other times I think it's one of the most haunting things I've ever seen.

These are great, also give me the chills, especially the ones that capture now extinct animals:




Werner Herzog has a wonderful documentary on this called Cave of Forgotten Dreams. It's well known but maybe someone who reads this hasn't seen it yet. If you haven't, it's highly recommended

When I look back on it, I genuinely think metal albums were something that got me interested in art history. Here are some great paintings I discovered from metal albums. Lots of romantic era masterpieces are immortalized therein. It sometimes makes the line between favorite paintings and favorite album covers pretty hard to establish.


The Voyage of Life: Old Age (1842) - Thomas Cole
from Candlemass - Nightfall (1987)


The Wild Hunt of Odin (1872) - Peter Nicolai Arbo
from Bathory - Blood Fire Death (1988)


The Treasures of Satan (1895) - Jean Delville
from Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick (1991)


Salome Receiving the Head of St. John the Baptist (1638) - Elisabetta Sirani
from Cryptopsy - None So Vile (1996)


The Fall of Phaeton (1605) - Peter Paul Rubens
from Arghoslent - Galloping Through the Battle Ruins (1998)


Witches' Sabbath (1798) - Francisco Goya
from Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend (2002)


The Triumph of Death (1562) - Pieter Bruegel the Elder
from Besieged - Visions of Pain (2005)


The Raft of the Medusa (1819) - Théodore Géricault
from Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans (2009)


Christ Stilleth the Tempest (1842) - John Martin
from While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose (2009)


The Isle of the Dead (1883) - Arnold Böcklin
from Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough (2010)

Divine Love Conquering Earthly Love by Giovanni Baglione (1602-1603)

Thricegreat wrote: Wed Aug 19, 2026 10:13 am

Divine Love Conquering Earthly Love by Giovanni Baglione (1602-1603)

For a second I thought it was just a poster for Heroes of Might and Magic III.