The band Fleet Foxes used the proverb painting Netherlandish Proverbs for the cover of their eponymous album Fleet Foxes.

The album cover featured The Raft of the Medusa, with the faces of the characters in Théodore Géricault's painting replaced with those of the band members.

Hopper's painting Early Sunday Morning was the inspiration for the sleeve of British band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1985 album Crush.

* Black metal band Bathory used Arbo's painting of " The Wild Hunt " as the cover of their 1988 album Blood Fire Death.

* Viking metal band Falkenbach used Heine's painting of " Wodan's Wild Hunt " as the cover of their 1996 album, ... En Their Medh Riki Fara ....

The name of the band was reportedly inspired by the Nicolas Poussin painting Et in Arcadia ego ( also known as " The Arcadian Shepherds ").

The Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish released on 11 August 2007 their latest music video, " Amaranth ", which is based on this particular painting.

The College Music Journal said that " the band deals almost exclusively with realism " in the album, and noted that it " shocks and splatters like a severed artery, painting crimson pictures of murders, necrophiliacs, and the ravaged, chaotic world they inhabit ".

* Arcadia was the name of Duran Duran's spin off band formed in 1985 by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor reportedly because of the inscription on this painting.

* The liner notes for the Nirvana album In Utero included a reproduction of Grey's painting Muscle System ( Pregnant Woman ) among a series of photographs of the band.

Some scenes also show the band sitting together in a feast, mirroring Leonardo da Vinci's painting " The Last Supper ".

The painting was used for the band Coldplay's album cover Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, with the words " Viva La Vida " written in white paint.

Mise en Demeure, a Montreal band, used a modified version of the painting to promote an album.

He also toured extensively with The Clash during the Combat Rock tours, " performing " with them on stage by spray painting backdrops whilst the band performed.

A contemporary painting dated 1884 ( in the regimental museum ) of the pipe band of 1st Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in service dress, crossing the veldt in Zululand, shows them wearing khaki slouch hats.

Vettriano became a fan of the band after hearing their first album, Happy Healthy Lucky Month, and was inspired by the lyrics of Goodbye Jack Vettriano to create a painting which featured as the cover of the band's second album, for which both Vettriano and Rankin have contributed spoken word pieces.

When the album was first released, the cover art was not what the band wanted and in fact, they were quite embarrassed with the cheesy painting of a guy on a motorcycle wielding a battle axe.

He moved to California in 1972 and worked painting houses, singing in the streets, and working behind the counter at Berkeley record store Rather Ripped Records with future band mate and Earthquake guitarist Gary Phillips.

The band found themselves becoming heavily involved with the running of the club with Roger Taylor working as a glass collector, Andy Taylor polishing mirrors, painting and cooking burgers for cash, John Taylor working the door, and Nick Rhodes deejaying for £ 10 a night.

The band promoted themselves partly by spray painting " Flipper Rules " around San Francisco, as well as word-of-mouth.

A painting formerly attributed to John Martin, The Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium, was used as the cover art of the NWOBHM band Angel Witch for their self titled debut album.

His 1973 painting Sail on Sailor for the band Mustard Seed Faith is an example of his fine art painting from this period.

By the 1970s Poons created thick-skinned, cracked and heavy paintings referred to as Elephant Skin paintings ; while Christensen sprayed loops, colored webs of lines and calligraphy, across multi-colored fields of delicate grounds ; Ronnie Landfield's stained band paintings are reflections of both Chinese landscape painting and the Color Field idiom and John Seery stained painting as exemplified by East, 1973, from the National Gallery of Australia.

Everywhere else his ideas lay or hung in visible form: his models, drawings, ten-foot canvases in monochromes from his painting days, and underfoot a windfall of broken-backed books that looked as though their insides had been ransacked by a maniac.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

A poem by Dylan Thomas, a saxophone solo by Charles Parker, a painting by Jackson Pollock -- these are pure confabulations as ends in themselves.

One young girl told me how her mother removed a wart from her finger by soaking a copper penny in vinegar for three days and then painting the finger with the liquid several times.

There are 151 items in the Wilmington show, including one painting by each member of the `` Eight '', as well as work by Sloan's friends and students.

When Charlie came up from the beach for his four-o'clock pill, the whole establishment ( gaudy enough when seen through mist and fog ) looked like a floodlit modern painting -- great blocks of dizzy color, punctuated at regular intervals by the glaring white of five community refrigerators.

Up on a dune, he saw a girl, all by herself, sitting on a camp stool before an easel and absorbed in her painting.

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

History painting | Painting by Jan Matejko | Matejko, 1882.

This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from Plato's Symposium ( Plato ) | Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home.

Peter I interrogates Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof, history painting by Nikolai Ge, 1871, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.

While by 1600 the Baroque elsewhere was beginning to give life to painted figures, Florence was painting two-dimensional statues.

Ildefonso ), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens.

* 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

Triumphus Caesari, by Andreani, after a painting by Mantegna

" The Musician ", oil painting | oil on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka, 1929, stolen in 1 May 2009 from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.