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[[File:Botticelli Uma.jpg|frame|Uma's first [[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen|film]] appearance.]]
[[File:Botticelli Uma.jpg|frame|Uma's first [[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen|film]] appearance.]]



Certain works of art are so classic that they've become iconic. As such, they are frequently exploited for symbolic or comedic effect. ''[[Pietà Plagiarism|The Pieta]]'', for example, is such a powerful image that it warrants its own page. So is Rodin's ''[[Thinker Pose|Thinker]]'' Da Vinci's ''[[Mona Lisa Smile|Mona Lisa]]'' and the [[Tableau]] from ''[[Last Supper Steal|The Last Supper]]'', and Grant Wood's ''[[American Gothic Couple|American Gothic]]''.
Certain works of art are so classic that they've become iconic. As such, they are frequently exploited for symbolic or comedic effect. ''[[Pietà Plagiarism|The Pieta]]'', for example, is such a powerful image that it warrants its own page. So is Rodin's ''[[Thinker Pose|Thinker]]'' Da Vinci's ''[[Mona Lisa Smile|Mona Lisa]]'' and the [[Tableau]] from ''[[Last Supper Steal|The Last Supper]]'', and Grant Wood's ''[[American Gothic Couple|American Gothic]]''.
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So frequently are these images exploited that people who may have never seen the original works still recognize the images.
So frequently are these images exploited that people who may have never seen the original works still recognize the images.


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Specific Subtropes include [[Pietà Plagiarism]], [[Thinker Pose]], [[Mona Lisa Smile]], [[American Gothic Couple]], [[Last Supper Steal]], [[Hopper Shot]], and [[The Scream]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

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== Anime and Manga ==
* Manga artist [[Suehiro Maruo]] loves integrating elements of famous paintings into his compositions. Examples: ''The Garden of Earthly Delights'' by Hieronymus Bosch, ''Hope'' by George Frederic Watts, ''The Plague'' by Arnold Boeckin, and ([[NSFW]])''The Guitar Lesson'' by Balthus.
* Manga artist [[Suehiro Maruo]] loves integrating elements of famous paintings into his compositions. Examples: ''The Garden of Earthly Delights'' by Hieronymus Bosch, ''Hope'' by George Frederic Watts, ''The Plague'' by Arnold Boeckin, and ([[NSFW]])''The Guitar Lesson'' by Balthus.
* The opening and closing credits for [[Elfen Lied]] take an immense cue from the works of Gustav Klimt, to the point of inserting the five mains into a Klimt-like painting.
* The opening and closing credits for [[Elfen Lied]] take an immense cue from the works of Gustav Klimt, to the point of inserting the five mains into a Klimt-like painting.
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* A [http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/23/swampthing4runawayhomag.jpg/ page] in 2012's ''[[Swamp Thing]]'' #4 references [http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/853/rockwellrunaway.jpg/ The Runaway] by Norman Rockwell.
* A [http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/23/swampthing4runawayhomag.jpg/ page] in 2012's ''[[Swamp Thing]]'' #4 references [http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/853/rockwellrunaway.jpg/ The Runaway] by Norman Rockwell.


== Film ==
== [[Film]] ==
* This trope is used in the chase scene of the second ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' live-action movie. Especially effective since the characters are running through an art museum.
* This trope is used in the chase scene of the second ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' live-action movie. Especially effective since the characters are running through an art museum.
* In John Ford's ''Young Mr. Lincoln'' (1939), at the end of the trial scene, young Abe (Henry Fonda) 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.
* In John Ford's ''Young Mr. Lincoln'' (1939), at the end of the trial scene, young Abe (Henry Fonda) 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.
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* ''[[wikipedia:File:La nascita di Venere (Botticelli).jpg|The Birth of Venus]]'' by Sandro Botticelli was used in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', when Homer is fantasizing about Mindy.
* ''[[wikipedia:File:La nascita di Venere (Botticelli).jpg|The Birth of Venus]]'' by Sandro Botticelli was used in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', when Homer is fantasizing about Mindy.
* ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' features Venus herself, appearing like in the Botticelli painting.
* ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' features Venus herself, appearing like in the Botticelli painting.
* One scene in Italian horror movie ''La chiesa'' (''The Church'', 1989, writen by [[Dario Argento]] and directed by Michele Soavi) is taken directly from a Boris Vallejo painting "Vampire's Kiss". Also, the design for the lizard-demon-gargoyle creature is taken from a infamous 1600s wood-carving depicting a man selling his soul to the devil.
* One scene in Italian horror movie ''La chiesa'' (''The Church'', 1989, written by [[Dario Argento]] and directed by Michele Soavi) is taken directly from a Boris Vallejo painting "Vampire's Kiss". Also, the design for the lizard-demon-gargoyle creature is taken from a infamous 1600s wood-carving depicting a man selling his soul to the devil.


== Literature ==
== [[Literature]] ==
* Quite a bit of ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' by Ayn Rand seems to be about this.
* Quite a bit of ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' by Ayn Rand seems to be about this.
* ''[[Discworld]]'' artist Paul Kidby loves these. So far he's done Wright's ''Experiment With Air-Pump'' (''[[Discworld/The Science of Discworld|The Science of Discworld]]'' cover); Rembrandt's ''The Night Watch'' (er, ''[[Discworld/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'' cover); ''[[Iwo Jima Pose|Raising The Flag on Iwo Jima]]'' (''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'' cover); ''[[Mona Lisa Smile|Mona Lisa]]'' (Leonard of Quirm's "The Mona Ogg", ''Art of Discworld''' cover); ''[[Thinker Pose|The Thinker]]'' ([[Dumb Muscle|Detritus]] as "Da Finker" in ''The Art of Discworld''); Holman Hunt's ''The Hireling Shepherd'' (Leonard and Gytha again in ''The Art of Discworld''); ''[[American Gothic Couple|American Gothic]]'' ([[Discworld/Reaper Man|Death and Miss Flitworth]] in ''The Art of Discworld''); Parrish's ''The Pied Piper'' ([[Discworld/The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents|Maurice and Keith]] for ''The Discworld Calendar 2003''); and others.
* ''[[Discworld]]'' artist Paul Kidby loves these. So far he's done Wright's ''Experiment With Air-Pump'' (''[[The Science of Discworld]]'' cover); Rembrandt's ''The Night Watch'' (er, ''[[Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'' cover); ''[[Iwo Jima Pose|Raising The Flag on Iwo Jima]]'' (''[[Monstrous Regiment]]'' cover); ''[[Mona Lisa Smile|Mona Lisa]]'' (Leonard of Quirm's "The Mona Ogg", ''Art of Discworld''' cover); ''[[Thinker Pose|The Thinker]]'' ([[Dumb Muscle|Detritus]] as "Da Finker" in ''The Art of Discworld''); Holman Hunt's ''The Hireling Shepherd'' (Leonard and Gytha again in ''The Art of Discworld''); ''[[American Gothic Couple|American Gothic]]'' ([[Reaper Man|Death and Miss Flitworth]] in ''The Art of Discworld''); Parrish's ''The Pied Piper'' ([[The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents|Maurice and Keith]] for ''The Discworld Calendar 2003''); and others.
** ''[[Discworld/The Last Hero|The Last Hero]]'' alone includes the final scene of ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' (Cohen in the frontispiece); the Bayeaux Tapestry (the Silver Horde in the ''other'' frontispeice); Da Vinci's ''Vitruvian Man'' (Leonard's design for a NASA-style training centrifuge); Munch's ''[[The Scream]]'' (Rincewind's reaction to the elephants); Wright's ''Philosopher at the Orrery'' (the wizards plotting the route of the ''Kite''); the [[Sistine Steal|Sistine Chapel]] (Cohen giving the finger to the gods) and probably more.
** ''[[The Last Hero]]'' alone includes the final scene of ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' (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 ''[[The Scream]]'' (Rincewind's reaction to the elephants); Wright's ''Philosopher at the Orrery'' (the wizards plotting the route of the ''Kite''); [[Sistine Steal|the Sistine Chapel]] (Cohen giving the finger to the gods) and probably more.
** In ''The Illustrated [[Discworld/The Wee Free Men|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.
** In ''[[The Wee Free Men|The Illustrated 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.
*** Which brings up a musical example. [[Queen]] have a song called ''The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke'', which strongly resembles the painting.
*** Which brings up a musical example. [[Queen]] have a song called ''The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke'', which strongly resembles the painting.


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* The Silence in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' look incredibly like Edvard Munch's ''The Scream''; [[Word of God]] says the in-universe explanation for this is that they've been subconsciously influencing our art and culture for centuries.
* The Silence in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' look incredibly like Edvard Munch's ''The Scream''; [[Word of God]] says the in-universe explanation for this is that they've been subconsciously influencing our art and culture for centuries.


== Theatre ==
== [[Theatre]] ==
* The final scene of [[1776]] 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 final scene of [[1776]] 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 [[Stephen Sondheim]] 's ''[[Sunday in The Park With George]]'' ends with a live recreation of the famous painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x49h-v5Etu0 It is intensely impressive!]
* The first act of [[Stephen Sondheim]] 's ''[[Sunday in The Park With George]]'' ends with a live recreation of the famous painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x49h-v5Etu0 It is intensely impressive!]


== Video Games ==
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] 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 [[Leonardo da Vinci]].
* In ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] 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 [[Leonardo da Vinci]].
** 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 [[wikipedia:Danaë (Rembrandt painting)|Danaë by Rembrandt]].
** 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 [[wikipedia:Danaë (Rembrandt painting)|Danaë by Rembrandt]].


== Web Comics ==
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Hopper's ''[[Night Hawks]]'' (mentioned above under "Comics") was also referenced in [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=187158 this] ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'' page.
* Hopper's ''[[Night Hawks]]'' (mentioned above under "Comics") was also referenced in [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=187158 this] ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'' page.


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