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

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So frequently are these images exploited that people who may have never seen the original works still recognize the images.

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

Specific Subtropes include [[Pietà Plagiarism]], [[Thinker Pose]], [[Mona Lisa Smile]], [[American Gothic Couple]], [[Last Supper Steal]], [[Nighthawks (painting)|Hopper Shot]], and [[The Scream]].

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* 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.

== ~~Comics~~ ==

== Comic Books ==

* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20150910021707/http://a21.idata.over-blog.com/0/31/92/83/images-hors-BD/Peintres/Renoir/M-C-V-TT.jpg last panel] of ''[[Valerian]]'''s adventure "On the False Earths" references ''Luncheon of the Boating Party'', a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

* Edward Hopper's ''[[Nighthawks (painting)|Nighthawks]]'', that painting of some folks in a diner late at night, has been used a whole lot. It showed up in an early issue of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' and became the [[Good Guy Bar|heroes' hangout]] in the animated series.

** It has also been used in ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' and ''[[The Simpsons]]''.

** And the cover of ''[[Green Lantern|Guy Gardner: Warrior]]'' #29, which introduced the Warriors bar.

** It's also been briefly referenced in the ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' episode "The Mask".

** Also, it was used on the cover of the ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' print collection, "Nighthogs".

* Goscinny and Uderzo have a running gag in the [[Asterix]] books, in that every time the pirates have their ship sunk (by the Gauls, or to escape from the Gauls), they wind up recreating [[wikipedia:The Raft of the Medusa|The Raft of the Medusa]].

** There are also recreations of other famous paintings scattered throughout the books, like [[wikipedia:The Peasant Wedding|''The Peasant Wedding'']] in ''Asterix in Belgium''.