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[[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]]''.
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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]]
▲[[Pietà Plagiarism]], [[Thinker Pose]], [[Mona Lisa Smile]], [[American Gothic Couple]], [[Last Supper Steal]], [[Hopper Shot]], [[The Scream]],
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== 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.
* 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.
== [[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.
* 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.
* ''[[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,
== [[Literature]] ==
* 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'' (''[[
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*** 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.
== [[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 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]] ==
* 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]].
== [[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.
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