People Stuck at Home are Recreating Famous Paintings and It’s Awesome

During this time of isolation, art lovers around the world have found a way to unite and stay creative: by recreating classic artworks using whatever they can find at home.
Several social media ‘challenges’ have gone viral online by institutions like the Getty Museum, Rijksmuseum, and Tussen Kunst & Quarantaine on Instagram.
I’ve compiled some of my personal favorites below. But you can find many more submission on Twitter, Instagram (here too), Facebook, and reddit!

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1. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

2. Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan van Eyck

3. Self Portrait by Joseph Ducreux

4. Me and My Parrots by Frida Kahhlo

5. Psyche Opening the Door into Cupid’s Garden
by John William Waterhouse

6. Madonna and Child by Andrea Mantegna

7. Self Portrait – Joseph Ducreux

8. Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth

9. Spring by Édouard Manet

10. Irises by Vincent van Gogh

11. Self Portrait by Vincent van Gogh

12. Portrait de Madame P. by Tamara de Lempicka

13. Chais, Santa Monica by Edward Weston

14. Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci

15. The Laundress (La Blanchisseuse) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

16. Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer by Fernand Khnopff

17. The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough

18. Pictura (An Allegory of Painting) by Frans van Mieris the Elder

19. Self Portrait with Small Monkey by Frida Kahlo

20. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

21. Balloon Dog (blue) by Jeff Koons

22. Saturn by Peter Paul Rubens

23. Saturn Devouring His Son by Fancisco Goya

24. Portrait of a Man by Jan van Eyck

25. Male Harp Player of the Early Spedos Type by The Cycladic

26. Portrait of Louis XIV by Hyacinthe Rigaud’s Studio

27. Lady Playing a Lute by Bartolomeo Veneto

28. Salvador Dali and Gala by Nikola Golubovski

29. A Woman with a Bird by Pablo Picasso

30. A Woman in a Fish Hat by Pablo Picasso

31. Portrait of Dora Maar by Pablo Picasso

32. The King of Arms of the Order of the Golden Fleece Writing about Jacques de Lalaing by Simon Bening

33. A Hare in the Forest by Hans Hoffmann

34. Agata van Schoonhoven by Jan van Scorel

35. Portrait of Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone
by Jean-éteinne Liotard

36. Portrait of a Young Woman by Nicolaes Pickenoy

37. Still Life: Tea Set by Jean-Étienne Liotard

38. Komposition 8 by Vasily Kandinsky

39. Jeanne (Spring) by Édouard Manet

40. Safie by William Clarke Wontner

41. Portrait of Isabella of Portugal by Rogier van der Weyden

42. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

43. The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

44. Portrait of Barbara van Beck by Unknown Painter

45. Portrait of Leonilla, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn
by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

46. Sistine Madonna by Raphael

47. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

48. Two Women at a Window by Bartolome Esteban Murillo

49. The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer

50. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer


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