Truly incredible, I say

noam99 · 2012-11-20T22:03:22+00:00

Is there a name and artist for this painting?

BaroqueFixIt · 2012-11-20T23:58:13+00:00

Actually, he made two! This painting is in the Louvre, but there's a similar copy made about two years earlier with a bit less red drapery that's at the MFA Boston. If you're interested, there's even another painting he did with the same immensity and detail, also at the Louvre by the same name here!

Source: I do archiving.

crwcomposer · 2012-11-20T22:25:57+00:00

Hey, I've been to that place in the mini-painting! It's the Piazza del Popolo in Rome!

Sorry, I haven't visited many historical places, so that was briefly exciting for me.

OnlyTwoPlanks · 2012-11-21T00:12:05+00:00

What is this? A painting for ANTS?

scuby22 · 2012-11-20T20:47:30+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/KIdJu.jpg - top comment from /u/erikANGRY - 2 years ago when this was posted... send him a PM ;)

DotishGuy · 2012-11-20T21:38:12+00:00

terapixels in this mofo

cheese_wizard · 2012-11-20T23:02:39+00:00

Here's me standing in the real place: http://jasonfrinchaboy.com/europe/images/Europe-2006-482.jpg

brocode101 · 2012-11-20T23:00:03+00:00

Relevent . Zoom in to the kids playing in the background, see the details...Blew my mind..

tofagerl · 2012-11-20T22:36:57+00:00

Where's shitty watercolor when we need him?

Assmeat · 2012-11-20T22:20:02+00:00

Enhance, renaissance style

Schmoo823 · 2012-11-21T00:27:08+00:00

Artists did gallery paintings like these to essentially advertise their skill as artists. They painted famous works to show that they could do just as well as that guy and that guy and that guy.

Dreuu · 2012-11-21T00:21:39+00:00

Yo dawg, I heard you like paintings so I painted you a painting in your painting

yogi89 · 2012-11-20T20:29:25+00:00

Yo Dawg, I heard you like paintings...

me_on_a_couch · 2012-11-20T23:15:41+00:00

I don't really understand why that part of the painting is so special. Can someone please explain it to me?

Circlejerk_Conductor · 2012-11-20T22:28:32+00:00

Waiting for the reddit art major brigade to come and tell me that this is shit.

Delicious_Nipples · 2012-11-21T00:22:28+00:00

kinda reminds me of the school of Athens, the first painting with all the ninja turtles in it.

Wargall · 2012-11-20T23:08:51+00:00

Who the fuck speaks like this?

Stratocaster89 · 2012-11-20T23:25:41+00:00

I guess most of you are like "whoa, the detail is so tiny!" For reference, the last image is about the size of a human head. So it'd not actually all that incredible.

dubdubdubdot · 2012-11-21T00:24:04+00:00

HD paint.

Huffsterification · 2012-11-21T00:28:48+00:00

Enhance... Enhance... Enhance.

lifesnotperfect · 2012-11-21T00:43:10+00:00

I thought this was meant to be funny because the artist painted a guy piggy backing another guy, like an Easter egg.

Guess I missed the point completely...

Xephik · 2012-11-21T01:03:27+00:00

Truly a repost, I say.

stopherjj · 2012-11-20T21:40:31+00:00

Take it about 3 levels deeper and then my artistic ability is reached.

TubesockWrangler · 2012-11-21T00:27:09+00:00

Yo, dawg...

st-augustine · 2012-11-21T00:30:44+00:00

Wait... uh... I don't understand.

We can just post a picture of a world-renowned masterpiece - and give our opinion that it is..in fact... a masterpiece, and get karma?

Should I post a picture of the Venus de Milo or the Pieta with the title "This is really amazing sculpture, I say" and get karma?

Okay. Sounds awesome. I would love to see Reddit filled with masterful works of art and brilliant pieces of music and great poetry and classic literature. Please, let's pull together, and make Reddit known worldwide as an amazing repository of human achievement and amazing works of art.

(fewer memes, fewer clouds-that-look-like-penises, and fewer links of pictures of overweight people in awkward clothing.)

This is a paradise I can get behind.

rb3333rb3333 · 2012-11-21T00:32:32+00:00

May the Inception comments begin!

Ferg8 · 2012-11-20T22:03:23+00:00

What's the name of that painting?

FuzzyToaster · 2012-11-20T22:53:35+00:00

This was possibly my favourite painting when I visited the Louvre.

SilverApples · 2012-11-20T22:56:26+00:00

Also just massive.

hot_coffee · 2012-11-20T22:58:31+00:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S68uBzoHzOY

EuropeanLady · 2012-11-20T23:13:17+00:00

It really is an incredible piece of exquisite art. The painting right above the one which is enlarged is of Castel Sant'Angelo and the bridge with the angel statues leading to it.

ptgunit · 2012-11-20T23:20:08+00:00

Panini at the met, right? I took a picture of that. It's my background on my phone.

theKman24 · 2012-11-20T23:21:53+00:00

I can't believe some of the stuff humans can do. I could never in a million years complete anything like this.

L-G-C · 2012-11-20T23:21:59+00:00

I see you are enjoying the works within the Louvre!

OldClockMan · 2012-11-20T23:22:56+00:00

Was this in The Louvre? I remember seeing something just like this when I was there. Still more people at the Mona Lisa :/

Bigmbrennan · 2012-11-20T23:33:50+00:00

Theres actually a painting just a couple down from that one (you're in the Louvre if i'm not mistaken) that's really cool, has like a floating skull theater and the detail in it is amazing.

SilentTheTyrant · 2012-11-20T23:37:02+00:00

My guess its that the original is much larger and this is a smaller replication.

warm_cocoa · 2012-11-20T23:37:28+00:00

There is a painting similar to this at the MFA Boston

Hinxsey · 2012-11-20T23:38:54+00:00

One art, please!

Surdistaja · 2012-11-20T23:44:16+00:00

Made in one night

savitz91 · 2012-11-20T23:56:15+00:00

I have this hanging in my bedroom. $5, Hospice Store.

syflox · 2012-11-21T00:00:38+00:00

If you look really close, you can see a painting.

a_modest_proposal · 2012-11-21T00:01:12+00:00

This reminds me of Marius, from Anne Rices Vampire Chronicles, describing his own artwork.

bmbp · 2012-11-21T00:05:13+00:00

Here's the companion piece, which makes it twice as impressive.

ShrimpScampie · 2012-11-21T00:06:25+00:00

This is the painting equivalent of video games that are made of a bunch of mini-games.

CompanionCubicle · 2012-11-21T00:07:03+00:00

My husband got me a 5,000-piece puzzle of this painting. It is impossible.

kidbuu42 · 2012-11-21T00:08:59+00:00

this is like photoshop before photoshop

jakeryan72 · 2012-11-21T00:11:46+00:00

some people have too much talent

timothypjr · 2012-11-21T00:14:19+00:00

I concur! Some of the smallest paintings are in perspective. Wow. Just. Wow.

ginja_ninja · 2012-11-21T00:17:11+00:00

I wonder what resolution he painted that at.

Joysome · 2012-11-21T00:17:21+00:00

At my work, we have a replica of this painting. I love looking at it. There is always something new to spot.

Surullian · 2012-11-21T00:17:37+00:00

Proof positive that some of the respected old masters were show-offs. "I heard you like paintings in your paintings..."

Sunnyside711 · 2012-11-21T00:18:44+00:00

am i suppose to believe that the 'main' painting isnt a painting in a painting?

doodledude9001 · 2012-11-21T00:19:31+00:00

ENHANCE

asimons613 · 2012-11-21T00:19:41+00:00

is there a subreddit for cool classical paintings?

Fucking_Mcfuck · 2012-11-21T00:21:06+00:00

This is what should be praised - not people taking a shit on a canvas and writing an essay about why it's deep

leonoel · 2012-11-21T00:21:15+00:00

Here is the Google Art Project link, with an HD version http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/artwork/picture-gallery-with-views-of-modern-rome-giovanni-paolo-pannini/567028/

imakechems · 2012-11-21T00:21:34+00:00

Holy buhjeezus thats insane.

XSerenity · 2012-11-21T00:22:10+00:00

[INCEPTION}(http://inception.davepedu.com/)

primer343 · 2012-11-21T00:23:42+00:00

Now where is the clue to a piece of Eden.....

bakinsoda · 2012-11-21T00:25:11+00:00

I actually just finished putting this puzzle together! I love it. I am only looking for some classy frame -- sadly they are all too pricey --

toadysherp · 2012-11-21T00:25:40+00:00

not comparing pannini and coleman really, but joe coleman has some interesting stuff http://www.joecoleman.com/sites/all/keys/viewer.html

RichterSkala · 2012-11-21T00:26:11+00:00

Fun fact: Because some already not-in-such-good shape, antique sculptures (or rather copies of those) got wrongly repaired by renaissance artists or even lost along the centuries, paintings like these allow us to reconstruct, what they originally looked like

squirrelDefender · 2012-11-21T00:27:03+00:00

This, to me, is the true definition of art - if I ever become wealthy enough to afford such great, timeless pieces of our world's history, I'll invest without hesitation. After I make an indoor water slide, of course. A man needs priorities.

nafoozie · 2012-11-21T00:27:09+00:00

I remember seeing this for the 1st time in person. Awe struck is the only way I could describe my reaction.

Birdunit · 2012-11-21T00:28:15+00:00

Someone explain to me how this witchcraft works. This is incredible!

jmanmd · 2012-11-21T00:28:57+00:00

It's crazy how that's just one of the many paintings in the background

McLol_ · 2012-11-21T00:29:17+00:00

Am I insane or do I see very well-dressed hobbits in the bottom left corner?

Hingle_McCringlebury · 2012-11-21T00:29:56+00:00

Can someone please explain to me why OP zoomed in on that painting?

I feel like there's something I'm supposed to get, that just isnt happening

Rhomth · 2012-11-21T00:30:37+00:00

One should really diversify their art collection... All those paintings are from the same guy.

arcticursa · 2012-11-21T00:31:28+00:00

Oh look honey, this model comes with picture in picture.

Choralone · 2012-11-21T00:31:54+00:00

That 3rd level of inception there - that's the Piazza del Popolo, facing the top of via del corso, no?

autonomousgerm · 2012-11-21T00:32:07+00:00

I can't believe this fucking repost is front paged.

jesusthatsgreat · 2012-11-21T00:33:31+00:00

How many gigapixels is this?

elandovas · 2012-11-21T00:33:54+00:00

I can do tha shit!!!!!

VancitySwag · 2012-11-21T00:34:04+00:00

its like a gigapixel painting

exatorp · 2012-11-21T00:34:05+00:00

ctrl+F. Search 'ception'. Yup.

red_drop_lollypop · 2012-11-21T00:34:26+00:00

I have a replica of this on my wall, I love it!

ambalbemuth · 2012-11-21T00:36:39+00:00

This guy's got nothing on Escher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKFhI9hdteE

MrColes · 2012-11-21T00:36:42+00:00

looked ripe for an "am I doing this right" shop, so I googled that phrase, clicked on the first result, and then changed my mind when I saw the second result http://www.bannedinhollywood.com/20-great-moments-in-the-am-i-doing-this-right-meme/

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