YVÁGA~RATÁ

1906

CORRADINI, Antonio Bust of a Veiled Woman (Puritas) 1717-25 Marble Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice

January 1886, Japan, by artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi .  Museum of International Folk Art, Gift from the collection of Else and Joseph Chapman. 

Jon Juarez

GIOTTO di Bondone Last Judgment (with detail) 1306 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5, scene iv (original photograph by Malbork)

MINIATURIST, Hungarian Anjou Legendarium 1330s Manuscript (Vat. lat. 8541), 283 x 215 mm Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican

1900

Chikanobu (1838 - 1912) New Year’s Day Greeting Series; Women’s Activities of the Tokugawa Era

Advertisement for “PAN”, Joseph Sattler, 1895

Krishna. Spring in Kulu - Nicholas Roerich

Some of the above comparisons probably don’t make sense without providing the context of Antonioni’s films, but here it is. I think it’s amazing how both artists put people against scenery in a very similar way, where the landscapes are often alien, terrifying, and otherworldly. 

GILLRAY, James The Blood of the Murdered Crying for Vengeance 1793 Etching New College, Oxford University, Oxford

Mikhail Nesterov. Elegy Blind Musician

1904