Famous Paintings in Video Games - First Stroke

While film and television remain ongoing, pixels are finally welcomed to cultural family.

As with the small screen, the vast majority are literally just for show, leaving artist and title anonymous.

To quote Ralph Waldo Emerson (famously used in Mortal Kombat 3):

"There is no knowledge that is not power."

System will only be stated for exclusives.

Miscellany

BioShock Infinite
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee - Rembrandt

Blood Omen 2
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Johannes Vermeer

Clock Tower (PS1)
Minerva Victorious over Ignorance - Bartholomeus Spranger
The guy to the left of Minerva was either inserted by Human or taken from another source.
Despite European title, this is actually the sequel to Super Famicom original.

Dawn of Fear
School of Athens - Raphael (left) and The Annunciation - Dieric Bouts (right)

Detroit: Become Human (PS4)
The Three Stages of Man - Jacob de Backer

Devil May Cry 5
Portrait of Ginerva Benci - Leonardo da Vinci

Evil Night (Arcade)
Medusa (detail) - Peter Paul Rubens

James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
Equestrian Portrait of Charles I - Anthony van Dyck

Killzone 2
The Death of Major Peirson - John Singleton Copley

Condemned: Criminal Origins
Death on a Pale Horse - Benjamin West

Black Heart (Arcade)
The Dead Christ Adored by Doges Pierto Lando and Marcantonio Trevisan - Tintoretto

Multiples

Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness

Liberty Leading the People - Eugène Delacroix (left) and Napoleon Crossing the Alps - Jacques-Louis David (right)

The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries - Jacques-Louis David

We also visit the Louvre.

Very briefly.

Lot and His Daughter - Albrecht Altdorfer

The Rape of Europa - Titian (left), The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci (top) and The School of Athens - Raphael (bottom)

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (Game Boy Advance)

The Conversion of Saint Paul (detail) - Caravaggio

The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (detail) - Caravaggio

Fallout 3

Dante and Virgil - William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil (1835 version) - Ary Scheffer

The Map of Hell (The Divine Comedy) - Botticelli

Enter the Matrix

Alexander Entering Babylon (detail) - Charles Le Brun

The Surrender of Breda - Diego Velázquez

The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons - Jacques-Louis David

Oath of the Horatii (detail) - Jacques-Louis David

The Matrix: Path of Neo

Oath of the Horatii (detail) - Jacques Louis David

The Intervention of the Sabine Women (detail) - Jacques-Louis David (left) and Alexander Entering Babylon (detail) - Charles Le Brun (right)

Romans in the Decadence of the Empire - Thomas Couture

The Surrender of Breda (detail) - Diego Velázquez

The Meagre Company (detail) - Frans Hals (later completed by Pieter Codde)

St. Michael Vanquishing the Devils - Luca Giordano

Pang! 3 (Arcade)

Portrait of Leopold Zborowski - Amedeo Modigliani

Grande Odalisque - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Fine Wind, Clear Morning (part of the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series) - Hokusai

Kabuki Actor Ōtani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei in the Play The Colored Reins of a Loving Wife - Sharaku

Luncheon of the Boating Party - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Moulin Rougue: La Goulue - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci

Sunflowers - Vincent van Gogh

The Birth of Venus - Botticelli

The Creation of Adam - Michelangelo

The Gleaners - Jean-François Millet

The Scream - Edvard Munch

The Sleeping Gypsy - Henri Rousseau

The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (DOS)

Scenes from the Tannhäuser Saga - Joseph Matthäus Aigner

The Miracle of the Grail - Wilhem Hauschild

The Arrival of Lohengrin in Antwerp (from the Lohengrin Saga) - August von Heckel

Tannhäuser in the Venus Grotto - Josef Aigner

Tristan and Isolde - August Spiess

Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (DOS)

There's shall we say, one or two...

Still Life with Flowers and Fruits - Henri Fantin-Latour

Gabrielle aux Bijoux - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Périssoires - Gustave Caillebotte

Bord de rivière, effet de brume matinale - Gustave Caillebotte

The Pond of Gylieu - Charles-François Daubigny

Still Life with Pears and Grapes - Claude Monet (left) and The Viennese: Portrait of Irna Brunner with Black Hat - Édouard Manet (right)

Still Life with Skull and Candlestick - Paul Cézanne

Frieze of Dancers - Edgar Degas

Before the Performance - Edgar Degas (left) and Absinthe Drinkers - Jean-François Raffaëli (right)

Luncheon of the Boating Party - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Woman in the Field - Federico Zandomeneghi

Picnic in May - Pál Szinyei Merse

The Birth of Venus - Alexandre Cabanel (left) and Autumn - Erik Werenskiold (right)

In the Grass - Berthe Morisot

Beach at Concarneau - Emil Schuffenecker

Lente Idylle - Piet Mondrian

Banks at the Seine at Asnieres - Pierre-Auguste Renoir (left), Alley of the Gardens of Monet at Giverny - Claude Monet (middle) and The Church at Gisors - Lucien Pissarro (right)

Female Nude - Pierre-Auguste Renoir (far left), Un bal á l'Opéra - Jean-Louis Forain (middle), Jeunes filles en noir - Pierre-August Renoir (right) and The Pool, Medfield - Dennis Miller Bunker (far right)

Madame Manet au canapé bleu - Édouard Manet (left) and Le Pont de l'Europe - Gustave Caillebotte (right)

Rocks at L'Estaque - Paul Cézanne (left) and Le Repos - Édouard Manet (right)

Water-lilies (1914) - Claude Monet

Le verger au printemps - Gustave Loiseau

Avenue de Clichy - Louis Anquetin

Impression, Sunrise - Claude Monet

Portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Frederic Bazille

Houses of Parliament - Claude Monet

The Rowing Boat - Claude Monet

The Theatre Box - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The Execution of Emperor Maximilian - Édouard Manet

The Hay Wain - John Constable

Woman in the Bath - Edgar Degas

Phew!

Until next time