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    Posted: June 30 2017 at 18:19
This thread could use a little revival.




features William's Blakes The Ancient of Days (1794):
when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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The cover of Minstrel In The Gallery...


Is based on Twelfth Night Revels in the Great Hall, Haddon Hall, Derbyshire from Architecture of the Middle Ages 1838 by Joseph Nash....



Edited by The Dark Elf - December 10 2016 at 17:13
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Though I think one of the major problems with album art/packaging is that it becomes so familiar and taken out of context to some point that we've come (in general) to take visual art for granted Disapprove
Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV.

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Points: 1409 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2016 at 16:09
Originally posted by admireArt admireArt wrote:

JOHN ZORN takes on Bosch, Klimt and Dali



Yes, Zorn (one of my heros!) is very involved in his passion for visual arts. A large majority of his work, whether through covers or not, pays tribute to different visual artists (and film makers etc) Big smile
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Points: 3654 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2016 at 11:36

H. Bosch (c. 1543)




I try to keep this alive - anyone else ?
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Points: 3654 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2016 at 12:26
Speaking of  William Blake's (1757-1827) ...




"Glad Day" painting detail
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Keep them coming, guys, here's my contribution



Sir Charles Bell (1774 - 1842)



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MIKE OLDFIELD - BOXED-                                                                                           MC ESCHER 



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JOHN ZORN takes on Bosch, Klimt and Dali




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Jheronimus Bosch was five centuries ahead of his day and he can keep par with the best album cover designers that progressive rock has seen Approve.

Byw, let's not forget 2011's masterpiece Blemmebeya by Akt. The cover was derived from Hartmann Schedel's 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle.
Blemmebeya album cover after a late 15th century original


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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 07 2016 at 04:31
It seems that Bosch just never gets old as far as prog dudes are concerned.  See also John Zorn's The Painted Bird released this year:



Super record, though.
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Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

Gotta say, I'm loving these responses so far - all very cool. Thumbs Up

Though now I'm beginning to wonder if there any excerpts from The Garden of Earthly Delights that haven't been used as album covers...
I find that musical artists generally appreciate all types of art, so it's no surprise to me. Even Annie Haslam is renowned for her oil paintings. 
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She also paints guitars on occasion.


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Points: 10377 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 07 2016 at 03:36
pictures by Belgian painter René Magritte were also often used either in completeness or as inspiration for album covers, for example this one:




Edited by BaldJean - October 07 2016 at 03:40


A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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"An Astrologer Casting a Horoscope" from Robert Fludd's Utriusque Cosmi Historia  (1617):
 
... and the cover of a Finnish classic, WIGWAM's Nuclear Nightclub, 1975  (artwork by Mats Huldén):
 
      (thanks for Samuli R. for posting me the former pic.)
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Points: 10261 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 07 2016 at 00:23
Art by M. C. Escher was used for many album covers, not all of them prog though. A prog example is this:


BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Points: 6777 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2016 at 23:17
Gotta say, I'm loving these responses so far - all very cool. Thumbs Up

Though now I'm beginning to wonder if there any excerpts from The Garden of Earthly Delights that haven't been used as album covers...
when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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Gilgamesh's Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into Cover Art by William Blake:
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Points: 7024 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2016 at 15:47
Grave New World has some sensational artwork, both on the triple gatefold cover and the insert booklet.
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Points: 1990 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2016 at 09:42
How could I have forgotten?
One of my favorite avant-garde albums, Kew. Rhone. by John Greaves and Peter Blegvad, uses C. W. Peale's Exhuming the First American Mastodon.
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Also, Pentangle's Cruel Sister uses Albrecht Durer's The Men's Bath as a part of the album cover.
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Edited by ALotOfBottle - October 06 2016 at 09:43
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