I Decided To Recreate One Famous Classic Painting A Day For A Year, And Here Are My 53 Recreations

I really love art, admiring beauty and talent. I want to actualize great painting from different cultural traditions to show people that it is much closer than it seems. My replicas encourage everyone to look at the paintings in detail. I think it’s important.

I started to imitate pieces of art for the #gettychallenge. At the beginning, I decided to do it daily for 30 days, but at the end of this period, I couldn’t stop. I’m still continuing and now I am on day 130. I have recreated Middle Eastern galleries, ancient, Indian, Red Cross posters, and others.

I do everything on my own: makeup, costumes, lighting with a table lamp, and shooting just with my phone’s camera, using very simple things which surround me at home.

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#1 Ilya Repin “Princess Sofia Alekseyevna” (1879)

#2 John Collier “Priestess Of Delphi” (1891)

#3 Remzi Taşkıran “Portrait Of A Girl” (1961)

#4 Tamara De Lempicka “Pink Tunic” (1927)

#5 René Gruau “Illustration For Dior” (~1950)

#6 John William Waterhouse “Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May” (1908)

#7 Caravaggio “Judith Beheading Holofernes” (1599)

#8 Tito Conti “An Italian Beauty” (~1880)

#9 Konstantin Makovsky “Portrait Of Countess Yusupova In The Russian Costume” (1900)

#10 John Everett Millais “Sophie Gray” (1857)

#11 Abram Arhipov “Woman In A Green Dress” (~1900)

#12 Khariton Platonovich Platonov “Portrait Of A Woman” (1903)

#13 John William Godward “His Birthday Gift” (1889)

#14 Theodoros Rallis “Odalisque” (~1900)

#15 Giovanni Boldini “Portrait Of Lina Cavalieri” (1901)

#16 Hermann Winterhalter “Portrait Of Clémentine De Boubers, Baronne Renouard De Bussierre” (1854)

#17 Frederick Arthur Bridgman “Woman Of Algiers” (~1900)

#18 Vladimir Makovsky “Tete-A-Tete” (1909)

#19 Paul Cesar Helleu “Portrait Of Lady With A Fan” (~1900)

#20 Leonardo Da Vinci “La Belle Ferronnière” (1490)

#21 Jean-Marc Nattier “Madame Victoire De France” (1748)

#22 Jean-Francois Portaels “The Necklace” (~1850)

#23 Karl Bryullov “The Last Day Of Pompeii” (1830-33)

#24 Tiziano Vecelli “Woman With A Mirror” (~1515)

#25 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo “Two Women At A Window” (1655-60)

#26 Vasily Ivanovich Surikov “Portrait Of NF Matveeva” (1909)

#27 William Etty “The Seamstress” (~1820)

#28 Frederick Leighton “Nausicaa” (1878)

#29 Giorgione “Judith” (1504)

#30 Anders Zorn “Frieda Schiff, Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg” (1894)

#31 Giuseppe Maria Crespi “Woman Looking For Fleas” (~1710)

#32 Henry Inman “Hayne Hujihini, Eagle Of Delight” (1832-33)

#33 Charles Landelle “Judith” (1870)

#34 Eleanor M. Ross “Edith Cavell” (1917)

#35 Franz Xaver Winterhalter “The Princess Victoria, Princess Royal As Crown Princess Of Prussia” (1867)

#36 John Singer Sargent “Lady Agnew Of Lochnaw” (1892)

#37 Jan Frederik Pieter Portielje “Spanish Beauty” (1880)

#38 Ilya Repin “Leisure” (1882)

#39 Raja Ravi Varma “The Maharani Of Travancore” (1887)

#40 John Collier “Portrait Of A Lady In Oriental Costume” (~ 1900)

#41 Filipp Malyavin “Peasant With Red Scarf” (1905)

#42 Edwin Long “A Votary Of Isis” (1891)

#43 Alexey Venetsianov “Girl In A Scarf” (~1820)

#44 Alexander Nikolaevich Samokhvalov “Portrait Of A Woman” (1960s)

#45 Aykut Aydogdu “Next Chapter”

#46 Orest Adamovich Kiprensky “Poor Lisa” (1827)

#47 Ivan Argunov “Peasant Woman In Russian Costume” (1784)

#48 Charles François Prosper Guérin “Girl Reading A Book” (1906)

#49 Elizabeth Sonrell “Cordelia” (~1901)

#50 Anders Zorn “Burden” (1886)

#51 Ali Nemah “Resident Of Baghdad”

#52 Viktor Vasnetsov “Alenushka” (1881)

#53 Peter Paul Rubens “Rubens’s Daughter Clara Serena” (1623)