Detail of Padmé Bouguereau by Onepixel on Worth1000. Click for full image (750px × 1,000px) In the Star Wars saga, Padmé Naberrie, better known as Padmé Amidala Skywalker, was determined to fix what wrongs she could in the ailing Republic, serving its Senate and her idyllic home planet of Naboo. Though her career should have [...]

Detail of Westminster Moon by Hank Connor on Flickr. Click for full image (up to 2,554 x 1,893). Retired professor Hank Connor considers himself an incurable romantic, and is fascinated with chiaroscuro, the strong contrasts between light and dark in works of art. The image shown above is a good example of his work. He [...]

Bambi by Grandma on Worth1000. Click for source. This must be one of cutest pictures here on Bouguereau Remastered. It shows Walt Disney’s Bambi and some friends, beautifully integrated in Bouguereau’s 1865 work Rest in Harvest. The image was created by digital artist Grandma for the second edition of the Cartoon Ren contest on Worth1000 [...]

Detail of Jeune Femme Allant a la Fontaine by Joshua LaRock. Click for full image. American realistic painter Joshua LaRock (b. 1982) didn’t have serious artistic aspirations until a few years ago. Only as recently as in 2006 he started studying classical drawing and painting. Since then, many of his works have been exhibited, and [...]

Detail of Drew by Famous58 on Worth1000. Click for full image. February 22, 2010 marks the 35th birthday of American actress, film producer and film director Drew Barrymore [wiki]. She first appeared in an advertisement when she was eleven months old, and after her breakout appearance in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial she quickly became one of [...]

Rehab by mateusarc on Worth1000. Click for full image. This portrait of British singer Amy Winehouse [wiki] was created by mateusarc for the 12th edition of the Modern Renaissance contest on Worth1000. Digital artists were challenged to “put any modern celebrity, actor or popular culture figure as a substitute for the model of a painting [...]

Leave them alone and they’ll come home by sammydavisdog on Flickr. Click for source. Shown here is a funny concoction of three different images, including Bouguereau’s 1887 work Jeune Bergère Debout (Young Shepherdess Standing). It was created by Flickr member sammydavisdog. The photo of the tree (a Quercus robur) was found on Wikipedia, and the [...]

Detail of Espresso Angel by Karen Eland. Click for full image. People have been spoofing iconic works of art for decades as a form of creative, or re-creative, expression. Following this time-honored tradition is American artist Karen Eland [website]. Her versions of classic masterpieces include works by Matisse, Picasso, and of course Bouguereau. But instead [...]

Detail of Bouguereau Reborn, by Glockman on PXLEyes.com. Click for full image. What you see here is a very clever photoshop manipulation. It was created by American digital artist Glockman for a contest on PXLEyes.com in November 2009. Participants were challenged to photoshop a picture of a red flower (see below). The artist used Bouguereau’s [...]

Detail of Fog by Maxbee on Worth1000. Click for full image. Caspar David Friedrich [wiki] was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement. His life coincided with that of William Bouguereau for just 14 years. One of Friedrich’s most famous works, The wanderer above the sea of fog, [...]