Dark academia collection

43 museum paintings with the dark academia vibe: ruins and antiquity, dark still life, storms and night. Painted between 1630 and 1909, from the Cleveland Museum of Art, the SMK in Copenhagen and other public collections. Each is a phone wallpaper at 9:16, 24 of them at 2160 × 3840 or larger, free to download and set as your background, with no account and no watermark.

Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: a gnarled apple branch with pink-white blossoms and dark green leaves standing on a wooden ledge against a muted grey-green background — Apple Blossoms

Martin Johnson Heade

2518 × 4477TS·0216
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: dark trees over a crowd on open ground in warm hazy light with hills beyond — Landscape with the Adoration of the Golden Calf

Claude Lorrain

2131 × 3789TS·0318
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: flowers spilling from an orange stone urn, white roses, poppies and a striped tulip against a dark olive ground — Flowers in an Urn

Jan van Huysum

2250 × 4000TS·0253
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: volcano erupting at night with red glow on smoke and snow and figures on the dark slope — Mount Vesuvius at Midnight

Albert Bierstadt

1893 × 3366TS·0355
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: stone church with dark spire above a foaming torrent over orange boulders, tall dark trees at left, billowing storm clouds filling the sky — Landscape with a Church by a Torrent

Jacob van Ruisdael

1907 × 3390TS·0038
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: Pantheon interior with vast coffered dome, circular oculus open to blue sky, warm amber columns and niches, figures in 18th-century dress below — Interior of the Pantheon, Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini

1913 × 3400TS·0036
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Japan painting phone wallpaper: The Garden of Eden by Yamamoto Hosui, Meiji era, 19th century — The Garden of Eden

Yamamoto Hosui (1850-1906)

1671 × 2970TS·0369
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: Roman stone aqueduct with arched spans, large green trees beside it, a square fortress above, shepherd with sheep near a shallow stream — An Aqueduct Near a Fortress

Jean-Victor Bertin

2160 × 3840TS·0067
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: white gothic nave in daylight with a hanging banner and a congregation gathered at the columns — Interior of a Protestant, Gothic Church during a Service

Emanuel de Witte

2747 × 4883TS·0349
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: tall trees over a clearing in warm green light with small figures on the grass — A Forest with Apollo and Daphne

Jean-Victor Bertin

2160 × 3840TS·0353
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: misty rock face over a stream with a white horse and two figures on the track below — Rocky Landscape with Two Men on a Horse

George Morland

2160 × 3840TS·0298
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: storm-split birch trunk glowing golden against dark purple-grey storm clouds, pink mist in a mountain gorge, menacing and dramatic — Storm in the Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church

1913 × 3400TS·0043
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: a waterfall breaking white through a grey rocky gorge under a heavy sky, a pale temple on the cliff at the left, and hunters resting with their kill at the foot of the rocks — Meleager and Atalanta

Richard Wilson

2160 × 3840TS·0386
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: lush bouquet with red poppy, white striped tulip, pink roses and blue hyacinths in a dark niche, bird's nest with eggs at lower right — Vase of Flowers

Jan van Huysum

2882 × 5124TS·0178
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: a heavy grey storm sky over half the height, a broken bare tree and dense hedgerow on the right, and a white pony catching the last light at the lower left — Before a Thunderstorm

George Morland

2018 × 3588TS·0377
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: heavy dark trees over a stony track with storm cloud building behind and small figures below — Roman Landscape

Arnold Böcklin

2104 × 3740TS·0261
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: a blue peak above a still lake mirroring the sky, anglers on the near shore, a pale grey sky and an oak branch reaching in from the right — Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle

Richard Wilson

2009 × 3571TS·0374
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: dark forest floor with spiky thistle, peacock butterfly, white butterfly, dragonfly, snail and mushrooms on near-black ground, jewel-like detail — Forest Floor with a Thistle and Butterflies

Otto Marseus van Schrieck

2863 × 5089TS·0176
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a Haeckel plate: white and silver bivalve shells arranged in rows against black — Bivalve Shells

Ernst Haeckel

1845 × 3280TS·0030
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: two candles burning on a round table in near-total darkness, arched alcove, deep black shadows with a faint warm glow, brooding mood — Interior. Artificial Light

Vilhelm Hammershøi

2160 × 3840TS·0175
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: tall summer trees against a clear blue sky, a pale mountain rising at the left, and small white-robed figures on the dusty path beneath them — Landscape, Site of Greece

Jean-Victor Bertin

2160 × 3840TS·0382
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: two great oaks fill the height above a shepherd and three robed figures on a grassy ridge, sheep and a goat grazing in front of them, a pale hazy sea far below — Jacob with Laban and his Daughters

Claude Lorrain

2134 × 3793TS·0375
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: waterfalls dropping from a rock town with figures on the near ledge under a pale sky — View of Tivoli: the Cascatelle and the Villa of Maecenas

Richard Wilson

2027 × 3603TS·0336
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: dark still life with pink rose, bowl of red strawberries, tall wine glass, crab and shrimp on dark satin cloth, Dutch golden age richness — Sumptuous Still Life

Pieter de Ring

2454 × 4362TS·0177
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: broad meadow under tall trees with pale mountains on the horizon and cattle in the middle distance — Landscape

Jean-Victor Bertin

2160 × 3840TS·0279
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: red and white gooseberries on a stone ledge, dark olive-green leafy branch, deep brown background, dramatic chiaroscuro lighting — Gooseberries on a Table

Adriaen Coorte

1913 × 3400TS·0087
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Japan painting phone wallpaper: Seascape by Kaji Tameya, 1883 — Seascape

Kaji Tameya (?-1894)

1688 × 3000TS·0363
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: square tower and trees above a river with cattle wading under a pale blue-green sky — Landscape with the Voyage of Jacob

Claude Lorrain

2081 × 3700TS·0308
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Vertical iPhone background from a print: ornate Gothic tower rising against a dramatic cloudy sky, tiny figures in the square below, black and white lithograph — La Tour St. Jacques

Victor Coindre

1913 × 3400TS·0084
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desktop wallpaper from a painting: vanitas still life — skull on a red leather book beside an hourglass, open book, spent candle, and handwritten note on a draped table — Memento Mori, "To This Favour"

William Michael Harnett

1983 × 3525TS·0052
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: white cow parsley, a blue morning glory and a red-streaked tulip against near-black undergrowth, pale moths in flight, and mushrooms, a snail and a lizard on the ground below — Forest Floor Still-Life

Otto Marseus van Schrieck

2250 × 4000TS·0385
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: chalk cliffs and a town above a grey sea with low sun through cloud — Dover

Richard Wilson

2160 × 3840TS·0319
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: warm rocky valley with a stone bridge over a stream, a hill town and cliffs behind — Italian Landscape: The Abbey and the Monks

Jean-Victor Bertin

2160 × 3840TS·0280
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: crumbling red-brick arched ruin beside a dark stormy sea, tall cypress trees, flock of black birds rising into a storm-lit brooding sky — Ruin by the Sea

Arnold Böcklin

2940 × 5227TS·0226
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: lush bouquet of red geraniums, pink phlox, blue forget-me-nots, and white peonies on a deep brown ground, loose impressionist brushwork — Spring Flowers

Claude Monet

2837 × 5043TS·0221
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: loose bouquet with a white tulip and red carnations above spilled grapes and a peach, dark ground — Still life with flowers and fruit

Jan van Huysum

2833 × 5037TS·0275
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: white and magenta orchid on a branch against dark green jungle with a small bird below — Orchid Blossoms

Martin Johnson Heade

2359 × 4193TS·0356
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Japan painting phone wallpaper: Seashore, Meiji period, 19th century — Seashore

1185 × 2106TS·0361
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: towering dark classical columns frame a ruined ancient city below, dramatic pink-cream clouds, tiny figures at the base — Ruins of an Ancient City

John Martin

2160 × 3840TS·0060
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: tall bouquet in a terracotta urn on a stone ledge, pink peonies, white roses and blue iris against a warm olive ground — Vase of Flowers

Jan van Huysum

2813 × 5001TS·0252
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: cascading waterfalls through a rocky gorge, dark green pool, figures fishing on the rocks, ancient ruins and cypresses crowning the clifftop — The Waterfalls at Tivoli

Claude-Joseph Vernet

2152 × 3825TS·0064
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: storm over a dark wooded valley with lightning-struck trees and figures scattered on the ground — The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

Richard Wilson

2160 × 3840TS·0324
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Dark academia vertical iPhone background from a painting: wooded dell falling away to dark water, a pale rock face on the right, sheep on the near slope and a hill town under hazy blue mountains — Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir

Thomas Gainsborough

2160 × 3840TS·0240
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