Dark academia collection

43 museum paintings chosen as dark academia phone wallpapers: 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.

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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All 43 are phone wallpapers at 9:16, 24 of them at 2160 × 3840 or larger. Free to download and set as your background, no account needed.

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