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Victory, O Lord !

Academician / British / Millais / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 7 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Victory, O Lord!” by John Everett Millais of 1871.  It is a depiction of Moses being supported by his brother Aaron and Hur during the battle of Rephidim against the Amalekites as recorded in Exodus 17.  Millais was forty-two when he created this masterpiece and was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite School.   This work dates from the period in which the artist grew bolder in his use of color and drama and marks a significant transition in his style.  He was very influential among British artists and died in 1896.  This masterpiece is 141.3 cm wide and 194.7 cm high and is in the Manchester Art Museum in Manchester, England.

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Sir Isaac Newton

Academician / Baroque / British / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Sir Isaac Newton” of 1689 by Godfrey Kneller.  The artist was forty-three when he painted Newton who was then aged forty-six.  Kneller was the court portraitist for the British kings from Charles II to George I.  Newton, of course, was the greatest scientist of his age being the founder of physics, discoverer of Gravity, the Three Laws of Motion, the co-inventor of differential and integral calculus, builder of one of the first reflecting telescopes,.  In short he was one of the most influential persons to have ever lived.

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Prayer of Christ on the Mount of Olives

Academician / Baroque / German / Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Prayer of Christ on the Mount of Olives” of 1730 by Sebastiano Ricci.  This masterpiece was created when the artist was seventy-one years old.  He was a Late Baroque artist of the Venetian school.  He began as an apprentice at the age of twelve.  He moved to Bologna after a scandal in Venice and began collecting commissions in 1682.  He fled Bologna after another scandal and by 1692 was in Rome where he received a commission from the duke of Parma.  He was back in Venice between 1698 and 1706 when he moved to Florence.  He travelled to London and Paris for further commissions and returned to Venice in 1718 a wealthy man.  He continued to work though his advanced age and influenced an entire school in Venice where he died in May, 1734.  This work is 95 cm wide and 76 cm high and is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

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View of the Forum of Rome, 1732

Academician / Greco-Roman / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Spanish - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “View of the Forum of Rome” of 1732 by Francesco Sabatini.  This masterpiece is gouache on cardboard and signed in the lower right corner.  It appears to be the very early work of Frncesco Sabatini who was born in Palermo, Sicily and studied architecture in Rome.  In 1752 he participated in the construction of the Caserta Palace for the king of Naples and when he became King Charles III of Spain eight years later, Sabatini was called to Madrid.  Royal patronage gained him entrance into the Academia Real de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and appointment as Great Master of Royal Works.  He designed and built many building during his long career which ended only in his death I 1792 in Madrid.  This work is 47 cm wide and 34 cm high.

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Time Saving Truth from Falsehood

Academician / Baroque / French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy” of 1737 by Francois Lemoyne.  This allegorical Rococo masterpiece was produced when Lemoyne was fifty-nine years old and completed the day before his suicide.  He began his studies when he was thirteen and won the Prix de Rome in 1711.  Seven years later at the age of thirty he became a member of the Academie and became a professor in 1733.  He led in the in the fashion of large allegorical paintings which disappeared upon his death on June 4, 1737.  His suicide was probably prompted by insanity which overcame him after the death of his wife.

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Achilles and the Centaur Chiron

Academician / Baroque / Greco-Roman / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Achilles and the Centaur Chiron” of 1746 by Pompeo Batoni.  According to Greek Mythology Achilles was trained in warfare by the wise centaur Chiron.  This became a favorite subject during the Renaissance and continued into the Baroque.  Batoni was thirty-eight when he created this masterpiece having been born in Lucca and apprentice in Rome from the age of nineteen.  He was gained a patron in Gabrielli di Gubbio five years later and his fame spread.  He became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in 1741 and became an Austrian noble for his double painting of Joseph II and Leopold II.  He died in Rome in 1787.  This masterpiece is 127 cm wide and 159 cm high and is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

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Sebastian and the Women

Academician / Baroque / German / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Sebastian und die Frauen” of 1746 by Paul Troger.  The artist was forty-eight when he created this masterpiece having been born in the Tyrol.  He began his apprenticeship at the age of sixteen and painted his first fresco in 1722 when he was twenty-four.  His patron sent him for four years to Italy where he perfected his style and returned to Austria in 1726.  Two years later he moved to Vienna where his work became the bridge between Baroque and Rococo tastes.  He died in 1762 and this work in the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna.

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Four parts of the world

Academician / French / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Les Quatre parties du monde” of 1760 by Jean-Jacques Bachelier.  The French artist was thirty-six when this masterpiece was created.  He had been a member of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture for eight years.  Five years later he founded an art school in Paris.  He died in 1806 in his natal city of Paris.  This work is in the Royal Collection of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

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Horse Attacked by a Lion

Academician / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Horse Attacked by a Lion” of 1765 by George Stubbs.  The artist was born in Liverpool and worked for his father as a leather merchant until he was sixteen.  He was apprenticed to a painter  a year later in 1741 after his father’s death.  In the 1740′s he worked as a portraitist in the north of England and travelled to Italy in 1754.  He moved to London in 1759 and in 1766 published an illustrated book on The Anatomy of the Horse.  Commissions by the nobility enabled him to buy a comfortable home in a fashionable part of London where he lived for the rest of life which eneded in 1806 at the age of eighty-one.  This work is 97 cm wide and 66 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
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Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, king of Sparta

Academician / American / British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, king of Sparta” of 1768 by Benjamin West.  This is gigantic canvas painting is over sixty feet wide and 45 feet high.  The American artist West displayed it at the second exhibition of the Royal Academy.  He had established himself as the leading London artist depicting scenes from Classical History after his studies in Italy.  This painting depicts a famous scene from Spartan history when Leonidas II returned from having been deposed by his son-in-law.  The pleadings of his daughter Chilonis saved the rebel’s life who was banished rather than executed.  This work is 1854 cm wide and 1384 cm high and is in the Tate Museum in London.

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