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A Man in Armor

Dutch / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Rembrandt - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “A Man in Armor” of 1655 by Rembrandt van Rijn.  This later Rembrandt masterpiece is sub-titled “Alexander the Great” and was created when the artist was forty-nine.  He had been a prominent artist and member of the community in Amsterdam for twenty years.  Yet Rembrandt was approaching a financial crisis when this masterpiece was produced.  The painting shows Rembrandt’s wonderful use of light in his works with the gleam on the helmet also expressed over the heart on the breast-plate.  The red robe adds to the dramatic nature of the portrait.  This masterpiece is 137 cm wide and 104.5 cm high and is in the City Art Gallery and Museum of Glasgow, Scotland.

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The Flight of Aeneas from Troy

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

This is a reproduction of “The Flight of Aeneas from Troy” of 1598 by Frederico Barocci.  The artist was seventy-two when he painted this composition for Cardinale della Rovere.  It was gifted to Cardinale Scipione before 1613 when it enetered the Borghese collection.  The work displayed Barocci’s ability to portray natural movement as well as a natural anti-heroic depiction of human delicacy.  The scene is from Greco-Roman mythology showing the escape of Aeneas, his father, wife and son from the destruction of the city of Troy.  Barocci had been born in Urbino as Federico Fiori, Il Baroccio, the ox-cart, was a nick-name.  He died in 1612 at the age of about eighty-six years.
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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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View of the Parthenon from the Propylea

British / Greco-Roman / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “View of the Parthenon from the Propylea” of 1821 by Edward Dodwell.  This image appeared in Dodwell’s volume Views in Greece which was published in London in 1821, the year of the Greek War of Independence.  It shows the contemporary buildings which were on the Akropolis during the 375 year Turkish occupation of Athens.  The Irish-born artist was fifty-four when the volume was published and had been living and traveling in Italy and Greece since 1801.  He died in Rome on May 13, 1832.

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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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La Roche Tarpéienne

British / Greco-Roman / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Tarpeian Rock” of 1780 by Francis Towne.  This is a scene from the late eighteenth century in Rome of the famous Tarpeian Rock from which the Roman hurled traitors from the earliest days of their history.  Francis Towne was forty-one years old when he created this watercolor masterpiece.  He was from Middlesex in England.  He supported himself with portraits and teaching in Devon and in 1777 during a tour of North Wales began focusing on watercolors.  He created this work during a stay in Rome which was followed by a month in Naples in 1781.  Returning to England, he moved to London where he died in 1816.  This work measures 18.58 inches wide by 12.6 inches high and is in the British Museum in London.

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Ruins of Nimes, Orange and St-Remy

Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Ruins of Nimes, Orange and Saint-Remy-de-Provence” by Hubert Robert of 1789.  This French artist was fifty-six when he created this masterpiece.  He was born in Paris and in 1754 went to Rome in the entourage of the ambassador from the French court.  He spent eleven years there and supported himself in the latter years through his work as an artist.  He returned to Paris is 1765 and soon became a success in the art circles.  He was imprisoned during the Revolution and was almost executed during the Terror.  He was released after the death of Robespierre.  He became one of the directors of the new museum of the Louvre and continued his success focusing on Neoclassical works.  He died in Paris on April 15, 1808.  The original of this masterpiece is on display at the Bode-Museum In Berlin.

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The Return of Marcus Sextus

Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Return of Marcus Sextus” of 1799 by Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guerin.  This masterpiece was a success at the Salon of 1799 being an allegory of the return of the the émigrés following the extremes of the Terror during the French Revolution.  Marcus Sextus is a fictional character returning home from having fled the proscriptions of the Roman dictator Sulla.  He returns to find his wife has died and his daughter is beside herself with grief.  The artist was twenty-five years old when he created this masterpiece and he was able to study in Italy after the sensation caused by this painting.  He continued popular through the Napoleonic Period and in the Restoration as well.  He became director of the French Academy in Rome in 1822 and was created Baron Guerin in 1828.  In an effort to regain his broken health, Guerin returned to Rome in 1833 where he died on July 6.  This masterpiece measures 243 cm wide and 217 cm high.  It is in the Musee de Louvre, Paris.

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