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Sep 4 2010
The Alexander Mosaic, 1st Century BCE, Pompeii
Greco-Roman / Italian / Neoclassical - 2 hours ago - troycapc
This is the most celebrated ancient mosaic which has survived into the Modern Era. It depicts Alexander’s defeat of the Persian king of kings, Darius III, at the Battle of Issus. The original is 19 feet by 10 feet. It is composed of approximately one million tesserae. It was discovered in the largest house in Pompeii, the House of the Fawn, in a room overlooking the central peristyle garden. It is currently in the Museo Archeologico in Naples, Italy.
Sep 3 2010
Sappho by Charles August Mengin of 1877
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 day ago - troycapc
A reproduction of a work by Charles August Mengin, “Sappho”. This Academic masterpiece of 1877 is a wonderful depiction of the greatest poetess of the Classical Age. Charles August Mengin learned from Gecker and Cabanel and began exhibiting at the Paris Salon the year before producing this, his most famous work. He died on April 3, 1933 at the age of eighty years. In this work, Sappho’s sensual and exotic nature is beautifully rendered. The original is in the Manchester Art Gallery in Manchester, England.
Aug 31 2010
Isle of the Dead by Arnold Brocklin, 1880
Academician / Greco-Roman / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist - 4 days ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Arnold Brocklin’s masterpiece “Isle of the Dead” of 1880. It resides in the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland. Brocklin was a Swiss Symbolist artist who died in 1901 at the age of 74 years. He was a leading light of his age and this image is typical of his treatment of mythological scenes. This particular work was inspired by the English cemetery in Florence, Italy.
Aug 30 2010
Psyche et L’Amour by William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1889
Academician / Bouguereau / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 5 days ago - troycapc
This French Impressionist painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau is a beautiful and realistic image of Eros and Psyche in rapt attention during their ascent into the Heavens. The work was created in 1889. The artist died in 1905 at the age of eighty years.
Aug 29 2010
Portrait of the God from Olympia, 456 BCE
Caperton / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Statuary - 6 days ago - troycapc
Sminthian Apollo, the eternal son, Lord of Delphi and God of Manly Beauty and the Arts. Apollo was the voice of the gods and a favored son of the All-Father Zeus. This portrait is taken from the statue of Lord Apollo which was in the pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia in Greece that was built between 472 and 456 BCE.
Aug 25 2010
Temple of Apollo at Phigalia by Karl Brulloff, 1835
Greco-Roman / Italian / Landscape / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 10 days ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Karl Brulloff’s masterpiece watercolor, “Temple of Apollo at Phigalia”. This Russian painter was born of Italian parents and lived in Rome from 1821 to 1835. In 1833 his reputation was made and he created this watercolor on the way back to his native Russia. Due to failing health, he returned to Italy in 1849 and died three years later in Rome at the age of fifty-three years. The original watercolor is in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
Aug 19 2010
Forge of Vulcan by Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, 1630
Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) / Renaissance / Spanish - 2 weeks ago - troycapc
This masterpiece was created in 1630, the work of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez. It displays the story of Apollo’s telling Hephaistos (Vulcan to the Romans) of the illicit love affair between Ares (Mars) and Hephaistos’ wife Aphrodite (Venus). Apollo appears in the form of Phoebus, the bright shining one, and has a radiance about his head. Hephaistos shows his outrage in his glaring eyes. The dramatic moment is superbly captured by the Spanish master. He artist died in 1660 in Madrid when he was sixty-one years old. This work is now displayed in the Museo de Prado in Madrid.
Aug 16 2010
Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903
British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite / Waterhouse - 3 weeks ago - troycapc
A reproduction of "Echo and Narcissus" of 1903 by John William Waterhouse. This work reflects and captures a moment from Greek and Roman Mythology and is another story in which a young man’s rejection of love leads to his destruction. His rejection of the attetnions of the nymph Echo that she faded away until only the whisper of her voice remained. Nemesis heard the prayers of the rejected ladies and arranged for Narcissus to fall in love with his own image .
Waterhouse often re-created scenes from the world of myth as did many of his fellow Pre-Raphaelites. Waterhouse was born to English painters in Rome who returned to England when he was five years old. He entered the Royal Academy of Art school in 1871 when he was aged 21 and within three years he had a successful painting. For the next forty years Waterhouse maintained his success and continued painting until his last illness made productin impossible in 1915. He died two years later. This masterpiece is presently in the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.
Aug 14 2010
Alexander the Great by Troy Caperton, 2004
American / Caperton / Contemporary / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical - 3 weeks ago - troycapc
This print is a reproduction of Troy Caperton’s profile of Alexander the Great, a depiction of the most important figure in the history of European culture. Alexander personifies the explosion of European culture over the world.
Aug 11 2010
Parthenon at Night by Caperton, 2006
American / Caperton / Contemporary / Greco-Roman / Landscape / Neoclassical - 3 weeks ago - troycapc
The artist has himself commented of this work:
“This picture of the ruins of the quitessential classic temple of Athena at Athens, the Parthenon. It was dedicated to the Virgin-born goddess of wisdom and war. She sprung fully-grown from the brain of God, Zeus, father of mortals and immortals. I tried in this night-time photograph to capture the timeless beauty of this glorious monument to the classical age of Greece.”
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