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Baptism of Christ

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

This is a reproduction of “The Baptism of Christ” of 1674 by John Heiss.  This early Baroque masterpiece is in the Blackfriar’s Church in Augsburg, Germany.  The church dates from 1243 as a center of the bare-footed monks of the Franciscans.  The original convent and church were burned in 1398 and in 1411 a new building was raised.  The first Protestant sermon was given in 1524 and in the eighteenth century the church was rebuilt in the style of the Baroque.  The artist died in 1704 in Augsburg at the age of sixty-four.

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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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The Storming of the Bastille

Academician / French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Prise de la Bastille” by Jean-Pierre Houël of 1789.  This enhanced watercolor captures the pivotal event marking the beginning of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789.  In the middle of the painting is shown the arrest of Bernard Rene Jourdan, the marquis de Launay at about 1:30 in the afternoon.  The moment was captured by Jean-Pierre Houël who was then fifty-four years old.  He had been drawing and painting since 1750 and had held a position in the French Academy in Rome.  He traveled in Italy and published travel books in the 1780′s.  The original watercolor is 40.5 cm wide and 37.8 cm high.

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The Athenaeum

American / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of Gilbert Stuart’s “The Athenaeum” which was begun in 1796.  Stuart never finished the original painting and sold his own copies of it for $ 100 each.  He was forty-one when he produced this masterpiece which has been used as the template for the one-dollar bill and many United States postage stamps and other documents.  Stuart went on to become the foremost American portraitist and completed paintings of the first six American presidents.  Originally from Rhode Island, he died on July 9, 1828.  The original of this masterpiece measures 88 by 101 cm and is in the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau

French / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau” by Antoine-Jean Gros of 1808.  Gros was a disciple of the Neoclassicist David, but departed from those norms in this epochal painting.  Napoleon’s compassion towards the dead and wounded is depicted with focus in the foreground of huge corpses.  Gros was thirty-seven when he produced this masterpiece and he was at the height of his career.  His later life was focused on an increasing failure to stem the tide of Romanticism.  He died at his own hand on June 25, 1835.  The original of this masterpiece is in the Louvre and is 784 cm wide and 521cm high.

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Tres de Mayo, 1815

Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism / Spanish - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo” by Francisco Goya of 1815.  Goya was commemorating the Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s French forces of occupation in 1808.  It was commissioned by the provisional Spanish government at the suggestion of the artist.  This painting has gained iconic status as a powerful image of the horrors of war, particularly warfare directed against defenseless civilians.  Because it breaks so profoundly from the conventions of the past, it has often been claimed to be the first painting of the modern era.  The original of this masterpiece is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid and is 347 cm wide and 268cm high.

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The Dream of Solomon by Luca Giordano

Baroque / Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) / Spanish - 10 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Dream of Solomon” by Luca Giordano of about 1693.  The painting is a depiction of the passage from the Bible, II Kings 3:5-15, in which God appeared to the young king.  In the dream God asks Solomon what gift he wanted and Solomon responded that he wanted understanding so that he could properly judge the people.  The Neapolitan Giordano produced this painting in Spain when he was about fifty-nine years old.  He had just entered the service of the Spanish king.  He became wealthy in that service and returned to Naples in 1702 where he died three years later.  The original painting is 361 cm wide and 245 cm high and is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

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Klosterruine Eldena, David Caspar Friedrich, 1825

German / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 10 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Eldena Monastary Ruins” of 1825 by David Caspar Friedrich.  This masterpiece was produced by the German master when he was forty-nine years old.  It vividly shows the Romanticism which characterized this most influential German artist of his generation.  His bias against Classicism expressed itself in a symbolic representation of Nature and its wonders.  He sought to encourage a sense of contemplative awe of the Natural which would lead the participant into a spiritual awareness of the universe.  The artist died in 1840.  The original painting is 49 cm wide and 35 cm high and is in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

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Defense of Saragossa, Sir David Wilkie

British / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 10 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Defense of Saragossa” of 1828 by Sir David Wilkie.  The painting depicts the Spanish efforts to resist the second siege of Saragossa in Spain by the troops of Napoleon.  It highlights Agustina de Aragon, the Maid of Saragossa, who took a place at the guns during the three month siege in 1808.  The French were able to conquer the city but only at the cost of the total destruction of the site.  The resistance inspired Britain to commit significant forces to the Peninsular War.  Agustina joined Wellington’s army as an officer.  Sir David Wilkie was a Scots painter who created this work at the age of forty-three.  He died in 1841.  The original work is 141 cm by 94 cm and is in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, England.

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Two Men Contemplating the Moon, Caspar David Friedrich, 1830

German / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 10 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Zwei Manner in Betrachtung des Mondes” of 1830 by Caspar David Friedrich.  This oil on canvas is part of the revolution Friedrich started in the art world, the movement known as Romanticism.  He was fifty-six years old when this was painted.  The artist is the figure on the right and is accompanied by his younger colleague August Heinrich.  They are both in older styled dress which was a mode of expressing disapproval of the conservative policies in effect in Post-Napoleonic Germany.  The original work is 43.8 cm by 34.9 cm and is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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