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Marketplace in an Italian Town

Dutch / German / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 7 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Marketplace in an Italian Town with itinerant toothpuller” by Johannes Lingelbach, 1651.  The artist was twenty-nine years old when he created this masterpiece.  He was a Dutch painter born in Frankfurt, Germany and moved with his father to Amsterdam when he was twelve.  In his mid twenties he traveled in Italy where this masterpiece was created.  He returned to Amsterdam in 1653 and married.  His work showed considerable influence from Caravaggio and its popularity led to a deep influence of chiaroscuro on later Dutch artists.  He died in Amsterdam in 1674.  This masterpiece is 86 cm wide and 68.5 cm high and is in the Rijksuseum, Amsterdam.

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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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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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Election of Stanislaw II

German / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Election of Stanislaw II August at Wola in 1746″ by Bernardo Bellotto of 1776.  This Venetian artist was fifty-two when he created this spanning panoramic vista of the field at Wola during the election of the king of Poland.  He had worked in Rome and for Charles Emmaunel III of Savoy and in 1747 at the age of about twenty-five he moved to Dresden at the invitation of August III, king of Poland.  The Austrian empress Maria Theresa invited him to work in Vienna in 1758 which he did and then moved on to work in Munich and again in Dresden.  In 1764 he became court painter to Stanislaw II of Poland in Warsaw where he remained and died in 1780.  This work is in the National Museum in Poznan, Poland.
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The Destruction of the Turkish Fleet

Academician / German / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian / Sea Scapes - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Die Zerstorung der turkischen Flotte in der Schlacht von Tschesme” of 1771 by Jakob Philipp Hackert.  The Battle of Chesma occurred on July 5, 6 and 7, 1770 near the island of Chios in the Aegean  Sea.  It was part of the Orlov Revolt in which Russian officers attempted to rally the Greeks of the Peloponnese to throw off Turkish oppression.   In the Battle of Chesma, the Turkish fleet was destroyed and the Russians were able to control the Aegean for some years.  This also sparked the rebellion against Turkish rule of non-Greek Christian peoples of the Balkans.  This work is 220 cm wide and 162.5 cm high and is in the Hermitage State Museum in St. Petersburg.

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Fisher Family at Nighttime

Academician / German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Fisher Family at Nighttime Campfire with Turbulent Sea” of 1778 by Jakob Philipp Hackert.  The artist was fifty-one years old when this was produced.  He was born in Brandenburg where he was trained by his artist father and uncle.  He studied at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin and became very proficient in painting landscapes and murals.  He relocated to Italy, mostly in Rome and Naples, in 1768 and in 1786 he entered the court of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies in Naples.  He received commissions from the empress of Russia and the king of France.  He fled Naples in 1799 to Florence where he died in 1807.  This work is 87 cm wide and 64.5 cm high and is in the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany.

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Gothic Cathedral with Imperial Palace

German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Gotische Kirche auf einem Felsen am Meer” by Karl Friedrich Schinkel of 1815.  This is a fine example of the work of this leading architect of German neoclassicism.  He was thirty-four when he created this painting having earned his living for ten years as a painter in Berlin.  After viewing the work of Caspar David Friedrich he devoted himself to architecture and became a leading proponent of Greek Revivalism.  He died on October 9, 1841 in Berlin.  The original of this masterpiece is in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and is 140 cm wide and 94 cm high.

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Waterfall by Tivoli

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

This is a reproduction of “Wasserfälle bei Tivoli” of 1819 by Johann Martin von Rohden.  The artist was a native of Kassel who died in 1868 in Rome at the age of ninety years.  He is one of the greatest German landscape painters and first visited Rome when he was seventeen.  He was in Germany in 1811 where he visited Goethe and joined a reading group based in Kassel that was led by the brothers Grimm.  He was back in Rome in 1812 where he married and converted to Roman Catholicism.  He was influential as the first German painter to focus on landscapes and formed the German Academy in Rome.  This typical masterpiece of his is in the Museum der bidenden Künste  in Leipzig.

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Beethoven, 1820

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

This is a reproduction of “Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven while composing the Missa Solemnis” of 1820 by Joseph Karl Stieler.  The artist was a native of Mainz, Germany and produced this painting in Munich, Bavaria at the age of thirty-nine.  It became his best known portrait even though he was very prolific and painted many portraits, mainly from his base in Munich.  His portraits are known for the total focus on the sitter with a minimum of distractions from the subject of the painting.  Beethoven himself was fifty years old when this portrait was completed.  Stieler died in 1858 and Beethoven in 1827.  The painting is 120 cm wide and 142.2 cm high and is in the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany.

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