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Jul 9 2011
Victory, O Lord !
Academician / British / Millais / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 11 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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Mar 2 2011
Lady Godiva by John Collier, 1898
Academician / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Lady Godiva” of 1898 by John Collier. This English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite School painted this work when he was forty-eight years old. He studied at the Munich Academy and was one of the most prominent portraitists of his age. The Prince of Wales was his major patron and he died in 1934. This painting of a major English mythological tale which depicts the naked wife of Earl Leofric of Mercia riding through Coventry to protest an unfair tax. The legend dates from the Thirteenth Century and was popular in Victorian England as a morality tale.
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Jan 10 2011
Hypatia, 1885, Charles William Mitchell
British / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Charles William Mitchell’s Hypatia of 1885. Hypatia was the mathmatician, philosopher and astronomer librarian of the Alexandrian Library. Hypatia was a Neoplatonist and followed the teachings of Plotinus. She was killed during Christian rioting at Alexandria in 415, riots which also saw the destruction of the last classical library in Alexandria.
Charles William Mitchell was a Pre-Raphaelite English artist who was contemporary with John William Waterhouse. He produced this painting, his most famous, when he was thirty-one years old. He died in 1903. This painting is in the Laing Art Gallery in the Tyne and Wear Museums, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Dec 10 2010
Bower Meadow by Dante Gabriel Rosetti
British / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of a work by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Bower Meadow” of 1872. This Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece is haunting and seductive. The models in the foreground are Maria Spartali Stillman on the left and Alexa Wilding on the right. The painting has a surrealistic quality with dancing background figures contrasted with musical figures in the foreground at rest. The painting is now displayed in the Manchester City Art Galleries in England.
Oct 22 2010
The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, 1888
British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite / Waterhouse - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of “The Lady of Shalott” of 1888 by John William Waterhouse. This work was inspired by Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem by the same name of 1883. The lady is cursed to see the world only through a reflections but, spying the irresistible Lancelot by chance, she cannot resist the temptation of looking at him directly. Her punishment is to drift in a boat downstream towards Camelot singing her last long and dying before reaching Arthur’s capital. The original painting is in the Tate Gallery in London.
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.
Oct 10 2010
Phosphorus and Hesperus by Evelyn De Morgan, 1889
British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 1 year ago - troycapc
De Morgan was a pioneering woman artist who was born in 1855. Her work is Pre-Raphaelite and she was influenced by her uncle Roddam Stanhope and Edward Poynter. She died in 1919 one of the most renown of women artists in the world.
Hesperus in Greek mythology was the son of Eos and Atlas and was associated with the evening star, Venus. In its morning aspect, the planet we know as Venus was known to the Greeks as Phosphorus, the bringer of light. In some mythological stories, these two male figures were considered to be lovers. The original of this painting is in the De Morgan Foundation in Battersea, London.
Sep 28 2010
Dante and Beatrice by John William Waterhouse, 1915
British / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of “Dante and Beatrice” of 1915 by John William Waterhouse. This work reflects and captures a moment from the divine comedy when the author encounters his beloved Beatrice. This is an oil sketch from the last year in which the artist could work. In this year he became too ill with cancer to continue.
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 production impossible in 1915. He died two years later. This masterpiece is presently in the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.
Aug 16 2010
Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903
British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite / Waterhouse - 1 year 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 13 2010
The Accolade by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1901
British / Inspirational prints / Leighton / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of “The Accolade” of 1901 by Edmund Blair Leighton. This work captures an idealized moment in the ceremony of the creation of a knight in the Middle Ages. The original work is in a Private Collection.
Edmund Leighton was the son of the artist Charles B. Leighton and he exhibited annually at the Royal Academy from 1878 when he was aged thirty-two. Many of his works are based in romantic depictions of knighthood and the medieval ideals of chivalry. He is numbered among the late Pre-Raphaelistes and died in 1922.
Jul 12 2010
Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1912
British / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite / Waterhouse - 1 year ago - troycapc
This modern masterpiece was created by John William Waterhouse in 1912. It represents Narcissus who was punished by falling in love with his own reflection. He was trapped by the beauty of his own reflection and died. Yellow narcissus flowers grew there in memory and these are included in the painting.
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