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Jan 7 2011
First Mourning of 1888 by William Adolphe Bouguereau
Academician / Bouguereau / French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of William Adolphe Bouguereau’s First Mourning of 1888. The French Academician chose an unusual scene, the reaction of Adam and Eve to the death of their son Abel. Abel was not only the victim of the first murder, he was the first person to experience death according to the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Christian also consider him the first martyr. The painting appears to avoid the drama of many depictions of death and very simply portrays the grief of the first parents. Bouguereau painted this after the death of his second son, a fact which had greater pathos to the scene. The original is at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires.
Oct 7 2010
View of Salisbury Cathedral by John Constable, 1823
Academician / British / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of a work by John Constable, “View of Salisbury Cathedral” of 1823. The artist was a native of Suffolk who died in 1837 at the age of sixty-one years. He is one of the greatest English landscape painters but did not become recognized until he was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of fifty-two. He struggled financially until then with his works selling better in France than in England. This is one of his major works and displays the great cathedral from the southwest. It was created for Constable’s friend and patron, Dr. John Fisher, bishop of Salisbury. This painting is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Jul 27 2010
Elijah in the Wilderness by Frederic, Lord Leighton, 1878
Academician / Inspirational prints / Leighton / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of Lord Frederic Leighton’s “Elijah in the Wilderness” of 1878. This is a depiction of the exile of the prophet Elijah while being persecuted by Queen Jezebel. The prophet sleeps in this painting while an angel of the Lord comes to being him bread and water. The angel’s wings are still expanded creating the impression that he has just silently arrived. The muscled body of the exhausted prophet are in dramatic juxtaposition with the calm stance of the angel who looks down on the prophet in compassion. The original is in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England.
Frederic Leighton was born in 1830 in Scarborough, England and did not study art until after attending University College School in London. He studied on the continent, notably in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1854. He was in Paris between the ages of twenty-five to twenty-nine and there met Ingres, Delacroix, Corot and Millet. He returned to London where he joined the Pre-Raphaelites and began to create sculptures as well as paintings. A great success, he was knighted when aged fifty-eight and was created Baron Leighton in 1896. He died the next day. As a bachelor, he left no children and his home became the Leighton House Museum.
Jul 13 2010
Death of St. Sebastian by Fabre of 1789
Academician / French / Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Francois-Xavier Fabre’s "Death of Saint Sebastian". The legend of Sebastian became very popular throughout the Middle Ages, particularly after the 13th century due to Sebastian’s being the patron of victims of the plague which was ravishing almost all of europe from the fourteenth century. Fabre was one of the most talented students of David and he died in 1832. This masterwork is housed in the Mussee Fabre in Montpellier, France.
Jul 4 2010
Flagellation de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ, William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1880
Academician / Bouguereau / French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of one of the greatest religious masterpieces by the master of Academic French Neo-classicism, William Adolphe Bouguereau. The original work is life-sized. There is no greater work in which perspective, pathos and composition are so marvelously intertwined.
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