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Jun 10 2011
Achilles and the Centaur Chiron
Academician / Baroque / Greco-Roman / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Achilles and the Centaur Chiron” of 1746 by Pompeo Batoni. According to Greek Mythology Achilles was trained in warfare by the wise centaur Chiron. This became a favorite subject during the Renaissance and continued into the Baroque. Batoni was thirty-eight when he created this masterpiece having been born in Lucca and apprentice in Rome from the age of nineteen. He was gained a patron in Gabrielli di Gubbio five years later and his fame spread. He became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in 1741 and became an Austrian noble for his double painting of Joseph II and Leopold II. He died in Rome in 1787. This masterpiece is 127 cm wide and 159 cm high and is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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Dec 23 2010
Achilles et Priam, 1876, Jules Bastien LePage
French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of Jules Bastien LePage’s “Achilles et Priam”, 1876. The artist was born in 1848 and was a student of Alexandre Cabanel. He gained wide recognition for his work and died in 1884. This reproduction of his Achilles et Priam is a quite stunning work representing one of the most poignant scenes in the Iliad.
Dec 16 2010
Achilles gives Nestor the Prize for Wisdom by Joseph Desire Court, 1821
French / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of the classic painting by the French Neo-classical great, Joseph Desire Court who was born in 1797 Rouen. He painted the work when he was twenty-four when he won the Prix de Rome. He died in 1865 Paris. The story of the prize for wisdom is found in the Odyssey of Homer when Achilles gives the prize to the elder advisor to the Achaeans at the funeral games of Achilles’ lover Patroclus. Agamemnon looks on as the prize is given. The painting is at the Mesee des Beaux Arts in Rouen, France.
Dec 15 2010
The Death of Ajax by Henri Serrur, 1820
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of the classic painting by the French Neo-classical great, Henri Auguste Calixte Cesar Serrur. It was painted in 1820 when the artist was twenty-six years old. He died in 1865. The story of the death of Ajax is not related in the Iliad and is motivated by the hero’s shame at having lost the argument over the armor of Patroklos which he lost to Odysseus. Ajax felt cheated by the gods whom he cursed before killing himself. He was worshiped as a hero in his native Salamis and at Athens.
Oct 5 2010
Achilles and Patroklos, Sosias Painter, ca. 500 BCE
Greco-Roman / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a wonder of the Greek Classical period portraying the tender moment when Achilles tends an arrow wound of his companion Patroclus. This painted pottery dates from about 500 years Before the Common Era and was found at Vulci, an Etruscan city about sixty miles northwest of Rome. The pottery, however, was produced in Athens and is usually attributed to the Sosias Painter, but is also attributed to the Kleophrades Painter or Euthymides. The intimate scene comes from an imagined incident in Homer’s Iliad. The original is in the Antikensammlung Museum, Berlin.
Jul 25 2010
Zeus et Thetis, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1811
French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This powerful images by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres by painted in 1811 in France. It depicts poignent moment from Book One of the Iliad when Thetis beseaches Zeus on behalf of her son Achilles.
Jul 20 2010
Patroclus by Jacques-Louis David of 1780
David / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This early Neoclassical work by Jacques-Louis David was created in 1780. It is now displayed in the Musee Thomas Henry in Cherbourg, France. Jacques-Louis David was born in 1748 Paris and was the foremost of the French Neoclassicists, in the opinion of many critics. His efforts were very influential in turning tastes from Rococo towards the realistic depiction of historical scenes, which was the hallmark of Neoclassicism. Orphaned at an early age, Jacques-Louis David was raised by prosperous uncles who begrudgingly allowed him to attend the Royal Academy. On his fourth try, David won the Prix de Rome in 1774. He went to Italy the next year and avidly drank in all the classical images and was overwhelmed by the art in Pompeii. From this point, David was devoted to the “eternal concepts” of the Classics.
Returning to Paris in 1780, David was quickly recognized as a genius, if an eccentric one. He was given lodgings in the Louvre at royal expense and married a rich heiress. He was commissioned to paint Oath of the Horatti and he went to Rome to do so. Returning to France, David joined in the political discussions which were rapidly moving the kingdom in the direction of revolution. Jacques-Louis David continued to produce revolutionary art in the Neoclassical manner until his death in 1825.
Jun 18 2010
Thetis Brings Armor to Achilles, Benjamin West, 1804
Academician / American / British / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This American Neo-Classical painting is by Benjamin West. It portrays Thetis attempting to console her son Achilles bereft by the death of his beloved Patroclus. She is delivering his new armor as his old armor had been stolen by the slayer of his love, Hector of Troy.
Benjamin West was born in 1738 Pennsylvania and was self-taught. He began painting at the age of eight and was patronized by Dr. William Smith from the time he was eighteen. He also began learning from the English painter John Wollaston at the same time. Four years later he was sent to Italy to study Titian and Raphael and in 1763 he was commissioned by George III to paint members of the royal family. West founded the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768 with Joshua Reynolds and he died in London in 1820.
Jun 16 2010
Triumphant Achilles, The Achilleion, 1890
Greco-Roman / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
“Triumphant Achilles dragging Hector’s lifeless body in front of the Gates of Troy”. This is a reproduction of a panoramic fresco on the upper level of the main hall of the Achilleion on the island of Corfu built by Empress Elizabeth of Austria in 1890. Elizabeth was devastated by the suicide of her only child Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889 and was a lover of all things Greek. She spoke the language and was proud of her descent from medieval Byzantine emperors. After her death Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany bought the palace in 1907 and it became a hub of European diplomacy before the First World War. After World War II, the Achilleion became the property of the Greek state under the management of the Hellenic Tourist Organization.
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