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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.
Jun 21 2010
Ajax and Cassandra, Solomon Joseph Solomon, 1886
Academician / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of Solomon Joseph Solomon’s masterpiece “Ajax and Cassandra” of 1886. This is rendition of the Greek tale, set in the destruction of Troy, of Ajax taking captive the Princess Cassandra, priestess of Apollo and daughter of Priam. Solomon Joseph Solomon was a British painter of the Pre-Raphaelte movement and was a student and followere of Alexandre Cabanel. He died in 1927 at the age of sixty-seven yerars. The original painting is in the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in Victoria, Australia.
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