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Jun 16 2011
Allegory of Water
Baroque / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Spanish - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Allegory of Water” of about 1700 by Jeronimo Ezquerra. This Baroque masterpiece was created by the artist when he was about forty years old. He was court painter to Philip V and also was a highly respected art appraiser. This work was one of four allegories of the elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water, for Palacio del Buen Retiro. The artist died in 1733. This work is 160 cm wide and 248 cm high and is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
Reproduction for sale on Zazzle
Jun 11 2011
Time Saving Truth from Falsehood
Academician / Baroque / French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy” of 1737 by Francois Lemoyne. This allegorical Rococo masterpiece was produced when Lemoyne was fifty-nine years old and completed the day before his suicide. He began his studies when he was thirteen and won the Prix de Rome in 1711. Seven years later at the age of thirty he became a member of the Academie and became a professor in 1733. He led in the in the fashion of large allegorical paintings which disappeared upon his death on June 4, 1737. His suicide was probably prompted by insanity which overcame him after the death of his wife.
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