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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 8 2010
Michael the Archangel Defeats Satan by Albrecht Durer, 1498
German / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Renaissance - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is the German Master’s rendition as a woodcut of the scene described in the twelfth chapter of The Revelation of St John. It is a wonderful example of the beautiful artwork of the Northern Renaissance which still harkens back to the apocalyptic themes of the Middle Ages, particularly after the holocaust of the Black Death in the Fourtheenth Century. The original is a woodcut, 392 by 283 millimeters, and is housed in the Sttaatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe.
Jun 24 2010
Elijah in the Wilderness, Frederick, Lord Leighton, 1878
Academician / British / 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, Englnad 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 sculputes 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.
Jun 14 2010
Michael Trampling Satan, Guido Reni, 1635
Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) / Reni - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Guido Reni’s 1635 masterpiece “Saint Michael the Archangel tramples on Satan”. The original is in the Capuchin church of Santa Maria della Concezione in Rome. Satan is here represented by the recognizable features of Pope Innocent X.
Guido Reni was born in 1575 Bologna and from the age of nine he professionally trained as a painting artist. In about 1595 he joined Lodovico Carracci in the Academy of Progressive, Accademia degli Incamminati. He was a leading light in the Bolognese school at Rome to which he moved in late 1601. He worked there, in Naples, in Bologna and several other cities in Italy. After 1613 he mostly resided in Bologna where he died in 1642.
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