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Tobias Fishing in the Presence of the Archangel Raphael

Impressionist / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Tobias Fishing in the Presence of the Archangel Raphael” of 1752 by Francesco Guardi.  Francesco Guardi was one of the last of the Venetian school of painting and was forty years old when he produced this masterpiece.  His most important works date from the years following this effort and his quick brushwork was to have an influence on the French Impressionists of the following century.  He died in 1793, four years before the death of the Venetian Republic.  This painting is in the Church of the Angel Raphael in Venice and measures 140 cm wide and 80 cm high.

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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.

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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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