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A Man in Armor

Dutch / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Rembrandt - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “A Man in Armor” of 1655 by Rembrandt van Rijn.  This later Rembrandt masterpiece is sub-titled “Alexander the Great” and was created when the artist was forty-nine.  He had been a prominent artist and member of the community in Amsterdam for twenty years.  Yet Rembrandt was approaching a financial crisis when this masterpiece was produced.  The painting shows Rembrandt’s wonderful use of light in his works with the gleam on the helmet also expressed over the heart on the breast-plate.  The red robe adds to the dramatic nature of the portrait.  This masterpiece is 137 cm wide and 104.5 cm high and is in the City Art Gallery and Museum of Glasgow, Scotland.

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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.

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