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Apr 5 2011
Apotheosis of Homer
French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Apotheosis of Homer” of 1827 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. The French master artist was forty-seven when he produced this painting and had finally become a critical success in Paris three years before. The government commissioned this work which he quickly completed. It is designed to show the homage that should be paid to Homer, the first European poet, by the great men of Greece, Rome and subsequent times. The original painting is 515 cm by 386 cm and is in the Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Mar 15 2011
Magdalena Bay, 1840, Francois Biard
French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Magdalena Bay” of 1840 by Auguste Francois Biard. This wonderful depiction of the wild northwest shore of Spitzbergen was painted when the artist was forty-two years old. He died in 1882 and was a native of Lyon. He was a prominent abolitionist and traveled throughout the world making sketches from which he later produced wonderful paintings. Magdalena Bay is known world-wide for its spectacular juxtaposition of the sea, glacial congestion and riotous mountain peaks rising straight out of the sea. It remains one of the most beautiful and exotic places to visit in the world. This masterpiece is in the Louvre, Paris.
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Mar 10 2011
Homer, Auguste Leloir, 1841
French / Greco-Roman / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Homer” of 1841 by Jean-Baptiste Auguste Leloir. This painting was inspired by the "Apotheosis of Homer" by Ingres and was completed when the French artist was thirty-two. This is a Neo-classic and idealized depiction of the greatest of the Greek bards telling his tale to a varied audience before a Doric temple. The artist died in 1892. The dimensions of this masterpiece are 195 cm by 147 cm and it is housed is in the Louvre, Paris.
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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.
Jul 25 2010
Zeus et Thetis, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1811
French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This powerful images by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres by painted in 1811 in France. It depicts poignent moment from Book One of the Iliad when Thetis beseaches Zeus on behalf of her son Achilles.
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