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Jun 13 2011
Prayer of Christ on the Mount of Olives
Academician / Baroque / German / Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Prayer of Christ on the Mount of Olives” of 1730 by Sebastiano Ricci. This masterpiece was created when the artist was seventy-one years old. He was a Late Baroque artist of the Venetian school. He began as an apprentice at the age of twelve. He moved to Bologna after a scandal in Venice and began collecting commissions in 1682. He fled Bologna after another scandal and by 1692 was in Rome where he received a commission from the duke of Parma. He was back in Venice between 1698 and 1706 when he moved to Florence. He travelled to London and Paris for further commissions and returned to Venice in 1718 a wealthy man. He continued to work though his advanced age and influenced an entire school in Venice where he died in May, 1734. This work is 95 cm wide and 76 cm high and is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
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Jun 10 2011
Achilles and the Centaur Chiron
Academician / Baroque / Greco-Roman / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Achilles and the Centaur Chiron” of 1746 by Pompeo Batoni. According to Greek Mythology Achilles was trained in warfare by the wise centaur Chiron. This became a favorite subject during the Renaissance and continued into the Baroque. Batoni was thirty-eight when he created this masterpiece having been born in Lucca and apprentice in Rome from the age of nineteen. He was gained a patron in Gabrielli di Gubbio five years later and his fame spread. He became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in 1741 and became an Austrian noble for his double painting of Joseph II and Leopold II. He died in Rome in 1787. This masterpiece is 127 cm wide and 159 cm high and is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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Jun 8 2011
Sebastian and the Women
Academician / Baroque / German / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Sebastian und die Frauen” of 1746 by Paul Troger. The artist was forty-eight when he created this masterpiece having been born in the Tyrol. He began his apprenticeship at the age of sixteen and painted his first fresco in 1722 when he was twenty-four. His patron sent him for four years to Italy where he perfected his style and returned to Austria in 1726. Two years later he moved to Vienna where his work became the bridge between Baroque and Rococo tastes. He died in 1762 and this work in the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna.
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Apr 11 2011
Beethoven, 1820
Academician / German / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven while composing the Missa Solemnis” of 1820 by Joseph Karl Stieler. The artist was a native of Mainz, Germany and produced this painting in Munich, Bavaria at the age of thirty-nine. It became his best known portrait even though he was very prolific and painted many portraits, mainly from his base in Munich. His portraits are known for the total focus on the sitter with a minimum of distractions from the subject of the painting. Beethoven himself was fifty years old when this portrait was completed. Stieler died in 1858 and Beethoven in 1827. The painting is 120 cm wide and 142.2 cm high and is in the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany.
Mar 27 2011
Hurricane on the North Sea, Hubert Sattler
German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Orkan auf der Nordsee” of 1836 by Hubert Sattler. This masterpiece was created when the artist was nineteen years old. He died sixty-eight years later. This image portrays a foundering ship amid the tumultuous waves of a hurricane in the North Sea. The original is in the Salzburg Museum in Salzburg, Austria.
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Mar 18 2011
Blick auf Salzburg, Jakob Roedler
German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Blick auf Salzburg”, or View of Salzburg, of 1833 by Jakob Roedler. The Austiran Jakob Roedler produced this landscape masterpiece when he was twenty-four years old. He died twenty-nine years later in Vienna. The painting captures a view of the famous Festung Hohensalzburg which was built originally in 1077. The city is famous as the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and was under the rule of the archbishop for 500 years ending in 1805.
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Mar 8 2011
The Wedding Trip of 1841 by Carl Schindler
Academician / German / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Wedding Trip” of 1841 by Carl Schindler. This painting is one of the few by the Viennese native. He died tragically at the age of twenty on August 22, 1842. This masterpiece is in the Austrian Gallery in Vienna.
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Jan 26 2011
Vulkanausbruch am Vesuv by Hubert Sattler, 1872
Academician / German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This a reproduction of Hubert Sattler’s “Vulkanausbruch am Vesuv” or “Volcanic eruption of Vesuvius” of 1872. Sattler was an Austrian artist who was born in 1817, the son of the artist Johan Michael Sattler. He died in 1904 leaving a large collection of paintings. This one is part of his panorama project in which he desired to display grand and accurate images from around the world. The Salzburg Museum has 130 of these images, called by Sattler his cosmoramas, and they are on display in the Panoramic Museum.
Sep 30 2010
Mort de Cesar – Death of Caesar by Vincenzo Camuccini, 1798
Academician / Greco-Roman / Italian / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Mort de Cesar” of 1798 by Vincenzo Camuccini. Camuccnini became the premier Neoclassic painter in Rome in the early nineteenth century. This was his first major original work completed when he was twenty-seven years old. He received a Papal commission two years later. He had a painting exhibited in the Pantheon in 1806. He later went to Munich and Parish where he met Napoleon and Jean Jacques David. He was created a Papal Baron and received the Order of the Iron Crown from the emperor of Austria. He died at Rome on September 2, 1844.
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