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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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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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