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Baptism of Christ

Baroque / German / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Baptism of Christ” of 1674 by John Heiss.  This early Baroque masterpiece is in the Blackfriar’s Church in Augsburg, Germany.  The church dates from 1243 as a center of the bare-footed monks of the Franciscans.  The original convent and church were burned in 1398 and in 1411 a new building was raised.  The first Protestant sermon was given in 1524 and in the eighteenth century the church was rebuilt in the style of the Baroque.  The artist died in 1704 in Augsburg at the age of sixty-four.

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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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Demon by Mikhail Vrubel, 1890

Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Demon” by Mikhail Vrubel of 1890.  This wonderful Symbolist creation shows a masterful depiction of the simultaneous despair and pride traditional in the psyche of demons.  Vrubel had always attempted to portray Christ figures and never satisfied himself.  Perhaps in reaction to these failures to his own standards, Vrubel concentrated on works of showing demons.  The original size of this beautiful work is 213.8 cm by 116.5 cm.  Vrubel was thirty-four years old when he painted this and went blind four years before his death in 1910.  This masterpiece is in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

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Transfiguration of Christ, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, 1520

Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) / Raphael / Renaissance / Vatican - 1 year ago - troycapc

The future Pope Clement VII commissioned Raphael to create this masterpiece in 1516. It was not finished when the artist died in 1520 and was probably completed by his pupil Giulio Romano shortly thereafter. This is last work of the Italian High Renaissance and is housed in the Pinacoteca Vaticana in Rome.

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The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee” of 1633 by Rembrandt van Rijn. This is Rembrandt’s only seascape and depicts the incident recorded in the fourth chapter of the Gospel according to Mark generally known as the miracle of "Christ calming the Sea". There are fourteen people in the boat: Christ, the twelve disciples and perhaps Rembrandt himself. Many believe that the person looking out of the painting is actually a self-portrait of Rembrandt. This painting was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston on the morning of March 18, 1990.

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Flagellation de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ, William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1880

Academician / Bouguereau / French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

A reproduction of one of the greatest religious masterpieces by the master of Academic French Neo-classicism, William Adolphe Bouguereau. The original work is life-sized. There is no greater work in which perspective, pathos and composition are so marvelously intertwined.

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Head of Christ by Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1652

Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Rembrandt / Renaissance - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rign’s “Head of Christ” of about 1652.  The master’s ability to give an earthly reality to his subject is seen plainly in this unique work.  There is tremendous kindness and sensitivity in this portrait reputedly gleaned from the face of a young Jewish man of Rembrandt’s acquaintance.  This Christ is infused with kindness, goodness and purity to an extent rarely seen elsewhere.  The original is in the Staaliche Museen Preussischer, Kulturbesitz, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin.
Rembrandt was born in 1606 Leiden and, after schooling in Latin and the Classics, he entered an apprenticeship in painting when sixteen years old.  After a brief stay in Amsterdam he returned to Leiden and opened a studio with his friend Jan Lievens; they were both nineteen.  He soon won acclaim through influential contacts and in 1630 moved to Amsterdam after the death of his father.  Four years later as a master of the Guild of St. Luke Rembrandt gathered a large number of students about his workshop.  He married that year and continued to produce masterpieces such as the Abduction of Ganymede, the Sacrifice of Isaac and the Night Watch.  His domestic tranquility was disturbed by the death of his wife in 1642 but Rembrandt continued his prodigious output.  Nevertheless Rembrandt was forced into bankruptcy in 1654 and mostly lived in seclusion until his death in 1669 though he continued to produce masterpieces, among them Return of the Prodigal Son.

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The Three Marys at the Tomb, Bouguereau

Academician / Bouguereau / French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of William Adolphe Bouguereau’s “Three Marys at the Tomb”, or “Le Saintes Femmes au Tombeau”.  It is typical of the master’s lush Academic style as applied to Christian themes.  His photo-realism is beautifully displayed in this Christian masterpiece of the Resurrection.  His delicate palate and bold use of light capture both the wonder and concern of the women approaching Christ’s tomb.  The angel can be glimpsed in the light-filled interior.  The original is currently in a private collection in the United States.

Bouguereau was born into a merchant family in 1825 La Rochelle, France.  Through the influence of an uncle, he was exposed to Classical studies and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux.  He began painting portraits and went to Paris, enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts there and won the Prix de Rome at the age of twenty-five.  Bouguereau became completely immersed in the Academic Style and was inspired by Raphael’s work.  He married in 1856 and his work and career gained in prestige and success.  He began teaching in 1876 and, after the death of his first wife, he married one of his pupils in 1896.  His joy in his work is exemplified in his saying, “Each day I go to my studio full of joy; in the evening when obliged to stop because of darkness I can scarcely wait for the next morning to come …if I cannot give myself to my dear painting I am miserable.”  He died in 1905 in La Rochelle.

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