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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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First Mourning of 1888 by William Adolphe Bouguereau

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

This is a reproduction of William Adolphe Bouguereau’s First Mourning of 1888.  The French Academician chose an unusual scene, the reaction of Adam and Eve to the death of their son Abel.  Abel was not only the victim of the first murder, he was the first person to experience death according to the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.  The Christian also consider him the first martyr.  The painting appears to avoid the drama of many depictions of death and very simply portrays the grief of the first parents.  Bouguereau painted this after the death of his second son, a fact which had greater pathos to the scene.   The original is at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires.

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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 Sack of Rome by Joseph Noel Sylvestre of 1890

Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of J. N. Sylvestre’s “The Sack of Rome by the Visigoths on August 24, 410″ of 1890. The artist died in 1926 at the age of seventy-nine years having been born in Beziers, France. He studied under Alexandre Cabanel at th e Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He favored historical scenes, particularly those of Rome, and won prizes in the Prix de Rome and Prix de Salon becoming quite popular. On August 24, 410 the city of Rome was sacked by an enemy for the first time in 800 years. It was the beginning of the end. Christianity had been proclaimed the only legitimate religion of the empire twenty years before and many critics of the religious innovation blamed the ravaging of the eternal city on its having abandoned the gods of their ancestors. This painting depicts but a small scene from the devastation that the capital of the world endured.

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Michael the Archangel Defeats Satan by Albrecht Durer, 1498

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

This is the German Master’s rendition as a woodcut of the scene described in the twelfth chapter of The Revelation of St John.  It is a wonderful example of the beautiful artwork of the Northern Renaissance which still harkens back to the apocalyptic themes of the Middle Ages, particularly after the holocaust of the Black Death in the Fourtheenth Century.  The original is a woodcut, 392 by 283 millimeters, and is housed in the Sttaatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe.

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