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Guinea hen with chicks

Baroque / Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of ” Perlhuhn Paar mit Küken neben Distel Blättern vor dunkler Waldlandschaft mit Steinen und Marmorvase” of 1723 by Abraham Bisschop.  This masterpiece was created when the artist was fifty-three years old.  Bisschop was a Dutch artist, the son of Cornelius, court painter in Copenhagen.  He focused on paintings of birds, portraits and landscapes in the Italian manner.  Most of his paintings were large canvases.  He was in the painters’ guild of Middleburg in the Netherlands in 1715 and died there in 1731.  This work is 70 cm wide and 90 cm high.
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Valkyrie by Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1865

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

This is a reproduction of Peter Nicolai Arbo’s “Valkyrie” of 1865.  Arbo was a leading Norwegian painter who specialized in paintings from Norwegian history and mythology.  He attended Helsted’s Art School in Copenhagen in 1851 when he was twenty.  He went on the study in Dusseldorf and returned to Norway in 1861 where he became a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and of the Order of Vasa.  He was a member of the National Gallery Company from 1875 and a director of the Christiana (Oslo) Art Society from 1882.  He died in 1892.

The Valkyries were riders of Norse and Teutonic mythology who gleaned the battlefields for the mightiest warriors recently slain.  From the Old Norse valkyrja, chooser of the slain, these maidens were usually described as the daughters of Odin, or Wotan, who gathered warriors for Valhalla for the purposed of building an army with which to fight the forces of darkness in Ragnarök.  This masterpiece is in the National Museum of Sweden in Stockholm.

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The Fall of the Titans by Cornelis van Haarlem

Baroque / Dutch / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of Fall of the Titans of 1588 by Cornelis van Haarlem. The original is in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. This work celebrates the casting into Tartarus of the Titans after their defeat by their children the Olympians led by Zeus and his brothers Poseidon and Hades. Van Harlem was a leading Dutch Mannerist and had been raised by a painter when his parents fled their native Haarlem when Cornelis was six years old. He stayed in Haarlem where he become a famous artist and quite wealthy through his marriage to the mayor’s daughter. He died in 1638 leaving many masterpieces and a strong tradition of Dutch painting.
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