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Mar 16 2011
Hamlet and Horatio at the Graveyard, Eugène Delacroix
Delacroix / French / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Hamlet and Horatio at the Graveyard” by Eugène Delacroix of 1839. This is an artistic rendering of Act Five, Scene One of William Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Delacroix was forty-one when this was completed and was at the height of his career. He had exhibited his "Medea" in the prior year and created a sensation at the Salon. When this was executed, Delacroix was in the midst of work in the Libraries of the Palais Bourbon and the Palais du Luxembourg. He died on August 13, 1863. The original painting is 66 x 81 cm and resides in the Louvre, Paris.
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Mar 13 2011
Le Pandemonium, 1841, John Martin
British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of John Martin’s “Le Pandemonium” of 1841. The artist created the masterpiece when he was fifty-two years old. He was already deeply influencing the French Romanticists such as Delacroix, Victor Hugo and Saint-Beuve. The work depicts a scene from Milton’s Paradise Lost representing the capital of Satan’s kingdom. This painting in the Louvre also retains its original frame designed by the artist, the only one of his works that does. The original painting is 72.8 inches wide and 48.4 inches high and is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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Dec 4 2010
Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix, 1830
Delacroix / French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of a work by Eugene Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People” of 1830. This Romantic masterpiece attempts to capture the concept that Liberty herself is the motivation for the uprising of the People against Oppression. Critics greeted the work as “ignoble” yet Delacroix secures his place as a promoter of the people over the claims of the aristocrats. He places himself in the tradition of Michelangelo and Rubens by accentuating color and movement rather than form and clarity. Charles Baudelaire said, “Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.” The artist died in 1863 at the age of sixty-five years. The painting was placed in the Louvre in 1876 and served as the model for the Statue of Liberty.
Nov 23 2010
Rape of Ivan Mazeppa by Theodore Gericault, 1820
French / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of “Rape of Ivan Mazeppa” of about 1820 by Theodore Gericault. This French master executed this work while in London when he was twenty-nine years old. This was during a period in which Gericault was refining his efforts to depict the human body. He returned to France where he inspired many young painters, among them Delacroix. He died in Paris in 1824. Ivan Mazeppa was a hero of the Ukraine being hetman of the Left Bank Don Cossacks who was caught up in the power struggles between the Russians, Swedes and Poles in the eighteenth century. This scene depicts an episode in his life immortalized in Lord Byron’s poem of 1818.
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