Archive for posts tagged with ‘dragon’


Jan 3 2011

Jason Charming the Dragon by Salvator Rosa, 1664

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

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This Italian baroque masterpiece by Salvator Rosa was created in Italy sometime around 1664. It depicts Jason using the potions of Medusa to lull the dragon into a vulnerable catharsis that will enable the hero to gain the golden fleece.  It is currently in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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Jul 8 2010

Michael the Archangel Defeats Satan by Albrecht Durer, 1498

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

Michael the Archangel Defeats Satan by Albrecht Durer, 1498

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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