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A Man in Armor

Dutch / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Rembrandt - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “A Man in Armor” of 1655 by Rembrandt van Rijn.  This later Rembrandt masterpiece is sub-titled “Alexander the Great” and was created when the artist was forty-nine.  He had been a prominent artist and member of the community in Amsterdam for twenty years.  Yet Rembrandt was approaching a financial crisis when this masterpiece was produced.  The painting shows Rembrandt’s wonderful use of light in his works with the gleam on the helmet also expressed over the heart on the breast-plate.  The red robe adds to the dramatic nature of the portrait.  This masterpiece is 137 cm wide and 104.5 cm high and is in the City Art Gallery and Museum of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Saint Sebastian tended by St. Irene, Hendrick ter Brugghen

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

A reproduction of the masterpiece by Hendrick ter Brugghen, “St. Sebastian tended by St. Irene” of 1625.  This work exemplifies Ter Brugghen’s preference for close intimacy in his figures as well as a skillful use of odd, dramatic lighting effects.  The legend of Sebastian and Irene became very popular in the seventeenth century partially as part of an effort to show the caring nature of Roman Catholicism and perhaps also due to Sebastian’s being the patron of victims of the plague which was ravishing parts of western europe in the seventeenth century.  This work is currently in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio.

Hendrick ter Brugghen was a leading Dutch follower of the Italian Michelangelo Caravaggio.  He was born in about 1588 and at an early age moved with his family to Utrecht.  He was in Rome in 1604 where he was heavily influenced by Caravaggio asd well as Carracci, Domenichino and Reni.  He favored half-length figures and strong contrasts between light and dark surfaces.  Though he died early in 1629 at the age of 41, his influence was widespread in the next generation of Dutch Masters.

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