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Marketplace in an Italian Town

Dutch / German / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Marketplace in an Italian Town with itinerant toothpuller” by Johannes Lingelbach, 1651.  The artist was twenty-nine years old when he created this masterpiece.  He was a Dutch painter born in Frankfurt, Germany and moved with his father to Amsterdam when he was twelve.  In his mid twenties he traveled in Italy where this masterpiece was created.  He returned to Amsterdam in 1653 and married.  His work showed considerable influence from Caravaggio and its popularity led to a deep influence of chiaroscuro on later Dutch artists.  He died in Amsterdam in 1674.  This masterpiece is 86 cm wide and 68.5 cm high and is in the Rijksuseum, Amsterdam.

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Departure to the Hunt

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

This is a reproduction of “Departure to the Hunt” of 1652 by Paulus Potter.  The artist was twenty-seven years old when he created this masterpiece.  He was a Dutch painter born in Enkhuizen who trained with his father in Amsterdam.  At twenty-four he moved to the Hague where he married and was introduced to the Dutch elite.  He became quite popular for his landscapes and paintings in natural settings.  These were lauded in the 19th century as precursors of Romanticism.  He died of tuberculosis before January 17, 1654 when he was buried.  This masterpiece is in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
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A Seaport at Sunrise

French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “A Seaport at Sunrise” of 1674 by Claude Lorrain.  This early Baroque masterpiece was created when the artist was about sixty-nine.  He was born in Lorraine and orphaned at twelve.  He lived with a brother, in Rome and then in Naples was apprenticed under Goffredo Wals.  Returning to Rome in 1625 he was again apprenticed and then traveled in Germany and France where he produced minatures.  Turning to landscapes in Rome again in 1627, he befriended Nicolas Poussin and they traveled the Campagna doing landscape sketches together.  He continued to produce many works and accumulated considerable wealth.  He died in November, 1682 in Rome leaving a nephew and adopted daughter.  This masterpiece is 96 cm wide and 72 cm high and is in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.

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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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Prayer of Christ on the Mount of Olives

Academician / Baroque / German / Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Prayer of Christ on the Mount of Olives” of 1730 by Sebastiano Ricci.  This masterpiece was created when the artist was seventy-one years old.  He was a Late Baroque artist of the Venetian school.  He began as an apprentice at the age of twelve.  He moved to Bologna after a scandal in Venice and began collecting commissions in 1682.  He fled Bologna after another scandal and by 1692 was in Rome where he received a commission from the duke of Parma.  He was back in Venice between 1698 and 1706 when he moved to Florence.  He travelled to London and Paris for further commissions and returned to Venice in 1718 a wealthy man.  He continued to work though his advanced age and influenced an entire school in Venice where he died in May, 1734.  This work is 95 cm wide and 76 cm high and is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

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Election of Stanislaw II

German / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Election of Stanislaw II August at Wola in 1746″ by Bernardo Bellotto of 1776.  This Venetian artist was fifty-two when he created this spanning panoramic vista of the field at Wola during the election of the king of Poland.  He had worked in Rome and for Charles Emmaunel III of Savoy and in 1747 at the age of about twenty-five he moved to Dresden at the invitation of August III, king of Poland.  The Austrian empress Maria Theresa invited him to work in Vienna in 1758 which he did and then moved on to work in Munich and again in Dresden.  In 1764 he became court painter to Stanislaw II of Poland in Warsaw where he remained and died in 1780.  This work is in the National Museum in Poznan, Poland.
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Fisher Family at Nighttime

Academician / German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Fisher Family at Nighttime Campfire with Turbulent Sea” of 1778 by Jakob Philipp Hackert.  The artist was fifty-one years old when this was produced.  He was born in Brandenburg where he was trained by his artist father and uncle.  He studied at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin and became very proficient in painting landscapes and murals.  He relocated to Italy, mostly in Rome and Naples, in 1768 and in 1786 he entered the court of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies in Naples.  He received commissions from the empress of Russia and the king of France.  He fled Naples in 1799 to Florence where he died in 1807.  This work is 87 cm wide and 64.5 cm high and is in the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany.

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Adoption of the 1791 Polish Constitution

Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism / Russian - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of ” Adoption of the 1791 Polish Constitution ” of 1891 by Jan Matejko.  The adoption of a constitution for the kingdom of Poland in 1791 was a momentous event in Polish history for it marked the heroic attempt of the Polish people to throw off the tyranny of German and Russian influence in the affairs of their kingdom.  Their efforts were ill-fated at the end of the 18th century, but bloomed to success in the early twentieth century, though the travails of Poland was still not over when independence was regained in 1918.  The original painting is in the National Museum of Poland in Warsaw.

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Waterfall by Tivoli

Academician / German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Wasserfälle bei Tivoli” of 1819 by Johann Martin von Rohden.  The artist was a native of Kassel who died in 1868 in Rome at the age of ninety years.  He is one of the greatest German landscape painters and first visited Rome when he was seventeen.  He was in Germany in 1811 where he visited Goethe and joined a reading group based in Kassel that was led by the brothers Grimm.  He was back in Rome in 1812 where he married and converted to Roman Catholicism.  He was influential as the first German painter to focus on landscapes and formed the German Academy in Rome.  This typical masterpiece of his is in the Museum der bidenden Künste  in Leipzig.

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Beethoven, 1820

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

This is a reproduction of “Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven while composing the Missa Solemnis” of 1820 by Joseph Karl Stieler.  The artist was a native of Mainz, Germany and produced this painting in Munich, Bavaria at the age of thirty-nine.  It became his best known portrait even though he was very prolific and painted many portraits, mainly from his base in Munich.  His portraits are known for the total focus on the sitter with a minimum of distractions from the subject of the painting.  Beethoven himself was fifty years old when this portrait was completed.  Stieler died in 1858 and Beethoven in 1827.  The painting is 120 cm wide and 142.2 cm high and is in the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany.

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