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May 14 2011
Ossian on the Bank of the Lora
French / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Ossian on the Bank of the Lora invoking the Gods to the Strains of a Harp” by Francois Pascal Simon Gerard of 1801. This French baron was thirty-one when he created this masterpiece. He was born in Rome of a French baron and an Italian lady. He studied under David and became involved in the French Revolution. At the same time he rose in the estimation of art connoisseurs and he became known as one of the foremost portraitists by 1799. He was aghast at the rise of Romanticism after 1815 and died on January 11, 1837. This painting is based on the Poem of Ossian which was an early nineteenth century forgery which was largely believed by an entire generation including Jefferson, Napoleon and Goethe. The painting is 180.5 cm wide and 198.5 cm high. The masterpiece is currently in the Kuntstalle, Hamburg, Germany.
Reproduction for sale on Zazzle
Dec 17 2010
Poem to Prometheus by Troy Caperton, 2010
American / Caperton / Greco-Roman / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of Troy Caperton’s work, “Poem to Prometheus”, a devotional work that combines an image of the eagle sent to torment Prometheus for his having given Fire to mankind in defiance of the deathless gods.
I will sing of the sacrifice of Prometheus,
Holy Forethought who suffered for aeons
For bringing to feeble Man the gift of Fire
Which warms us all on every frozen night.
Oct 11 2010
The Gods At Play by William Blake Richmond, ca. 1889
British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of a work by William Blake Richmond who died in 1921 at the age of eighty-nine years. His career began in 1861 and he was well received having studied in England and in Italy. He was knighted in 1897. This work is a beautiful imaginative rendition of the gods of Olympus at play, but we have been unable to find the real name of the work or where it may now be displayed.
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