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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
Apr 12 2011
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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