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Jun 10 2011
Achilles and the Centaur Chiron
Academician / Baroque / Greco-Roman / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Achilles and the Centaur Chiron” of 1746 by Pompeo Batoni. According to Greek Mythology Achilles was trained in warfare by the wise centaur Chiron. This became a favorite subject during the Renaissance and continued into the Baroque. Batoni was thirty-eight when he created this masterpiece having been born in Lucca and apprentice in Rome from the age of nineteen. He was gained a patron in Gabrielli di Gubbio five years later and his fame spread. He became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in 1741 and became an Austrian noble for his double painting of Joseph II and Leopold II. He died in Rome in 1787. This masterpiece is 127 cm wide and 159 cm high and is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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Jun 9 2011
View of the Parthenon from the Propylea
British / Greco-Roman / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “View of the Parthenon from the Propylea” of 1821 by Edward Dodwell. This image appeared in Dodwell’s volume Views in Greece which was published in London in 1821, the year of the Greek War of Independence. It shows the contemporary buildings which were on the Akropolis during the 375 year Turkish occupation of Athens. The Irish-born artist was fifty-four when the volume was published and had been living and traveling in Italy and Greece since 1801. He died in Rome on May 13, 1832.
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Apr 5 2011
Apotheosis of Homer
French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 10 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Apotheosis of Homer” of 1827 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. The French master artist was forty-seven when he produced this painting and had finally become a critical success in Paris three years before. The government commissioned this work which he quickly completed. It is designed to show the homage that should be paid to Homer, the first European poet, by the great men of Greece, Rome and subsequent times. The original painting is 515 cm by 386 cm and is in the Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Mar 19 2011
Temples of Paestum at Evening by Jules Coignet
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Temples of Paestum at Evening” by Jules Louis Philippe Coignet. Coignet was a French landscape artist who was born in 1798 Paris. He won a gold medal at the Paris Salon when he was twenty-six and became a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1836. His advocacy of painting en plain air have many describing him as a predecessor of the Barbizon School. This view of the main temple of Poseidon in Paestum wonderfully captures the warmth of the ancient stones. Paestum is in the Italian Campania and was founded by the Greeks from Sybaris at the end of the seventh century Before the Current Era. The masterpiece is in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.
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Mar 10 2011
Homer, Auguste Leloir, 1841
French / Greco-Roman / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Homer” of 1841 by Jean-Baptiste Auguste Leloir. This painting was inspired by the "Apotheosis of Homer" by Ingres and was completed when the French artist was thirty-two. This is a Neo-classic and idealized depiction of the greatest of the Greek bards telling his tale to a varied audience before a Doric temple. The artist died in 1892. The dimensions of this masterpiece are 195 cm by 147 cm and it is housed is in the Louvre, Paris.
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Jan 10 2011
Hypatia, 1885, Charles William Mitchell
British / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Charles William Mitchell’s Hypatia of 1885. Hypatia was the mathmatician, philosopher and astronomer librarian of the Alexandrian Library. Hypatia was a Neoplatonist and followed the teachings of Plotinus. She was killed during Christian rioting at Alexandria in 415, riots which also saw the destruction of the last classical library in Alexandria.
Charles William Mitchell was a Pre-Raphaelite English artist who was contemporary with John William Waterhouse. He produced this painting, his most famous, when he was thirty-one years old. He died in 1903. This painting is in the Laing Art Gallery in the Tyne and Wear Museums, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Dec 31 2010
Diver Two, Paestum Painter, ca. 480 BCE
Greco-Roman / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
Second in a series of eight works from the Tomb of the Diver. This tomb was created in about 480 Before the Common Era and was discovered in 1968. Troy Caperton has restored eight images taken from the tomb and presents them here for your consideration. Any lover of Classical Greece or of the lifestyle of the Ancients will find this series fascinating. The second panel is taken from the roof of the tomb and depicts a naked boy diving into a pool of water. The image gives the name for the entire tomb. The diver is depicted in flight, almost certainly a metaphor for the flight of the soul from one life to the next, a dive into the unknown, the purifying waters of the universe. This is perhaps related to the purification symbols of Pythagorean philosophy which preached the reincarnation of the soul.
Dec 29 2010
Perseus and the head of Medusa by Franz von Stuck, 1908
German / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist / Von Stuck - 1 year ago - troycapc
Franz von Stuck was the foremost of the Symbolist artists in Munich of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He co-founded the Munich Secession which formed a long-lasting rebellion on the part of young artists from the Academic styles of the older generation. He gained great acclaim and in 1905 was raised to the Bavarian aristocracy by King Otto. He died in 1928 mourned as the “last prince of art of Munich’s great days”.
When Perseus had killed the Medusa and put her head in a sack, he mounted on the winged sandals he had from Hermes. He flew near Joppa where he spied the Princess Andromeda chained to a rock. She was being offered as a sacrifice to Poseidon to keep the Krakyn from destroying the kingdom. Her fiancé Phineas was too cowardly to attempt to save Andromeda, but Perseus offered to King Cepheus to kill the monster. Perseus killed the monster but at the wedding feast for him and Andromeda the partisans of Phineas invaded the palace to take Andromeda away and kill Perseus. Perseus and his followers defeated them and, using the head of Medusa, they turned Phineas and two hundred of his followers to stone.
Dec 28 2010
Sisyphus by Franz von Stuck, 1920
German / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist / Von Stuck - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of "Sisyphus” by Franz von Stuck. This Art Nouveau German masterpiece was created by Franz von Stuck in 1920. It depicts the Greek mythological figure Sisyphus who, in the realm of Hades, the place of the dead, was sentenced to forever push a stone up a mountain. As he approached the top, the stone would roll down and the task would begin again. For eternity! Franz von Stuck was the foremost of the Symbolist artists in Munich of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He co-founded the Munich Secession which formed a long-lasting rebellion on the part of young artists from the Academic styles of the older generation. He gained great acclaim and in 1905 was raised to the Bavarian aristocracy by King Otto. He died in 1928 mourned as the “last prince of art of Munich’s great days”.
Dec 27 2010
Reading from Homer, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885
Academician / British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was created in 1885. It depicts a scene from ancient Rome when three listeners are intent in listening to a reading from the Blind Bard, the founder of their religion. This work is currently in a private collection.
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