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The Destruction of the Turkish Fleet

Academician / German / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian / Sea Scapes - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Die Zerstorung der turkischen Flotte in der Schlacht von Tschesme” of 1771 by Jakob Philipp Hackert.  The Battle of Chesma occurred on July 5, 6 and 7, 1770 near the island of Chios in the Aegean  Sea.  It was part of the Orlov Revolt in which Russian officers attempted to rally the Greeks of the Peloponnese to throw off Turkish oppression.   In the Battle of Chesma, the Turkish fleet was destroyed and the Russians were able to control the Aegean for some years.  This also sparked the rebellion against Turkish rule of non-Greek Christian peoples of the Balkans.  This work is 220 cm wide and 162.5 cm high and is in the Hermitage State Museum in St. Petersburg.

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Horses at the Porch by Albrecht Adam, 1843

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

This is a reproduction of “Horses at the Porch” by Albrecht Adam of 1843.  Albrecht Adam was a German artist who produced this work at the age of thirty-seven.  He was influenced at an early age by the director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremburg to concentrate on paintings of horses and battlefields.  He served in the Russian campaign under Beauharnais who had appointed him his personal court painter.  Adam produced a painted diary of the Russian campaign made up of 83 paintings.  He died in 1862 Munich.  This masterpiece is in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

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Lions, 1885, Paul Friedrich Meyerheim

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

This is a reproduction of Paul Friedrich Meyerheim’s Lions of 1885.  The German artist was born in 1842 Berlin and studied under his father Friedrich Eduard He entered the Berlin Academy in 1857 and, leaving three years later, he traveled to the Low Countries and Paris.  His most prominent works were depictions of lions, human portraits and humorous scenes.  He returned to the Berlin Academy in 1887 where he taught for many years.  He died on September 14, 1915 in Berlin.  This painting is in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Acropolis of Athenhs, Leo von Klenze, 1846

German / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

The German painter, writer and architect Leo von Klenze’s depiction of what the Akropolis of Athens looked like in the Age of Perikles.  This was created in 1846 and resides in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.  The creator, Leo von Klenze died there in 1864 at the age of eight years.

Klenze was the court architect to Jerome Bonaparte of Westphalia and Ludwig I of Bavaria.  In Munich he designed and built several Neoclassical buildings among which were the Ruhnseshalle, the Monopteros Temple and the Walhalla Temple.  Von Klenze also made  plans for the rebuilding Athens when it became independent of Turkey and for the building of the New Hermitage museum in Russia.  He sold his collection of paintings to King Ludwig I in 1841 and died in Munich in 1864.

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