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Dec 21 2010

Youth and Ram, or “St John as a child” of 1602 by Caravaggio

Baroque / Caravaggio / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) / Renaissance - 1 year ago - troycapc

Youth and Ram, or “St John as a child” of 1602 by Caravaggio

A reproduction of Caravaggio’s “St. John the Baptist as a Child” that is also known as “Youth and Ram” of 1602.  This painting lies right at the boundary between the Renaissance and the Baroque Period.  Caravaggio used darkened interiors and quite plebian looking characters for his paintings and this is well shown in this masterpiece.  It is housed in the Musei Capitolini in Rome.

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Dec 20 2010

Arcadia by Thomas Eakins, 1883

Academician / American / Eakins / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Arcadia by Thomas Eakins, 1899

A reproduction of Thomas Eakins’s masterpiece, “Arcadia” of about 1883. This is a stylized rustic reverie based on the romanticized notion of Arcadia, the most rural part of Ancient Greece. Like several other works by Eakins, this piece was controversial in those Victorian times. The original is in the Metropolitan Museum o f Art, New York.

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