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Jun 18 2011
The Flight of Aeneas from Troy
Baroque / Greco-Roman / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Flight of Aeneas from Troy” of 1598 by Frederico Barocci. The artist was seventy-two when he painted this composition for Cardinale della Rovere. It was gifted to Cardinale Scipione before 1613 when it enetered the Borghese collection. The work displayed Barocci’s ability to portray natural movement as well as a natural anti-heroic depiction of human delicacy. The scene is from Greco-Roman mythology showing the escape of Aeneas, his father, wife and son from the destruction of the city of Troy. Barocci had been born in Urbino as Federico Fiori, Il Baroccio, the ox-cart, was a nick-name. He died in 1612 at the age of about eighty-six years.
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Apr 5 2011
Apotheosis of Homer
French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year 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 10 2011
Homer, Auguste Leloir, 1841
French / Greco-Roman / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year 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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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.
Dec 23 2010
Achilles et Priam, 1876, Jules Bastien LePage
French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of Jules Bastien LePage’s “Achilles et Priam”, 1876. The artist was born in 1848 and was a student of Alexandre Cabanel. He gained wide recognition for his work and died in 1884. This reproduction of his Achilles et Priam is a quite stunning work representing one of the most poignant scenes in the Iliad.
Dec 16 2010
Achilles gives Nestor the Prize for Wisdom by Joseph Desire Court, 1821
French / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of the classic painting by the French Neo-classical great, Joseph Desire Court who was born in 1797 Rouen. He painted the work when he was twenty-four when he won the Prix de Rome. He died in 1865 Paris. The story of the prize for wisdom is found in the Odyssey of Homer when Achilles gives the prize to the elder advisor to the Achaeans at the funeral games of Achilles’ lover Patroclus. Agamemnon looks on as the prize is given. The painting is at the Mesee des Beaux Arts in Rouen, France.
Dec 15 2010
The Death of Ajax by Henri Serrur, 1820
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of the classic painting by the French Neo-classical great, Henri Auguste Calixte Cesar Serrur. It was painted in 1820 when the artist was twenty-six years old. He died in 1865. The story of the death of Ajax is not related in the Iliad and is motivated by the hero’s shame at having lost the argument over the armor of Patroklos which he lost to Odysseus. Ajax felt cheated by the gods whom he cursed before killing himself. He was worshiped as a hero in his native Salamis and at Athens.
Oct 5 2010
Achilles and Patroklos, Sosias Painter, ca. 500 BCE
Greco-Roman / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a wonder of the Greek Classical period portraying the tender moment when Achilles tends an arrow wound of his companion Patroclus. This painted pottery dates from about 500 years Before the Common Era and was found at Vulci, an Etruscan city about sixty miles northwest of Rome. The pottery, however, was produced in Athens and is usually attributed to the Sosias Painter, but is also attributed to the Kleophrades Painter or Euthymides. The intimate scene comes from an imagined incident in Homer’s Iliad. The original is in the Antikensammlung Museum, Berlin.
Sep 29 2010
Homer and His Guide by Adolphe William Bouguereau of 1874
Academician / Bouguereau / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece of Adolphe William Bouguereau was created in 1874. It depicts the blind master-poet of Ancient Greece being guided through the paths of the country-side by his sighted boy-guide. In the background figures scoff at the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. This work is in the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin, USA.
Jul 25 2010
Zeus et Thetis, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1811
French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This powerful images by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres by painted in 1811 in France. It depicts poignent moment from Book One of the Iliad when Thetis beseaches Zeus on behalf of her son Achilles.
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