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May 8 2011
Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau
French / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau” by Antoine-Jean Gros of 1808. Gros was a disciple of the Neoclassicist David, but departed from those norms in this epochal painting. Napoleon’s compassion towards the dead and wounded is depicted with focus in the foreground of huge corpses. Gros was thirty-seven when he produced this masterpiece and he was at the height of his career. His later life was focused on an increasing failure to stem the tide of Romanticism. He died at his own hand on June 25, 1835. The original of this masterpiece is in the Louvre and is 784 cm wide and 521cm high.
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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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Jan 23 2011
Woman with Parasol (Madame Monet and her son), Claude Monet, 1875
French / Impressionist / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This a reproduction of Claude Monet’s “Woman with Parasol” of 1875. Oscar Claude Monet was born in 1840 Paris and founded the Impressionist movement in fine art. At the age of seventeen he began painting "en plein air", an outdoor method of painting in which gestural and suggestive use of oils is made. After two years of military service in Algeria, Monet returned to Paris and painting and initiated the Impressionist style with collaborators, Renoir, Bazille and Sisley. He married Camille Doncieux in 1870 and painter her in several works until her death in 1879. This "Woman with Parasol" is one of those. This masterpiece is on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.
Sep 11 2010
The Throne Room in Byzantium by Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant, 1880
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This work is by Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant, a French artist who studied in Spain and the Middle East in his later twenties. He had studied under Alexandre Cabanel in Paris and in the 1880’s succeeded his teacher at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1888 he took over the Academie Julian and abandoned his oriental work in favor of portraiture. He died in 1902.
This depiction is of the Christian throne room of the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, during the later period, probably the Fourteenth Century. It is a fanciful work, yet the artist went to great pains to reproduce the scene to the best of his knowledge and ability. This work is currently in a private collection.
Aug 21 2010
The Gust of Wind by Jean-Francois Millet, 1872
French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of Jean-Francois Millet’s work, “The Gust of Wind” of about 1872. This work is set on the French La Hague peninsula. The drama of the wind is emphasized in the strokes of the artist’s brush, the over-turning tree and the figure of a man, all buffeted by what appears to be more of a gale than a gust of wind.
Jul 29 2010
Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld by Jean Corot of 1861
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of Jean Corot’s “Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld”, 1861. This nineteenth century Romantic artist probably most closely adhered to French Classicism in his work. He was a kind and generous man who died in 1875 at the age of seventy-nine years. In this work, Corot is depicting the Greek legend of Orpheus leading his beloved Erydice from Hades. This captured moment is just prior to the moment when Orpheus turns back to gaze on Eurydice. This broke his pledge to the Lord of the Underworld and his beloved faded from sight, never to be seen by moral eyes.
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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