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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.
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.
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