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Apr 12 2011
Waterfall by Tivoli
Academician / German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Wasserfälle bei Tivoli” of 1819 by Johann Martin von Rohden. The artist was a native of Kassel who died in 1868 in Rome at the age of ninety years. He is one of the greatest German landscape painters and first visited Rome when he was seventeen. He was in Germany in 1811 where he visited Goethe and joined a reading group based in Kassel that was led by the brothers Grimm. He was back in Rome in 1812 where he married and converted to Roman Catholicism. He was influential as the first German painter to focus on landscapes and formed the German Academy in Rome. This typical masterpiece of his is in the Museum der bidenden Künste in Leipzig.
Nov 3 2010
Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion, John Martin, 1813
British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This English Romantic masterpiece was the first exhibited work of John Martin. It was displayed when he was twenty-three years old. Martin went on the enjoy immense popularity and produced many works featuring Biblical scenes. Early producers of motion picture epics were heavily influenced by Martin’s work. He died in 1854 at the age of sixty-four years. The scene is inspired by the character of Sadak in James Ridley’s Tales of the Genii of 1764. Sadak seeks the Waters of Oblivion as part of an evil quest designed by his sultan.
Oct 18 2010
Diana and Endymion of 1822 by Jerome-Martin Langlois
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
Langlois was born in 1779, the son of a miniature painter who studied with Jacques-Louis David against his father’s wishes. He helped his teacher in his masterworks and developed a style which was polished and known for its severe settings. In 1805 he won second place at the Prix de Rome and first place four years later. In 1824 he painted his teacher shortly before David’s death and was elected to the Academie des Beaux-Art shortly before his own death in 1838 Paris. This 1822 depiction of the myth of Diana and Endymion was painted in about 1822 and is in a private collection having been sold at Sotheby’s in 1989.
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