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Jun 8 2011
Sebastian and the Women
Academician / Baroque / German / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Sebastian und die Frauen” of 1746 by Paul Troger. The artist was forty-eight when he created this masterpiece having been born in the Tyrol. He began his apprenticeship at the age of sixteen and painted his first fresco in 1722 when he was twenty-four. His patron sent him for four years to Italy where he perfected his style and returned to Austria in 1726. Two years later he moved to Vienna where his work became the bridge between Baroque and Rococo tastes. He died in 1762 and this work in the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna.
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Dec 9 2010
Martirio de San Sebastiano by Menageot, ca. 1804
Academician / French / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Franoics Guilluame Menageot’s “Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian” of about 1804. Menageot was born in 1744 London and became a seminal figure in the development of French Classicism. He won the Prix de Rome in 1766 and became director of the French Academy in Rome in 1787. He died in Paris in 1816. This image is an unusual depiction of this oft-painted scene. Saint Sebastian has no arrows in his body which is a graphic essay on the male body. The original painting is in the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Dec 8 2010
Saint Sebastian, El Greco, 1580
Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Renaissance / Spanish - 1 year ago - troycapc
This wonderful work by the Greco-Spanish artist whose real name was Domenikos Theotokopoulos de Candia. It was created in about 1580 and is a depiction of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, a favorite subject of Christian artists throughout the ages. The original is in the Sacristy of the Cathedral of Palencia, Spain.
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