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Apr 9 2011
Mars désarmé par Vénus, Jacques-Louis David, 1824
David / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Mars Disarmed by Venus” of 1825 by Jacques-Louis David. This masterpiece was one of the last produced by the French master of Neoclassicism after forty-three years of creating masterpieces. He began this work in Brussels at the age of seventy-three. The monumental painting depicts the removal of the armor of Mars by the three Graces and Cupid. The painting was exhibited in Paris just before David’s death and was hailed as the bridge between Classicism and Romanticism. The original painting is 265 cm wide and 308 cm high and is in the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels.
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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Sep 27 2010
Human Form by Francis Bacon of 1949
British / Contemporary / Francis Bacon - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of Francis Bacon “Human Form” of 1949. This was Bacon’s first nude painting and shows his life-long examination of the human figure in a treatment which is ambiguous and enigmatic. This figure is monumental while the technique is minimalised.
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