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Jun 10 2011
Achilles and the Centaur Chiron
Academician / Baroque / Greco-Roman / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Achilles and the Centaur Chiron” of 1746 by Pompeo Batoni. According to Greek Mythology Achilles was trained in warfare by the wise centaur Chiron. This became a favorite subject during the Renaissance and continued into the Baroque. Batoni was thirty-eight when he created this masterpiece having been born in Lucca and apprentice in Rome from the age of nineteen. He was gained a patron in Gabrielli di Gubbio five years later and his fame spread. He became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in 1741 and became an Austrian noble for his double painting of Joseph II and Leopold II. He died in Rome in 1787. This masterpiece is 127 cm wide and 159 cm high and is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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Feb 2 2011
Valkyrie by Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1865
Academician / German / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Peter Nicolai Arbo’s “Valkyrie” of 1865. Arbo was a leading Norwegian painter who specialized in paintings from Norwegian history and mythology. He attended Helsted’s Art School in Copenhagen in 1851 when he was twenty. He went on the study in Dusseldorf and returned to Norway in 1861 where he became a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and of the Order of Vasa. He was a member of the National Gallery Company from 1875 and a director of the Christiana (Oslo) Art Society from 1882. He died in 1892.
The Valkyries were riders of Norse and Teutonic mythology who gleaned the battlefields for the mightiest warriors recently slain. From the Old Norse valkyrja, chooser of the slain, these maidens were usually described as the daughters of Odin, or Wotan, who gathered warriors for Valhalla for the purposed of building an army with which to fight the forces of darkness in Ragnarök. This masterpiece is in the National Museum of Sweden in Stockholm.
Dec 22 2010
Romulus, Conqueror of Acron, 1812, Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Jean Ingres’ “Romulus, Conqueror of Acron” of 1812. Ingres was born in Montauban in 1780 and at the age of sixteen he went to Paris to study under David. He won the Grand Prix in 1801. He went to Rome in 1807 having secured a following in the art world. He continued to mature and gather a greater gathering until his death in 1867. Romulus, Conqueror of Acron, was created as a large painting for the salon of Napoleon I. It recalls the earliest and mythological history of Rome and reflects the Napoleonic obsession with all things Roman and Classical. The original painting is in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Nov 20 2010
Silenus and Infant Dionysos, image by Troy Caperton, 2008
Greco-Roman / Statuary / Vatican - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of "Silenus with Infant Dionysus" in the Vatican Museums. This is a tender rendering of the Greek mythological protector and follower of the God of Wine. This representation of the statue is from my photograph from my recent trip to Rome.
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Aug 31 2010
Isle of the Dead by Arnold Brocklin, 1880
Academician / Greco-Roman / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Arnold Brocklin’s masterpiece “Isle of the Dead” of 1880. It resides in the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland. Brocklin was a Swiss Symbolist artist who died in 1901 at the age of 74 years. He was a leading light of his age and this image is typical of his treatment of mythological scenes. This particular work was inspired by the English cemetery in Florence, Italy.
Aug 30 2010
Psyche et L’Amour by William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1889
Academician / Bouguereau / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This French Impressionist painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau is a beautiful and realistic image of Eros and Psyche in rapt attention during their ascent into the Heavens. The work was created in 1889. The artist died in 1905 at the age of eighty years.
Aug 19 2010
Forge of Vulcan by Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, 1630
Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) / Renaissance / Spanish - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece was created in 1630, the work of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez. It displays the story of Apollo’s telling Hephaistos (Vulcan to the Romans) of the illicit love affair between Ares (Mars) and Hephaistos’ wife Aphrodite (Venus). Apollo appears in the form of Phoebus, the bright shining one, and has a radiance about his head. Hephaistos shows his outrage in his glaring eyes. The dramatic moment is superbly captured by the Spanish master. He artist died in 1660 in Madrid when he was sixty-one years old. This work is now displayed in the Museo de Prado in Madrid.
Aug 16 2010
Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903
British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite / Waterhouse - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of "Echo and Narcissus" of 1903 by John William Waterhouse. This work reflects and captures a moment from Greek and Roman Mythology and is another story in which a young man’s rejection of love leads to his destruction. His rejection of the attetnions of the nymph Echo that she faded away until only the whisper of her voice remained. Nemesis heard the prayers of the rejected ladies and arranged for Narcissus to fall in love with his own image .
Waterhouse often re-created scenes from the world of myth as did many of his fellow Pre-Raphaelites. Waterhouse was born to English painters in Rome who returned to England when he was five years old. He entered the Royal Academy of Art school in 1871 when he was aged 21 and within three years he had a successful painting. For the next forty years Waterhouse maintained his success and continued painting until his last illness made productin impossible in 1915. He died two years later. This masterpiece is presently in the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.
Aug 7 2010
Neptune’s Horses by Walter Crane of 1892
British / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc
Neptune’s Horses was painted in 1892 by Walter Crane, at the height of the Symbolist Movement. Crane faithfully captures the god of the sea roaring onto the coast with his horses which are enmeshed in the waves that they mythologically create and interpenetrate.
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.
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