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Feb 27 2011
View of Amalfi, John Ruskin, 1844
British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “View of Amalfi” of 1844 by John Ruskin. This artist is better known for his art criticism and social thinking and for the influence that he had on the Victorian Era in Britain. His support for Naturalism and the Pre-Raphaelite movement in art were instrumental in their acceptance. His first publication was at the age of fifteen and nine years later he published the first volume of Modern Painters in 1843. This became one of his most important works out of the over two hundred fifty works that were published. He died in 1900 in Creteil, France.
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Nov 18 2010
Hoybat pa Fjorden by Ludvig Skramstad, 1878
German / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece by Ludvig Skramstadt was created when the Norwegian artist was twenty-two years old. The Hoybat pa Fjorden is a wonderful depiction of a hayboat delivering precious hay to a farmer. The boat is dwarfed by the mighty majesty of a Norwegian fjord. The artist migrated to Germany where he studied in Dusseldorf and then later moved to Drobak. In 1902 he moved to Munich where he died in 1912.
Nov 2 2010
Oxbow by Thomas Cole, 1836
American / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece by Thomas Cole was created when the founder of the Hudson River School was thirty-five years old. The work was originally entitled “View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a thunderstorm”. Cole’s work set the mode for the Romanticism and Naturalism which became the hallmark of the American Hudson River School. The artist died in 1848.
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