Archive for posts tagged with ‘Newton’


Jun 17 2011

Sir Isaac Newton

Academician / Baroque / British / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc

Sir Isaac Newton

This is a reproduction of “Sir Isaac Newton” of 1689 by Godfrey Kneller.  The artist was forty-three when he painted Newton who was then aged forty-six.  Kneller was the court portraitist for the British kings from Charles II to George I.  Newton, of course, was the greatest scientist of his age being the founder of physics, discoverer of Gravity, the Three Laws of Motion, the co-inventor of differential and integral calculus, builder of one of the first reflecting telescopes,.  In short he was one of the most influential persons to have ever lived.

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Jul 30 2010

God As Architect, William Blake, 1794

British / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

God As Architect, William Blake, 1794

This masterpiece of William Blake was created in 1794, as an illustration of his book of poetry, Europa a Prophecy.  However, this work is more popularly known as the Ancient of Days.  This pre-Romantic etching depicts a very Newtonian God measuring out the dimensions of his creation.

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