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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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Horse Attacked by a Lion

Academician / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Horse Attacked by a Lion” of 1765 by George Stubbs.  The artist was born in Liverpool and worked for his father as a leather merchant until he was sixteen.  He was apprenticed to a painter  a year later in 1741 after his father’s death.  In the 1740′s he worked as a portraitist in the north of England and travelled to Italy in 1754.  He moved to London in 1759 and in 1766 published an illustrated book on The Anatomy of the Horse.  Commissions by the nobility enabled him to buy a comfortable home in a fashionable part of London where he lived for the rest of life which eneded in 1806 at the age of eighty-one.  This work is 97 cm wide and 66 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
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