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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.
Oct 15 2010
Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent by Henry Fuseli, 1795
British / German / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This Swiss Neo-classical by Johann Heinrich Fuseli depicts a scene of the Norse god Thor fighting the dragon, or serpent, of Middlegard. This thundering God wielded a war-hammer in his various adventures protecting mankind from Dwarves and Dragons. Talismans crafted to represent Thor’s hammer were a popular means of showing devotion to the old gods in the face of Christian missionaries. This work by Fuseli was created in 1795 when the Swiss artist was fifty-four years old. He died in 1825.
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