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Dec 15 2010
The Death of Ajax by Henri Serrur, 1820
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of the classic painting by the French Neo-classical great, Henri Auguste Calixte Cesar Serrur. It was painted in 1820 when the artist was twenty-six years old. He died in 1865. The story of the death of Ajax is not related in the Iliad and is motivated by the hero’s shame at having lost the argument over the armor of Patroklos which he lost to Odysseus. Ajax felt cheated by the gods whom he cursed before killing himself. He was worshiped as a hero in his native Salamis and at Athens.
Nov 12 2010
Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis, 1795, Henry Fuseli
Academician / British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Henry Fuseli’s “Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis” that was painted between 1794 and 1796. It depicts a scene from the Odyssey in which Odysseus sailed between the monsters Scylla and Charybdis traditionally associated with the strait between Italy and Sicily. Henry Fuseli was born in Zurich as Johann Heinrich Füssli in 1741 and arrived in England in 1765 where he began a career as a painter. He favored the supernatural subjects and eventually taught in the Royal Academy. He died in 1825 in London.
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