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The Fall of the Titans by Cornelis van Haarlem

Baroque / Dutch / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of Fall of the Titans of 1588 by Cornelis van Haarlem. The original is in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. This work celebrates the casting into Tartarus of the Titans after their defeat by their children the Olympians led by Zeus and his brothers Poseidon and Hades. Van Harlem was a leading Dutch Mannerist and had been raised by a painter when his parents fled their native Haarlem when Cornelis was six years old. He stayed in Haarlem where he become a famous artist and quite wealthy through his marriage to the mayor’s daughter. He died in 1638 leaving many masterpieces and a strong tradition of Dutch painting.
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Artemis, known to the Romans as Diana

American / Caperton / Greco-Roman / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a re-constructionist image of Artemis, the virgin huntress among the Olympians, who was the twin sister of Apollo. She is here depicted listening the the report of a woodland bird, perhaps telling her of a defilement of the sanctuary of the wild creatures of the woods of whom she was the protectress.

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