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Mar 19 2011
Temples of Paestum at Evening by Jules Coignet
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Temples of Paestum at Evening” by Jules Louis Philippe Coignet. Coignet was a French landscape artist who was born in 1798 Paris. He won a gold medal at the Paris Salon when he was twenty-six and became a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1836. His advocacy of painting en plain air have many describing him as a predecessor of the Barbizon School. This view of the main temple of Poseidon in Paestum wonderfully captures the warmth of the ancient stones. Paestum is in the Italian Campania and was founded by the Greeks from Sybaris at the end of the seventh century Before the Current Era. The masterpiece is in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.
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Dec 31 2010
Diver Two, Paestum Painter, ca. 480 BCE
Greco-Roman / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
Second in a series of eight works from the Tomb of the Diver. This tomb was created in about 480 Before the Common Era and was discovered in 1968. Troy Caperton has restored eight images taken from the tomb and presents them here for your consideration. Any lover of Classical Greece or of the lifestyle of the Ancients will find this series fascinating. The second panel is taken from the roof of the tomb and depicts a naked boy diving into a pool of water. The image gives the name for the entire tomb. The diver is depicted in flight, almost certainly a metaphor for the flight of the soul from one life to the next, a dive into the unknown, the purifying waters of the universe. This is perhaps related to the purification symbols of Pythagorean philosophy which preached the reincarnation of the soul.
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