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Jan 10 2011

Hypatia, 1885, Charles William Mitchell

British / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 1 year ago - troycapc

Hypatia, 1885, Charles William Mitchell

This is a reproduction of Charles William Mitchell’s Hypatia of 1885.  Hypatia was the mathmatician, philosopher and astronomer librarian of the Alexandrian Library.  Hypatia was a Neoplatonist and followed the teachings of Plotinus.  She was killed during Christian rioting at Alexandria in 415, riots which also saw the destruction of the last classical library in Alexandria.

Charles William Mitchell was a Pre-Raphaelite English artist who was contemporary with John William Waterhouse.  He produced this painting, his most famous, when he was thirty-one years old.  He died in 1903.  This painting is in the Laing Art Gallery in the Tyne and Wear Museums, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

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Oct 15 2010

Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent by Henry Fuseli, 1795

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Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent by Henry Fuseli, 1795

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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