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Jan 13 2011
The Water Sprite by Ernst Josephson, 1882
Impressionist / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This a reproduction of Ernst Josephson’s 1882 masterpiece, “The Water Sprite” or “Strömkarlen” in Swedish. Creating this masterpiece at the age of thirty-one, Josephson was from a prominent Jewish family in Sweden. He contracted syphilis and became mentally ill in 1888 while in Brittany. Plagued by religious hallucinations and delusions, he was returned to Uppsala where he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. He continued to paint and also wrote poetry. He died in Stockholm, the city of his birth, on November 22, 1906. This masterpiece is currently at the National Museum of Sweden.
Dec 12 2010
The Sun Never Says by Hafiz of Shiraz, ca. 1370
American / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is an Inspirational Print proclaiming the words of the 14th century Persian Poet Hafiz of Shiraz. It is a proclaiming of the Beneficence of Nature and of the Divine Nature of the Love that Nature bestows.
Sep 29 2010
Homer and His Guide by Adolphe William Bouguereau of 1874
Academician / Bouguereau / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece of Adolphe William Bouguereau was created in 1874. It depicts the blind master-poet of Ancient Greece being guided through the paths of the country-side by his sighted boy-guide. In the background figures scoff at the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. This work is in the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin, USA.
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