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Dec 6 2010
Transfiguration of Christ, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, 1520
Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) / Raphael / Renaissance / Vatican - 1 year ago - troycapc
The future Pope Clement VII commissioned Raphael to create this masterpiece in 1516. It was not finished when the artist died in 1520 and was probably completed by his pupil Giulio Romano shortly thereafter. This is last work of the Italian High Renaissance and is housed in the Pinacoteca Vaticana in Rome.
Oct 8 2010
Charon Ferrying the Shades by Pierre Subleyras of ca. 1737
Academician / Baroque / French / Greco-Roman / Italian / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This French masterpiece of the the Baroque Era was created between 1735 and 1740, the work of Pierre Subleyras. The artist won the Grand Prix in 1728 at the age of twenty-nine and went to Rome to study further. He was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca there. He became favored by the Papal Curia and his output was prodigious. Claims are made that exhaustion caused his death in 1749. This work is a sensitive depiction of the mythical Charon ferrying recently departed souls over the River Styx. It is now displayed in the Louvre in Paris.
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Sep 30 2010
Mort de Cesar – Death of Caesar by Vincenzo Camuccini, 1798
Academician / Greco-Roman / Italian / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Mort de Cesar” of 1798 by Vincenzo Camuccini. Camuccnini became the premier Neoclassic painter in Rome in the early nineteenth century. This was his first major original work completed when he was twenty-seven years old. He received a Papal commission two years later. He had a painting exhibited in the Pantheon in 1806. He later went to Munich and Parish where he met Napoleon and Jean Jacques David. He was created a Papal Baron and received the Order of the Iron Crown from the emperor of Austria. He died at Rome on September 2, 1844.
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