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May 24 2011
La Roche Tarpéienne
British / Greco-Roman / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Tarpeian Rock” of 1780 by Francis Towne. This is a scene from the late eighteenth century in Rome of the famous Tarpeian Rock from which the Roman hurled traitors from the earliest days of their history. Francis Towne was forty-one years old when he created this watercolor masterpiece. He was from Middlesex in England. He supported himself with portraits and teaching in Devon and in 1777 during a tour of North Wales began focusing on watercolors. He created this work during a stay in Rome which was followed by a month in Naples in 1781. Returning to England, he moved to London where he died in 1816. This work measures 18.58 inches wide by 12.6 inches high and is in the British Museum in London.
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May 14 2011
Ossian on the Bank of the Lora
French / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Ossian on the Bank of the Lora invoking the Gods to the Strains of a Harp” by Francois Pascal Simon Gerard of 1801. This French baron was thirty-one when he created this masterpiece. He was born in Rome of a French baron and an Italian lady. He studied under David and became involved in the French Revolution. At the same time he rose in the estimation of art connoisseurs and he became known as one of the foremost portraitists by 1799. He was aghast at the rise of Romanticism after 1815 and died on January 11, 1837. This painting is based on the Poem of Ossian which was an early nineteenth century forgery which was largely believed by an entire generation including Jefferson, Napoleon and Goethe. The painting is 180.5 cm wide and 198.5 cm high. The masterpiece is currently in the Kuntstalle, Hamburg, Germany.
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